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Meet GFEM’s New Executive Director

VS HeadshotThe Board of Directors of Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media is pleased to announce the appointment of Vincent Stehle as executive director.  Mr. Stehle has served on the GFEM Board of Directors since 2008.

Member News

Request for Native American Short Film Submissions

[Source: Native American Public Telecommunications, January 24, 2012]
The Futuro Media Group in conjuction with Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc. (NAPT) is requesting short, independent film submissions to air as part of a PBS pilot called America by ...

GFEM Events

Family Philanthropy: Sunday Night at the Movies

Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Miami, FL

COF Film Festival at Family Philanthropy

Monday, February 13, 2012 - 12:00am - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 12:00am
Miami, FL

GFEM Funder Delegation to SXSW Interactive 2012

Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 12:00am - Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 12:00am
Austin, TX

Council on Foundations 2012 Annual Conference

Sunday, April 29, 2012 - 12:00am - Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 12:00am
Los Angeles, CA

Other Events

Sundance Film Festival 2012

Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 12:00am - Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 12:00am
Park City, UT

Realscreen Summit 2012

Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 12:00am - Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 12:00am
Washington, DC

Tribal Telecom 2012

Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 12:00am - Friday, February 3, 2012 - 12:00am
Phoenix, AZ

MAP Forum Series 2012: Integration and Transformation

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 9:30am - 12:30pm
Washington, D.C.

Media That Matters 2012

Friday, February 10, 2012 - 12:00am - Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 12:00am
Washington, D.C.

"Give Up Tomorrow" - Philanthropy New York's Documentary Series

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 5:30pm - 8:30pm
New York, NY

Stories from the Field

Score! for Two Rural Broadband Teams

[Source: Daily Yonder, by Craig Settles, January 26, 2012]
Can the strategy that raised enough money for a new Packers' stadium finance a rural broadband network? Communities in Vermont and rural Lancashire, England, have kicked off efforts.   In Green ...

Percentage of Women Directors in Hollywood Declining

[Source: Screen Daily, by Sarah Cooper, January 24, 2012]
Women account for just 5% of directors working in Hollywood, according to a new report conducted by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film.   Kathryn Bigelow may have become the ...

Sundance, Women In Film Promote Female Filmmakers

[Source: Associated Press (AP), by Sandy Cohen, January 23, 2012]
PARK CITY, Utah – The Sundance Institute and Women In Film are working together to track female filmmakers who are showing their work at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and plan to use the data to ...

GFEM Pictures + Words

This section of the GFEM Web site contains audio and video recordings from GFEM sponsored funder briefings.

Resources from GIA's Art + Technology Preconference

[Source: October 26, 2011]
Slides and materials from two GFEM sessions at the GIA Technology preconference

Videos and Notes from GFEM's 2011 Funder Conversation at the Paley Center for Media

GFEM Funder Conversation, “Media + Technology Funding Outlook: The State and Future of the Field” 1) Keynote: Steve Waldman; Special Advisor to the Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

Policy

Supreme Court Sidesteps Digital Privacy … For Now

[Source: GigaOm, by Derrick Harris, January 24, 2012]
On Monday, the Supreme Court deemed it unconstitutional in most cases to use GPS to track suspects without first obtaining a warrant — calling the attachment of a GPS device to a suspect’s ...

Next Battle over Net Ramps Up Worldwide

[Source: Politico, by Eliza Krigman, January 18, 2012]
While Congress is consumed by the online piracy battle, an arguably more important fight over the future of the Internet is quietly unfolding abroad.   In the coming months, countries will ...

Understanding PIPA/SOPA & Why You Should Be Concerned

[Source: NewLeftMedia, January 18, 2012]
Most everyone has noticed the swath of websites that were blacked out in protest of the pending PIPA/SOPA legislation in Congress, but not as many people understand exactly why those bills are ...

PIPA and SOPA Votes Shelved. Your Move, Web.

[Source: GigaOm, by Stacey Higginbotham, January 20, 2012]
Update: After this story was published, the House Judiciary chairman and co-sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) also said he would postpone the vote to bring SOPA out of committee (it’s ...

Content

New York Times, Washington Post, AP Found NewsRight

[Source: The Wrap, by Lucas Shaw, January 5, 2012]
Newspaper organizations are banding together under an organization titled NewsRight to license and profit from the spread of their content online.   A project first developed by the Associated ...

Fair Use: What Public Media Makers Are Doing Right and How They Can Do Even Better

[Source: Current.org, by Patricia Aufderheide, December 12, 2011]
Fair use, the right to employ copyrighted material in certain situations without licensing it, is in resurgence after two dismal decades of widespread misinterpretation — and nowhere is the right ...

Defining Journalism Is a Lot Easier Said Than Done

[Source: GigaOm, by Mathew Ingram, December 15, 2011]
The ripples continue to spread from a recent Oregon court ruling involving a blogger who was sued for defamation, and argued she should be covered by the state’s “media shield” law.

The Case for Open Journalism Now

[Source: Annenberg Innovation Lab, by Melanie Sill, December 1, 2011]
A discussion paper by Melanie Sill, Executive in Residence, USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, December 2011.

Infrastructure

After the Stimulus: Broadband and Economic Development

[Source: Fighting the Next Good Fight, by Craig Settles, October 4, 2011]
One of the big debates that goes on constantly is the one that asks, what’s the real economic development value of broadband? Of special interest to me, of course, is community broadband – ...

Seizing the Moment - What Role Will Funders Play in Community Radio Expansion

[Source: Prometheus Radio Project, September 9, 2011]
The Future of Community Radio is Coming Soon! Thanks to the passage of the Local Community Radio Act, groups nationwide will soon have the opportunity to start community radio stations in cities ...

FCC Plan Could Give LPFM Applications an Edge Over FM Translators

Applicants for thousands of FM translators may have to reapply if the FCC goes through with its proposal to give new low-power FM stations a chance to compete for the same frequencies. In a July ...

Oh No He Didn’t: AT&T’s CEO Calls DSL Obsolete

[Source: GigaOm, by Stacey Higginbotham, July 19, 2011]
Updated: AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson spoke Tuesday at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners summer meeting in Los Angeles, where he called his company’s copper-based DSL ...