Northwest Documentary Arts & Media

“Other revenue 1,019 total 1,019”

“Expenses travel 7,330 meetings 399 insurance 1,287 telephone 2,523 fees, dues & subscription 2,824 facilities 7,024 supplies 10,819 misc 1,031 non-investment depreciation 7,708 total 40,945”

“Equipment 54,752 54,753 less accumulated depreciation 31,951 39,658 total 22,801 15,095”

“To create, instruct, and share the art of documentary storytelling.”

“Production. As leaders in the field of documentary storytelling, we actively engage in the creation of original stories of artistic, cultural, and historic value. Nw documentary's original productions have garnered more than a dozen prestigious awards, including the nw emmy, and have been recognized in international film festivals and major art centers, such as the san francisco museum of modern art, montral's festival international du film sur l'art (fifa), and festivals like tribeca, clarmont-ferrand, and london. The original productions at nw documentary have become an active focal point in the organization, allowing people from a wide variety of backgrounds to apply skills and energy toward a shared artistic endeavor. Projects engage creative skills and offer portfolio-building opportunities to independent professionals, such as graphic designers, musicians, audio engineers, and photographers. Our projects also give college students internships, college credit, and a chance to become a critical part of a professional team. In 2013: we entered into post-production phase for our upcoming original documentary, les voyageurs sans trace. We finished filming the untold story of three dashing young french people who, in 1938, were the first to take kayaks down the green and colorado rivers. Post-production began in fall as staff and contractors began work on editing and transcription. Film is scheduled for release by the end of 2014.”

“Education. In response to the growth of using digital media as the primary tool to record and share the stories of our time, our programs offer technical and artistic training to become effective non-fiction storytellers in a digital age. Since 2003, we have reached more than half a million people through our classes, presentations, and broadcasts. Youth and adults from diverse backgrounds have used our workshops to create more than 300 new documentaries. We offer three terms of workshops per year teaching non-fiction storytelling and documentary filmmaking. Nw documentary workshops are open to all-ages and backgrounds. Economic backgrounds vary widely as a result of consciously setting our tuition at an affordable rate and offering scholarships and financial assistance. We offer two youth programs, documentary explorers camp and recording resilience. These workshops are offered in partnership with local non-profit organizations omsi and the dougy center. In documentary explorers camp, we take kids into the outdoors to use documentary filmmaking as a tool to explore science and nature. In recording resilience, we work with teens from the dougy center community who are suffering from the loss of a parent or sibling, and together make a documentary to tell their story and honor their loved one. Nw documentary workshops are taught by talented professionals who share their real-world experience and their personal passion for documentary storytelling with our students. We cap workshop sizes to maintain low student to instructor ratios. In some cases, the ratio in our youth programs is 1:1, giving each student personal learning and mentorship. During our education terms we offer open lab for our community. Students and members can use our facilities free of charge, including edit stations, our audio booth, screening area, and our documentary resource library. We also offer affordable camera and audio equipment rentals. In 2013: we held three terms of successful workshops at nw documentary, featuring our popular diy documentary workshop. We held documentary explorers camp in partnership with omsi, and recording resilience in partnership with the dougy center. We hosted three homegrown docfest screenings at the mission theater, showcasing our community's work.”

“Community. Nw documentary events present meaningful documentary storytelling to the public. Documentary storytelling provides the opportunity to engage a public audience in a powerful and meaningful way; the art of documentary is a hybrid of artistic genres, such as literary non-fiction, photography, oral history, and music. Nw documentary has shared its works in schools, libraries, museums, and cultural centers. Our homegrown docfest has become an anticipated event in portland, regularly filling the mission theater. Held three times a year at the conclusion of each education term, it is a showcase of locally-made documentaries featuring stories from our community. In 2013: we hosted monthly gatherings for the nw documentary alumni & member group, featuring presentations by documentary filmmakers for documentary filmmakers to learn and network. We continued partnership with filmed by bike, a film festival based in portland, or celebrating 10 years of bike related films. Community film groups such as doc group meet in our media center, opening our doors to new audiences, and furthering our mission to share the art of non-fiction storytelling. We co-sponsored the first ever "doc camp" for independent filmmakers via a partnership with local non-profit women in film.”

“In addition, in 2013: we received operating support from oregon arts commission, the james f. And marion l. Miller foundation, and the regional arts & culture council. We supported by small project grants from utah humanities council, utah arts council, wyoming humanities council. We successfully participated in willamette week's giveguide campaign.”