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We interviewed Mandy Harvey a few years ago and we are so impressed by her new video.
Yay Mandy!!
Here is a link to our video as well: https://vimeo.com/348071301
“You Gotta Be”, filmed over hundreds of hours online, stars America’s Got Talent alum Mandy Harvey, Grammy nominated jazz musician Raul Midón, Strictly Come...
With our partner John Philp, Splash made this PSA about how New Yorkers can use Ranked Choice Voting in the 2021 Primary elections.
To see the PSA in 13 other languages, visit the NYC Civic Engagement Commission.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCslXGOhdL_DFmr7m2QSTcHg/videos
This is a terrific film about an important topic. We are so proud to have been a part of it.
What a fantastic film!! Make sure you watch it!
"Hello world. Can I just say that I'm stoked to meet you." - Tay, your A.I. companion. "The more humans share with me the more I learn.”
Screen the film to learn more about the bias encoded in your AI:
https://www.codedbias.com/screen
#codedbias #facialrecognition
Must see! This is an excellent documentary and we were so happy to be a part of it.
"Hello world. Can I just say that I'm stoked to meet you." - Tay, your A.I. companion. "The more humans share with me the more I learn.”
Screen the film to learn more about the bias encoded in your AI:
https://www.codedbias.com/screen
#codedbias #facialrecognition
This is a terrific documentary about facial recognition and the bias that is wired into our system.
We were honored to work on the audio for this film.
Many congratulations to Shalini and her team!
Join us for the virtual cinema release at Metrograph of CODED BIAS from director Shalini Kantayya and a special opening night Q&A this Wednesday 11/11 with WIRED. Critics Choice Awards #nominee! #sundance2020 #SXSW2020
Before you vote make sure you Know Your Voting Rights. Our video might help you. VOTE!
Let your friends & family know: they have the right to bring an interpreter to the polling booth with them. Interpreters, who are friends or family, may help communicate with poll workers and help translate the ballot.
Interpretation services will be available at 25 early voting poll sites the weekend before election day, on Oct. 31st and Nov. 1st. Check out the early voting sites and languages: nyc.gov/wearevoters
#DemocracyNYC #WeAreVoters #WeAreNewYorkers
Early voting starts next Saturday, October 24th!
Check out our video to learn more!
Join UnionDocs for SONIC PORTRAITS: MUSIC IN FILM workshop! From August 14th-15th and August 21st-22nd, participants will explore how filmmakers can use soundtracks to create bold and innovative films.
Led by Troy Herion (306 Hollywood, The Hottest August, Bulletproof), participants will be directed towards creating new possibilities with making meaning with music and images. They’ve got a stellar lineup of guest instructors too. Come explore editing, compiling, synching, scoring, composing, experimentation, collaboration, using the soundtrack as a structuring and conceptual device.
Join UnionDocs for this workshop. Make sure to register before August 10th for the Early Bird price! https://bit.ly/3eWwJAE
Mining our ears for soundtracks through music in film.
This Juneteeth we are excited about new services by NDS in Wayne County!
DETROIT: Effective immediately, NDS will provide representation at no cost to Wayne County residents who believe they are going to be arrested or who have just been arrested. Call us at 313-474-3200.
“Juneteenth is meant to be a celebration of freedom, but too many of our neighbors are not free. This year in particular, Juneteenth is a call to action,” said Chantá Parker, Managing Director of NDS Detroit. “Black liberation is hampered by a racist criminal legal system that our team at NDS fights against every day. By launching Community Intake today, we recognize the need for a new tool to continue this work and serve the Black community of Detroit.” #BlackLivesMatter #Juneteenth
It was great to see some of the public defenders from Neighborhood Defender Service of Detroit on the streets for their clients. We support NDS!
On Monday, Wayne County attorneys and peaceful protesters marched in solidarity from the federal courthouse to the Wayne County Jail and the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice. The Neighborhood Defender Service of Detroit led this charge.
