TALKING EYES MEDIA INC
110 Montclair Avenue, Montclair, NJ 070424131 talkingeyesmedia.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Talking Eyes Media creates powerful media for pressing issues. The Organization includes visual storytellers who create documentary films, photography, books, exhibitions and public programming that actively stimulate dialogue and advocate for positive social change. Talking Eyes turns a probing eye on situations where people struggle unduly, where resources are poorly distributed, and where theres tremendous opportunity to improve society for future generations. The work is used extensively by educational institutions, nonprofit organizations and foundations to illuminate, educate and inspire people to become more engaged.

Talking Eyes Media produces documentary films, photography, books, exhibitions and programming that actively stimulate dialogue and advocate for positive social change. The Organization works to illuminate, educate and inspire people to become more engaged.

Production Services In 2020, Talking Eyes Medias (TEM) project Newest Americans continued production and relaunched our website. This multi-year storytelling project examines immigration and American identity. Developed in partnership with Rutgers University-Newark and VII Photo, Newest Americans produces short films, radio pieces, written essays, exhibitions and public events that explore the lives and communities, trials and aspirations of Americas diverse immigrant population. TEM is currently developing curriculum centered around our media that facilitates high school and college-aged students in exploring American demographics, personal histories and the concept of citizenship. TEM is partnering with the Newark Board of Education to hold a series of professional development workshops to train teachers to deploy our curriculum in classrooms. TEM offered the first workshop in early 2020.When the pandemic hit, forcing all instruction to move online, TEM launched Stories From the Pandemic, a web-based youth response to living in quarantine. TEM held weekly mentoring sessions for a group of youth correspondents, developed lesson plans which we shared with teachers across the country, and designed a website to student-generated work. The project was also features in The New York Times and the BBC, as well as unmasked, an international initiative of Generation Human Rights.TEM published a series of stories that were developed in collaboration with the Free Press and CoLab for a project called 37 Voices, which documents the experience of New Jerseys working poor. These stories appeared on the Newest Americans website and The Nation.Through Newest Americans we hosted a series of Facebook Live events that addressed such topics as addressing first generation voters, the impact of the pandemic on Guatemala, and poet Amiri Barakas birthday.With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Newest Americans began production on the Newark Story Bus. We are retrofitting a former school bus that will serve as a mobile media lab to collect stories throughout the city at community events, schools and businesses. It will also be used to educate students on basic media skills. The bus will contain a portrait studio and audio recording booth. We commissioned mural artists Gera & Werc to paint the exterior, which was completed in 2020. The bus is scheduled to launch in spring, 2021.TEM continued to do interactive public presentations of Bring It to The Table, a film, web series and online platform aimed at breaking down hyper-partisanship. The Ten Table format was adopted by institutions like the Washington Township Public Library, which utilized our DIY tools to host its own events. TEM did live presentations at the Univ of West Florida and the Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, MI.In October, 2020 TEM premiered a film, The Sacrifice Zone, on NJTV in partnership with the Montclair Film Festival. The film was followed by a panel discussion featuring Producer/Director Julie Winokur, NJ Senator Troy Singleton, and Maria Lopez-Nuez, Deputy Director of Organizing and Advocacy for the Ironbound Community Corporation. The film has since screened extensively for educators and organizers throughout the NY/NJ region to help empower local communities that suffer a disproportionate pollution burden. The film appeared at the United Nations Association Film Festival, the Princeton Environmental Film Festival and Cinematters: NY Social Justice Film Festival. TEM secured media coverage in The New Yorker and on NPR as well.TEM covered the 2020 election from Norcross, Georgia, where TEM filmed diverse community members grappling with a contentious political climate. This film is slated for publication by Time Magazine in January 2021.TEM produced The Enigma Room, a video installation that premiered at Photoville in September 2019, and appeared at the BredaPhoto Festival in the Netherlands in 2020.TEM was commissioned by Princeton University to produce a film recognizing 50 years of groundbreaking environmental research. TEM continued production on Sheila & Joe, a short film about a former New York Times correspondent who met and married an incarcerated man. The story is told through their extensive correspondence.Web TEMs projects are all available via the web. Our project Newest Americans had over 35,000 page views and our films were seen extensively through The New York Times, National Geographic, Now This and The Nation online. Short films produced for nonprofits and foundations are also available online through their websites as well as our website.Education The TEM team taught multi-media skills to students who participated in Stories From the Pandemic. TEM also mentored several interns during the course of the year. Bring It to The Table hosted live interactive events at several campuses and the film streamed at many more universities.Exhibition and Screenings TEM films screened at film festivals and college campus across the country. Most of the screenings of The Sacrifice Zone have been available to the general public and all have been streamed online.

Permissions Permissions or licensing fees grant the right to republish photos, video and text from TEM projects. As a result, in 2020 TEM licensed our film on Norcross, Georgia to Time Magazine for $10,000. Our other films including, The Sacrifice Zone, Bring It to The Table and Aging in America, earned over $10,000 in licensing fees from various organizations.

Honoraria Talking Eyes staff and contributors received over $10,000 in honorarium fees to present Talking Eyes projects to diverse audiences. Over the past year, our Executive Director, Julie Winokur, presented Bring It to The Table at several college campuses and The Sacrifice Zone, which is followed by robust post-screening discussion.

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