Essential Knowledge For
Filmmakers
Of Colors
Join us at TWN for our free seminars focused on enhancing skills and understanding in social justice media. These sessions are designed to help you develop key industry skills and expand your professional network, as we collaboratively shape the future of media. Many past seminars are available for free streaming on Vimeo and YouTube.
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Past Seminar: “Echoes Of Voices: Inclusive Filmmaking
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Past Seminar: “Echoes Of Voices: Inclusive Filmmaking
An inspiring look at this amazing Black poet's work, life, current activity and legacy. Join us and the filmmakers!
Past Seminar: “Echoes Of Voices: Inclusive Filmmaking
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Hear from a filmmaker and the director of Filmmaker Services and Impact at Working Films, on ways to change up film distribution.
Past Seminar: “Echoes Of Voices: Inclusive Filmmaking
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Weed Dreams" is a doc series about Oakland's new legal cannabis entrepreneurs - being distributed on YouTube! Why? Hear from the maker.
Past Seminar: “Echoes Of Voices: Inclusive Filmmaking
Climate change pits public housing tenants against wealthy developers in Miami. See the film and hear from the filmmakers and activists.
Past Seminar: “Echoes Of Voices: Inclusive Filmmaking
Reparations - a film examination of this issue, its history and what people are doing now - and hear from a great filmmaker.
Past Seminar: “Echoes Of Voices: Inclusive Filmmaking
A group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists launch The 19th*, a news startup to challenge mainstream journalism.
Past Seminar: “Echoes Of Voices: Inclusive Filmmaking
Upcoming grants and labs for filmmakers - hear from Jerome Foundation, FIrelight Media and more.
Past Seminar: “Echoes Of Voices: Inclusive Filmmaking
After finishing your film, what next? What are the ways filmmakers are generating funds from their films?
Past Seminar: “Echoes Of Voices: Inclusive Filmmaking
Meet Damien McDuffie in person and learn how you can create your own augmented reality (AR) projects!
Past Seminar: “Echoes Of Voices: Inclusive Filmmaking
One film was nominated for the Oscars, and the other for a NAACP Image Award - hear from the filmmaker behind them!
Past Seminar: “Echoes Of Voices: Inclusive Filmmaking
For the emerging filmmaker - what do I need to know about sound recording, what gear should I be getting, and hear from mixers in the field.
Past Seminar: “Echoes Of Voices: Inclusive Filmmaking
How did the police become the force they are now? How did we get here? Join Yance Ford for this intensely relevant film and talk.
Past Seminar: “Echoes Of Voices: Inclusive Filmmaking
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Join filmmaker Laila Harrison online for insights and demos on using AI - for the skeptics. enthusiasts, and the confused.
Past Seminar: “Echoes Of Voices: Inclusive Filmmaking
Enhance your creativity, streamline workflows and save time in your film productions with AI in this online workshop!
Past Seminar: “Echoes Of Voices: Inclusive Filmmaking
Filmmaker Daphne McWilliams shares tips on budgeting for documentaries, shorts, and low-budget features, along with template budgets. With a background in music videos and documentaries like the Oscar-nominated "4 Little Girls," her latest project, "Boston (R)evolution," is heading to festivals in 2024.
Past Seminar: “Echoes Of Voices: Inclusive Filmmaking
On March 28th, 2024, filmmakers Andres "Jay" Molina and Alexis Neophytides presented their film Fire Through Dry Grass in an online seminar, revealing the hidden impact of Covid-19 on Jay, his friends, and residents of Coler Nursing Home. The documentary, made using GoPro cameras and Zoom, exposes the covert transfer of Covid patients to the home and has fueled the Nursing Home Lives Matter movement to advocate for better long-term care policies.
