12 February 2008
Beyondmedia is pleased to
announce that Dannette Hoarde, the project manager for the website Women and Prison: A
Site for Resistance, was selected as a winner of the Avon Hello
Tomorrow Fund. Out of the 900 applicants who applied Dannette was one of
13 winners chosen out of 34 finalists. Dannette received a $5,000
grant to use toward the Women and Prison website. More details about
this award can be found on our press
page.
16 October 2007
The short version
of Turning a Corner has been named winner of the John
A. McDermott Documentary (Short) Film Festival. The festival was
organized in honor of the Chicago Reporter’s 35th Anniversary and
features documentary shorts that examine local social issues using a
race and/or poverty lens.
20 July 2007
CAN-TV recently
interviewed Joanne Archibald and Dannette Hoarde in their
"Community, Media and You" programming discussing
Beyondmedia's Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance website. The
streaming video is now online and viewable in our press section.
17 July
2007
Turning a Corner was awarded
"Best Documentary: Public Awareness - Professional) at the 2007 Hometown Video
Awards. The Hometown Video Awards honors and promotes community
media and local cable programs that are first distributed on Public,
Educational, and Governmental (PEG) access cable television channels.
Awards are presented to creative programs that address community needs,
develop diverse community involvement, challenge conventional commercial
television formats, and move viewers to experience television in a
different way.
October 2006 - June 2007
Beyondmedia
has been chosen to be the official documentarians of the Chicago
Foundation Womens year long anti-violence initiative, What Will It
Take.
12-16 February
2007
Why You Gotta Do Me Like That: The Empowered Fe
Fes Take on Bullying receives honorable mention at the Picture
This... Film Festival in Calgary, Canada.
19 January
2007
Turning a Corner wins Best Midwest Documentary
at the Beloit International Film Festival!
06 December 2006
Two new films are now available
for purchase in our catalogue (if you prefer, you can also call in your
credit card orders by phone): Why They Gotta Do Me Like That? The Empowered Fe Fes
Take on Bullying and Real Talk: Engaging Young Men as Allies to End Violence
Against Women
16 November 2006
Turning a Corner Screens in
the Underground Railroad Film Series as part of the Langston Hughes
African American Film Festival in Seattle Washington
07
November 2006
Time Out Chicago features an article on the
making of Beyondmedia's latest documentary Turning a Corner.
Read it Online
02 November 2006
Real Talk: Engaging Young Men as Allies
to End Violence Against Women screens at Northeastern Illinois
University
27 October 2006
Real Talk: Engaging Young Men as Allies to
End Violence Against Women premieres at DePaul University to a crowd
of over 200.
19 October 2006
Turning a Corner screens at the Jane
Adams Hull House Museum with dinner, followed by a panel discussion.
09 October 2006
"Why They Gotta Do Me Like That:
The Empowered Fe Fes Take On Bullying" will be screening at the 11th
Annual Violence Prevention Conference in Chicago, IL Oct 17th - Oct
18th. More Info: Illinois
Center for Violence Prevention
09 September 2006
The Chicago Reporter features
Salome Chasnoff and Turning a Corner in its New Voices section.