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Each 4-hour workshop has a registration fee of $50 per person. In case of cancellation, $20 is refundable if we are notified a week before the workshop. If you sign up for 3 workshops, the fee is $125.

You can register online or if you prefer, you can mail us a registration form and check or money order payable to: "Media Alliance"

Media Alliance

attn: Be The Media

P.O. Box 35

Troy, NY 12180

NOTE: If you are registering for more than one workshop, you must register for each workshop separately via the web portal, but you can pay for them together.
We offer one scholarship per workshop for those in financial need. To apply for a scholarship send a cover letter to the above address or email hmIMC@indymedia.org stating your need and interest in the workshop, as well as contact information.

MEDIA ARTIST/INSTRUCTOR BIOS

Jim de Seve is an award-winning documentary producer and director whose critically acclaimed documentary, “Tying the Knot,” has played in more than 70 U.S. cities and in 21 countries. He has also shot and produced work for Nickelodeon, MTV, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the American Museum of Natural History. His work has been broadcast on PBS, CBC Canada, the FOX network, Canal+, and HereTV. De Sève has lectured at New York University, the International Documentary Symposium in Montreal, Film/Video Arts in NYC, the University of Massachusetts, the Tribeca Film Festival, the International Documentary Association and at over 100 community-based screenings in the US and abroad.
Victoria Kereszi is a documentary producer, media educator, and curator. She received an M.A in Documentary Film and Gender Studies from NYU in 2002, and is the founder and director of the Eyeam: Women Behind the Lens video series. Vickie is currently the Director of Programming at Manhattan Neighborhood Network, New York City’s community access center.
Penny Lane is an independent filmmaker and video artist living in Troy, NY and Northampton, MA. Her collaborative and solo experimental, narrative and documentary videos have screened at AFI FEST, Int’l Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco Int’l Film Festival, Seattle Int’l Film Festival, Women in the Director’s Chair, Santa Fe Art Institute, MOMA, and DUMBO Art Under the Bridge. Currently she is a visiting assistant professor of video and new media at Hampshire College and is working on a documentary about a Depression-era madame.
Andrew Lynn is a media worker and artist based in Troy, NY. He received an MFA from RPI’s iEAR program in 2002, and is the founder of Whirl-Mart and the Troy Bike Rescue. In 2005, he co-directed the documentary Still We Ride, which has screened internationally. Currently, he is an adjunct professor at RPI and the coordinator of the Workshops @ The Sanctuary series.
Jill Malouf has been involved in film and video production for over 10 years as a videographer, camera assistant, gaffer, grip, and editor. She has worked on everything from major nationwide television commercials to low budget motion pictures and documentaries. She is also an avid still photographer and promotes the Capital Region with her photography through a local company she co-founded called Imagine Albany.
Carlos Pareja is a media educator, artist and activist who has worked with various grassroots media organi- zations like Paper Tiger TV, Deep Dish TV, Indymedia, and Democracy Now! He has taught video produc- tion and media literacy to adults and young people through The Museum of Television & Radio, Hunter and Lehman Colleges, The Educational Video Center and Safe Horizons Streetworks Project. Currently he is the Manager of the Education and Outreach program at Brooklyn Community Access Television (BCAT), which provides training, production facilities and channel space to Brooklyn residents and organizations.
Elizabeth Press joined StreetFilms this fall as a videographer after over four years producing for the independent TV/Radio program, Democracy Now! She received her MFA in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. While working on her thesis, Elizabeth spent a year teaching youth video in the Dominican Republic on a Fulbright Scholarship. Her videos have screened in festivals all over the world, including a grassroots organized tour with her most recent documen- tary, Still We Ride.
Jennifer Wager is a Newark, NJ media educator and director of the film, Venezuela Rising, which has screened at film festivals around the world . She currently heads promotions at Manhattan Neighborhood Network, the flagship community TV station in the U.S. She also serves on the board of the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, with whom she has facilitated a community video oral history project, producing a DVD and Web-based series of short films on the lives of immigrant and working class women from the Lower East Side. Since 1995, Ms. Wager has created several online experimental education projects, including the Smithsonian-award winning W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual University. Ms. Wager holds a M.A. in African Studies from Ohio State University and a M.A. in Communication and Technology from Georgetown University.

Hudson Mohawk Independent Media Center
www.hm.indymedia.org
hmimc@indymedia.org

The Sanctuary for Independent Media
www.TheSanctuaryForIndependentMedia.org
3361 6th Ave. Troy, NY 12180
(518) 272-2390

The Sanctuary For Independent Media (a program of New York Media Alliance) is a community media arts center located in an historic former church at 3361 6th Ave in Troy, NY. The Sanctuary hosts screening, production and performance facilities, training in media production and a meeting space for artists, activists and independent media makers of all kinds.

New York Media Alliance is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing independent media--video, film, audio, radio and print--in New York State by expanding resources, support, and audiences for the media arts. For more information: www.nyMediaAlliance.org

Funded in part by New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.