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.
6 August 2007
Ronit Bezalel is hired as Development Manager at Beyondmedia. Welcome Ronit!
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.
16 May 2007
Beyondmedia's Associate Director Joanne Archibald was awarded
the 2007 Rev. Dr. Constance M. Baugh Achievement Award.
The award celebrates women who have overcome tremendous adversity and
indifference to emerge from the dehumanizing experience of incarceration to
become advocates for themselves, their families and thousands of mothers
languishing in prison.
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.
27 February 2007
Dannette Hoarde is hired as manager of the website Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance. See the new photos and streaming video she has added to this amazing site!
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!
08 January 2007
Joanne Archibald is hired as Beyondmedia's new Associate Director! Welcome, Joanne!
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. Check it out here.
09 August 2006
Turning A Corner will be screening at the American Sociological Association conference 8/11-8/14 in Montreal.
21 July 2006
Congratulations to Outreach Coordinator Zaida Sanabia and the Chicago Kickers for winning 3rd place in the Division I soccer tournament as part of the Gay Games!
12 July 2006
On Monday July 3rd, 2006 Governor Blagojevich signed the Predator Accountability Act into Law! Under this new law survivors of the sex trade can seek compensation from their abusers in civil court.
10 July 2006
As part of our Youth Visions for Stronger Neighborhoods grant, Ana Mercado will be presenting our goundbreaking media curriculum for girls with disabilities at the CTCnet conference in Wash DC July 27-29!
2 July 2006
Our Youth Outreach Coordinator Zaida Sanabia will be participating in the Gay Games Division I soccer as a team member of the Chicago Kickers July 15-22.
17 March 2006
Turning a Corner is now available! Place your orders through our catalogue, or our faxable/mailable order form.
14 March 2006
Our collaboration with the Empowered Fe Fes is featured in the April '06 O, The Oprah Magazine! The Fe Fe film Beyond Disability is available in our catalogue, or if you'd like to get an email when the new film on Sexuality is finished, please send us a note through Get in Touch!
6 February 2006
Our new film Turning a Corner premieres tonight and is available for advance purchase in our catalogue. We expect the film to begin shipping in early-mid March!
5 January 2006
Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance is a website we launched during our 5th Anniversary Party, Media Uprising. Please check it out and let us know if you'd like to contribute to the site!
27 October 2005
We have another great new video online: Can LGBTQ + School = Safe? is now available on VHS and DVD. Read about it in our catalogue.
7 October 2005
We are now seeking a slew of volunteers for 3 events coming up in the next month! We need help for our Can LGBTQ + School = Safe? premiere at Gerber-Hart on October 16, All The Women You Want, the weekend of October 21-23 at Las Manos Gallery and of course, our big 5th Anniversary Celebration at Roosevelt University, Media Uprising, on November 11th! Please fill out our form to indicate your interest - and if you've contacted us in the past about volunteering, don't worry: we'll be in touch!
28 September 2005
We are proud to announce our newest release: Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories - A Teacher's Guide is now available via our catalogue!
16 September 2005
Media Uprising, Beyondmedia's 5th Anniversary Celebration, is coming up on November 11th. Find out all the details on the celebration and buy tickets on our Media Uprising page!
12 July 2005
Beyondmedia has a new video available in our catalogue, Respect Me, Don't Media Me. Produced this spring with Sisters Empowering Sisters, the video examines the portrayal of young women in music videos and other media.
In addition, please take note that this video along with A Fish Almost Eaten by a Shark and Beyond Disability: the Fe Fe Stories are all available on VHS and DVD!
26 April 2005
On Friday April 22, 2005 Beyondmedia was honored with Crossroads Fund's prestigious Ron Sable Award for Activism for our "incredible work giving members of some of the most marginalized groups, including women in prison, young women, and women with disabilities, a voice." Thank you, Crossroads!
5 April 2005
Great news! Our video A Fish (Almost) Eaten by a Shark is now available with Spanish subtitles! Visit our catalogue and order a copy today!
2 March 2005
Beyondmedia is featured in the brand new 5th year anniversary issue of Clamor Magazine! Buy it at your favorite bookstore or subscribe!
26 January 2005
Photos are up from Who Stole the Soul?! Thank you for braving the elements with us!
11 January 2005
Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories is the featured video on this month's AHN News. You can view it at http://www.artheals.org/news.html. The video has also been added to the Arts and Healing Network's list of videos at http://www.artheals.org/inspiration/videos.php
Check it out!
7 January 2005
Photos from our December 10th ExtravaGOWNza event are now online! We had a great time!
9 December 2004
Please take a minute to read Jennifer Roche's article on our collaboration with the Empowered Fe Fes at Community Arts Network!
Also we hope to see you December 10th at the extravaGOWNza! lots of great art is coming in and the gowns are fabulous! Call us if you'd like to reserve tickets!
11 November 2004
Attention art-and-craft-making friends! Please consider participating in Beyondmedia's First Annual Art Auction Extrava-GOWN-za and Holiday Sale! We are looking for donations of paintings, mixed media, drawings, photos, prints, crafts, etc. for our December 10th event. Please download our Call for Artists PDF for more info.
4 November 2004
Please buy our new video! Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories premiered to a crowd of 100 people on October 26th and is now available for sale on VHS or DVD! Check out our catalogue to order by PayPal, mail or phone!
1 October 2004
Beyondmedia has a new website! Please let us know what you think via the form in the get in touch section! We'd appreciate hearing the good and the bad. We can now accept your donations and payments for videos, tickets, etc through PayPal.
8 September 2004
Beyondmedia is thrilled to announce the hiring of a new part-time staff person! Lara Dieckmann joined us on August 31st as our very first Development Director. Read Lara's bio in the About Us section!
31 August 2004
On August 30th Zaida Sanabia was interviewed for Radio Arte's Homofrecuencia show. Zaida talked about stories she's heard from queer youth around Chicago and the suburbs while working on Beyondmedia's multimedia project, Can LGBTQ + School = Safe?
23 August 2004
The weekend of August 21-22 saw the premiere of the Beyondmedia-sponsored Whispers of a Caged Reality, a live musical production on women's incarceration, written by Pamela Thomas, in conjunction with the Voices in Time: Lives in Limbo installation in North Chicago/Waukegan area. Stay tuned for more Voices in Time events in November.
16 August 2004
Mark your calendars! on Thursday, October 21st, 2004 Beyondmedia is having a benefit at Blackbird Restaurant! See events for more information.