Lighting an Interview like a Pro – Without the Pro’s Budget with Jonathan Lipsy of ISG Starting at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 22 at CTN5. Register for this and the 10:30 a.m. workshop “Step by Step: Making a Dynamic Documentary here! What is it that makes one interview shot look so much better than another? Framing […]
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ACM-NE announces 2016 Video Festival Win...
We are so pleased to announce that the Video Festival Winners List is ready on our ACM-NE Website! Congratulations to all the WINNERS – and everyone who entered.
FCC and Closed Captioning
At the Our Town conference in Boston last month, and in follow-up discussions online and by telephone, Alliance members and allies discussed the FCC’s Second Report and Order on Closed Captioning, released last February. Connecticut ACM explained to their members and friends this way. How will it work for PEG people in your states?
Make it brief! Make it quick!
CALL FOR ENTRIES!!! 100-SECOND FESTIVAL Create, watch and share videos and film that are 100 seconds or less The 100-seconds is a celebration of culture through the language of motion media and the common constraint of 100 seconds. It is a unique yet accessible global dialogue. Launched in 2005, the festival embraces authentic, raw, creative […]
A workshop at the 2016 Video Festival
As you may have noticed, we will be in beautiful Portland, Maine on Saturday, October 22 for the celebration of our 2016 Video Festival Awards. But before the Special Awards Luncheon and festivities, there will be workshops at the CTN5 studios. For starters: STEP BY STEP: Making a Dynamic Documentary A documentary can communicate your ideas […]
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 […]
What’s New in the Northeast?
At the monthly meeting/conference calls, members of the ACM Northeast Board exchange news from our states, much of it about policy matters at state level. ACM-NE can’t work on policy at a regional level, with all the variation among the states, but we all learn from each other how things work and might work for […]
Who Covers Community News?
Erica Jones at Somerville Community Access TV (MA) and Jane Regan, a professor at Salem State University, are trying to find out find out what type of local news, public affairs and independent local programming is happening in the United States at PEG centers. The results will help illustrate to funders, politicians, and scholars that community […]
Scholarship available from ACM-NE for Na...
This scholarship is named in memory of Paul Berg, former Executive Director of NewTV in Newton, MA. A graduate of Emerson College, Paul was extremely good-natured, intelligent, thoughtful, and fair, creating a collaborative atmosphere for his staff to share their ideas to improve NewTV. Paul generously shared his expertise with other stations, cities and towns. […]
Connecting in Connecticut – April 2016
Connecticut ACM has managed to hold two face-to-face meetings in the past 7 months. In September, Citizens TV in New Haven hosted several PEG people for lunch and a tour of their facility (recently converted from a veterinary hospital). Over lunch they discussed their mutual problem of insufficient funding and how to approach the legislature. Trying to recover the PEGPETIA fund […]