2006 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ March 14, 2005 deadline ]

Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature | Local Arts Agencies
Media Arts | Museum | Music | Musical Theater | Opera | Presenting
Theater | Visual Arts

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Media Arts

African Film Festival, Inc.
New York, NY
$19,000
To support the 13th New York African Film Festival and the 10th edition of the African Film Festival Traveling Series, which will tour 13 American cities. The program will present films directed by African women, with a separate focus on Lusophone, or Portuguese-speaking, Africa.

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$18,000
To support the 44th Ann Arbor Film Festival. After the screening of more than 125 films in Ann Arbor, the festival will tour to venues nationwide including Portland, Oregon; Bar Harbor, Maine; and Montgomery, Alabama.

Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$13,500
To support the preservation of 27 films by the animator Robert Breer, originally deposited at Anthology Film Archives more than twenty years ago. A multi-day conference and screening of Breer's work will take place once restoration work is complete.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Gene Siskel Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$21,000
To support Celebrating American Diversity in Cinema. This curated film series will present premieres of contemporary American independent and foreign films to an estimated audience of 32,000 people.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Video Data Bank)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support the transfer of works in its videotape collection from analog to digital Betacam format. The transfer will facilitate distribution on DVD and allow the titles to be viewed through video streaming on the Web.

Arts Engine, Inc. (on behalf of MediaRights)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the sixth annual Media That Matters Film Festival. The touring program features short film and video artworks produced by independent and young filmmakers from across the United States.

Asian CineVision, Inc.
New York, NY
$13,000
To support the 29th Asian American International Film Festival. The festival of approximately 125 U.S. and international films and videos will travel to 10 sites nationwide, including campuses and cultural institutions in Hawaii, Michigan, and Nevada.

Asian Media Access, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the 11th Annual Chinese Film Showcase. Generation Gap in Chinese Cinema: The New vs. Old; the Emerging vs. Established will feature screenings of 20-25 films from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan as well as panel discussions and an educational program booklet.

Aurora Picture Show
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support a curated film and video series. Media Archeology: Software Cinema will feature live film and video performance with artists who employ digital technologies and an accompanying symposium and program book.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$23,000
To support the presentation of a curated film and video series. More than 55 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 20,000 people.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To support ongoing, low-cost audio and video preservation services to artists and arts organizations nationwide. Approximately 600 hours of work will be preserved, benefitting 10 artists and 15-20 organizations.

California Film Institute
Mill Valley, CA
$10,000
To support the 29th Mill Valley Film Festival. More than 150 films, from the United States and abroad, will be presented to an estimated audience of 40,000 people. Youth programs include screenings at local high schools, a Young Critics jury, and a Children's Filmfest section.

Center for Asian American Media
San Francisco, CA
$19,000
To support the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and other exhibition activities. The film festival will showcase more than 120 works by new Asian Pacific American film and video makers. Educational and outreach activities include weekday school programs co-presented with the San Francisco Unified School District, seminars, roundtable discussions, panels, community screenings, and the publication of a catalogue.

Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$14,000
To support the Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the 18th Onion City Film Festival. The Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series emphasizes documentary and experimental films and videos; the Onion City Film Festival is dedicated to exhibiting experimental work.

Chicago International Film Festival -- Cinema Chicago
Chicago, IL
$19,000
To support the 42nd Chicago International Film Festival. More than 60,000 people will see 140 films from around the world. Outreach activities include workshops, panel discussions, screenings and workshops for the deaf and the hard-of-hearing, screenings for high school students and teachers, and daytime presentations for seniors.

Cinema St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the presentation of American independent, documentary, and foreign films at the 15th St. Louis International Film Festival. Approximately 200 short and feature-length films will be presented to an audience of 21,000 people, with accompanying workshops and panel discussions.

Cleveland International Film Festival, Inc./ Cleveland Film Society
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
To support the 30th Cleveland International Film Festival. The festival presents current work from around the world along with educational programs to increase audience understanding of, and appreciation for, the art form.

Denver Film Society
Denver, CO
$15,000
To support the 29th Denver International Film Festival. Festival programming includes the screening of contemporary, classic, and experimental films, tributes to significant film artists, a salute to a national cinema, a junior film critics program, educational screenings for local students, the screening of classic and experimental films, seminars, and workshops.