We support NDS and hope you do too.
https://www.neighborhooddefender.org/blog/america-on-fire/
America on Fire Dear Partners and Supporters, The murder of George Floyd was unconscionable. So were the murders of Breonna Taylor, of Tony McDade, of Ahmaud Arbery, of Trayvon Martin, of Sandra Bland, of Philando Castile, of Kalief Browder, of Eric Garner and of Malice Green. So were the murders of...
If you are looking for a good place to donate you might consider Neighborhood Defender Service. They are helping those who are vulnerable in the best of time.
https://ndsny.networkforgood.com/projects/99294-support-heroic-work-this-giving-tuesday
On #GivingTuesdayNow, Celebrate the Power of Justice Covid-19 is a public health crisis, and our clients in Detroit and Harlem - two of the global epicenters of the pandemic - are at higher risk than anyone in the country. The virus has magnified the impact of inequality. Poor people, people of colo...
We just supported our colleague Winnie Chung who is making an erotic thriller that sounds amazing! Good luck Winnie!
UnionDocs Summer Documentary Labs are now open for applications!
Now is the time to dedicate yourself to taking your work to the next level. The five-week Early Production Lab and three-week Research & Development Lab are intensive opportunities for a select group of emerging filmmakers from the US and abroad to be inspired and challenged to think through every aspect of a work-in-progress.
You will leave with a refined pitch, an improved media sample, a fully articulated proposal, realistic budgets, a production plan, and the long-lasting benefits that come from being a part of the UnionDocs community. Alumni have screened and won awards at top tier film festivals including Rotterdam, True/False, IDFA, Toronto International, New York Film Festival, and more.
Get the tools you need to take your documentary idea further and apply before 2/21: https://bit.ly/2ndOm6s
UnionDocs is debuting a new workshop with Brooklyn Falls for France this month! CRITICAL TERRAIN: TRAVEL AND MOTION AS A DOCUMENTARY PRACTICE will interrogate colonial legacies of the travelogue, trace contemporary indexical films, road-trips and migrant voyages to understand the complex facets of modern mobility.
Led by filmmaker and programmer Courtney Stephens and co-organized with curator Mathilde Walker-Billaud and media artist Kara Oehler, participants will learn from seasoned guest speakers including Jessica Bardsley (Goodbye Thelma), Brett Story (The Hottest August), Martin DiCicco (All That Passes By Through a Window That Doesn’t Open), Nathalie Léger (author of Les vies silencieuses de Samuel Beckett and La Robe Blanche ), and Jodie Mack (The Grand Bizarre). Together, we’ll revisit established travel practice through economic, racial, and gendered lenses and work through new possibilities.
Register by January 16th for Early Bird discount! https://bit.ly/2TmPuGD
Wishing everyone a happy and relaxed New Year!
We all enjoyed a terrific greenscreen shoot with NYC Emergency Management.
The New York Cares Coat Drive has started.
Last year we were honored to help create the Coat Drive PSA. See it on our website: https://splash-studios.com
Donate winter coats to help the homeless. Participate in New York City's largest winter clothing drive by collecting coats with family, friends, and coworkers.
Today Splash made a donation to https://www.dav.org in honor of all veterans who have served.
What makes an unforgettable character in a documentary? From Nov 1-3, join UnionDocs for FLAWS AND ALL: Character in Documentary Workshop. Led by director Lana Wilson (The Departure, After Tiller), featuring a bevy of award-winning filmmakers as special guests: Ezra Edelman, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Penny Lane, David Teague, and Matt Wolf. Early Deadline is Oct. 18th. Register today! bit.ly/31MmwBf
Develop your next observational documentary at UnionDocs’ new workshop, SEEING BEFORE WORDS: Expanding Directions in the Observational Mode. From October 4-6, participants will dissect the traditional definition, history and practice of observational filmmaking and will leave the workshop with the beginning stages of a project.
