October 2005

AIROS and VisionMaker Programs

AIROS Features Health Specials in November

Each week in November, AIROS will present a new Health special produced by the Native Media Resource Center (NMRC).

Wellness Conference 2005 - Recorded at the Wellness and Spirituality Conference in Tucson, AZ, and at the Native Youth and Adult Leadership Conference in San Diego, CA. Wellness Conference 2005 features presentations from the 12th Annual Wellness and Spirituality Conference. Participants spoke on combining traditional healing concepts into medical and counseling practices. Keynote speaker Donald Warne begins the dialogue on the merging of traditional and modern medicine, and how our communities utilize both for healing.

Diabetes in Indian Country - As the number of Native Americans diagnosed with diabetes reaches epidemic proportions, treatment within Native American communities includes the incorporation of traditional healing methods, foods, and exercise, along with Western medical treatment. This program profiles the unique ways that Native American communities are addressing this health issue.

To Hold Tightly - The title of this program comes from Ek-wah-ness, a Yurok word that means "to hold tightly ". This program takes a look at some local and national programs that work with youth as they face making tough decisions for their futures. Producers Catherine Chapman and Peggy Berryhill talk to youth group instructors and learn their philosophy about training future leaders. The urban streets of Oakland California and the rural life in Northern California both can produce a kind of isolation; we'll hear from some youth leaders and the roles they play in their communities.

Full Circle - To be wholly healthy, mentally, spiritually, physically and emotionally is the key to awakening our full potential. Facing the future can mean dealing with a lot of painful experiences. Native people, like all people, sometimes have to live through tragedies that can make us or break us. On this program we profile two organizations that are helping people get their lives back on track after experiencing traumatic events. Alcoholism and drunk driving shatter thousands of live annually. In this program our producers share the work that MADD or Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, is doing in Indian country. Relocation is not a new story to native communities but the trauma it inflicts continues to occur. When Navajos and other tribes find themselves having to learn to live in the city, NACA (Native Americans for Community Action), a program in Flagstaff Arizona helps newly relocated Hopis and Navajos succeed.

Native American Heritage Month Television Programs: Check your local listings

Aleut Story - In the throes of World War II, Aleut Americans were taken from their homes and placed in government camps. In this little known struggle for civil rights, the Aleuts joined Japanese Americans in seeking justice.

http://www.aleutstory.tv Video Distributor - http://www.visionmaker.org

Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action - From Alaska to Maine, Montana to New Mexico, see the stories of Native American activists dedicated to protecting Indian lands against environmental hazards, preserving their sovereignty and ensuring the cultural survival of their peoples. http://www.katahdin.org

The Native Word: Stories Past and Present - Travel to Wisconsin to see historic Oneida journals from the 1930s, to Oklahoma for the oldest running American Indian radio program, and go around the world with musician/poet Joy Harjo.

Race Is The Place, co-presented by the National Minority Consortia and ITVS, will premiere on Independent Lens on November 22 at 10:00 PM ET. Produced by Rick Tejada-Flores and Ray Telles of Paradigm Productions, the program asks how American artists address our nation's most pressing social issue. Using spoken, sung and chanted word, African American, Latino, Asian American, Pacific Islander and Native American authors, performance artists, poets and singers explore the pain, frustration and humor of racism in America.

Walela Live in Concert - Join pop singer Rita Coolidge, her sister Priscilla Coolidge and Priscilla's daughter Laura Satterfield in this musical journey of the spirit. Winner of Native American Music Award for Best Short or Long-Form Video.

Indian Casinos - What's Next? - This "town hall" style program features a panel of national experts discussing and answering audience questions about the future of casino gambling on American Indian reservations. Recorded during the annual conference of the Native American Journalists Association held in Lincoln, Nebraska in August of 2005, the program provides an open and balanced discussion on the current state of casino gambling operated by Native American tribes, and examines the economic and social impacts on the reservations and the surrounding communities.

For more information about NAPT Television offers, email Penny Costello, NAPT Project Coordinator at pcostello1@unl.edu.

Opportunities

INPUT is seeking the world's most innovative public television programs for its 2006 conference in Taipei, Taiwan. Selected work will be viewed, discussed and debated by some 2,000 attendees: independent filmmakers, public media professionals, journalists, television executives and other delegate attendees from more than 60 countries.

To qualify, you must enter your public television program to U.S. Input Pre-selection. The deadline is Friday, November 4, 2005. All U.S. Filmmakers must send their films to the US Input Secretariat at South Carolina ETV for consideration. Programs must have been produced after September 2004. There are no entry fees. Programs previously entered will not be considered again. A representative of the film must be able to attend INPUT in Taipei, Taiwan on May 7-12, 2006. More info about INPUT: http://www.myetv.org/input

AIDS Conference. The members of the National Planning Committee of the Embracing Our Traditions, Values, and Teachings: North America HIV/AIDS Conference are pleased to announce that this conference will be held in Anchorage, through May 6, 2006. The conference is sponsored by the National Planning Committee in collaboration with Research of the National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. For more information about the conference, please visit http://www.embracingourtraditions.org/ .

NEH - Television Projects: Planning, Scripting and Production Grants. Receipt Deadline: November 3, 2005 (for projects beginning in July 2006) The National Endowment for the Humanities supports television documentary programs or historical dramatizations that address significant figures, events, or developments in the humanities and draw their content from humanities scholarship. Projects must be intended for national distribution during prime time hours, whether on public television, commercial television, or cable networks. Support is also available for DVDs and websites that expand the content of the television program. To ensure that the humanities themes and questions are well conceived, projects should use a team of scholars who are from major fields relevant to the subject matter and have diverse perspectives and approaches.

To obtain a print-version of this application, call 202-606-8446, send an e-mail to info@neh.gov, or write to NEH, Office of Public Affairs, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20506 For more information, eligibility requirements and complete instructions, please visit: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/tvprojects.html .

Tribeca All Access (TAA) Connects brings underrepresented filmmakers and writers together with film Deadline: December 16, 2005 funders during the Tribeca Film Festival. 30 directors and screenwriters will be selected to participate in one-on-one meetings with key industry players including development executives, agents, grants managers and equity investors. Filmmakers and writers who identify as African American, Asian American, Latino/a, Native American or Pacific Islander are welcome to submit scripts and documentary proposals for consideration. Apply Now! Visit http://www.tribecafilminstitute.org for complete details.

Congratulations!

Iholba ("The Vision") by Jerod Tate Premiered at the Kennedy Center and was broadcast on the Internet on Sept. 21. Iholba was inspired by the Chickasaw culture and performed in the Chickasaw language. It was commissioned by the Kennedy Center and the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in honor of the NSO's 1996 American Residency in Wyoming. Jerod Tate also composed the score for Indian Country Diaries: A Seat at the Drum, a production of Native American Public Telecommunications. You can view it, on-demand, after the live performance by going to the archives: http://kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/archive.html#search

2005 Institute of American Indian Arts Film & Television Workshop participants get opportunities at Disney. Thomas Yeahpau (Kiowa), a student at Haskell University, and Laala Matias (Cherokee/Arawak/Black/Carib), a graduate of New York University, were awarded $50,000 ABC/Disney Talent Development Writing Fellowships.

Leslie Gee (Caddo), a 2005 graduate of IAIA, and Terry Jones (Seneca), who attended Pace University, were recipients of the ABC/Disney Talent Development Scholarship-Grant Program awards of $20,000.

Jones received NAPT Producers Opportunity funding to attend the IAIA workshop. For NAPT his program Casino Native is nearly completion. NAPT was also a sponsor of the 2005 workshop.

Native American Public Telecommunications is funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.