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
Belcourt Theatre (Nashville, TN)
The Belcourt Theatre is a non-profit film house dedicated to presenting the best in independent, foreign, documentary & repertory work as well as extending the film going experience through ongoing education programs. We are committed to high quality film exhibition practices, connecting audiences to great film making with the goal of building community and film fans through the power of shared experience.
Northwest Film Center (Portland, OR)
The Northwest Film Center is a regional media arts resource and service organization founded to encourage the study, appreciation, and utilization of the moving image arts, foster their artistic and professional excellence, and to help create a climate in which they may flourish. The Center provides a variety of film and video exhibition, education, and information programs primarily directed to the residents of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska.
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Docs In Progress (Silver Spring, MD)
The mission of Docs In Progress is to give individuals the tools to tell stories through documentary film to educate, inspire, and transform the way people view their world. We do this by fostering a supportive community for both professional and emerging documentary filmmakers through screenings, workshops, classes, and peer-centered support networks.
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Eyebeam (New York, NY)
Eyebeam is an art and technology center that provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital research and experimentation. It is a lively incubator of creativity and thought, where artists and technologists actively engage with culture, addressing the issues and concerns of our time. Eyebeam challenges convention, celebrates the hack, educates the next generation, encourages collaboration, freely offers its contributions to the community, and invites the public to share in a spirit of openness: open source, open content and open distribution.
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SPACES (Cleveland, OH)
SPACES advances the artist's vision. By providing freedom, resources and an audience, SPACES enables artists to engage the public in a vital dialogue about contemporary art. SPACES interacts directly with artists, promoting excellence and experimentation to produce challenging gallery exhibitions, public programs, residencies and publications.
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The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY)
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College interrogates sustainability across all of its forms: economic, social, ecological, political, cultural, technological, and aesthetic. The festival is in the spirit of UNESCO’s initiative on sustainable development that expanded environmental issues to explore the international interconnections between war, disease, health, genocide, the land, water, air, food, education, technology, cultural heritage, and diversity.
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Third World Newsreel (New York, NY)
Founded in 1967, Third World Newsreel (TWN) is one of the oldest alternative media arts organizations in the United States. Our mission is to foster the creation, appreciation and dissemination of independent film and video made by and about people of diverse ethnic, cultural and class backgrounds. We support social issue film and video of diverse forms and genres, made by artists who are intimately connected to their subject matter through the common bonds of ethnic and cultural heritage, class position, gender, sexual orientation, and political identification.
