The first thing to keep in mind, is that your objective is not to make a ‘TV show’ or a ‘show’ of any kind. You are collecting evidence; you are encouraging witness; you are emboldening ordinary people to ‘go public.
George Stoney, Turn on the Power! Using Media for Social Change
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EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH AND DISTRIBUTION
Community documentaries are distributed locally and globally and are used to engage people of all ages in positive discussion and dialogue. Joining efforts with nonprofit organizations, foundations, local and state government, corporations and New Jersey middle and high schools, Voices of Hope Productions offers educational distribution and grassroots outreach tools to reach adults, students, faculty and parents. Through educational training workshops held at organizations, conferences and schools, Voices of Hope Productions empowers youth and adults to recognize the power of media and how it can be used to stimulate awareness of community issues and ultimately inspire societal change.
Distribution tools include, but are not limited to:
• Develop outreach implementation strategies and video guides and grassroots toolkits to support engagement, discussion, and decision-making to foster action.
• Empowering community groups around social issues to create collaborations between media and the community.
• Hands-on workshops illustrating the impact and influence that the documentary stories have by raising issues, stimulating dialogue and solving problems.
• Comprehensive online and offline programs; streaming video distribution, links, and resources offered on the Voices of Hope Productions Web site.
• Film screenings held in local venues, schools, universities, nonprofit organizations, libraries, conferences, corporations and film festivals.
Filmmaker, Lori Ersolmaz was interviewed by Gilda Rogers the host of of Frank Talk, Red Bank, NJ about the challenges and possibilities facing formerly incarcerated people. The segment includes excerpts from the Reentry Film Series that Ersolmaz directed and produced for American Friends Service Committee an International social justice and human rights organization. Detailed information is also provided about historic reentry legislation that passed early this year, as well as public policy issues that still need to be addressed to reduce recidivism in the state. Segment runs 26 minutes.
MEDIA BROADCASTS
November 2011 | OTV Channel 99, Northern Oakland County, Michigan The Reentry Film Series, Say YES to Clean Energy
October 2011 | Lowell Telecommunications Corporation, MA A Failed System
October 2011 | Lake County Peg TV, California, The Reentry Film Series, Say YES to Clean Energy
October 2011 | Old Rochester Community Television, MA, Frank Talk Segment Interview about Reentry
August 2011 | Digital Media, Los Angeles, The Reentry Film Series, Frank Talk Segment Interview about Reentry, Say YES to Clean Energy
June 2011 | Community Television Network, Portland, Maine, The Reentry Film Series, Frank Talk Segment Interview about Reentry Also Online
June 2011 | Town of Garner, Garner, North Carolina, Healing Justice: Transformed Lives
April 2011 | Urbana Public Television, Illinois, The Reentry Film Series, Frank Talk Segment Interview about Reentry, Say YES to Clean Energy
February 22, 2011 | Frank Talk Segment Interview about Reentry
Comcast and Verizon Cable- Monmouth County
February 2011 | Drexel University TV, The Reentry Film Series
January, 2011 | City of New Bern, NC Reentry Film Series, Say YES to Clean Energy
December, 2010 | Easthampton Community Access Television, MA, Reentry Film Series, Say YES to Clean Energy
November, 2010 | Mountain Blue Community Television, ME Reentry Film Series, Frank Talk Segment Interview about Reentry, Say YES to Clean Energy
November 10, 2010 | AeroChannel, CA Healing Justice: Transformed Lives and A Failed System
November 2, 2010 | Frank Talk Segment Interview about Reentry – Comcast Cable Channel 21 and Verizon FiOS Channel 46 in Monmouth County
October, 2010 | DTV8 City of Durham, North Carolina | Healing Justice: Transformed Lives
October 12 and 13, 2010 | A Failed System on NPTV, Channel 35/37 Comcast/Verizon Fios in Summit and New Providence
September and October, 2010
The Reentry Film Series and Say YES to Clean Energy- Channel 986, Wisconsin
Nowhere to Go – Valdosta, Geogia
Nowhere to Go – MBTV 11, Maine
Ongoing | Princeton Community TV
Princeton Community TV has committed to showing all three films and can be viewed on cable channel 30 throughout Princeton Township and Princeton Borough on the Comcast cable system and on channel 45 of Verizon’s FiOS system. Keep an eye out!
October 4 -15 | The Reentry Film Series can be seen on Orange TV Channel 35 on Comcast Cable – Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 8:30 pm.
September 28, 2010 | Frank Talk Segment Interview about Reentry
Second run on Comcast and Verizon Cable- Monmouth County.
September 14, 2010 | WGLS-FM Radio 89.7
Interview on Dr. Candace Kelley’s League of the Extraordinary.
Podcast Available
September 30, 2010 | The National Reentry Resource Center, Recognizing the Value of Peer Recovery Support, Healing Justice: Transformed Lives mentioned as a resource
September 10, 2010 | Faces and Voices of Recovery
The Reentry Film Series mentioned as a resource in their bimonthly
e-Newsletter
September 7, 2010 | Frank Talk with Host Gilda Rogers
First run on Comcast and Verizon Cable- Monmouth County
SCREENINGS
June 25, 2011 | Trinity Temple SDA Church Prison Ministry, Newark, NJ
May 24, 2011 | The Fourth Estate Newspaper (4E) in conjunction with the Community Focus Roundtable joined forces to sponsor a Town Hall Event, Trenton, NJ
March 5, 2011 | Offenders Aid and Restoration, Newark, NJ
March 2, 2011 | Integrity House, Newark, NJ
January 17, 2011 | Martin Luther King Day, Bridges Outreach, Summit, NJ
January 7, 2011 | UIH Family Partners, Client Services, Trenton
October 22, 2010 | UIH Staff Retreat, Trenton
October 21, 2010 | Alliance for Transformative Justice, Trenton
October 21, 2010 | AFSC, Philadelphia
October | Private Citizen, Legislative Meetings and Friends of the Lifers, Dept. of Social Service and Elected Officials
July 26, 2010 | Launch, Rutgers, Paul Robeson Center, Newark, NJ
OTHER SCREENINGS
Spiritworks Foundation, Williamsburg VA
DHS-JJS-Youth Study Center, Philadelphia, PA
Omega PSI PHI, Delta Upsilon Chapter, Social Action Committee
REAL STORIES. REAL SOCIAL ISSUES. REAL CHANGE.
Voices of Hope Productions is a creative services and multimedia production company specializing in short social issue documentaries, social marketing, issue advertising and public affairs programming. We work with nonprofit organizations, government agencies and policy think-tanks to build social and cause marketing campaigns through a wide-range of media production options including: 15 and 30 second public service announcements (PSAs) short and feature-length documentaries and internet streaming video, e-marketing campaigns, traditional print communications and graphic design, advocacy screening guides and toolkits, and media literacy programs including youth media curricula.
Our projects and programs speak to such issues as social justice, public education, policy, grassroots advocacy, media literacy, civic pride and engagement, youth, sex, substance abuse, violence, learning, love, and life in America. Voices of Hope Productions also coordinates and facilitates community forums and screenings to inspire open dialogue about local and state-wide social issues.
Voices of Hope Productions broadcast-quality media distribution includes: television, radio, streaming video on the Internet, community screenings, fundraising meetings and presentations, conferences, schools, workshops and film festivals.
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