Opportunity for Media Makers to Meet Philanthropists,

Entrepreneurs, Technologists, Potential clients

Saturday, November 5th, 10:15 - 1:15pm,
First Congregational Church • 55 Elm Street, Camden, ME 04843

Panel:  “Building the Next Community Media Portal” --

A powerful new communication model has been developed in Maine by a group of filmmakers, software developers, educators and linguists.  It was created to save a dying language, Passamaquoddy, by using documentary film and software to link vocabulary with direct experience in the context of traditional activities.  So many more community needs can be addressed with the creative use of media and the internet.  Entrepreneurs, creative professionals, technologists, policy makers, social advocates, and any interested persons are invited to participate in this workshop. We will present video case studies and help facilitate attendees to brainstorm their own community documentation needs with feedback from an interdisciplinary panel.

Admission $10.  MFVA Members Free.  Annual Membership $25 professional; $10 students Light lunch included.

The Panelists:

Alexa Mills

Alexa is the Community Media Specialist at MIT’s Community Innovator’s Lab. Her work includes Predatory Tales, the true stories of predatory lending scams in Lawrence, MA; and a series of shorts about organizing to protect the environment from the coal industry in eastern Kentucky. All projects use various media to express a community’s perspective on an issue.

Gustavo Aguilar

Co-Artistic Director of TUG, a documentary production and artist/performance collective; a champion of contemporary new music/improvisation he has performed at major music festivals throughout the world.  Asst. Professor U Maine Farmington, Experimental Performance.

Ben Levine

One of Juice’s keynote speakers, Ben is responsible for developing an interactive tool that combines documentary film and the internet to help save the Passamaquoddy language, a National Science Foundation project that is now morphing into saving dying languages in Mexico.  In Maine he has created a series of documentaries to help inspire Young Parents Learning best practices about raising their children.

Mohammed Dini is a Somali community leader in Portland where he was the first African immigrant to run for the Maine legislature in 2010.  He recently founded the African Diaspora Institute and Diaspora Rise! which uses web and social media platforms to foster cross cultural dialogue and to amplify voices often missing from traditional media.

Andrew Jawitz is an ethnographic filmmaker in Portland, ME.  He works in collaboration with the African Diaspora Institute striving for media justice by building empowered intercultural networks through participatory media production. His current work addresses social issues such as transportation equity (CarFreeMaine) and immigrant empowerment through interactive media.

Gaelyn Aguilar, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist and visual enthnographer.  She received a Fulbright Fellowship to research dance and the cultural politics of national identity.  Gaelyn’s latest project includes Ah, Raza! The Making of an American Artist (a portrait/performance set along the U.S.-Mexico border) Co-artistic Director of Tug, she is currently Asst. Professor of Anthropology at UM Farmington.

Louise Rosen, moderator of the panel, is an international distributor of cultural and social issue documentaries through Louise Rosen, Ltd.  Projects her company has represented have gone on to win Oscars, Emmys, Sundance and others.  Louise has gained a reputation as Maine’s most astute moderator through her work with Points North Documentary Forum and the Maine Film & Video Association. 

The MFVA strongly encourages its members and friends to attend the entire JUICE 3.0 Conference as it is an excellent opportunity to meet some of Maine’s most active business and social issue entrepreneurs.  The conference features twenty keynote speakers including:  Roxanne Quimby, Angus King, Chris Jones, Bettina Doulton, Eliot Cutler, Gino Bona, John Bielenberg, Amy Applebaum and MFVA member Ben Levine among many others.  Discount tickets are still available.  Volunteer opportunities still exist for further discounts to conference admission.  Check the Juice website for ticketing and discount opportunities.  http://www.juiceconference.org

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