2022-05-16T13:15:19-07:00 2021-12-31 272133606 MAUREEN A LEIDL CPA 223 LORRAINE AVE MONTCLAIR NJ 07043 990 2021-01-01 680516923 TALKING EYES MEDIA INC TALK 9737469096 110 Montclair Avenue Montclair NJ 07042 Julie Winokur Executive Director 2022-05-12 true Julie Winokur 999009999 Maureen A Leidl CPA P00847064 9737832000 X 2 AAL1 IAL1 FAL1 2021 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z 110 Montclair Avenue Montclair NJ 070424131 492496 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. 4 3 4 0 28300 176410 348592 315990 44 37 167 59 377103 492496 658 55 0 235769 239060 0 16493 160236 188973 396663 428088 -19560 64408 445920 484916 27927 2515 417993 482401 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 390035 274571 Production Services In 2020, TEMs project Newest Americans continued production and launched the Newark Story Bus. 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.TEM continues to develop curriculum centered around our media that facilitates middle, high school and college-aged students in exploring American demographics, personal histories and the concept of citizenship. TEM is partnering with the Newark Board of Education to hold a series of professional development workshops to train teachers to deploy our curriculum in classrooms. Due to the pandemic and remote learning, TEM was not able to conduct workshops this year and focused on rewriting our curriculum so it is suitable for middle school students.When the pandemic hit, forcing all instruction to move online, TEM launched Stories From the Pandemic, a web-based youth response to living in quarantine. The curriculum TEM designed for this project is being used by educators around the country. TEM also hosted a Summer Youth Employment program in Newark where students earned a stipend to develop their personal narratives around the pandemic experience.Through Newest Americans, TEM developed a partnership with the Newark Museum of Art, Newark Public Library, NJPAC and Newark Symphony Hall to launch a monthly screening series of TEM media and conversations local thought leaders. This series will launch in January 2022. The concept is to activate and collaborate with the anchor cultural institutions in the city to provide compelling online content.With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Newest Americans launched 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 will also be used to educate students on basic media skills. The bus will contain a portrait studio and audio recording booth. TEM commissioned mural artists Gera & Werc to paint the exterior, which was completed in 2020. The bus visites multiple community events and concerts during spring and summer 2021, gathering over a hundred stories. TEM has curated and edited some of those stories to share through social media and the TEM website. TEM film, Bring It to The Table, continues to be licensed by universities across the country. This film addresses political partisanship and each citizens responsibility in bridging the divide.TEM's film, The Sacrifice Zone, had over 75 screenings in 2021, 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 conversation commissions, grassroots organizers, concerned citizens and educators. TEM received support from the NJ Council for the Humanities, the Dodge Foundation and the Natural Resources Defense Council to help support these screenings. TEM covered the 2020 election from Norcross, Georgia, where TEM filmed diverse community members grappling with a contentious political climate. This film is published by Time Magazine in January 2021.TEM produced The Enigma Room, a video installation that premiered at Photoville in September 2019, appeared at the Breda Photo Festival in the Netherlands in 2020 and the in Currents New Media in Santa Fe in 2021.TEM was commissioned by Princeton University to produce a series of three films about researchers in the High Meadow Environmental Institute. TEM began pre-production on these films in 2021 and do field production during 2022. TEM produced six videos for the James Irvine Leadership Awards featuring nonprofits in California that address foster youth services, formerly incarcerated firefighters, crime reduction, access to health care, and the Sikh community.TEM premiered Sheila & Joe on the NPR website and hosted an in-person screening at the Bronx Documentary Center. This short film about a former New York Times correspondent who met and married an incarcerated man is told through their extensive correspondence. 29983 Permissions Permissions or licensing fees grant the right to republish photos, video and text from TEM projects. As a result, in 2021 TEM licensed our film on Norcross, GA, to Time for $10,000 and our film, Sheila & Joe, to NPR for $500. 8901 Honoraria TEM staff and contributors received over $8,900 in honoraria to present TEM projects to diverse audiences. Over the past year, the Executive Director, Julie Winokur, and the protagonists from the film presented The Sacrifice Zone at over 75 online screenings, which were followed by robust post-screening discussion. 2535 390035 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 17 0 true 4 false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 4 3 true false false false false false false true true false false true true true true false false true false false CA Julie Winokur 9737469096 110 Montclair Avenue Montclair NJ 07042 Julie Winokur Executive Director 40.00 0.00 81154 0 0 Edmond Kashi Board Member 8.00 0.00 X 43700 0 0 Maryanne Greenfield Board Member 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Andrew Ross Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Robert Feinburg Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 124854 0 false false false 0 76935 99475 176410 Honorarium 511190 8901 8901 Licensing fees 511190 29983 29983 Merchandise sales 511190 2535 2535 Production Services 511190 274571 274571 315990 37 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Miscellaneous 59 59 59 492496 316086 X 55 55 0 0 0 81154 64923 8116 8115 0 121452 121452 0 22818 18255 2281 2282 13636 12947 345 344 0 0 4589 4589 0 0 0 84828 80360 500 3968 490 490 1301 1301 1149 1149 0 0 24779 24779 0 0 0 0 4346 4346 3926 3926 Printing and Publications 36794 36794 Subscriptions 4960 4960 Equipment Rental 4851 4851 Small Equipment 4845 4845 12115 6393 4428 1294 428088 390035 21560 16493 55100 125276 381335 344577 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 87846 72783 9485 15063 0 0 0 0 0 445920 484916 817 2515 27110 27927 2515 X 417993 482401 417993 482401 445920 484916 64408 X false false false X 44120 191605 220720 28300 149300 634045 0 0 44120 191605 220720 28300 149300 634045 0 634045 29 44 37 110 0 0 634155 0.99980 0.99980 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 87846 72783 15063 15063 Ed Kashi Photography Board member 43700 Photography services false Schedule L, Part V Supplemental Information Julie Winokur, Executive Director, and Edmond Kashi, Board member, are married. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Streaming Sales Talking Eyes Medias films sell predominantly to educational institutions, libraries, colleges, universities, and the general public. TEM titles include Bring It to The Table, Aging in America, and The Sandwich Generation and Firestorm. TEM films earned nearly $20,000 in streaming license fees from various organizations. For example, in perpetuity licenses for The Sacrifice Zone were acquired by New York University, Rutgers, Columbia, Temple and the University of Virginia, among others. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Web TEMs projects are all available via the web. The TEM project Newest Americans had over 53,000 page views and TEM films were seen extensively through The New York Times, National Geographic, Time, and NPR online. The Sacrifice Zone website had over 25,000 page views. The Short films TEM produce for nonprofits and foundations are also available online through their websites as well as the TEM website. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: Education The TEM team taught multi-media skills to students around the world through online workshops, including a ten-week course hosted by the VII Foundation. TEM also mentored several aspiring filmmakers over the course of the year, as well as several Rutgers student interns for Newest Americans. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 7: 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. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process 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, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available No documents available to the public.