Led by filmmaker Adam Sekuler, with guest artists Kazuhiro Soda (Campaign) and Iva Radivojevic (Evaporating Borders).
Don’t miss this chance to start actualizing your next observational documentary with the best in the field. Sign up before Early Bird deadline of Friday, 9/27: bit.ly/2lUeOov
Twenty years ago, Splash Studios was just starting out, and we were lucky enough to work on the film DarkDays with Marc Singer.
I thought about it today when I saw this article about averting our eyes to avoid looking at homeless people on the subways.
If you haven't seen the film, please try to check it out. It's available on Amazon, Google Play and YouTube.
What an amazing way to start our business!
We the Commuters goes live-in-studio with a look at homelessness in the subways, hosted by Shumita Basu along with her fellow WNYC and Gothamist reporters. The number of people sleeping on the trains is up as commuters confront “compassion fatigue” and elected officials propose partial solutions...
This sounds awesome! And we love UnionDocs and Meerkat Media Collective!
Go beyond the “talking head”! Join UnionDocs and Meerkat Media Collective member Sarah Friedland for Art of the Interview, a three-day intensive that unpacks the interview as one of the most effective and common tools in the documentary toolkit. We’ll go beyond the unimaginative ways interview is often employed and share tips for getting material that can drive emotion and a complex narrative forward.
Discussion will cover approaching traumatic material with subjects sensitively and ethically, prioritizing active listening in the moment as an interviewer, techniques for working with contentious or volatile subjects, and best practices for conducting interviews with subjects with whom you are intimate like family and friends. Sarah Friedland (Here After) will be joined by guest filmmakers, journalists and oral historians: Steve Maing (Crime & Punishment), Ursula Liang (9-Man), Linda Villarosa (NYTimes Contributing Writer), Sylvia Ryerson and Luis Luna (Melting ICE), and Nyssa Chow (Oral historian).
Through seminars and work-in-progress critiques, participants will each, in their own way, push the boundaries of the interview, and learn how to put this new knowledge into practice.
The Early Bird discount ends Friday 9/6! Register here: https://bit.ly/2MwpRjP
More info here: https://uniondocs.org/event/2019-09-20-art-of-the-interview/
This is a fantastic program for anyone who owns and operates a media and/or entertainment company. Also, the staff and program leaders are fantastic!! Hyper Island NYC Department of Small Business Services
Calling all small media & entertainment businesses! Apply today to #AMPNYC, a 3-month accelerator designed to help you increase business, elevate your brand, expand audience reach, & more through workshops and 1-on-1 mentorship. Deadline to apply is 9/2. nyc.gov/ampnyc
This August, join some of your favorite podcast producers from shows like Planet Money, Love + Radio, ESPN’s 30 for 30, Another Round and more!
UnionDocs’ PODCAST SCHOOL will help participants develop an advanced audio practice and podcasting vision. Podcast School will explore a range of in-depth examples and case studies that will help pinpoint what it takes to make a hit podcast.
From audio storytelling, interviewing, and scriptwriting, to editing, mixing, sound design, and audience engagement, this is the perfect chance to focus and grow your knowledge of the field. Guests include Nick van der Kolk (Love + Radio), Julia Lowrie Henderson (30 for 30), Eleanor Kagan (BuzzFeed, Another Round), Robert Smith (Planet Money), Jorge Just (Executive Editor at Gimlet), Megan Tan (Millennial), Joe Richman (Radio Diaries) and more! Space is limited - register for the priority early rate before 8/9!
More info and registration is here: https://uniondocs.org/event/2019-08-19-the-podcast-school/
Develop your audio practice and podcast vision! With a team of professional podcasters, radio writers and producers. The Podcast School at UnionDocs.
Brandathon is a weekend-long branding hackathon where 3 select early-stage companies are studied and rebranded by 3 handpicked creative teams, all while having their work reviewed and critiqued throughout the weekend by respected founders, creative directors, and angel investors.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D51SBhKDL-I1dpfV3NnXFbz7GGtZ4Qkl/view
They have events happening in NYC August 16th - 18th and September 13th - 15th. If your company is in need of help with your company's core design, copy or strategy, apply to be involved, or reach out to their founder directly at [email protected].
