BAVC 2008 Producers Institute
Last week Wendy Levy from the Bay Area Video Coalition put together a multi-platform producer program like no other. The 2008 Producers Institute was a 10 day opportunity to incubate great ideas for social change, within some of San Francisco’s best facilities, and amongst some of the sharpest and most well informed teams of creative professionals. Producers and directors from around the world are paired with mentors and experts in audio, video, web 2.0, social networking, mapping, Second Life, and game design to help manifest multi-platform projects that connect people with political, cultural, environmental, and open-source information and content. Many producers arrived with a rich seed while others were had already created sites or documentaries. In all cases, the result for each team, from the highly productive week, was a 15 min keynote presented at The Museum of the African Diaspora to organizations such as the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Sundance Documentary Institute, and ITVS. Each presentation encapsulated the, largely user driven, web, mobile, and multimedia concepts and proposals that would help to provide users with the tools, networks, and inspiration to use cutting edge technology to create a social, political, and global influence. A truly unbelievable experience!
Want to learn more? Check out these links to other articles and blogs:
http://bavc.org/producersinstitute/panel.htm
http://www.zoom-in.com/blogs/film-video/incomming-the-bavc-producers-institute/
http://www.memoryminer.com/blog/?p=94
http://www.calebbooker.com/blog/2008/06/04/dont-call-it-citizen-journalism
http://bavc.wordpress.com/2008/05/29
http://bavc.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/here-we-go-but-where-are-we-going/
http://bavc.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/producers-institute-day-one/
http://bavc.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/pi-from-the-intern-perspective/
http://bavc.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/producers-institute-plenary-panel/
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