Who is the National Multicultural Alliance?

An alliance of five distinct national organizations, who, with modest support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), bring the authentic stories and diverse perspectives of America’s multicultural communities to public media and its digital platforms.

NEW & UPCOMING NMCA RELEASES

AFROPOP

BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA

AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange is Black Public Media’s annual film series celebrating the contemporary lives and cultures of people throughout the African diaspora. Season 15 of this award-winning series celebrates the arts with five documentary features: Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters; Queen Kidjo; Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts; The Sound of Masks; and Rewind & Play.

pacific heartbeat

pacific islanders in communications

Pacific Heartbeat, the anthology series that provides viewers with a glimpse of the real Pacific – its people, cultures and contemporary issues.  The series features a diverse array of programs that will draw viewers into the heart and soul of Pacific Island culture.  A new season line up will be announced in early 2023.  In the meantime, seasons 8 through 11 are still available to broadcast.

the salmon people

Vision Maker Media

The Salmon People follows the life’s work of Larry Kinley, a Lummi Nation fisherman and tribal leader who worked to protect wild salmon. In these critical times, Larry asks: “Who are we without salmon?” The Salmon People lifts Larry’s legacy and other tribal warriors in their fight to protect salmon and their way of life in an urgent call to return to “The Old Ways.”

SANSÓN AND ME

Latino Public Broadcasting

Director Rodrigo Reyes works as a Spanish Court Interpreter. After befriending a client, a young Latino defendant during a gang-related murder trial named Sansón, Rodrigo and his friend begin collaborating to craft a multi-layered story about how the failures of immigration and opportunity intersect with the criminal justice system.

free chol soo lee

Center for Asian American Media

A journalist ignites a landmark movement to free a wrongly convicted Korean immigrant from prison in1970s San Francisco. Asian Americans, young and old, identify something of themselves in this young convict and rally to his side. But once out, he fails to be the hero many hoped he would be.

DIVERSITY

Promoting diverse content for public media to address the needs of unserved and underserved audiences.

INNOVATION

Funding and distributing quality content and exploring new technology in a vastly changing media landscape.

FUTURE GENERATIONS

Inspiring and supporting the next generation of storytellers.

Latino Public Broadcasting

LPB is public media’s largest Latino-focused content developer and funder providing programming to public television’s nearly 360 stations and media platforms. Supporting the work of Latino filmmakers, LPB has awarded more than 13 million dollars in production funding and provided approximately 248 hours of national programming and digital content to PBS. LPB produces VOCES, the PBS documentary series showcasing the rich diversity of the Latino experience. Some productions include Latino Americans, DOLORES, Raúl Juliá The World’s a Stage, The Longoria Affair, Ruben Salazar Man in the Middle among others.

Black Public Media

Black Public Media (BPM), formerly known as National Black Programming Consortium, develops produces, funds, and distributes media content about the African American and global Black experience. We accomplish this by supporting diverse voices through training, education, and investment in visionary content makers. BPM supported work includes award-winning programs such as The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords (Stanley Nelson), I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck), Maya Angelou: Still I Rise (Rita Coburn-Whack), and Shirley Chisholm: Unbought & Unbossed (Shola Lynch).

Vision Maker Media

Vision Maker Media is the premier source of public media by and about Native Americans for over 46 years. Our mission is empowering and engaging Native people to share stories. We envision a world changed and healed by understanding Native stories and the public conversations they generate. We work with VMM funded producers to develop, produce and distribute programs for all public media. VMM supports training to increase the number of American Indians and Alaska Natives producing public broadcasting programs.

Pacific Islanders in Communications

PIC’s mission is to support, advance, and develop Pacific Island media content and talent that results in a deeper understanding of Pacific Island history, culture, and contemporary challenges. In keeping with the mission, PIC helps Pacific Islander stories reach national audiences through funding support for productions, talent development, broadcast services, and community engagement. This year PIC will have one film in the award-winning series Independent Lens; Eating Up Easter. PIC’s Emmy award winning, six-part series Family Ingredients is gearing up for its third season on PBS and their signature series Pacific Heartbeat, which reached over 24 million households last year, will begin its ninth season in April.

Center for Asian American Media

CAAM’s mission is to present stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible. We do this by funding, producing, distributing and exhibiting works in film, television and digital media. CAAM’s award-winning public TV programs are seen by millions of viewers a year across the US. Recent films supported by CAAM include, The Chinese Exclusion Act, by Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu, and Norman Mineta and His Legacy: An American Story, by Dianne Fukami, as well as the forthcoming Asian Americans, co-produced with WETA. CAAM also presents CAAMFest, the world’s largest film festival for Asian and Asian American film.