Pan Left Productions
Template:TOCnestleft Pan Left Productions is a Tucson Arizona based "progressive" video production company.
Beginnings
Communist Party USA affiliate Jeff Imig co-founded Pan Left Productions with Lisa Wise in 1994 when they were still in film school. Since then, Imig co-directed and co-produced Elephants and Grass, Solidarity is Stronger than Granite and Unity Crosses Borders/Unidos Cruzaremos las Fronteras. He also produced I Was a Teenage Prostitute and Border Crossings. His last project was Immokalee about the struggle for human rights in the tomato picking fields of South Florida.
Jeff Imig continues to serve on Pan Left's board in 2010.[1]
"Making a Video Revolution"
Started in 1994 by Lisa Wise and Jeff Imig, Pan Left Productions was born out of the desire to help local activists and artists make video work for little or no money. Pan Left Productions has slowly but steadily grown into a non-profit production company, with an "active membership that is consistently producing articulate, artistic, and thought-provoking work". [2]
- We are a membership-driven collective of progressive artists. Our mission is threefold: to create and distribute videos —nonfiction, documentary, narrative & experimental— that educate and expose viewers to social, political and cultural issues; to promote do-it-yourself media and creative expression through video and other media arts; to provide an outlet for creative, artistic expression and dialogue.
- As a part of our mission, Pan Left puts the tools of production into the hands of people who are not equally represented in the mainstream media, provides production services to allied, progressive non-profits, and hosts neighborhood and community events that showcase works by independent artists.
Personnel
Directors as of 2010;[3]
- Angela Soto
- Austin Mills
- Brandon Marshall
- D. Ontiveros
- Dale Roose
- David Arv Bragi
- Francesca Meza
- Frank Barrera
- Germar D. Townsend
- Heather Lares
- Jamie A. Lee
- Jason Aragón
- Jean Jessup
- Jeff Imig
- Jody Yazzie
- Max Barnhart
- M. C. Thurtle
- Michelle Davis
- Myra Lesser
- Noel Hennessey
- Oscar Jimenez
- R. Shane-Armstrong
- Ria Tsinas
- Sal Baldanegro
- Sonya Diehn
- Steev Hise
- Yuri Makino
Funding
Pan Left Productions is funded by the Arizona Commission for the Arts and private donors.[4]