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MIT & Black Public Media 2021-2022 Fellowship Program for African Students

Applications are invited for the MIT & Black Public Media Fellowship 2021. The Fellowship is designed to support a Black filmmaker, artist, journalist, or creative technologist, who uses emerging technology to make nonfiction experiences.

The mission of the Fellowship is to encourage and develop the emerging-tech storytelling skills of a Black maker and connect the Fellow to MIT Open Documentary Lab’s network of storytellers, scholars, and technologists.


BPM Fellowship Program

Application DeadlineAugust 8, 2021
Funding TypeFully Funded
TypeFellowship
SponsorBlack Public Media(BPM)
GenderMen and Women

Benefits of BPM Fellowship Program

  • A $7,500 honorarium after the first 30 days of the fellowship. This payment is dependent on completion of all MIT and Black Public Media contracts and agreements. Payments may be made to individuals only, not to their companies.
  • Access to MIT’s community of artists, scholars, and technologists.
  • Access to Black Public Media’s community of Black filmmakers and creative technologists.
  • Ability to audit one (1) MIT course [requires permission of the instructor]. If a Fellow wants to audit an MIT class, they should choose the course as soon as they are selected, because classes begin on the September 8.
  • Access to MIT’s library system and other online resources.
  • Receive a potential showcase of the maker and/or the maker’s project at a Black Public Media event. If the prototype or finished production were an augmented reality app, a VR experience, or an AI app, for example, BPM could help drive traffic to the maker’s project or help recommend exhibition opportunities. Black Public Media has screened AR/VR experiences for more than 650 people since 2018. Introducing the world of spatial computing and other emerging storytelling technologies to Black creatives is a major focus of the BPMplus Program.

Requirements for BPM Fellowship Program

  • Applicants may not be enrolled as part-time or full-time students while completing the Fellowship from September 2021 to May 2022.
  • Applicants must be 18 or over.

Application Deadline

August 8, 2021

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to Black Public Media(BPM) on submissions.blackpublicmedia.org to apply

For more details,visit BPM website


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