Submissions open for Vision Maker Media’s Public Media Content Fund
LINCOLN, Neb. – Vision Maker
Media has announced a March 1 deadline
for applications from filmmakers for its
Public Media Content Fund, a program
that has funded filmmakers since 1990.
With funding from the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the Vision
Maker Media Public Media Content Fund
supports projects about American Indian
and Alaska Native issues that have sig-
nificant Native involvement and ultimately
benefit the entire public media community.
Applications must be submitted
electronically by March 1, 2016, at 11:59
p.m. (PST).
“The purpose of this funding oppor-
tunity is to encourage and increase the
diversity of Native American voices in
public media,” said Assistant Director
Georgiana Lee (Navajo). “There are very
few avenues open to films – much less
Native documentaries – and we believe
that support from Vision Maker Media
can help open doors for various forms of
additional funding for our filmmakers.”
Projects in any phase of production
are eligible to apply for funding. Awards
for research and development range from
$5,000 to $20,000; awards for production
or completion can be up to half of the proj-
ect’s total budget; and new media awards
range from $5,000 to $35,000.
Vision Maker Media does not fully
fund projects and awardees are required to
seek additional funding from other sources.
Projects selected for funding will be
offered additional distribution opportuni-
ties, including educational and home DVD
distribution through visionmakermedia.
org and video-on-demand.
“Vision Maker Media is looking for
compelling Native stories that appeal
to broad audiences. We’re particularly
looking for stories that advance impor-
tant Native issues, such as the American
graduate, Indian mascots, Native women,
suicide prevention, underrepresented
Tribes, and veterans and military service,”
said Executive Director Shirley K. Sneve
(Rosebud Sioux). “We want to see proj-
ects that accurately illuminate aspects of
contemporary Tribal cultures or peoples.”
The 2016 open call marks the third
year for the Public Media Content Fund’s
electronic application submission process.
“Through a partnership with the
Center for Asian American Media, we
can offer the convenience of the electronic
application submission process through
the online platform SlideRoom, which
offers a step-by-step guide for applicants
seeking funding,” said Susan Hartmann,
director of communications (caam.slide-
room.com/#/permalink/program/29325).
Vision Maker Media convenes a
panel of public television professionals,
independent filmmakers and American
Indian/Alaska Native educators to review
submissions and recommend applications
for funding.
Additionally, Vision Maker Media
assists filmmakers with fundraising,
navigating the public television system for
national broadcast, educational resource
development, community engagement and
marketing efforts.
Notifications of award status will be
announced in June 2016.
For Vision Maker Media Public
Media Content Fund guidelines and a
link to the online application, please visit
visionmakermedia.org/fund.
For provocative and engaging com-
pleted films from independent or public
television producers, Vision Maker Media
offers a separate acquisition submission
process. To apply, visit visionmakermedia.
org/acquisitions.
Vision Maker Media, a nonprofit
501(c)(3), shares Native stories with the
world by advancing media that represents
the experiences, values and cultures of
American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Founded in 1977, all aspects of its
programs encourage the involvement of
young people to learn more about careers
in the media – to be the next generation
of storytellers.
Vision Maker Film Festival will highlight the work of Native filmmakers
LINCOLN, Neb. – Mark your calendar
for the Sixth Biennial Vision Maker Film
Festival set for March 11-13 in Lincoln.
The festival will showcase works by
Native filmmakers. More than a dozen
Native guest speakers involved with the
films being showcased also will attend.
A reception at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln’s Van Brunt Visitors
Center kicks off the three-day event on
March 11.
Hors d’oeuvres will be provided prior to
two highly anticipated screenings at Riepma
Ross Media Arts Center – The Dull Knifes:
My Father & Me and Medicine Woman.
Question-and-answer sessions with the
filmmakers will follow the screenings.
Peggy Berryhill (Muscogee), founder
of the Native Media Resource Center
(NMRC), will receive the Frank Blythe
Award for Media Excellence at the event.
Founded in 1996, the NMRC pro-
duces content about American Indians
and promotes racial understanding and
cross-cultural harmony.
Berryhill has been instrumental in
organizing Native radio stations and inde-
pendent producers throughout her career.
She began broadcasting in 1973 at
KPFA in Berkeley, Calif., where she pro-
duced Living on Indian Time, a weekly
one-hour program focused on the Native
community both local and national.
She has been a program director at
KUNM-FM, KPFA-FM and KALW-FM,
and is the only Native person to have
worked as a full-time producer at National
Public Radio in the Specialized Audience
Programs Department from 1978-79.
Berryhill has received numerous
awards for her documentary work, includ-
ing the Unity Award, the Cindy and those
from the New York Festival, Corporation
for Public Broadcasting, and the Native
American Journalists Association.
She received the 2011 Bader Award
from the National Federation of Com-
munity Broadcasters for her lifetime of
commitment to Native radio, community
radio and the inclusion of the voices of
women and indigenous communities in
broadcasting. In 2005, she received the
Local Heroes award from KQED-FM
public broadcasting in San Francisco.
In 2014, Berryhill was inducted into
the Muscogee Nation Hall of Fame.
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21 st Annual Na-ha-shnee Native American Health Science Institute
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