There are a number of training programs for you to learn media production skills. Everyone can learn to critically consume and create media with purpose.
Media Arts Lab
These training programs run over the course of a number of weeks and provide opportunities for emerging storytellers and experienced media producers to benefit from instruction, mentorship, networking, and access to media production equipment, facilities, and distribution platforms.
These programs help you use visual media as a conduit for truth and information, to elevate stories, and create connections to the issues of our time.
Neighborhood Journalism
A short training program to get you started as a neighborhood reporter. Gain skills to help share the stories of people around you using a smartphone. Change the face of local news and share their stories that matter to you.
Media Shift
Narrative storytelling program to provide beginning media makers who often face structural barriers to getting their stories told with access to training, mentorship, and production resources to produce a 5-7 minute documentary to lift, amplify, and celebrate multiple points of view.
Media Impact
A narrative storytelling program to provide emerging media makers who often face structural barriers to getting their stories told with access to advanced training, mentorship, and production resources to produce a 10-15 minute documentary. Media makers will also organize a community screening and discussion about the topic of their documentary to further increase community dialogue.
Media Ignite
An opportunity for people seeking a career as a broadcast journalist, documentary producer, or media producer to spend a period of time developing their career path. Gain hands-on experience as part of a community-focused content studio.
Media Spark
An internship program for youth and young adults (ages 16-24) to train and gain hands-on experience in how to tell a story and make impactful media. Through the program, produce a short journalism documentary featuring a community organization or story.
Frank Jamison Community Media Fellowship
A documentary journalism program to provide emerging student creators (18-24) currently or recently enrolled in a local college or university with access to training, mentorship, and production resources to produce a series of mini documentaries to elevate and lift stories to catalyze community action.
Next Lens Media Lab
The Next Lens Media Lab incubates innovative and ambitious documentary producers working on short form, episodic, or feature length non-fiction videos. Spaces are prioritized for documentary producers whose voice is from a community historically excluded from media.