This #GivingTuesday, Give the Gift of Community Access!

Save the date for #GivingTuesday! This #GivingTuesday, we ask that you consider helping us in our efforts to continue to provide people with the media tools and resources to share their stories. Your support helps us host media education programs, like our Youth Voices program and Media Literacy series. Media education is important now more than ever. Did… Read More

Holiday Gift Guide

Not sure what to get that creative someone this holiday season? Whether they host a podcast, a TV show or they’re in the middle of producing a feature film, media creators need more than just their camera and a microphone to get the job done. We wanted to put together a little gift guide to help ease the… Read More

Save The Date! Member Appreciation Holiday Party

Save the date for our Member Appreciation Holiday Party! This annual celebration is an opportunity to celebrate our amazing CMAC members and recognize all the hard work they put in over the last year. In an effort to avoid scheduling conflicts outside our control, we have decided to move the date of our celebration to Saturday, December … Read More

Celebrating Native American Heritage Month

In honor of National Native American Heritage Month, we want to highlight stories from our fellow Native community! See below for the variety of programs, discussions, and documentaries in honor of this month: Sharing Cultures: Big Read Documentary Screening – Short student documentary films – part of the Big Read program at Fresno City College celebrating the first … Read More

New CMAC Board Members & Year Highlights

Thank you to all the members who voted in our 2021 Board of Directors Election. Thanks also to our member nominees who ran for election – we very much appreciate your willingness to serve and help strengthen our organization! The winners of the election were Diane Flowers and Alisia Sanchez. Congratulations! We would also like to welcome… Read More

Swede Fest – Call for Entries!

Swede Fest is a film festival for “sweded films” – short, homemade re-creations of your favorite Hollywood movies, and we want you to participate! It’s easy to create your own sweded film. Just pick your favorite movie and remake it in a fun, creative, low-budget fashion using your friends or family, and whatever you have laying around the… Read More

Reserve Equipment and Facilities

We are excited to announce the return of some of our facility reservations for limited hours on Tuesdays and Saturdays. In addition to equipment checkouts, members will now be able to reserve the CMAC studio, edit bays, podcast studio, and WhisperRoom sound booth! For now, we are operating by reservation only.

Send us your videos!

If you’re a media creator, vlogger, filmmaker, send us your work! Our mission is to help members of our community share their stories, and one way we do that is through sharing local content created by and for people just like you. Connect with your local community and grow your audience by submitting your videos for playback on… Read More

Video Tutorials for Producing at Home

Since we can’t host workshops at CMAC during the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re bringing the training home to you! New tutorials are being released frequently. Please check back here or subscribe to our YouTube channel to see the latest videos. Pre-Production Pre-production is every step required to get your project up and running. It’s pulling an idea together, writing… Read More