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		What We Got/WeJay Produced by Brad Lichtenstein Prototype screens from the WeJay Keynote, created in collaborattion with Tony Walsh and Adam Shaening-Pokrasso. June 2008 at the Bay Area Video Coalition, as apart of the Producers Institute 2008.	"What We Got", is billed as a "shared documentary/fiction mashup about what belongs to all of us". WeJay is a social networking widget that transcends current tools and moves into a new interactive design model.

		Calavera Highway Directed by Renee Tajima-Pena. Tajima-Peña and “Calavera Highway” came to BAVC as part of the 2007 Producer’s Institute, where the director, along with producer Evangeline Griego, created an interactive timeline and story project that contextualizes the Peñas within Mexican American history. Via email Tajima-Peña told us about her experiences, “One crucial lesson we learned from the BAVC Producer’s Institute is there are new ways to find	those hidden constituencies, like the audiences who would connect to the Peña brother’s story. There are ways to bypass the gatekeepers and connect to people directly. When we were screening at SFIFF we met people who had grown up in the central valley as farm worker kids, who had experienced fathers and family disappearing across the border. When you talk to documentary filmmakers, those are the kinds of screening moments they remember.”

		Not In Our Town Producer/Director: Patrice O’Neal Team: Kate McLean, Ann Bennett http://theworkinggroup.org/niotenews.html NOT IN OUR TOWN (NIOT) is a national PBS series about American communities fighting hate crime. NIOT came to BAVC as part of the 2007 Producer’s Institute, to build an online interface to connect the communities around the country who are engaging in this work. With support from Google, the team designed an	interactive map with flashing hot spots in different colors, delineating towns where hate crimes have just occurred, and others where communities are taking action against hate. By sharing and uploading evidence of successful public activism (via cell phone, video or text), a town can convert its color and join the NIOT community. Other aspects of the site include a video advocacy toolkit, online resource sharing, and a national calendar of events.

		IWitness FRONTLINE/World Web Channel Project Director: Joe Rubin With iWitness, Frontline/World hopes to bring a greater number of unheard voices from around the world to the web & other platforms. More in tune with the Facebook/YouTube generation, “iWitness will encourage voices from beyond the mainstream, through video dispatches, web cam and phone interviews.” This project, currently in development, brings content like experimental web chat with Pakistani students, and raw	eyewitness activist footage from Burma during the violent crackdown on protesters by the ruling military junta to Frontline/World programming. At the Institute, the team will work on new media marketing and fundraising strategies, prototype the web design and template to integrate with the Frontline/World site, and develop best practices for utilizing interactive web video.

		Parallel Stories Project Director: Marlene Velasco-Begue Monica is a twenty-year old pregnant gang member from San Salvador who went to prison for murdering a girl from another gang. Hers is only one of many stories explored in this documentary/new media project about gang life, violence and intercultural identity. Parallel	Stories will allow a global audience of at-risk young people to engage in a dialogue across borders and languages. At the Institute, the producers seek to develop a “youth and violence” pov in nontraditional ways and explore alternative modes of storytelling – prototyping webisodes & mobile downloads, a videoblog, and an embedded game interface.

		T3 Ongoing educational curriculum development for the Adobe Train the Teacher Program. Read about this amazing program by clicking the button.

		The Broadview A website developed for a high school newspaper. Click the button to the right to see the whole site

		Front Runner PRODUCER/DIRECTOR Virginia Williams Team: Steve Armstrong http://www.womenrule.tv/ FRONTRUNNER, Emmy-award winning documentary, tells the story of Dr. Massouda Jalal, Afghanistan's only woman candidate for President in their first-ever democratic election. As part of the 2007 Producer’s Institut at BAVC, Virginia developed the Women Who Rule website – an interactive, online toolkit designed to teach young girls leadership skills. In response to the Barbie-infused websites that connect girls around gossip, clothes and makeup, the	Girls Who Rule site provides a space where they learn how to organize in their communities, upload original video content, (and share it via cell phones), even join a party and “run for President.” In one section of the site, women leaders from all over the world are pictured in a live mosaic of images, and as you scroll over an image, you learn about that particular leader through text and streaming video. Empty squares prompt you to upload your own project about a leader from your community.

		piczo Two interactive Flash tutorials to demonstrate how to use the social networking site. Click to see the pages and animations.

		Riverdeep Clicking will take you to a prototype designed to teach seventh and eighth graders about Osmosis for an educational software company.

		Girl Trouble The Girl Trouble project was sponsored by a grantd fromthe mayors office of San Francisco, BAVC, KQED and others. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007.