Miss. Delta Culture to Be Documented

Posted November 5, 2007


JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Filmmakers and producers plan to document Mississippi Delta culture later this month.

Jacquie Jones, the executive director of the National Black Programming Consortium, said 28 "media makers" from around the nation and West Africa will be in Jackson Nov. 11-16 for the 2007 New Media Institute.

They will produce projects "in several different areas and document the stories of African American culture and life in Mississippi," she said.

NBPC is one of five ethnic consortiums funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and has provided content to public television since 1979.

"We inaugurated this project last year with WGBH Boston and what we did was convene leaders with public media and technology," Jones said.

The institute's Web site says it trains new and seasoned filmmakers who want to create innovative projects using the latest in digital technology.

A kickoff party scheduled Nov. 11 at Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center will be participants' first in-person meeting. The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, the Mississippi Film Office and the Crossroads Film Society are hosting the party.

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