Doc Arts, Inc. (aka Full Frame Documentary Film Festival)
Durham, NC
$19,000
To support the 9th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The event will showcase 100 films by emerging, established, and international documentarians, with accompanying panel discussions and symposia.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Through an online catalogue, the work of more than 185 artists will be made available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums, and other organizations.

Enzian Theater, Inc. (Enzian Theater)
Maitland, FL
$10,000
To support the Florida Film Festival. Held in the spring, the event includes more than 120 films presented to an audience of 23,000.

Facets Multi-Media, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$65,000
To support the 23rd Chicago International Childrens' Film Festival and related media arts programs for children. Activities will include animation workshops, a media arts camp, media literacy courses, curriculum development, and special exhibitions of films for children and their families throughout the year.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Madcat Women's International Film Festival)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the 10th MadCat Women's International Film Festival and national tour. Approximately 80 films will be presented in cities including Baltimore, Maryland; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and DeLand, Florida.

Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY
$41,000
To support a curated film series. Reflections of Time and Memory in the Cinema will include a retrospective of Krzysztof Kieslowski, a survey of Ukrainian Cinema, and films dealing with the Holocaust.

George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$42,500
To support the preservation of endangered films. Titles include William Wellman's Beggars of Life (1928), Cecil B. DeMille's For Better or Worse (1919), John Collins's The Girl Without a Soul (1917), Harry Houdini's Haldane of the Secret Service (1923), and Albert Parker's The Rejected Woman (1924).

Independent Feature Project/West (IFP/Los Angeles)
Beverly Hills, CA
$15,000
To support the 12th Los Angeles Film Festival. More than 175 films including dramatic features, documentaries, and short films will be presented to an anticipated audience of 45,000 people.

Independent Films (aka Aspen Filmfest)
Aspen, CO
$15,000
To support the Aspen Shortsfest film festival. Short, live action, animation, and documentary films from the United States and abroad will be showcased.

Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc., Inc. (aka IMAGE)
Atlanta, GA
$12,000
To support the 30th Atlanta Film Festival. The festival presents the best of current independent film and video to an audience of 28,000 people. Educational activities include audience discussions, panels, and seminars.

Independent Media Arts Preservation (aka IMAP)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support a pilot research study to locate and document obsolete video playback equipment, originally used for the creation and presentation of early video and media art work. Independent Media Arts Preservation is a clearinghouse for preservation practices, assisting organizations and individuals in the stewardship of media collections.

Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the 12th San Diego Latino Film Festival. The festival presents more than 100 films from Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Colombia, with accompanying question-and-answer sessions, panel discussions, and workshops for high school students.

MediaRites
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support the distribution of a public radio documentary titled Crossing East. The eight-hour project on Asian American history will focus on the many waves of Asian immigration into the United States. Additional project activities will include community events in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Honolulu and a program Web site.

Millennium Film Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the exhibition of experimental film and video art. Exhibitions will feature avant-garde cinema and video from the United States and abroad, as well as program notes and discussions with participating artists.

Moon and Stars Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the eighth annual Turkish Film Festival. The touring festival will present a selection of feature-length, documentary, and short films from leading and emerging Turkish directors.

Moving Image, Inc. (aka Film Forum)
New York, NY
$70,000
To support the theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign films. Film Forum is devoted to bringing a broad array of the highest quality new work by young and emerging artists, as well as by more established figures, to a large and diverse general public.

Museum of Modern Art (aka MoMA)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the preservation of endangered films from the museum's nationally recognized collection. Five films by William S. Hart, Tom Mix, and Frank Borzage will undergo preservation work. Once preserved, the films will be made available to the public via MoMA's circulating film library.

Nashville Independent Film Festival
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the 37th Nashville Film Festival. The event features student films and videos, documentaries, narrative films, and experimental work. Additional activities include workshops and seminars on screenwriting, film scores, and distribution.

National Black Programming Consortium (aka NBPC)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 27th Prized Pieces Film/Video Festival. Held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the event showcases films by independent African-American producers, with accompanying panels, workshops, and artist discussions.

National Center for Jewish Film
Waltham, MA
$20,000
To support the preservation of Sidney Golden's His Wife's Lover (1931). The Center recently acquired the sole extant 35mm nitrate print of the film, billed as "the first Jewish musical comedy talking picture."

