June 2005In this issue:NAPT Program Updates Announcements Producer Opportunities Film Festivals and Screenings Program UpdatesAIROS Program PipelineLook for the following specials to be broadcast on your local radio station or at http://www.airos.org: Telling Our Story NMAI National Powwow A complete list of upcoming special AIROS programming is available at http://www.airos.org/specials. PBS Program PipelineWalela: Live In Concert - PBS is offering a new Native American music performance program. Winner of the Seventh Annual Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best Short or Long-Form Video, Walela: Live in Concert is a musical journey of the spirit. The 60-minute concert program will be available to PBS stations in August. Walela: Live In Concert is produced by Rich-Heape Films of Dallas, Texas. Beginning in August, VisionMaker Video will be offering the program DVD and CD on http://www.visionmaker.org. Contact visionmaker@unl.edu for more information. AnnouncementsNative Radio Theatre (NRT) Call For ScriptsThe goal of NRT is to bring audio theater to AIROS (American Indian Radio on Satellite), using works by Native authors, theater and recording artists. The first phase of this effort is a call for scripts. This is a project of Native American Public Telecommunications and Native Voices at the Autry with planning funds from the Ford Foundation. See http://www.airos.org/theatre/ for application procedure. Deadline: November 15, 2005. VisionMaker Video Spotlight Looking Toward Home, Directed by Dale Kruzic. Looking Toward Home
is a one-hour documentary about the relocation of Indians to urban
areas in the 1950s. Support Native RadioUnderwriting packages are available to businesses that would like to broaden their reach in Indian country via our web-stream. www.airos.org The Buffett AwardThe Buffett Award is a recognition program funded by the Peter and Howard Buffett Families to honor outstanding individuals in the field of conservation and community development. A $25,000 cash award will be presented to an individual whose activities demonstrate durable qualities of leadership to improve the social, economic, political, and environmental conditions in his or her homelands. Four honorees will receive a $2,500 cash award. 2005 deadline: September 30, 2005. For nomination forms and guidelines: http://www.ecotrust.org/buffettaward/ Producer OpportunitiesThe Third Coast Audio Festival / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition – Call for EntriesThis annual competition celebrates creative, compelling and revealing audio documentary work that offers new insight and perspectives to listeners. Reporters, audio artists and documentary/ feature producers are encouraged to enter their material. Winners receive monetary support for their creative efforts. Deadline: July 22. http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/ Producer Opportunity FundNAPT is pleased to announce our new Producer Opportunity Fund. Created in response to the numerous requests we receive from film and video producers, directors, and writers to help finance their attendance at workshops, festivals and other professional development opportunities. The Producer Opportunity Fund provides quarterly application deadlines, and applicants can receive up to $500 in matching funding. For more information, visit: http://www.nativetelecom.org Center for Digital Storytelling Workshops The workshops include hands-on instruction to Adobe Photoshop/Premiere
and script development. CDS Staff will provide each student with
specific assistance on their projects, including design, scripting,
and other issues regarding the use of the digital story. Students
will complete a 3-5 minute piece after the completion of the class.
P.O.V Diverse Voices ProjectP.O.V. is offering co-production funding for programs about diverse communities. A second phase of the Diverse Voices Project, funded by CPB, will offer emerging filmmakers grants as large as $80,000 for co-productions. Deadline: July 1. http://www.pbs.org/pov/utils/dvp.html American History and Civics InitiativeThe American History and Civics Initiative represents a major commitment by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to use its educational mandate, reach, and creative capacity to address critical shortfalls in middle and high school students' knowledge of American history, our political system, and their roles as citizens. This initiative will award $20 million in grants to forge unique and sustainable partnerships between public television producers and broadcast outlets, the educational community, curriculum developers, the high tech industry and other appropriate partners, to design, test and create integrated interactive multimedia platforms that improve learning. Deadline: September 8. http://www.cpb.org/grants/historyandcivics/ Endangered LanguagesThe National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have awarded 13 fellowships and 26 institutional grants in their Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) partnership, a new, multi-year effort to preserve records of key languages before they become extinct. http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/20050505.html Film Festivals and ScreeningsTrudell directed by Heather Rae, (Cherokee), will be screened at the 2nd annual Heard Museum Film Festival, June 17-19 in Phoenix, AZ http://www.heard.org/ and at the SilverDocs2005 festival, June 19 in Washington D.C. http://www.silverdocs.com/2005/ The Oneida Speak, the short film produced by Michelle Danforth (Oneida of Wisconsin) and Wisconsin Public Television will be screened at the Montreal First People's Festival 2005 on June 16. Looking Toward Home, produced in 2004 by Beverly Morris (Aleut), Conroy Chino (Acoma), and Dale Kruzic will be screened on June 18. For more information, visit the festival website at http://www.nativelynx.qc.ca/05/en/index.html. Native American Public Telecommunications is funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. |
