In 1999, BCP began working with Floyd Red Crow Westerman (pictured left), Syd Beane (pictured right middle) and the Southern California Indian Centers, Inc. to create a job training program for American Indians in film and television production. Floyd passed on in the fall of 2007, but his vision is alive and well...

The job training program he initiated has grown into the Native Media and Technology Network, a national initiative dedicated to building media capacity and a job pipeline for American Indians through training and the creation of culturally relevant programming. NMTN has since affiliated with non-profit community centers all over the country and over 300 tribes.

The NMTN tri-chairs are (pictured upper right: left to right) Frank Blythe (Omaha), Syd Beane (Minneapolis) and Lyn Dennis (Pacific Northwest). Shortly before Floyd died, BCP partnered with the leadership of NMTN to form a digital signage company: Earthstream Media promises to be a tipping point for native media. Digital technology now makes it possible to create private media networks on Tribal lands, thereby creating job opportunities while building media capacity and an outlet for creative expression.

BCP and NMTN also helped jump start a media training initiative at Fox Studios. Thanks to visionary leadership by Gerald Alcantar (pictured right), Fox Studios VP of Diversity Development, the program is now one of the industry's success stories. Every June, the Fox Studios American Indian Summer Institute gives native youth hands-on experience in production and post production. In addition, they are introduced to job possibilities in the industry, and, as important, the industry is introduced to native youth from around the country.

View Excerpts from BCP Training Projects:
2002 - Tribal TANF high school workshop
2003 - Fox Studios AISI
2004 - NPR Next Generation workshop
2005 - Fox Studios AISI
2006 - Fox Studios AISI