2025-05-14T10:53:17-07:00 2024-12-31 272133606 MAUREEN A LEIDL CPA 223 LORRAINE AVE MONTCLAIR NJ 07043 990 2024-01-01 680516923 TALKING EYES MEDIA INC TALK 9739013032 110 Montclair Avenue Montclair NJ 07042 Julie Winokur Executive Director 2025-05-14 true true Maureen A Leidl CPA P00847064 9737832000 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z 110 Montclair Avenue Montclair NJ 070424131 282591 false X talkingeyesmedia.org X 2003 NJ Talking Eyes Media (TEM) produces documentary films, photography, books, exhibitions and programming that actively stimulate dialogue and advocate for positive social change. The Organization works to illuminate, educate and inspire people to become more engaged. 6 5 3 0 49615 74229 163881 208346 1723 16 3183 0 218402 282591 75 0 224361 200130 0 10608 119652 178451 344013 378656 -125611 -96065 300554 196759 11176 3446 289378 193313 X Talking Eyes Media (TEM) creates powerful media for pressing issues. The Organization includes visual storytellers who create documentary films, photography, books, exhibitions and public programming that actively stimulate dialogue and advocate for positive social change. Talking Eyes turns a probing eye on situations where people struggle unduly, where resources are poorly distributed, and where theres tremendous opportunity to improve society for future generations. The work is used extensively by educational institutions, nonprofit organizations and foundations to illuminate, educate and inspire people to become more engaged. false false 342887 Production Services In 2024, Talking Eyes Media (TEM) marked its 21st anniversary and TEM continued to share our ongoing projects while pursuing several new initiatives. TEM was also honored to have Executive Director Julie Winokur named one of 76 artists to be awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council for the Arts. This competitive prize acknowledges an outstanding contribution to the arts in New Jersey.Talking Eyes Medias project Newest Americans continues to be a valuable resource for educators and the general public, and TEM continued to deploy the Newark Story Bus to events in the city of Newark. This multi-year digital media project examines immigration and American identity. Developed in partnership with Rutgers University-Newark and VII Photo, Newest Americans produces short films, radio pieces, written essays, exhibitions and public events that explore the lives and communities, trials and aspirations of Americas diverse immigrant population. The project was awarded Best Online Storytelling Project in 2021 by Pictures of the Year International.Through Newest Americans, TEM has developed partnerships with Audible, Newark Museum of Art, Newark Public Library, NJPAC and Newark Symphony Hall to share our media and engage in conversations with local thought leaders. The goal has been to activate and collaborate with the anchor cultural institutions in the city to provide compelling content to a broad audience.With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Newest Americans created the Newark Story Bus. This retrofitted former school bus serves as a mobile media lab to collect stories throughout the city at community events, schools and businesses. It is also used to educate students on basic media skills. In 2023, TEM partnered with Audible to activate the bus at two community events: one geared toward local entrepreneurs and one focused on senior citizens. From these activations, TEM produced short videos that highlighted the participants stories and shared the voices of Newark residents with a larger audience. TEM also activated the bus in partnership with Lives in Translation, a Rutgers-based program that engages students in working as translators.Through TEM's content from the bus, TEM produced a series of short videos featuring Newark residents who have first-hand experience of the Great Migration. This series of six animated shorts was released in early 2024 for Black History Month. The shorts reveal family histories that show how the Great Migration is not part of the distant past, but very present in the neighborhoods, art, music, food and culture of present-day Newark.The TEM film, Bring It to The Table, continues to be licensed by universities across the country through our distribution partner, Kanopy. This film addresses political partisanship and each citizens responsibility in bridging the divide. As a result of this work, the TEM Executive Director, Julie Winokur was invited to give a keynote presentation at the Madeira School in Virginia in 2024.TEMs film, The Sacrifice Zone, had ten screenings during the year, all followed by engaging discussions around environmental justice, structural racism, and waste removal. The film follows a group of activists in Newarks Ironbound neighborhood as they fight for clean air. TEM invites environmental justice activists who appear in the film to engage in post-screening discussions. The screenings have been hosted by grassroots organizers, concerned citizens and educators. This work builds on TEM's over 50 screenings in the past two years, as well as touring the film festival circuit. As of this year, the film has been acquired for the permanent collections of 16 higher education libraries.TEM produced six videos for the James Irvine Leadership Awards in 2024 featuring nonprofits in California that address black maternal health, library services, Native American food sovereignty, and diversity in the film industry.In early 2024, with a grant from Amplifier, TEM traveled to Georgia to ask young voters about the issues they cared about and their perspectives on the upcoming elections. TEM interviewed, filmed and photographed over a dozen participants in a voter engagement boot camp hosted by the Georgia Youth Justice Coalition. TEM developed partnerships with local and national organizations like the ACLU of Georgia and Alliance for Youth Action to identify their strategic needs. We edited our interviews into a series of short videos for social media and offered them to our partners to help mobilize young voters. The videos received thousands of views, were used in college voting toolkits, and circulated through newsletters.TEM returned to Georgia to interview and photograph young conservative voters. This resulted in an online publication in Mother Jones Magazine. The Instagram video for this story spurred a robust online engagement and over 50,000 views.American Sketches is a new long-term project that we are producing that explores the fabric of America