We won #BrandAThon 2019! Thank you to our talented design team who overhauled the Splash brand and brought home to glory!
We spent an incredible, challenging, empowering, exhausting weekend with some amazingly talented collaborators overhauling our business at #BrandAThon. And now its onward, into the future!
Come join us on Sunday night for the Brandathon finals! You will be blown away. I guarantee it!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brandathon-x-amp-nyc-tickets-64434346866
A new Brandathon is happening in partnership with the City of New York's initiative, AMP NYC (Accelerator for Media Pros), July 12th-14th, where the City is giving the Brandathon creative community the opportunity to breathe new life into three iconic entertainment brands. On the evening of Sunday,....
Join UnionDocs for Voices Carry: Creative Sound Recording! From July 26-28, explore strategies for using vocals – broadly defined – as a material in sound-based creative work. Traditionally, voice has a special relationship to emotion, instinct, and memory, both individual and collective. Tapping into an ancient area of our brain, sound provides immediate information telling us where we are if it is safe, and how we should feel about that.
Led by producer Latham Zearfoss, this seminar brings together D’Angelo Madsen Minax (Kairos Dirt, The Eddies), James N. Kienitz Wilkins (Public Hearing, The Plagiarists), Farihah Zaman (Remote Area Medical, Kombit), and Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich (Black Composers Trilogy, It was a Race Riot) to share their own use of voice and vocals in their practice. Early Bird Registration ends on Monday 7/15! https://bit.ly/2NLQP8E
A three-day intensive on strategies for using vocals - broadly defined - as a material in sound-based creative work.
Splash is doubling down on EdTech! Thats why we’re at a NYEdTech Meetup, learning about Integrated Marketing.
Great catching up with Precious Williams, who runs Perfect Pitches by Precious. We hope its the beginning of a wonderful partnership!
Great catching up with Precious Williams. We hope its the beginning of a wonderful partnership.
We're going to Brandathon! Should be awesome!
A new Brandathon is happening in partnership with the City of New York's initiative, AMP NYC (Accelerator for Media Pros), July 12th-14th, where the City is giving the Brandathon creative community the opportunity to breathe new life into three iconic entertainment brands. On the evening of Sunday,....
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Our thoughts go out to every veteran this Memorial Day. We had the honor of interviewing three vets for a project we put together called War Stories. Check out this excerpt. And see more of our work at www.splash-studios.com @creativemothership @jennypoet
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A UN report says one million plant and animal species are being pushed to extinction. We're thankful for the Pinelands Preservation Alliance of New Jersey, an advocacy group working to save native species for future generations. This excerpt is from our 2014 video and shows how the group's work is even more relevant today. For the full clip and more of our videos go to our website www.splash-studios.com.
We heard the royal couple was hiring a doula. All this controversy reminded us of Michelle, a “psychic doula” we profiled. What might Michelle see in Duchess Meghan’s future? Check out this short clip.
Happy Earth Day! This is an excerpt of a video we created for NYC Emergency Management about the Interim Flood Protection Measures the city is taking to protect NYers until a permanent fix is found to contain the effects of climate change and coastal flooding. For the full video check out our website https://splash-studios.com/portfolio/
Psychologist Nancy Segal was recently interviewed on The Hidden Brain podcast about Twin Studies. Dr. Segal is Director of the Twin Studies Center, at CSU. Last year we produced our Twinsters video featuring Nancy, here's an excerpt of that clip. See our full portfolio at www.splash-studios.com.
Director Judy-Anne Goldman of Rise and Dream gave us this kumbing, a traditional Filipino instrument! Our engineer Will shows how to play it. Check out the Rise & Dream trailer: http://www.splash-studios.com/portfolio/rise-and-dream-2011/
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