OVERVIEW & MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

This position offers a college student with some relevant background and skills a chance to gain ‘real world’ multimedia communications experience in a fast paced setting of a corporate communications department in a leading Massachusetts company. Primary responsibilities include assisting and supporting the Media Productions Manager for AV projects. Secondarily, provide general support to Internal Communications team for other related communications projects.

Contact: Sandeep Ray, Media Production Manager: sandeep.ray@bcbsma.com

The OSEA Summer Field School is a unique research program designed for participants to explore the rich social, cultural, historical and touristic environments of three locations (Mérida, Playa del Carmen, and Chichén Itzá/Pisté) in the Yucatán, México.

This field school/research program is an exciting opportunity to critically explore and experience tourism development projects and their implications as they relate to issues of identity, governance, democracy, human rights, development, cultural hegemony, urban development, migration, and multimedia ethnographic documentation within the context of cultural production. Student participants gain intensive, on-site fieldwork training in ethnography and cultural anthropology and develop new skills in interdisciplinary research methodologies as they relate to cultural studies and art making. MIRA allows participants to develop their own individual research project within a larger program of focused research. Students will have the opportunity to explore topics and mediums of interest in the first person while working in small groups in an environment of cultural immersion. The overall program and project culminates in a multi-authored, multi-media ethnographic document that is designed and developed for academic dissemination.

contact@osea-cite.org

WHEN Summer 2006: June 27– August 12
Arrival on Tuesday June 27. Departures on Saturday, August 12

WHERE Yucatán Peninsula of México
Program includes:
­7 nights in Playa del Carmen, Jewel of the Maya Riviera
­26 nights in Mérida, the Colonial capital city of Yucatán
­10 days in Pisté & Chichén Itzá, the heart of Maya Civilization

Presentation Slot Deadline: Wednesday February 1, 2006
Observer Seat Deadline: Thursday March 16, 2006

Hot Docs Toronto Documentary Forum (TDF) is a superb way to showcase a documentary project in front of key international partners, as well as an invaluable event for up-to-the-minute market intelligence for all participants, whether buyer or seller.

Unique in North America, the TDFs unusual format provides an excellent snapshot of productions coming into the marketplace, and an opportunity to hear broadcast decision-makers discuss their upcoming programming. It’s a two-day, limited-seating event focused around a schedule of 30 pre-selected international project presentations (by their producers and commissioning editors) and six Channel Update presentations. The TDFs delegates are an elite group of the world’s documentary creators, programmers and distributors. This spring they will include over 100 documentary broadcast and distribution colleagues from Europe, the USA and the rest of the world.

Hot Docs, North Americas largest documentary festival and market, presents its 13th annual edition from April 28 - May 7, 2006 with a Spotlight on France. An outstanding selection of 100+ documentaries from Canada and around the world will be presented. Hot Docs also mounts a full roster of industry events for its delegates.

Angie Driscoll, TDF Coordinator at:
Tel: (1) 416-203-2155, ext 263
Fax: (1) 416-203-0446
Web site: www.hotdocs.ca
E-mail: adriscoll@hotdocs.ca
Mail/Courier: TDF c/o Hot Docs, 110 Spadina Avenue, Suite 333, Toronto, ON, M5V 2K4, CANADA.

From the Center for Social Media

www.centerforsocialmedia.org/rock/backgrounddocs/bestpractices.pdf

Internship:

The DER Special Project’s Manager is looking for a part-time student intern for the spring semester. The ideal candidate possesses strong research and writing skills with a particular interest in Afghanistan and/or K-16 educational resources. Please send cover letter and resume to DER directly or submit via email (jlacroix@der.org).

Documentary Educational Resources
Attn: Jennifer Lacroix & Cynthia Close
101 Morse Street
Watertown, MA 02472

LEF New England announces an upcoming deadline of Friday 27 January 2006 for the Moving Image Fund, supporting independent filmmakers living and working in the six New England states. Grants are offered in two categories: Pre-production, with a maximum $5,000 grant, and Production, with a maximum $25,000 grant.

The Moving Image Fund is targeted toward the production of work, with the goal of strengthening the voices of media artists and improving the overall environment for the production, exhibition, and distribution of their work. For more information on the Foundation, please visit www.lef-foundation.org, or email Kathryn@lef-foundation.org”