Noteworthy Alternative/ Grassroots Film/Video/Photo
Organizations/ Collectives/ Workshops
This list is totally biased and by no means comprehensive !

911 Media Arts Center
"Washington's non-profit media center supporting film, video and multimedia artists with new technology tools, workshops and screenings."

Bay Area Video Coalition
"The nation's most advanced video and new media center, providing access to technology, training, and support to artists and nonprofits."

Boston Film/Video Foundation

Breaking the Silence
"Media literacy, digital video production, and HIV prevention for Caribbean girls."

Bullfrog Films
"Leading source of videos about the environment, ecology, sustainable development, indigenous people, cultural diversity, and performing arts, music and dance."

California Newsreel
Founded in 1968, California Newsreel is among the country's oldest and most notable non-profit, documentary film and video production and distribution centers, with over 100 titles in ourcollection, distinguished educational video on African American life and history, race relations and diversity training, African cinema, labor studies, workplace issues, campus life, and media and society.

Center for Media Literacy
National advocacy for media literacy education, books, videos and teaching materials for K-12 classrooms, besources and information for families and communities, links to conferences and training opportunities.

Damned Interfering Video Activists
Founded in 1989, DIVA TV produces the series AIDS Community Television, documenting community activism, testimony, and media surveillance for greater public awareness and participation in THE FIGHT AGAINST AIDS.

Deep Dish TV
"Deep Dish TV (as in parabolic and apple or pizza pie) is a national satellite network, linking access producers and programmers, independent video makers, activists, and people who support the idea and reality of a progressive television network."

Documentary Educational Resources
"Documentary Educational Resources (D.E.R., Inc.) is a producer and distributor of films and videos in broadly defined areas of anthropology/ethnography, sociology and documentary."

DYKE TV
"Television to Incite, Subvert, Provoke, and Organize"

Free Speech Internet Television

The Media Education Foundation
"A nonprofit educationaln organization devoted to media research and the production of resources to aid educators and others in fostering analytical media literacy."

Mypheduh Films, Inc.
"Distributors of African & African American Cinema"

National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture
"A national association of non-profit organizations and individuals committed to furthering the media arts: film, video, audio, and interactive."

National Asian American Telecommunications Association
"Getting Asian Pacific Americans seend and heard."

Paper Tiger TV
"Paper Tiger is a public access TV show. It looks at the communications industry via the media in all of their forms." And much, much, more.
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Paper Tiger's alternative media links

Point of View
"A laboratory for television's potential, P.O.V. seeks to amplify broadcasts by pioneering media innovation, interaction and impact through a wide range of energetic broadcast-related activities. As the preeminent showcase for our nation's boldest and most exciting independent non-fiction films, P.O.V. seeks to entertain, inform and connect citizens to ideas, services and each other. "

Post-Colonial Cinemas at Mt. Holyoke College
This site invites your participation in a course that critically examine functions of films and cinemas in contexts and countries whose nationhood and cultural references are informed by colonial and anticolonial histories.

Third World Newsreel
"Founded in 1967, Third World Newsreel is one of the oldest alternative media arts organizations in the United States. We are committed to the creation and appreciation of independent and social issue media by and about people of color, and the peoples of developing countries around the world."

The Video Project
"The Nation's Non-Profit Source Of Educational Media For a Safe and Sustainable World."

Women Make Movies
A national, non-profit media arts organization dedicated to the promotion of film and video by and about women.