2022 TWN Production Workshop Application Available Now!
Deadline: Friday, January 21, 2022
TWN has trained thousands of film and video artists since the 1970s through its annual Production Workshop, Evening Seminars, Community Media workshops.
The Third World Newsreel Production Workshop is a unique “hands-on” media production training program providing practical skills and resources for emerging filmmakers. Offering tools to create fiction or documentary projects, the Media Production Workshop carries on TWN’s mission of promoting independent cinema by and about communities of color and other underserved groups and their progressive allies.
The Production Workshop meets one evening a week at 6:00 PM virtually and an additional 6–8 Saturdays for labs. As the pandemic eases, the classes will move to in-person meetings near the Third World Newsreel office. The time commitment needed to participate in the program is high and selected fellows must be able to attend regular class meetings as well as meet the out-of-class demands of preproduction, production, and post-production.
Prior film, video, or related experience is helpful but not required; self-initiative, openness to feedback, a progressive and collaborative spirit are, along with a commitment to meeting class production deadlines and completing one’s film project.
The Production Workshop is limited to 9 participants. A written application is required and selected applicants are chosen for interviews. The cost of the workshop this year is $600, payable in installments.
The TWN Production Workshop is led by Chrystian Rodriguez and Daniel Kim and is dedicated to the memory of Herman Lew, longtime Workshop Director, filmmaker, and cinematographer. Past Workshop grads include award-winning filmmakers Daresha Kyi, Yance Ford, Byron Hurt, Paula Heredia, Renee Tajima-Peña, Jamal Joseph, and Randy Redroad, and many others.
For further information, read our FAQ below, download our application, or email workshop@twn.org.
Third World Newsreel works with New York City-based media centers, universities and community groups to host production workshops, seminars and events, and gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the governor and the State legislature, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the City Council, the Peace Development Fund and individual donors.
