Fire at Berkeley's East Bay Media Center erased decades of film history

Fire at Berkeley's East Bay Media Center erased decades of film history

Since the mid-1980s, the East Bay Media Center has supported filmmakers with gear, training and a screening room. The archive of the Berkeley Video & Film Festival is among what's been lost.

What Filmmakers Should Know About Privacy and Copyright From BAVC Media’s Upcoming Landmark Study on Magnetic Media

Access to archival media is often the result of the invisible work of teams of archivists and technicians who preserve content on fragile media and provide it to the public. Accessing archival media can be a financial challenge for documentary filmmakers because preservation of media is as time consuming and expensive (sometimes more) as shooting new footage. Logistically, making this material available is time consuming, expensive, and requires…

East Bay Media Center destroyed in Downtown Berkeley fire

A 911 call was made at approximately 3 a.m., reporting a couch that was on fire outside of the EBMC on Addison Street, as reported by The Berkeley Scanner. However, a postfire report released by the BFD stated that they…