(Top Row) Silvia, Aaisha, Mindy, Zane, Dan, Keith
(Bottom Row) Ameenah, Xavi, Jonathan
Missing: Prisca, ElDevon
Mindy Faber, Director
mfaber@chicagofilmmakers.org
847-902-9158
Mindy Faber is a media artist, activist, curator and educator. Her video, Delirium, about the history of female hysteria, won over a dozen awards including the prestigious Grand Prize in Video at the 1994 Berlin Film Festival. Mindy received a Rockefeller Intercultural Multimedia Fellowship (1996) and began collaborating with youth to create a series of award-winning projects, many of which were aired on national television. Mindy taught media arts at Video Machete and at Evanston Township High School where she led students to produce History Lessons, a video about post 9/11 immigrant backlash which recieved a 2007 Peabody Award for its inclusion in Beyond Borders for The Independent Film Channel. Faber’s curriculum in media literacy through media art production is regarded as so successful she has been asked to present the closing keynote at five consecutive How to Read a Film Conferences at U.C. Berkeley, including this June’s convening where she spoke about the power of bringing participatory media into the classroom. Mindy is the author of Listen Up’s website, Youth Media in Practice that features in depth exploration of the signature pedagogies behind ten Youth Media Projects of Change. She is also the co-curator, along with a youth team of YouTube-sized, a self ethnographic survey of how youth consume and produce online media, premiered at 24/7: A DIY Video Summit organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
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Jonathan McIntosh, Political Remix Artist and Lead Facilitator for FURI
jonnymcintosh@gmail.com
Jonathan McIntosh is a digital media artist, photographer, and activist living in New York City. Jonathan’s digital video work focuses primarily on transforming corporate media images by remixing them to tell alternative political and cultural narratives. This Political Remix Video work has appeared in independent film festivals, on community TV programs and at new media conferences. He curated the Political Remix program at the 24/7 DIY video Summit and has an active blog on remix. Jonathan is a advisor for Remix America, a site created by Norman Lear. Jonathan’s documentary photography has been published globally in both print and online publications and has also found its way into the pages of children’s textbooks, independent films, dissertations and onto the covers of academic texts. Jonathan is also the winner of the “Best People Photograph Award” in the 2005 Wikimania Media Competition. Jonathan currently teaches art and technology courses at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
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Ameenah Muhammad, Peer Facilitator
Ameenah is a cultural worker and activist and graduate of our 2007 YouthLAB Institute. Despite being busily involved with Inner City Muslim Action Network, Southwest Youth Collaborative and Community Cafe, Ameenah was thrilled to be a Peer Facilitator for FURI because the whole workshop was pitched to Director Mindy Faber by her and Sadia Nawab after seeing Jonathan Mcintosh’s curatorial selection on political remix at the 24/7: DIY Video Summit in Los Angeles. We are thrilled to have her as an important part of our 2008 FURI Team.
Patricia Aufderheide
Patricia Aufderheide, PhD is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C., and the director of the Center for Social Media. She is the author of Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video, a report that shows that many uses of copyrighted material in today’s online videos are eligible for fair use consideration.
Gordon Quinn
President and founding member of Kartemquin Films, Gordon Quinn has been making documentaries for over 40 years. Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun Times, called his first film Home For Life (1966) “an extraordinarily moving documentary.” Gordon has been a long-time supporter of public media, and community-based independent media groups, and served on the boards of several organizations including The National Coalition of Public Broadcast Producers, The Citizens Committee on the Media, The Chicago Public Access Corporation, The Illinois Humanities Council, The Public Square and The IL Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
About Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago Filmmakers is a 33 year-old media arts organization that fosters the creation, appreciation and understanding of film and video as media for artistic and personal expression, as well as media of important social and community impact. The space is equipped with cameras, green screens, a theatre, a classroom and computer lab with state of the art software housed on new iMacs.
