BAVC

Youth Films at the Frontier of Digital Storytelling

By alexandertran on 2 September 2011 - 4:40pm

Last Saturday, August 27th, I had the privilege of watching the frontier of digital storytelling being made. No, I wasn't at Google's YouTube office. I was in downtown Berkeley at the Pacific Film Archive, where diverse youth presented their film projects to a captivated audience.

Tags: Youth Development, BAVC, Youth, ZeroDivide, Mozilla, web made movies, digital filmmaking, Pacific Film Archive, Popcorn, youth empowerment

Web Made Movies

The Bay Area Video Coalition is collaborating with the Mozilla Foundation and ZeroDivide to explore the possibilities of web-native filmmaking to help the internet find its own storytelling voice.

Tags: storytelling, BAVC, ZeroDivide, Mozilla, web made movies, filmmaking, video lab

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Mozilla and ZeroDivide Announce Youth Media Partnership

By margaret on 17 March 2011 - 10:23am

Mozilla and ZeroDivide will share details of their partnership at the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference in Washington, D.C., and demonstrate open source video tools under development at Mozilla’s Web Made Movies laboratory. The program will use HTML5 video tools to teach media literacy skills.

Tags: Technology, Media, BAVC, Youth, ZeroDivide, Mozilla, web made movies

Two million views of our communities

By John Hoffman on 28 May 2010 - 5:29pm

This month marks the 5th anniversary of YouTube. YouTube content
created by ZeroDivide grantee partners have achieved more than two
million upload views, demonstrating that technology and opportunity can give
voice to underserved communities.

Here's a sample from Youth Outlook's YO!TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqw_ISI-Irw

Tags: nptech, youthoutlook, Youth Media International, BAVC, REACH LA, Youth Radio, youtube, Change Agent Productions, Youth Institute, yo!tv, bay area video coalition, epa.net, sdff, sdfutures, wam, women's audio mission, ymca long beach, ymcayi

Ready, Set, Start - Videos

ZeroDivide wishes to share interviews with Staff and our Community Investment Partners on our Community Investment Model. In sharing our experiences with you, we hope you gain a better understanding of what's involved in creating community enterprises.

Ready, Set, Start - conducted by Blueprint Research and Design Inc., the paper provides an
up-close look at what it takes to change how you do business and
illustrates some of the larger trends currently shaping philanthropy.

Tags: Ken Ikeda, BAVC, Youth Outlook, ZeroDivide, Laura Efurd, Youth Radio, Change Agent Productions, Tessie Guillermo, community enterprise, Bob Cabeza, YO, Kevin Weston, Lissa Soep, John Hoffman, Robin Wu, Ruth Williams, community investment

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Ken Ikeda of BAVC on Culture Shift

Ken Ikeda, Executive Director of BAVC (Bay Area Video Coalition) discusses how the organization underwent a major cultural shift in engaging a new business model.

Resource Type: Videos

Tags: Ken Ikeda, BAVC

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Ken Ikeda of BAVC on Proposal Process

Ken Ikeda, Executive Director of BAVC, discusses the proposal process involved in creating a community enterprise.

Resource Type: Videos

Tags: Ken Ikeda, BAVC, community enterprise

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New Media Helps us Support the Troops!

By Laura Efurd on 11 November 2009 - 4:26pm

In recognition of Veteran's Day, the documentary "The Way We Get By" will be shown nationally tonight on PBS's Point of View (POV). It tells the story of three seniors in Maine who greet troop daily who are departing for or returning from Iraq. In addition to documenting the unique service these senior perform to support our troops it also tells a story of aging, loss, and loneliness.

Tags: BAVC, Veterans Day, Producers Institute, The Way We Get By, Iraq war, support the troops

VideoCamp at BAVC October 16-17

By Brian Gallagher on 24 September 2009 - 4:44pm

ZeroDivide grantee BAVC, is co-hosting VideoCamp SF, a two-day event on October 16 and 17, designed to train and grow the local online video community at a reasonable price.

The Best Practices in Online Video sessions, have an Advocate Track designed to train and develop people in using online video for cause-related purposes.

Tags: grantee, Digital Media, BAVC

Bay Area Video Coalition

Bay Area Video Coalition, or BAVC (pronounced bay-vac), is a nonprofit media arts center that was founded in 1976 by a coalition of media makers and activists who wanted to find alternative, civic-minded applications for a new technology - PortaPak video. BAVCs mission to bring increased cultural and economic participation to underserved communities through media, and believes in telling compelling stories is powerful for both media maker and audience.

Resource Type: Videos

Tags: social enterprise, media, Community, BAVC, Youth, Technology Training, Nonprofit