in this deeply divided and explosive time in our history. In 2024, TEM returned to Eagle Pass, Texas, and the Mississippi Delta to develop their relationships with local characters while diving deeper into these iconic places. In Eagle Pass, which is located on the Rio Grande, mass migration overshadows a small town where over 95% of the residents have Mexican roots. In the Mississippi Delta, TEM is profiling two farming families, one Black and one White, whose experience of the land and their place in it has been shaped by race.Selected vignettes from American Sketches were published in the 2024 issue of The Raw Society magazine, a publication dedicated to sharing compelling and important photographic stories. The issue features 306 pages filled with photography and in-depth storytelling from around the world. The magazine won 1st place in the Self-Published Book category of the 2024 International Photography awards.Smithsonian magazine published TEM's latest work on heat stress, highlighting the worlds first Chief Heat Officer, Jane Gilbert, and Miami-Dade Countys efforts to support a broad coalition of partners who are working hard to keep the city cool. In Miami, where temperatures run in the 90s for months at a time, the heat season now extends through October. An Extreme Heat Action Plan offers coalition partners guidance for how to inform, prepare and protect residents from rising temperatures. This plan, along with other efforts, TEM reported in Smithsonian Magazine, offer a model for other cities to follow.Last year, TEM helped launch 1 in 6, a collaborative project that brings together photographers from around the world to put a human face on aging. By 2030, 1 in 6 people on the planet will be over 60 years old. To date, this project has engaged 80 professional photographers from 42 countries, and their work has appeared in several international publications to highlight different aspects and cultural approaches to an aging population. The project will generate an archive of tremendous historical significance.For over a decade, TEM has worked with the La Isla Foundation to tell the story of how extreme heat increases kidney disease. Our film PREP for Change was one of seven films selected for the final round entries in the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) Community Film Event. Films selected honored patients, celebrated healthcare providers, and promoted kidney health awareness. Permissions Permissions or licensing fees grant the right to republish photos, video and text from TEM projects. Honoraria Talking Eyes staff and contributors received $5500 in honoraria to present Talking Eyes projects to diverse audiences. Over the past year, our Executive Director, Julie Winokur, and the protagonists from the film presented The Sacrifice Zone at 10 in-person screenings, which were followed by robust post-screening discussion. Julie also presented a keynote address about Bring It to the Table at the Madeira School in Virginia. Streaming Sales Talking Eyes Medias (TEM'S) films sell predominantly to educational institutions, libraries, colleges, universities, and the community based organizations. TEM's titles include The Sacrifice Zone, Bring It to The Table, Aging in America, and The Sandwich Generation. TEM's films earned over $4000 in streaming license fees from various organizations. Web TEMs projects are all available via the web. The TEM project Newest Americans had 45,000 page views in 2024 and TEM films were seen extensively through The New York Times, National Geographic, Time, and NPR online. The Sacrifice Zone website had over 8,000 page views. The Short films TEM produce for nonprofits and foundations are also available online through their websites as well as the TEM website. Education The TEM team taught multi-media skills to students around the world through online workshops. TEM also mentored several aspiring filmmakers over the course of the year, as well as several Rutgers student interns for Newest Americans. Exhibition and Screenings TEM films screened at film festivals, community events, conferences and classrooms across the country, most of which are available to the general public and most of which were streamed online. 342887 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 8 0 true 3 false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 6 5 true false false false false false false true true false false true true true true false false true false false CA NJ Julie Winokur 9739013032 110 Montclair Avenue Montclair NJ 07042 Julie Winokur Executive Director 40.00 0.00 74615 0 0 Edmond Kashi Board Member 8.00 0.00 X X 56002 0 0 Timothy Eatmon Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Maryanne Greenfield Board Member 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Caroline DeVoe Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Robert Feinberg Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 130617 0 false false false 0 74229 74229 Honorarium 511190 5500 5500 Licensing fees 511190 4394 4394 Merchandise sales 511190 202 202 Production Services 511190 198250 198250 208346 16 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Miscellaneous 0 282591 208362 X 75 75 0 0 0 74615 59692 7462 7461 0 97854 97854 0 12768 10214 1277 1277 14893 11915 1489 1489 0 0 6710 6710 0 0 0 114072 114072 0 5960 5960 0 0 0 29968 29968 0 0 0 0 4026 4026 3318 3318 Subscriptions 6611 6611 Telephone 3817 3055 381 381 Miscellaneous 1572 786 786 Postage and Shipping 989 989 1408 312 1096 378656 342887 25161 10608 63115 82010 224641 105435 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 97984 88670 12798 9314 0 0 0 0 0 300554 196759 11176 3446 11176 3446 X 289378 193313 289378 193313 300554 196759 -96065 X false false false X 28300 149300 52111 49616 74229 353556 0 0 28300 149300 52111 49616 74229 353556 0 353556 44 37 34 1723 16 1854 0 0 355410 0.99480 0.99630 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 97984 88670 9314 9314 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Julie Winokur, Executive Director,and Edmond Kashi, Board member, are married. Ed Kashi Photography LLC provides photography services to the Organization. In 2024, the Organization paid Ed Kashi Photography LLC $56,002 for photography services provided on various projects. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Form 990 is reviewed by the Executive Director prior to filing. A copy of the Form 990 is provided to the Board. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 No documents available to the public.