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FROM THE DIRECTOR
May was a month of big wins. Indie documentary won big when PBS decided to showcase Indie work after a hard fought campaign by filmmakers and viewers (led by Kartemquin Films). You can follow the progression of the movement through my series of blog posts. In a win for librarians, just last week the judicial decision in the Georgia State University lawsuit came down overwhelmingly in favor of fair use. In other news at the Center, we owe a big thank you and good luck to our long-time Project Coordinator, Lauren Ann Donia, who is moving on, we wish her the best of luck in new endeavors. Another big thank you to our graduate fellow Katie Bieze, who has contributed to the Center for the duration of her two year MA program, we couldn't be more grateful for the time and value she's brought us. Finally, June isn't slowing down, we look forward to seeing our many friends and colleagues at SILVERDOCS June 18-24, check out the newly announced line-up online.
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Free Screening: Julie Wyman's Strong!
Center for Social Media at Silverdocs
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Finding Your People - Why Filmmakers Should be on Tumblr...Now
Strategic Communication is for Everyone
Women, Technology, and Social Media
Memes to Meaningful Media - How to Inspire, Engage and Galvanize Your Viewers
Sparkwise: A New and Innovative Tool for Measuring Media Impact
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Fair Use and Librarians
Fair Use Question of the Month: Archiving Online Material for a Library Collection
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GFEM Annual Funder Conversation: Role of Public Media in Our Democracy
PBS Decides to Showcase Indie Work
Localore Percolates
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15th Annual United Nations Association Film Festival
55th Annual CINE Awards Gala
BAVC Accepting Entries for 2012 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies
Sundance Institute Documentary Fund Accepting Applications in June for Fall 2012
Register Now for the Games for Change Festival
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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Free Screening: Julie Wyman's STRONG! on Saturday, June 30 at 5:00 pm 
The Center for Social Media, Community Cinema, Busboys and Poets, Washington DC Jewish Community Center, and ITVS, presents a screening of filmmaker Julie Wyman's STRONG! at Busboys and Poets on Saturday, June 30 at 5 PM. The film follows Cheryl Haworth, a young woman with a big dream: to be the strongest woman in the world. For more information, visit: http://www.communitycinema.org
 Center for Social Media at Silverdocs - June 18-24, 2012
Keep an eye out for the upcoming Hackathon at this year's Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival, sponsored by the Living Docs project (Mozilla, ITVS, Tribeca Film Institute, BAVC and the Center for Social Media). The two-day Hackathon event will give pre-selected documentary filmmakers the chance to collaborate with creative technologists to develop a functioning prototype of an original web documentary. For more information, visit http://silverdocs.com/.
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MAKING YOUR MEDIA MATTER
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 Finding Your People - Why Filmmakers Should be on Tumblr...Now
Project coordinator Lauren Donia writes, "I joined Tumblr in the summer of 2010, just a few months before permanently deleting my Facebook account. I was late to the game. Tumblr was already full of people who had been there for a couple of years and they all seemed to know one another. It was a tough nut to crack, as the saying goes, and it took some time for me to develop my sites, find blogs to follow and attract my own followers." Read more...
Strategic Communication is for Everyone 
Greetings from Telluride Mountainfilm! Associate Director Angelica Das had the pleasure of taking part in one of Mountainfilm's programs that helps to strengthen the work of non-profits. This one was on Strategic Communications and Spitfire Strategie's Kristen Grimm taught Angelica to love the Smart ChartTM. Read more...
 Women, Technology, and Social Media
Did you know that Yahoo! has a Business & Human Rights program? On May 18th, they hosted a Change Your World Summit in Washington, D.C.--a follow up to their first Summit in Cairo--dedicated to Women, Technology and Social/Digital Media. Read more...
Memes to Meaningful Media - How to Inspire, Engage and Galvanize Your Viewers 
This guest post is by Marin Tockman from Land of Opportunity. Learn more about their interactive web video player, or click here to read more from their blog. Right now, as you read this blog post, you probably have a few dozen other windows open on your desktop, are writing an email, making your own facebook or blog post, retweeting your friends’ retweets, streaming music etc… It’s cool – I’m with you. Welcome to the present – we are in a world of media over drive and we are loving it. Read more...
