TWM | LINKS

Third Cinema
Political Film, Video, and New Media Collectives and Organizations
Media Advocacy Resources and Organizations
Youth Media Sites
Alternative Media Outlets

Digital Storytelling, Film, Video, and New Media Arts Collectives and Organizations

ten12
http://www.ten12.com
Committed to community-based projects, ten12 is a multiservice technology and design collectiva. Implementing advanced web technologies with a social conscious we use the internet to engender global communication between our disparate communities to promote art, techiness, and open forums of expression.

Center for Digital Storytelling
http://www.storycenter.org
The Center for Digital Storytelling is a non-profit project development, training, and research organization dedicated to assisting people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives. Their focus is on developing large-scale projects for community, educational and business institutions using the methods and principles built around their Digital Storytelling Workshop. They also offer workshops for organizations and individuals, and provide a clearinghouse of information about resources on storytelling and new media.

Third World News Reel
http://www.twn.org
Founded in 1967, Third World Newsreel is one of the oldest alternative media arts organizations in the United States. We are committed to the creation and appreciation of independent and social issue media by and about people of color, and the peoples of developing countries around the world.

Riseup.net/Red Cursor Collective
http://home.riseup.net
Riseup.net is a project of the Red Cursor Collective, a 100% volunteer effort of activists using technology for radical social change. We provide training, web hosting, listservs, email accounts, and any kind of tech support needed by the activist community.

Video Machete
http://www.videomachete.org
Video Machete is a Chicago non-profit collective of youth and adults who are students, artists, activists, and cultural workers. Their digital media projects explore, document, and celebrate the struggles, perspectives, and organizing strategies of marginalized communities working towards progressive social change.

Video Activist Network
http://www.videoactivism.org
The VAN is an informal association of activists and politically conscious artists using video to support social, economic and environmental justice campaigns.

Witness
http://www.witness.org
Witness is a video advocacy program for human rights founded by Peter Gabriel, The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, and the Reebok Human Rights Foundation.

Paper Tiger Television
www.papertiger.org
Paper Tiger Television (PTTV) is an open, non-profit, volunteer video collective. Through the production and distribution of our public access series, media literacy/video production workshops, community screenings and grassroots advocacy PTTV works to challenge and expose the corporate control of mainstream media. PTTV believes that increasing public awareness of the negative influence of mass media and involving people in the process of making media is mandatory for our long term goal of information equity.

Sorepo Productions
http://www.sorepo.com/home.htm
Sorepo is a business community, an organic blueprint for a corporate nation. Based on the idea of community-conscious capitalism, the company fancies itself a society housed within a business. As such, the cooperation endeavors to touch every aspect of human life from culture to entertainment to education. Our growing community currently consists of an independent record label, a management company, a production entity, a small business engine, a new media vehicle, a recording and production studio and various real estate endeavors.

Hellagetto Productions
http://www.hellagetto.com
We are a network of cultural workers(mostly filmmakers) who are challenging the media by making our own. we are servin’ up more than just movin’ pictures; we are makin’ media not just for us, but for justice. we work toward makin’ images that not only depict, but also support liberation.

Women Make Movies
www.wmm.com
Women Make Movies is a national non-profit feminist media arts organization whose multicultural programs provide resources for both users and producers of media by women. Established to address the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in the media, WMM is the largest distributor of women's media in North America. Find out about their Production Assistance program for aspiring producers and directors; browse their online catalog; check out news and events happening in the world of filmmaking; and locate articles, books, library collections, and bibliographies on women in filmmaking on their web site.

National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC)
http://www.namac.org
Part of the Ninth Street Media Arts Consortium. An association of organizations and individuals dedicated to building a broad voice of diversity in the media arts. their Web site includes listings of media arts centers nationwide.

Digital Sistas
http://www.digital-sistas.org/
Digital Sistas is a non-profit organization created to promote and provide technology education and enrichment for young girls and women of color.
Digital Sisters fulfills its mission by offering programs that promote young girls and women of color to be fluent users, inventors of technology, providers of content and academically enriched. These programs will help develop stronger communities particularly those that are traditionally under served.

ListenUp.org
www.listenup.org
This web site provides valuable links to youth media organizations around the country and provides dates on festivals, jobs and more.

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org
Indymedia is a collective offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.

Free Speech Internet Television
http://www.freespeech.org
FreeSpeech Internet Television is an first audio/video hub on the web created and defined by the people who use it. They have video and audio news and a curated archive of documentary programs on the web.

Mediarights.org
www.mediarights.org
MediaRights.org is a not-for-profit community website that makes social-issue documentaries easy to find and use for media makers, activists, educators and librarians.