May 11, 2010
In This Issue
PBS Annual Meeting
Making Your Media Matter Conference
Crazy Horse Journalism Workshop
NAPT Programming Guide Now Available
NAPT at the 2010 PBS Annual Meeting

The 2010 PBS Annual Meeting will be taking place May 17-20 in Austin, Texas. The meeting will combine the best features from the PBS Development Conference and PBS Showcase into this exciting gathering that will bring together station managers, programmers, producers, development leaders, and communications and interactive professionals to spotlight PBS content and encourage innovative efforts to strengthen PBS's public service mission.

In attendance from NAPT will be Shirley K. Sneve, Georgiana George Lee, Jessica Kinser and Princella Parker. In anticipation of our impending trip to Austin, we have anxiously planned, developed and coordinated various items for the Annual Meeting. One of which being the newly updated National Minority Consortia (NMC) website that will be launching at the beginning of PBS Showcase. The new website features videos, blogs and upcoming projects from members of the National Minority Consortia.

Most notably, we're very excited about the National Minority Consortia (NMC) sizzle reel that will showcase upcoming releases from the NMC. Amongst NAPT's upcoming releases are Video Letters from Prison, For the Generations: Native Story & Performance, Good Meat, Games of the North and Telephone Warriors.
NAPT's Assistant Director to Attend Making Your Media Matter Conference

Elsie BegayNAPT's Georgiana Lee, Assistant Director, is attending Making Your Media Matter 2010 in Washington, D.C., May 11-12. Making Your Media Matter is a conference for established and aspiring filmmakers, non-profit communications leaders, funders and students looking to learn and share cutting-edge practices for making their media matter.

Georgiana will be attending sessions on strategic design in social issue media, documentary ethics in practice, news tools and research, and much more.
NAPT's Project Coordinator Princella Parker Mentors Students at
 Crazy Horse Workshop


















The Crazy Horse Memorial, a 563-foot stature of Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, located outside of Custer, South Dakota, is the ideal setting to introduce the fundamentals of journalism to Native American youth. Not only are the Black Hills of South Dakota inspiring and beautiful but standing next to the 87.5 foot-tall face of Crazy House is magical. I've been going to the Crazy Horse Journalism Workshop for five years now and I can only imagine what the first time students must have thought and felt.
 
Working for Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT) as Project Coordinator allowed me the opportunity to mentor multimedia storytelling skills to four high school students on April 19-23, 2010. I mentored two students a day on taking photographs and audio to produce a two-minute sound slide for the web. We were able to view these sound slides later that day in our group. Our first story was on a mountain blast, that removed 615 tons of rock and the other was following The Des Moines Register staff photographer Justin Hayworth around as he provided photography tips to the students.
 
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NAPT Programming Guide for April 2010 & Beyond Now Available
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The April 2010 & Beyond NAPT Programming Guide is now available on our website at nativetelecom.org/napt_programs.

Get the latest scoop on our current and upcoming films, as well as broadcast information. NAPT's VisionMaker Video is your premier source for Native media.

Producer Profile

Mary Hager (French-Canadian Cree/Metis) and Arlie Neskahi (Navajo)
For the Generations: Native Story & Performance 
Interview with the
 Co-President's of Painted Sky of For the Generations: Native Story & Performance
For the Generations: Native Story & Performance, offers viewers a unique look at today's most progressive Native American music and dance performers.  This month's Producer Profile features Mary Hager (French-Canadian Cree/Metis) and Arlie Neskahi (Navajo) of Painted Sky, an organization dedicated to building public awareness of Native American culture, music and dance through performance and education. The film is a joint production of Painted Sky, and Oregon Public Broadcasting.

Read the entire article with Mary Hager and Arlie Neskahi.

Listen to the interview.

You can also listen to the interview on the AIROS livestream. Check our website for broadcast times.

Subscribe to the producer profile podcast.
Upcoming Public
 Television Titles
Video Letters from Prison  
Educational Version on Sale
May 20!


 A film by Hollow Bone Films

Embark on a journey of transformation as one
family from the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota finds healing through the path of the heart. Video Letters from Prison follows the lives of three Oglala Lakota sisters as they reconnect with their incarcerated father via a series of video letters.

Check out the press kit page here>>
 
For the Generations:
Native Story & Performance
Educational Version on Sale
May 29!


A film by Oregon Public Broadcasting and Painted Sky
 
Through the performances of music's most promising Native artists, For the Generations Native Story & Performance discusses important health and fitness issues facing many reservations across the nation.

Artists profiled in this documentary include Robert Mirabal, Martha Redbone, Jana Mashonee and Painted Sky's very own Northstar Dancers.
 
Check out the press kit page here>>
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