April 2010
Arizona LGBT Storytelling Project's trans workshop held at Wingspan. Jamie A. Lee, Project Director, will lead the group discussion to formulate oral history questions that are relevant to trans lives. Next Lee, along with Angela Soto and Brooke Willock will assist in digital video camera training and the interviewing of one another. All oral histories will be included in the streaming digital oral history archive, Tucson, Arizona. Funding for the workshop provided by the Institute for LGBT Studies through a grant from the Commission on the Status of Women at the University of Arizona.

February 2010
Jamie A. Lee was nominated for the 2010 Governor's Arts Award in the Artist Category. Seventy-eight nominees in five categories and twenty in the Artist Category. Awards ceremony to take place on April 19, 2010 at the Orpheum Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona. Read more about the Governor's Arts Awards here.

January 2010
Esmeralda del Desierto SNEAK PEEK at the Loft Cinema followed by panel discussion with Oscar Jímenez (writer/director/producer), Jamie A. Lee (producer/editor), Daniela Olea (actor), Alison Davison (Southern Arizona Gender Alliance), Isabel Garcia (immigration rights attorney), and moderated by Adela C. Licona, Ph.D., Tucson, Arizona.

January 2010
"Frames of Change: A Focus on Blurred Boundaries." Presentation by collaborators, Jamie A. Lee and Adela C. Licona, Ph.D. as part of the University of Arizona School of Art and the Visiting Artists and Scholar Series, Transculturations: Cultural Hybridity in American Art, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona.

November 2009
Jamie A. Lee is accepted into the School of Information Resources and Library Science Graduate Program at the University of Arizona. Lee will begin working towards her MA and learning more about Archives and Special Collections.

October 2009
Arizona LGBT Storytelling Project: Community Histories, Arizona's first and only recognized lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender archive, is launched. Highlights of the digital oral histories were screened for the community and academic audience. Jamie A. Lee, Founder and Project Director, shared her vision for the growing and breathing oral history archive, which is currently streaming on iTunes University through the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. SEE CLIPS HERE.

April 2009
“The Stories We Tell:  Re-visioning and Re-presenting Our Stories.”  Jamie A. Lee gave the keynote address at the New Directions in Critical Theory / University as Community.  University in Community Conference, Tucson, Arizona.

January 2009
Jamie A. Lee was awarded the 2009 Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Project Grant to assist in post-production costs of her collaborative film project aguamiel: secrets of the agave.

November 2008
Jamie A. Lee and Adela C. Licona traveled to San Diego, CA to present their work on aguamiel: secrets of the agave at the 2008 National Communications Association Conference in a session titled: Filmmaking, Organizing, and Rhetorical Criticism on/of the Borderlands: Transgressing the Borders between Feminist Academics, Art, and Activism.

July 2008
Jamie A. Lee and Adela C. Licona traveled to Madrid, Spain to present their work on aguamiel: secrets of the agave at the 2008 Women's Worlds Congress (Mundos des Mujeres) in a session titled: Exploring Social Justice Media, Community & Transnational Activism, and Action Research. Laura Rendon, Ph.D., one of our project advisors also attended to discuss her work in community.

July 2008
Green Green Water screened in Zaragosa, Spain as part of the International Water Conference held their annually.

March 2008
Jamie A. Lee received a TPAC (Tucson Pima Arts Council) grant for her and Adela Licona, co-director, to travel to El Paso, TX and Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico to finish the principal photography on aguamiel: secrets of the agave. While there, Miguel Mario Licona, assistant director, arranged a donated airplane ride in order to film aerial footage of the Rio Grande and the border water channelization project. It was quite an experience!

February 2008
Jamie A. Lee screened Green Green Water in Tucson, AZ at the Loft Cinema as part of the IFP/PHX (Independent Feature Project/Phoenix) Cinema Lounge.

November 2007
Jamie A. Lee screened Green Green Water in Phoenix, AZ as part of the IFP/PHX (Independent Feature Project/Phoenix) Cinema Lounge.

June 2007
visionaries filmworks relocated to sunny Tucson, Arizona!

February 2007
visionaries filmworks is in the news! (http://www.visionariesfilmworks.com/MetroMag_vf.pdf)

January 2007
visionaries filmworks selects Link Associates from Des Moines, Iowa as the recipient of the 2007 visionaries story grant.

“We are extremely happy with the final video project and are very anxious to share it with everyone, to promote and improve our programs for the consumers we serve…Thank you for this wonderful opportunity and for all that you do with organizations such as ours to improve the quality of programs offered.”  - Cristy Jennings, Assistant Outreach Director, Link Associates

Monday, October 23, 2006
visionaries filmworks is proud to announce its inaugural visionaries grant opportunity.
$5,000 in video production services will be donated to a community organization to further our shared mission of re-visioning, re-imagining, & re-awakening the world to a just, equitable, and sustainable future.