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The Southern Oregon Film Society celebrates the diversity of human experience through the art of independent film - enriching, educating and inspiring audiences of all ages.Located in rural S. Oregon, the society's signature Ashland Independent Film Festival a 5-day spring festival of 100+ films (shorts, features, animations) & live art & music events gives audiences access to diverse under represented voices amplified by independent film. The organization holds a smaller program of international films annually in October, manages school programs, and hosts film and media events, lectures & classes year round in its Main Street Film Center. Regularly named as one of the best film festivals of its kinds (Movie Maker, Smithsonian magazines), AIFF started online film streaming in 2020.

To research, write, create, produce, distribute and make available to the public, educational films on subjects of alternate lifestyles and minority issues and cultural history. To distribute educational motion pictures of women's and gay-created media and distribute such works to public television and other general and special audience outlets. To provide education and counsel to other filmmakers in the development, production and distribution of educational film, video and other media whose products are consistent with the purposes of the corporation.

We excellently produce and employ faith-based performing and media arts, and written works to engage, entertain, enlighten, encourage and edify individuals and families to make them stronger inside and out.

Filmshop is a non-profit arts organization that supports a tight-knit, diverse community of independent filmmakers in the creation of new work.

The Tishman Review seeks to publish new, emerging and established authors who are reaching beyond the limits of contemporary literature in their crafting of short fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. The Tishman Review is a quarterly journal produced in three different formats: pdf, e-book and print-on-demand. The Tishman Review believes that by giving authors space for their words, the existential function of literature is honored and the journal’s readers’ lives are enhanced.

ART21 is a nonprofit contemporary art organization dedicated to introducing broad public audiences to today’s visual artists—stimulating critical reflection as well as conversation through the production of films, publications, digital resources, and educational programs. ART21 programs inspire creative thinking and educate: a new generation about contemporary art and art making; teachers about how to engage students with the art of their time; the public at large about the life of the creative mind. Over the past decade, ART21 has established itself as the preeminent chronicler of contemporary art and artists through its peabody award-winning, PBS-broadcast television series, ART21 "art in the twenty-first century".

Filmmakers Collaborative's mission is to produce compelling films and campaigns that engage the public to facilitate informed decision-making.

Our mission is to present new independent films and to organize, sponsor, and present seminars, panel discussions, and artistic activities related to films and filmmaking at our annual lighthouse international film festival, in order to foster greater cultural understanding and artistic awareness within the general public and to draw a diverse audience

On Location: Memphis is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to advance, educate and inspire filmmakers, music creators, students, and professionals in the cinema arts and music industry. We connect the regional audience to the work of local and global filmmakers. We collaborate with other organizations to strengthen the film/music community and use cinema and music arts in a way that make a direct economic impact on individuals within the film and music community, while also promoting the city of Memphis.

MA was founded in 1976 with the belief that in order to ensure the free and unfettered flow of information and ideas necessary to maintain a truly democratic society, media must be accessible, accountable, decentralized, representative of society's diversity, and free from overt or covert government control and corporate dominance. MA dedicates itself to fostering a genuine diversity of media voices and perspectives, holding the media accountable for their impact on society, and protecting freedom of speech.

The Film Lab is a not for profit devoted to the promotion of gender and ethnic diversity in entertainment.

Independent Arts & Media is a unique and growing fiscal sponsor for artists, journalists and media producers. We support independent producers and projects by empowering them to develop and present their work on their own terms.