Featured Organization
Be a part of NAMAC’s Featured Leaders and Organizations series! You must be a current NAMAC member to participate. Please complete one or both of the following forms: Featured Leader and Featured Organization.
If you are selected, NAMAC will contact you two weeks prior to publication for any follow-up information, and your profile will appear once in our electronic newsletter and the front page of our website. It will also be archived on the NAMAC website.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Dewey Schott at dan@namac.org or call 415-431-131 ext. 302
Anthology Film Archives (New York, NY)
The mission of the Anthology Film Archives is to preserve, present, and promote independent, avant-garde, and artist cinema. It strives to advance the cause and protect the heritage of cinematic art that is created outside the commercial mainstream and is in particular danger of being lost, overlooked, or ignored.
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Video Data Bank (VDB), Chicago, IL
The mission of the Video Data Bank (VDB) is to promote artists’ video and media art through a range of programs in order to increase awareness and scholarship of the history and contemporary practice of video and media art across a wide array of communities and audiences. VDB is committed to: serving the artists represented in the collections; providing access to the collections; and ensuring that the future of the collections is guaranteed for generations to come. To this end VDB actively catalogs, archives, distributes, preserves, digitizes, programs and exhibits its historically important collection of video art and artist interviews.
Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center (New Brunswick, NJ)
The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center is New Jersey's only venue dedicated exclusively to the non-commercial exhibition of independent, classic, international, experimental, and progressive cinema. As a non-profit media arts center, the Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC provides an exhibition alternative to the dominant, industry-produced work which, bound by commercial constraints, has traditionally limited its audience's exposure to the full range of cinematic expression, underrepresented cultural perspectives, and critical inquiry. The bi-annual New Jersey Film Festival and New Jersey International Film Festival which are our primary showcases for outstanding films also offer filmmaking workshops taught by industry professionals.
MFAH Films (Houston, TX)
MFAH Films is the film department at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Their mission states that "MFAH Films exhibits and promotes film and other moving image media as a fine and popular art, to as broad an audience as possible." It's accompanied by these goals: (1) Turning people on to the genius of film; (2) Delivering state-of-the-art presentation; (3) Responding to an evolving medium; (4) Stimulating discourse through the shared experience of watching films you could not see elsewhere on a big screen; and (5) Inspiring the next generation to value film and other moving image arts.
IFP Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)
The mission of IFP Minnesota (IFP MN) is to advance a vibrant and diverse community of independent film and media artists through networking, education, funding, and opportunities for showcasing their work. IFP Minnesota envisions a world where expression through images is encouraged and valued.
James River Film Society (Richmond, VA)
The James River Film Society is a volunteer run nonprofit dedicated to the art of film and film as art.
The Soap Factory (Minneapolis, MN)
The Soap Factory is dedicated to the production, presentation, and promotion of emerging contemporary practice across the visual arts. Committed to experimentation and risk-taking, The Soap Factory offers audiences a real and immediate experience of the arts, and encourages a wider understanding of and appreciation for artists and their work.
Rural Media Arts and Education Project (Mariposa, CA)
Most people know the Rural Media Arts and Education Project as the Sixth Street Cinema. Their mission is to open cultural and educational access and strengthen community.
PhillyCAM (Philadelphia, PA)
PhillyCAM is a new arrival to the rich media arts community in Philadelphia. Our mission is assisting individuals and organizations in creating and distributing non-commercial media, providing access to training and technology. This places us in the unique position as aggregator of ideas, content and people.
Athens Center for Film and Video (Athens, OH)
The mission of the Athens Center for Film and Video is to develop, encourage, sponsor and otherwise support the appreciation, production, and growth of independent, community and alternative media arts in southeast Ohio and the surrounding region. They believe that collective experience of moving pictures, in a public space, enhances and strengthens the community while simultaneously celebrating and supporting media artists engaged with contemporary issues and committed to expanding the possibilities of this art form.
