Bring it to the table

Support ‘Bring it to the Table’ on Kickstarter

Talking Eyes Media (TEM), a non-profit organization with a long history of producing powerful media for pressing issues, needs your support for their Bring it to the Table Kickstarter campaign. What is Bring it to the Table? It's a video and web project that brings citizens together around issues that normally tear us apart. The Problem Somewhere along the line, politics replaced sex as the one thing in America we don't discuss in mixed company – even amongst friends and family. Democracy is founded on robust dialogue, and if we can't have conversations across party lines, democracy doesn't work. The Solution Bring it to the Table is a participatory online platform, community engagement campaign, and a series of webisodes aimed at bridging political divides and elevating the national conversation. The project is for those who are tired of hyper-partisanship and want to steer political discourse back into the hands of the American…

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Alexia Foundation Launches New Site

The Alexia Foundation has launched a new website and a new grant competition. These developments demonstrate the foundation’s continued commitment to its mission of promoting stories that drive change and to remaining at the forefront of documentary journalism. The newly redesigned AlexiaFoundation.org showcases the foundation’s expansive archive of in-depth stories. The more than 90 stories featured on the site provide a critical perspective on social injustices spanning 21 years. It is a rich resource that will inform and inspire for years to come with stories by photographers such as Walter Astrada, Bharat Choudhary, Ami Vitale, Louie Palu, Marcus Bleasdale and many more. The Global Women’s Initiative will support visual journalists documenting the abuse of women worldwide. The initiative will kick off by awarding the Alexia Women’s Rights Prize this summer, and culminate in the Global Women’s Initiative symposium and exhibition in New York City, in the fall of 2013. Explore the site.…

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POV Hackathon

POV (Point of View), the award-winning independent documentary series celebrating its 25th anniversary on PBS this year, is reaching out to documentary filmmakers who have projects at any stage of production for the first POV Hackathon, taking place Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 11-12, 2012, in New York City. The weekend is an opportunity for filmmakers with a digital vision to work with developers and designers to create a finished prototype — be it a mobile site, web app, widget, game or something we've never seen before — for the web. Entry deadline: June 29 To apply or find out more, visit pbs.org/pov/hackathon.

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Smith Grant Application Deadline May 31

The deadline to enter the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography 2012 is Thursday, May 31. The W. Eugene Smith Grant is presented annually to a photographer whose past work and proposed project, as judged by a panel of experts, follows the tradition of W. Eugene Smith’s concerned photography and dedicated compassion exhibited during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist. The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography was established in 1978 following the death of Gene Smith, the legendary American photo essayist. It is today the most prestigious honor in documentary photography. Every year it recognizes a photographer who has demonstrated an exemplary commitment to documenting the human condition in the spirit of Smith’s concerned photography and dedicated compassion. The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, INC., a not-for-profit corporation qualified under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, independently administers the grant program that provides photographers with the financial…

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