Rashmi – Los Angeles
City: Los Angeles, 2009
Mia Nakano, Executive Director
Mia Nakano is a freelance media artist rooted in Oakland, CA. Her focus is on visual and multimedia artistic practices, archives, digitizing, data design, and tintypes.
Documentary.org
Founded in 1982, the International Documentary Association (IDA) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) that promotes nonfiction filmmakers, and is dedicated to increasing public awareness for the documentary genre. At IDA, we believe that the power and artistry of the documentary art form are vital to cultures and societies globally, and we exist to serve the needs of those who create this art form. Our major program areas are: Advocacy, Filmmaker Services, Education, and Public Programs and Events.
ABOUT IDA ADVOCACY
At IDA, we advocate for, help protect and advance the broad fundamental rights of documentary filmmakers. We have a long history of making the case for documentary filmmaking as a vital art form, and we continue to seek ways to ensure that those who make documentaries have the access, funding and protection they deserve to practice their craft.
Most recently, IDA has been in the forefront of support on major issues confronting our industry, including:
promoting net neutrality efforts
lobbying for the development of strong public policies for the arts
lobbying for the appropriation of increased public funding for the arts
promoting fair use practice
protecting first amendment rights of filmmakers.
Gay and Lesbian Advocates & Defense (GLAD)
Founded in 1978, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) is New England’s leading legal rights organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status and gender identity and expression.
GLAD
30 Winter Street, Suite 800
Boston, MA 02108
617.426.1350
Email // gladlaw (at) glad (dot) org
Jai Arun Ravine, publishes book!
And and!!! Jai Arun Ravine just released their first collection of works which was published by TinFish Press Books. Click on the TinFish link to purchase a copy of your very own.
“This powerful first collection by Thai American writer Jai Arun Ravine pulls itself and its readers across geographies, cultures, languages, identities, and genders in a performance of transformation. Ravine weaves Thai and English, the past and the present, the lyric and the narrative, into a hypnotizing poetic dance. Additionally, Ravine explores the documentation of identity and citizenship through re-articulating charts, pages of a child’s composition book, and a birth certificate. This collection explores the seams of identity and origin and how they are painfully and beautifully entwined.”