Sparkwise: A  New and Innovative Tool for Measuring Media Impact
Tomorrow Partners, a Berkeley based strategic design firm, recently launched a free cloud-based online tool for aggregating all sorts of metrics, including social media and web presence in a personalized dashboard. Read more...
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FAIR USE AND COPYRIGHT
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More on Libraries and Fair Use
Librarians across the country watched as last month's long-anticipated judicial decision in the Georgia State University lawsuit came down overwhelmingly in favor of the university's fair use. The lawsuit, brought by publishers, charged that the university had exceeded fair use in its policies on posting reserves materials for classes electronically. Read more...
 Fair Use Question of the Month: Archiving Online Material for a Library Collection
In this month's fair use question, a high school librarian wants to create an online collection archiving the community's reactions to the high school's remodel. Read more...
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FUTURE OF PUBLIC MEDIA
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 GFEM Annual Funder Conversation: Role of Public Media in Our Democracy
This year, the Grantmakers in Film & Electronic Media will be holding their Annual Funder Conversation on June 27th and 28th in Philadelphea. The convening will feature remarks by Gary Knell, the new president of National Public Radio and former head of Sesame Workshop, a keynote with FRONTLINE's David Fanning, and a keynote interview with Terry Gross, host of NPR's Fresh Air. The event is for funders and invited guests. To learn more, visit http://gfem.org/node/9162
PBS Decides to Showcase Indie Work 
Responding to an outpouring of filmmaker and viewer enthusiasm for Independent Lens and POV, PBS has reinstated the two programs on its core schedule. The two programs will now take the 10pm EST spot on Monday nights, prime TV programming real estate. Read more...
Localore Percolates
 AIR Media Strategist and CSM Senior Fellow Jessica Clark is tracking the launch of the multiplatform Localore projects in a series of posts: read about the startup phases of Sonic Trace, Hear Here, and Planet Takeout, and stay tuned for more next month. |
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PARTNER NEWS
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 15th Annual United Nations Association Film Festival
The 15th UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival) from October 18-28, 2012 Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, San Francisco and Stanford University celebrates the power of documentary films dealing with human rights issues, the environment, racism, women’s issues, universal education, war and peace. The theme for this year is HUMAN DIGNITY. To learn more, visit http://www.unaff.org/2012/index.html
55th Annual CINE Awards Gala 
On May 9th, 2012, CINE held its 55th Annual Awards Gala at La Maison Francaise, the Embassy of France in Washington, DC. The winner of the 2012 CINE Award of Excellence as the top prize in the Student division, Arya Surowidjojo of American University also received a CINE mentoring prize to assist him as he works on a follow-up to his CINE award-winning documentary The Vigil. For a complete list of 2012 CINE Masters Series Award winners and to see a gallery of images from the 2012 CINE Gala, visit our website at www.CINE.org.
 BAVC Accepting Entries for 2012 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies
The Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) is now accepting entries for the 2012 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies. The Producers Institute is a week-long social impact laboratory that connects the world’s best social issue documentary filmmakers and partner nonprofit organizations with leading technologists and mentors to develop new media tools to advance social change. Preference will be given to documentary films and transmedia projects that highlight themes of economic justice, educational opportunity and human rights.
Sundance Institute Documentary Fund Accepting Applications in June for Fall 2012 
Sundance Institute Documentary Fund will begin accepting applications online for the Fall 2012 round of funding starting on June 6th, 2012 through July 10th, 2012 (postmark deadline). The Documentary Fund supports cinematic feature documentaries that focus on current human rights issues, freedom of expression, social justice, civil liberties, and critical issues of our time. The online application may be accessed here.
Register Now for the Games for Change Festival - June 18-20, 2012 in New York City
 This year, the Games for Change Festival will devote two entire days focusing on how educators can use the impact of games in formal and informal classroom settings. Join long time investor in tools for teaching game designer, AMD, as they present an entire track of programming and workshops dedicated to teaching game design in the classroom. And don't miss the Games for Learning Institute track which highlights research into games-based learning in a series of engaging talks. Register now and don't forget that groups of 5 or more who register together get 25% off!
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