The Mseyas color, 27 & 52 minutes
Follows a family of four siblings in Tanzania orphaned by AIDS. Their lives are a daily struggle to survive without parental or state support and the film details how they contend with illness, debt and constant worry. Director Gustavo Vizoso was moved to document their situation, capturing the light and color of Tanzania in beautifully observed photography, in order to speak out on behalf of the 12 million AIDS orphans living in Africa today.

Independent Television Service, Inc. (www.itvs.org) is a nonprofit organization created and chartered by Congress to make unique, provocative, compelling programs for public television by independent producers. ITVS is an equal opportunity employer; women and people of color are encouraged to apply.

Title: DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING
Reports to: Vice President of Programming
Salary/Status: DOE/Exempt
Benefits: Excellent

Job Summary: This position is responsible for managing the LINCS program solicitation and other programming initiatives through all phases of review, evaluation and selection. Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the programming department in the absence of the Vice President of Programming, including oversight of initiatives and fulfilling administrative and organizational duties. Assigns and trains department staff for field relations outreach. Manages the Program Manager for Diversity Development Fund and Programming Assistant. Managerial Responsibilities: Programming Manager (DDF), Programming Assistant.

Title: INDEPENDENT LENS PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
Reports to: Independent Lens Assistant Producer
Status: Exempt, full benefits
Salary: DOE

Job Summary: please go to:

For more information on ITVS please visit www.itvs.org.

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Position: Managing Director, one-year contract
Deadline: Monday, January 7, 2008
Start Date: January 2008.

Organization: The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, now in its 9th year, is an international festival that celebrates the latest works by Indigenous peoples on the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio, and new media. Each fall, the festival presents a selection of the most compelling and distinctive Indigenous works from around the globe. The festival’s screenings, parties, panel discussions, and cultural events attract and connect filmmakers, media artists, programmers, buyers, and industry professionals. The works accepted reflect the diversity of the world’s Indigenous nations and illustrate the vitality and excellence of our art and culture in contemporary media.

Summary: The Managing Director of the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival will play a pivotal role in the media arts sector in Toronto and beyond. The Managing Director manages all operations and affairs of the organization and reports directly to the Board of Directors.

Responsibilities:
The Managing Director’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Festival Execution, Profile, and Outreach

• Oversee and ensure effective execution of the festival, including programming, events, community, and industry initiatives.
• Create and implement festival plan and timelines in accordance to annual strategic priorities as set by the Board of Directors.
• Develop and increase imagineNATIVE’s festival and year-round profile, including overseeing marketing materials, publicity and promotions.
• Maintain current and build new relationships with funders and private sector sponsors in conjunction with the Director of Development and Artistic Director.
• Represent imagineNATIVE at events, meetings, and other festivals.
• Build stronger national and international network of community organizations, media arts presenters and advocacy organizations.
• Conduct an annual evaluation of the festival.
  
  Organizational and Financial Management and Development
  
• Manage the organization’s financial business, including the development of the annual budget and audit, in conjunction with the Board.
• Write public and private grant proposals in compliance with established deadlines established for each, collect and maintain all data and records required for such grants, in conjunction with the Director of Development and the Artistic Director.
• Develop and implement a strategic plan in conjunction with the Board.
• Develop and implement strategic public and private fundraising and wage subsidy initiatives in conjunction with the Director of Development, and with approval of the Board.
  
  Administration and Operational Management
  
• Manage all staff, department and personnel issues, including supervision, hiring, termination, training and conduct performance reviews in conjunction with the Board.
• Liaise between staff, board and committees; oversee the implementation of policies being developed by the Board of Directors.
• Prepare monthly reports and statements on imagineNATIVE’s operations and financial business for monthly board meetings.
• Assist the Chair of the Board in developing agenda and materials for board meetings.
• Provide other information as necessary to the Board of Directors.
  
  An ideal candidate has:
  
• Experience working in the not-for-profit arts sector and/or strong interest in media arts study and/or practice.
• Possess an appreciation, knowledge and understanding that encompasses the diversity of Aboriginal arts and Aboriginal peoples.
• Background in management, grant-writing and/or events.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Highly organized, able to multitask, work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Computer literacy (word processing, email, web, spreadsheets).

Apply in writing to: Hiring Committee, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, 401 Richmond St. West, Suite 417, Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8, fax: (416) 585-2333, email: employment@imaginenative.org

This position is open to all qualified candidates. The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is an equal opportunity employer. For more information about the festival please visit our website at www.imaginenative.org We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

TORONTO DOCUMENTARY FORUM
April 23 - 24, 2008 (During Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival)  April 17 - 27, 2008
The Toronto Documentary Forum (TDF) is North America’s premier market event for the international documentary industry working in the social, cultural and political genres and, new in 2008, will be opening its Regular Program to a broader genre spectrum of non-fiction projects in series and mini-series formats.
Project Presentation Submission Deadline:  MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2008. For more information, visit www.hotdocs.ca

CALL FOR ENTRIES

2ND ANNUAL ANTHROPOLOGY FILM FESTIVAL
VANCOUVER, BC
MARCH 7&8, 2008

We invite submissions for the 2nd Annual Anthropology Film Festival at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. This intimate festival takes place March 7&8 on the university campus. Our theme is new trends in anthropological film, with a focus on collaborative production. A jury prize for best film in category will be awarded.

The entry deadline is February 8, 2008. For more information, contacts and submission forms, visit us at http://anthfilm.anth.ubc.ca

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Boston’s own Rhonda Moskowitz won a commendation from the Boston Society of Film Critics for her work as founder and programmer for the innovative networking group Connect the Docs, which meets monthly at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline.

DER recently collaborated with Rhonda to sponsor her programs into 2008. We are pleased to see that she is getting recognition for a job well done.

See commendation here: www.thebsfc.org/2007/Awards-Comm.html

EyeSteelFilm congratulates their directors Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze)
and Jeff Barnaby (The Colony) on being named to the Toronto
International Film Festival Group’s annual Top Ten Canadian Film list!

Canada’s Top Ten is a unique annual event, established in 2001 by the
Toronto International Film Festival Group to honour excellence in
contemporary Canadian cinema. Canada’s Top Ten celebrates and
promotes contemporary Canadian cinema and is intended to raise public
awareness of Canadian achievements. A 10-member national panel of
filmmakers, programmers, journalists, and industry professionals vote
on the best Canadian films of the year, which can include features,
shorts, documentaries, animation, and experimental films.

http://topten.ca/

Up the Yangtze is a feature documentary about China’s mighty Yangtze
River, about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in
history. At the river’s edge — a young woman says goodbye to her
family as the floodwaters rise towards their small homestead. The
Three Gorges Dam — contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle —
provides the epic backdrop for a dramatic feature documentary on life
inside modern China. Playing next at the Sundance Film Festival, the
film will be released in North American theatres in early 2008.
Directed by Yung Chang, produced by Mila Aung-Thwin, Germaine Wong
(NFB), John Christou. Exec’ Produced by Daniel Cross, Sally Bochner
(NFB), Ravida Din (NFB). Co-produced by EyeSteelFilm and the
National Film Board, ina ssociationwith CBC Newsworld, POV, National
Geographic International, ZDF arte and Radio-Canada.
www.uptheyangtze.com

The Colony is a short fiction about deception, desolation and decay
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