I Love Your Work

I Love Your Work, released today by Jonathan Harris, is an interactive documentary about the private lives of nine women who make lesbian porn. It consists of 2,202 10-second video clips, taken at five-minute intervals over 10 consecutive days. The full interactive website is limited to just 10 viewers per day, and tickets cost $10 each for 24-hour access. There's also a premium package available for $300, which includes one 13x19" limited-edition archival print of I Love Your Work signed by Jonathan Harris and three 24-hour instant-access tickets to the full interactive website (for yourself or as gifts). Ten percent of ticket sales is donated to the Sex Workers Project, providing social and legal services to sex workers. Tickets available at iloveyourwork.net/. About Jonathan Harris Jonathan Harris makes projects that reimagine how humans relate to technology and to each other. Combining elements of computer science, anthropology, visual art and storytelling, his projects…

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Six-Week Documentary Fundamentals Series at UnionDocs

Documentary Fundamentals @ UnionDocs This nuts-and-bolts professional development series is designed for the beginning or intermediate documentary filmmaker. Documentary Fundamentals @ UnionDocs is a six-week course culminating in a certificate of completion. Registrants can also attend individual sessions. Sundays, 7:30pm - 9:30pm, April 21 - June 2 (excluding May 26 in observance of Memorial Day weekend) Schedule 4/21 Planning Your Documentary 4/28 Financing Your Documentary 5/5 Directing and Shooting Your Documentary 5/12 Editing Your Documentary 5/19 Your Transmedia Campaign 6/2 Releasing Your Documentary $20 per session or $100 for series and certificate (general public) $15 per session or $75 for series and certificate (bodega passholder & partners) Click here to purchase a Series Pass. Enter the code “SeriesPartner” to receive a 25% discount, allowing you to attend all 6 sessions for only $75. For individual sessions, please visit www.uniondocs.org and enter the code “Collaborator” for a 20% discount, or $15 for each…

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New Media Advocacy Project Hiring Producer

The New Media Advocacy Project (N-Map) is looking for an experienced staff producer to join their team in New York City. Staff Producer Start Date: Spring/Summer 2013 Location: New York City Salary: Competitive non-profit salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits New Media Advocacy Project Description The New Media Advocacy Project (N-Map) is a non-profit organization that combats human rights violations by using digital video and other media to strengthen social justice advocacy in courts, legislatures, and communities. N-Map’s lawyers, advocates, and media professionals help human rights organizations integrate this new technology directly into their strategies, enabling them to win their cases and achieve their clients’ goals more effectively and efficiently. We work on behalf of courageous clients in areas such as unlawful detention, gender-based violence, forced evictions, prison conditions, race discrimination, criminal justice, and more. We develop high quality, tactically sophisticated media advocacy projects that can be used in the courtroom, in…

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Apply Now for the Platypus Santa Fe Digital Video Storytelling Workshop

The Platypus Digital Video Storytelling Workshop is now accepting applications for its training in Santa Fe, New Mexico this May. The Platypus Workshop 2013: Digital Video Storytelling A 21st century digital storyteller has to be producer, writer, camera, sound, editor, and everything else. Just as the millennia-old platypus—a mash-up of otter, duck and beaver—has evolved and survived, so must the modern photojournalist. In this workshop you learn how to be a digital storyteller using DSLR cameras, compact lights, wireless microphones, and professional editing software. You learn how to find a story, how to interview, how to shoot video sequences that keep your audience enthralled, and how to edit it all together. The workshop is led by one of the icons of photojournalism, Dirck Halstead, formerly TIME Magazine's Senior White House photographer. Also contributing their knowledge and experiences are Beth Corwin, an award-winning network news cameraperson, and Tom Wolsky, one of the gurus…

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