About the project
In partnership with The City of Malden and Filmbuilding, Urban Media Arts (UMA) is launching a creative placemaking project in 2022/23 called Filmbuilding Malden: Our City in Motion — a series of filmmaking projects and screening events aimed at city wide community-building and the enhancement of economic opportunities in specificallytargeted neighborhoods around the City of Malden, Massachusetts.
Engage
Interested in learning about an exciting creative placemaking project in 2022/23 called Filmbuilding Malden: Our City in Motion – a series of filmmaking projects and screening events aimed at citywide community-building and the enhancement of economic opportunities in the City of Malden, MA.?
We invite prospective sponsors, advisors and participants to get involved. We invite you to complete an interest form.
Approach
Using discovery based filmbuilding as an innovative approach to visual storytelling, a diverse cross-section of community members co-create short films which explore timely themes that stir the agency to imagine and create what an equitable and thriving Malden might look like.
Screenings reimagine the filmgoing experience by engaging audiences in dialogue and participatory programming while activating public spaces and local businesses.
The project will culminate in a final event in which all completed films will be screened as one, and memorialized through site-specific programs aimed at enhancing opportunities for cross-cultural and cross-sector exchange as well as overall commercial development.
Timeline
Interest Form
Advisory Forums Session Topics
- Programming: TBD (deciding film themes; project parameters based on goals; scheduling, etc… good to start with this one since it will be engaging)
- Marketing & Publicity: TBD (how to market; project publicity; creating FM brand; social media strategy)
- Fundraising: TBD ((sponsorships; crowdfunding)
- Community Events: TBD (where to hold; how to curate; additional programs)
- Final event: TBD (how to curate; additional programs; allocation of funds)
- Final report: TBD (how to organize it; contents)
Sponsors
City of Malden
is a hilly Gateway City north of the Mystic River and accessible to Boston. It is known for its diverse population and recent development in the downtown.
Urban Media Arts
an interconnected hub of creativity, dialog and evolving community, both virtually and through local physical spaces.
Filmbuilding
An educational community and media offering that curates discovery-based filmmaking experiences to build bridges of change.
Essential Partners
Founded in 1989, Essential Partners equips people to live and work better together in community by building trust and understanding across differences.