Artful Documentaries and Short Films Services

The vendor is required to provide for the creation of a new short documentary film examining the multifaceted experience of immigrating to state.
- This accessible, engaging and bilingual film will be shown daily to museum visitors as part of their visit to this national museum and national historic site.
- Our content onsite, online, and in our podcast, immerses visitors in the immigration experience, allowing for a deeper understanding of how newcomers continue to shape our country.
- We invite prospective filmmakers to propose creative and engaging approaches for elevating the film’s content and delivering a thoughtful, entertaining and inspiring experience.
- Utilizes first person voice and provides a representative balance of English and French first person voices.
- The filmmaker will create a unique, 20-minute film
- Includes interviews that demonstrate diversity in voices and experiences relating to the state immigration experience (age, gender, country of origin, date of migration, reason for migration, and place of residence in state) that immigrants had, and continue to have, a range of positive and negative experiences. The filmmaker is responsible for new interviews.
- The filmmaker will also have access to the museum’s oral history and memoir collections should these support the treatment.
- Include master copy of film by digital download and by external USB device. Include dubbed all English version with described video and dubbed all French version with described video for audience members with no or low vision.
- Translation for captioning and described video.