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Bedford TV (formerly known as BCAT) is a membership based, non-profit community access television station serving the town of Bedford. Our studio is centrally located at Old Town Hall on South Road. The Bedford TV mission is to make media available, reflective and responsive to the needs of our community.

The Southern Oregon Film Society celebrates the diversity of human experience through the art of independent film - enriching, educating and inspiring audiences of all ages.Located in rural S. Oregon, the society's signature Ashland Independent Film Festival a 5-day spring festival of 100+ films (shorts, features, animations) & live art & music events gives audiences access to diverse under represented voices amplified by independent film. The organization holds a smaller program of international films annually in October, manages school programs, and hosts film and media events, lectures & classes year round in its Main Street Film Center. Regularly named as one of the best film festivals of its kinds (Movie Maker, Smithsonian magazines), AIFF started online film streaming in 2020.

Our mission at WCOM is to educate, inspire, and entertain the diverse populations of Carrboro, Chapel Hill and nearby areas. We cultivate local music and facilitate the exchange of cultural and intellectual ideas, with particular regard for those who are overlooked or under-represented by other media outlets. We provide a space for media access and education by providing equipment and training to our community.

To research, write, create, produce, distribute and make available to the public, educational films on subjects of alternate lifestyles and minority issues and cultural history. To distribute educational motion pictures of women's and gay-created media and distribute such works to public television and other general and special audience outlets. To provide education and counsel to other filmmakers in the development, production and distribution of educational film, video and other media whose products are consistent with the purposes of the corporation.

We excellently produce and employ faith-based performing and media arts, and written works to engage, entertain, enlighten, encourage and edify individuals and families to make them stronger inside and out.

Tupelo Press, Inc., which released its first five books in fall 2001, is an independent, literary press devoted to discovering and publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers. Tupelo Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit company.

Our mission is to connect the rich literary traditions and resources of Greater Boston, building relationships among its artists and authors, by empowering, enabling, and amplifying the voices of unheard and underserved populations through free collaborative workshops, public readings, literary journals, video publications, and public exhibits that showcase their work and encourage personal reflection and re-vision, by both author and audience, while sharing their stories with the world. Our workshops are intended to expand access to literary arts for everyone, including those marginalized, stigmatized, or isolated by the challenges of addiction recovery, disability, trauma, sickness, injury, poverty, and mental illness.

Kartemquin Films is a home for independent filmmakers developing documentary as a vehicle to deepen our understanding of society through everyday human drama. Focusing on people whose lives are most directly affected by social and political change and who are often overlooked or misrepresented by the media, Kartemquin's films open up a dialogue, both in communities and between the general public and policymakers. Kartemquin documentaries are supported by civic engagement strategies that are developed with local and national partners to foster understanding, change thinking, and build support for social change. As a locally and nationally-recognized media arts organization, Kartemquin acts as a trusted bridge between communities and the media, fosters the growth of emerging filmmaking voices passionate about social issues and media policy, and encourages staff and stakeholders to play a role in advocating for a strong public media.

Filmshop is a non-profit arts organization that supports a tight-knit, diverse community of independent filmmakers in the creation of new work.

The Tishman Review seeks to publish new, emerging and established authors who are reaching beyond the limits of contemporary literature in their crafting of short fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. The Tishman Review is a quarterly journal produced in three different formats: pdf, e-book and print-on-demand. The Tishman Review believes that by giving authors space for their words, the existential function of literature is honored and the journal’s readers’ lives are enhanced.

ART21 is a nonprofit contemporary art organization dedicated to introducing broad public audiences to today’s visual artists—stimulating critical reflection as well as conversation through the production of films, publications, digital resources, and educational programs. ART21 programs inspire creative thinking and educate: a new generation about contemporary art and art making; teachers about how to engage students with the art of their time; the public at large about the life of the creative mind. Over the past decade, ART21 has established itself as the preeminent chronicler of contemporary art and artists through its peabody award-winning, PBS-broadcast television series, ART21 "art in the twenty-first century".

Filmmakers Collaborative's mission is to produce compelling films and campaigns that engage the public to facilitate informed decision-making.