FCC Hosts Native Roundtable for Digital Television Transition
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The Federal Communications Commission will host a roundtable and workshop July 16-17 in Salt Lake City as part of the Indian Telecommunications Initiates initiative. Federal officials will discuss the digital television (DTV) transition and telecommunications development in Indian Country.
The federal government is changing the way TV is broadcasted on Feb.
17, 2009, in order to clear the way for 911 and other public safety
communications in the now-cluttered airways. Those who have antennas on
their TV sets or bought a TV before 1998 will need to buy a converter
box to watch TV after February 2009. Cable and satellite customers
should not be affected, but it's best to check with your cable company
to be sure.
The July meeting will take place at the Indian Walk-in Center, 120 W. 1300 S. St.
To register for the free meeting, call 1-888-CALL-FCC (1-888-225-5322), press number 6 and follow the prompts to leave your full contact information. Or fax your information to 202-418-2839, or send an email to iti-info@fcc.gov.
For more information, contact Shana Barehand, FCC senior attorney and liaison to tribal governments, at 202-418-0385 or shana.barehand@fcc.gov. More information can also be seen at the FCC's Tribal Initiatives website at www.fcc.gov/indians.
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Take VisionMaker Video Survey,
Win Free Movies Next Month
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VisionMaker Video is upgrading its website and looking for ways to better serve you. Please take 15-20 minutes to answer our survey and enter our drawing for four free DVDs from the VisionMaker catalog (two per person, personal use only). Only one survey per person please.
Click here to take the survey.
Drawing will be held Aug. 4, 2008.
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| NAPT 2008 Program Fund for Public Television Deadline July 16
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The postmark deadline for NAPT's 2008 program fund is July 16.
Native American producers are encouraged to apply for funding for programs intended for public television broadcast. Funding can be applied to any stage of production--from research and development to film completion.
More information is available at: nativetelecom.org/producers_programfund
Funding for NAPT's Production Fund comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Sundance Documentary Film Funding Available
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The Sundance Documentary Film Program, in partnership with the Skoll Foundation, has $1.2 million available for film grants. The funding can be used in the development and production of new feature-length independent documentary films that frame, examine and amplify social entrepreneurship as an innovative approach to the central questions of our time.
Priority will be given to documentaries that combine the art of storytelling with topics in the field of social entrepreneurship, including the work of specific social entrepreneurs.
Deadline is Aug. 15. Awards will be announced in December 2008.
For information and apply online, go to www.sundance.org/DocSource.
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New Mexico Film Contracts Available in State Program
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New Mexico-based filmmakers are encouraged to apply for the New Visions/New Mexico Contract Award program designed to support and promote the work of local directors, producers and writers.
Filmmakers may apply for up to $20,000 per project. The money can be used toward the completion or the launching of a new animated, documentary, experimental or narrative project. Filmmakers must demonstrate how the film will aid the state in training in the industry.
Deadline for proposals is Sept. 5. Contracts will be announced in November.
More information can be found at the NewVisions/Contract Awards webpage.
A free seminar about the New Visions/New Mexico Contract Award program will be held at
10 a.m. Aug. 8 at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Call 505-476-5600 to reserve a seat.
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VisionMaker Video July Specials
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VisionMaker Video is celebrating Native American song and dance this month and is offering discounts on two titles to help you celebrate the sweet sounds of summer:
 Robert Mirabal:
Music from a Painted Cave
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Robert Mirabal's first large-scale, multimedia production, Mirabal
(Taos Pueblo), with a band of world champion Native singers and
dancers, emits bolts of energy with percussionists, cellists, electric
guitarists and an Aboriginal didgeridoo. Special lighting effects
create the illusion of a petroglyph-filled cavern where the performance
takes place. Now available on DVD.
Home sale price $15.96 (DVD)
Home sale price $7.45 (VHS only)
Educational sale price $79.20 (DVD)
Educational sale price $49.50 (VHS)
 Songs from the Spirit:
Live from the KiMo
Bellowing live from the walls of New Mexico's historic KiMo Theatre in Albuquerque, three renowned multi-award-winning Native American musicians, flutist R. Carlos Nakai, singer/songwriter Joanne Shenandoah and singer/songwriter/ painter Bill Miller, perform with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra in this musical experience co-produced by KNME-TV.
Home sale price $19.95
This film is not available for educational use.
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Educational Sale Extended to
July 31; Get 15% off DVDs
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Good news for educators and librarians this summer! VisionMaker Video has extended its summer sale on all titles for educational use. VisionMaker Video is offering 15% off DVDs from now until July 31.
VisionMaker Video still has VHS titles at 50% off. Go to the VisionMaker Video online catalog today.
Other titles include:
 American Cowboys
American Cowboys tells the stories of George Fletcher and Jackson Sundown, the first African American and the first Native American to compete in the World Title at the Pendleton Round-Up. This documentary reveals the glory of being the best, the frustration of being ignored and the rewards for not giving up on a dream.
Educational sale price $84.15 (DVD-R)
 Hand Game
Producer Lawrence Johnson explores the mythic and historic roots of contemporary gambling in the Northwest Native society through a look at traditional hand game, also called "stick" or "bone game." Travelling from reservation to reservation meeting engaging and colorful players, the film shows how traditional ways continue to thrive today in Indian Country.
Educational sale price $84.15 (DVD-R)
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Free Screening of New Mexico Student Film Projects at IAIA
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The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) and Disney/ABC Summer Television and Film Workshop will have a free screening of Native American students' work produced during the six-week workshop at 6 p.m. July 25.
The workshop, now in its fifth year, targets Native students interested in writing and producing television and film. TV executives assist with the
design and implementation of projects, and academic credit is offered
at the end of the course.
Native cusine will be served before the screening at IAIA's Library and Technology
Center. Disney and ABC executives will discuss the unique partnership, and students will also talk about their work.
For more information, call Marcella Ernest at 505-424-5796 or email her at mernest@iaia.edu.
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Producer Profile
Cristina Ibarra
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John Valadez
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Producers Cristina Ibarra and John Valadez team up for seven years to explore a Texas public art project dedicated to a historical figure some call a hero and patriarch, and others call a destroyer of indigenous community in The Last Conquistador.
The documentary, which is part of the P.O.V. series, appears on most PBS stations July 15 (Check your local listings).
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Download MP3 of the interview
Watch preview trailer.
Go to film website.
Listen to the webcast of the interview on AIROS:
7/10/08: 10 a.m., 4 p.m., 10 p.m.
7/12/08: 10 a.m., 4 p.m., 10 p.m.
7/13/08: 10 a.m., 4 p.m., 10 p.m.
7/14/08: 11 a.m., 5 p.m., 11 p.m.
7/15/08: 9 a.m., 3 p.m., 9 p.m.
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