National Film Preserve, Ltd.
Portsmouth, NH
$20,000
To support the 33rd Telluride Film Festival. Approximately 40 programs of feature-length and short films will be screened to an estimated audience of more than 6,000 people. Educational activities include the Student Symposium for high school students, the City Lights Project for college students, and daily discussions with directors, actors, and critics offered free-of-charge to the public.

New Community Cinema Club, Inc. (aka Cinema Arts Centre)
Huntington, NY
$10,000
To support three curated film and video series. The Long Island African American Film Festival, Cinema Tropical, and Asian CineVision will feature films from the United States and abroad, with accompanying guest artist ectures and panel discussions.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (Consortium)
Staten Island, NY
$10,000
A consortium project to support the archiving of work from the radio series New American Radio. With the World Music Archive at Wesleyan University, New Radio and Performing Arts will choose 65 pieces to be housed at the Archive.

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support Deep Focus, a curated film exhibition series. The project will present more than 70 films including director retrospectives and thematic programming in the Northwest Film Forum's two theaters.

Ohio University Main Campus (on behalf of Athens Center for Film and Video)
Athens, OH
$10,000
To support the 33rd Athens International Film and Video Festival. The event features narrative work, documentaries, and short films produced in the United States and abroad.

Palm Springs International Film Festival
Palm Springs, CA
$17,000
To support the 17th Palm Springs International Film Festival. Held in January, the event presents more than 200 films to an audience of approximately 100,000 people, with accompanying question-and-answer sessions led by industry professionals.

Providence Festival for New Latin American Cinema
Providence, RI
$10,000
To support the 14th Providence Latin American Film Festival. Approximately 30 films will be presented to an estimated audience of 4,500 people. Educational activities include workshops, question-and-answer sessions, and a festival catalogue.

San Diego Asian Film Foundation
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the seventh San Diego Asian Film Festival. Held in the fall, the week-long event features short films, animated work, documentaries, and narrative feature films, with accompanying workshops and panel discussions.

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$14,000
To support a curated film and video series. Personal Filmmaking Around the Rim will feature experimental and personal work by media artists from the west coast of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as from Asian countries of the Pacific Rim.

San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
$19,000
To support the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival. The festival presents more than 200 films from 50 countries. In addition, students from Bay Area schools attend matinee screenings and discuss the films with the directors.

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the 26th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and related activities. The festival, devoted to films on Jewish subjects, premieres films and videos by independent producers from around the world.

Silent Film Festival (aka San Francisco Silent Film Festival)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the 11th San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Newly composed live music will accompany the films presented at the festival's nine programs.

Southern California Asian American Studies Central (aka Visual Communications)
Los Angeles, CA
$19,000
To support the 22nd Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival and other exhibition activities. The eight-day festival is Southern California's showcase of independent Asian International and Asian Pacific American film and video work. Educational and outreach activities include panels, workshops, community screenings, and the VC Digital Slam 2006, an exhibition of 30-second spots commissioned by Visual Communications.

Southwestern Alternate Media Projects, Inc.
Houston, TX
$27,000
To support the production and distribution of The Territory. As the longest running showcase of media art in the United States, the public television series has presented independent film and video works to more than 12 million viewers per year throughout Texas. In 2006, the project plans to expand to national distribution through the National Educational Telecommunications Association.

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium (aka Black Maria Film and Video Festival)
Jersey City, NJ
$22,000
To support the Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. More than 60 organizations host the festival each year, which draws more than 700 entries nationwide.

Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$14,000
To support the 20th Dallas Video Festival. The event will present more than 200 screenings of work by national and international artists in all genres ranging from documentary to new video art. Educational activities include workshops, installations, hands-on demonstrations, seminars, panel discussions, programs for children, and a comprehensive program book.

Washington, DC International Film Festival (aka Filmfest DC)
Washington, DC
$19,000
To support Filmfest DC. The event includes free films for children, senior citizens, and underserved communities at venues including public libraries and hospitals.

Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Women Make Movies Distribution Service. Its collection of more than 500 titles includes documentary, narrative, experimental, animation, and mixed-genre work created by artists worldwide, including Lourdes Portillo, Jane Campion, and Trinh Minh-ha.

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