Alliance for Community Media – Northeast Region is a regional affiliate of the national Alliance for Community Media, which “represents over 3,000 Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access organizations and community media center throughout the country.” If you or your access center is a dues-paying member of ACM, you get reduced fees (sometimes to zero) […]
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More about Last November
Matt Sullivan is Chief Operations Officer of Larchmont Mamaroneck Community Television (LMCTV), north of New York City. He was ACMNY’s pick for a scholarship to the November 2017 Northeast Regional conference in Falmouth, MA. He writes enthusiastically of his experience: The conference kick-off was wonderful, as participants were invited to tour Falmouth Community Television’s beautiful facility. […]
2017 Special Awards
Honoring Some Special People We hope you can join us in recognizing the recipients of our annual Special Awards during the 2017 Northeast Video Festival Awards Celebration on Friday, November 3 at the Falmouth Navigator, 55 Ashumet Road in Falmouth, MA. This year we celebrate these stars among our colleagues: Brian Wilson Mentor Award Cor Trowbridge, […]
A First for MassAccess
MassAccess is now accepting submissions from Massachusetts residents for the first Annual Massachusetts Creator Awards. Winners will be judged by a panel of media experts from across the country. The deadline to submit entries is November 30th at 11:59pm. The winners will be announced at the gala event on January 23, 2018 at Venu in Boston. […]
Why he went to Minneapolis
Marc Gronich is Director of Legislative Affairs for the state affiliate, ACM New York and Vice-Chairman of the Oversight Board for Channel Albany in the state capital. With decades of experience as a community access intern and producer, he went to the Rivers to Cross conference to seek the policy and technological tools to help […]
Who’s going to Boston in August…
…and why? Having the national Alliance conference take place as close as Boston is a once-in-a-decade opportunity for a lot of us. Because the Northeast Region is not holding its own regional conference, we were able to offer more than one scholarship to Our Town next month. The applicants and winners offered interesting thoughts on […]
Grant workshops in Somerville MA!
Are you a Non-Profit Professional? Artist? Performer? Filmmaker? Educator? Innovator? Collaborator? Then these upcoming workshops are for you! SCATV is offering two workshops with experienced grant writer and educator Ellen Gugel. The workshops are geared to anyone who is interested in learning how to research applicable grants and would would like to create successful grant proposals. Details: The first workshop will cover grant-seeking on Friday, September […]
What It’s Like to Judge for a Festival
There are probably PEG operations that are smaller than ours: One G channel, one part-time coordinator, camera operators recruited from the high school, and a oversight commission of 5 volunteers. We submitted work twice to the regional video festival in past years, and the staff (such as it is) has been to watch the awards […]