2008 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence
[ March 12, 2007 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
$15,000
To support the 15th New York African Film Festival and the 12th edition of the African Film Festival Traveling Series, which will tour to 13 or more American cities. The program will present current films by African filmmakers and screen classic work from the last 40 years.
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
To support the 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival. More than 100 films will be presented to an audience of approximately 11,000 people in Michigan and the states to which the festival tours.
Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$30,000
To support several curated film series. Anthology Film Archives regularly presents classic and contemporary independent, experimental, international, and art house cinema with more than 900 programs per year.
Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Video Data Bank)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support the Video Data Bank's distribution service and related activities. Video Data Bank currently offers 5,500 titles by 470 artists for distribution.
Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Gene Siskel Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support Showcasing the New Independents at the Gene Siskel Film Center. The curated film series will present premieres of contemporary American independent and foreign films to an estimated audience of 25,000.
Aurora Picture Show
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support the Aurora Library and related activities. The library houses more than 1,800 video art works by historic and contemporary media artists.
Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the presentation of several curated film and video series. More than 75 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 17,000 people.
Berks Filmmakers, Inc.
Reading, PA
$10,000
To support the exhibition of several curated film and video series. Programs will focus on avant-garde cinema, documentary and animation work, presentations by filmmakers, and screenings of films by artists from the region.
California Film Institute
Mill Valley, CA
$20,000
To support the 31st Mill Valley Film Festival. Programming includes short films, documentaries, independent American films, and films from abroad.
Center for Asian American Media
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival and other exhibition activities. The film festival will showcase the work of new Asian Pacific American film and video makers.
Chicago Film Archives, NFP
Chicago, IL
$5,000
To support a retrospective exhibition on the work, life, and times of the Chicago-based filmmaker Howard Alk. Alk not only co-founded Second City in 1956, but also became an acclaimed film editor.
Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the 19th 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 Inc. Cinema-Chicago (aka Chicago International Film)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the 44th Chicago International Film Festival. More than 60,000 people will see 130 films from around the world.
Cinema Seattle (aka Seattle International Film Festival Group)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support the 33rd Seattle International Film Festival. More than 400 films will be presented to an audience of 160,000 people.
Cinema St. Louis
Saint Louis, MO
$7,500
To support the presentation of American independent, documentary, and foreign films at the 17th St. Louis International Film Festival. Approximately 200 short and feature-length films will be screened to an audience of 14,000.
Cleveland International Film Festival, Inc. (aka Cleveland Film Society)
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
To support the 32nd Cleveland International Film Festival. The festival presents current work from around the world and complements it with educational programs to increase the audience's understanding of, and appreciation for, the art form.
Denver Film Society
Denver, CO
$20,000
To support the 31st Denver International Film Festival. The event will present more than 150 films from the United States and abroad to an audience of more than 35,000 people.
Doc Arts, Inc. (aka Full Frame Documentary Film Festival)
Durham, NC
$20,000
To support the 11th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The event will showcase work by emerging, established, and international documentarians.
Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Through an online catalogue, works will be made available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums, and other organizations.
Enzian Theater, Inc.
Maitland, FL
$7,500
To support the 16th annual Florida Film Festival. Held in the spring, the event presents more than 140 films to an audience of 23,000.
Facets Multi-Media, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$90,000
To support the 25th 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 Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$65,000
To support several curated film series. The programs will include the New Directors/New Films Festival; Latinbeat, showcasing the work of films from Latin America and the Caribbean; and Film Comment Selects, focusing on new and established artists.
George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$50,000
To support the preservation of endangered films. Each film will be restored so it can be made available for public viewing and scholarly research. Titles include Philip Kaufman's Goldstein (1965), Danny Lyon's Los Ninos Abandonados (1975) and Born to Film (1982), Paul Morrissey's first six short films, and Robert Culp's Operation Breadbasket (1969).
Independent Feature Project/West (aka IFP/Los Angeles)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the 14th Los Angeles Film Festival. More than 250 films including dramatic features, documentaries, and short films will be presented to an anticipated audience of 80,000.
Independent Films, Inc. (aka Aspen Filmfest)
Aspen, CO
$15,000
To support the 17th Aspen Shortsfest film festival. Short live action, animation, and documentary films from the United States and abroad will be showcased.
Independent Media Artists of GA, Etc. Inc. (aka IMAGE)
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support the 32nd Atlanta Film Festival. The festival presents the best of current independent film and video to an audience of 20,000 people.
Indo-American Arts Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the 8th Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival. Held in the fall, the festival presents narrative feature films, short works, and documentaries made by, about, or featuring persons of (east) Indian origin.
Jewish Museum (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 2009 New York Jewish Film Festival, a joint project with the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Held in January, the festival presents narrative feature films, short works, and documentaries to an audience of 10,000 people.
Latino Film Festival of Marin, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the 12th International Latino Film Festival. Held in the fall, the festival presents more than 40 films to an audience of 14,000 people.
MadCat Women's International Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the 12th MadCat Women's International Film Festival and national tour. Approximately 85 films will be presented to an audience of 7,000 people.
Media Arts Center San Diego (aka San Diego Latino Film Festival)
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the 14th San Diego Latino Film Festival. The films and videos exhibited must be produced by Latinos or be about the Latino experience.
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.
Moving Image, Inc. (aka Film Forum)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign films. Film Forum is devoted to bringing the highest quality new work by young and emerging artists, as well as by more established figures, to a large and diverse public.
Museum of Modern Art (aka MoMA)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the preservation of endangered films from the museum's nationally recognized collection. Each year, the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film and Media saves 50 to 100 films by transferring them from unstable nitrate stock to acetate, and also does additional work to preserve fading and damaged acetate films.
Nashville Film Festival
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the 39th Nashville Film Festival. The event features student films and videos, documentaries, narrative films, and experimental work.
National Film Preserve, Ltd. (aka Telluride Film Festival)
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
To support the 35th 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.
Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support a curated film exhibition series. The project will present director retrospectives, premieres, films for children, 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 35th Athens International Film and Video Festival. The event features narrative work, documentaries, and short films produced in the United States and abroad.
Ozark Foothills Filmfest, Inc.
Locust Grove, AR
$5,000
To support the 2008 Ozark Foothills FilmFest. The festival presents regional premieres, screenings of classic films, and thematic programs to an estimated audience of 5,000.
Palm Springs International Film Society
Palm Springs, CA
$20,000
To support the 19th Palm Springs International Film Festival. Held in January, the event presents more than 230 films to an audience of approximately 119,000 people.
Regents of the University of California (on behalf of UCLA Film and Television Archives)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support a curated film series and related activities. Nitrate to Digital will be a program of screenings, multimedia presentations, and panels that will explore selected technological landmarks that helped set new directions and standards for American cinema as an art form.
Rural Media Arts and Education Project (aka Sixth Street Cinema)
Mariposa, CA
$5,000
To support the presentation of film and video art. Approximately 40 films will be screened to an audience of 2,200 people.
San Diego Asian Film Foundation
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the ninth San Diego Asian Film Festival. Held in the fall, the week-long event features short films, animated work, documentaries, and narrative feature films.
San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support a curated film series. Cinema is a series of six week-long residencies for artists, scholars, and curators focusing on experimental cinema.
San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival. The festival presents more than 300 films from 54 countries to an audience of 85,000 people.
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the 28th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and related activities. The festival, devoted to films on Jewish subjects, presents the premieres of films and videos by independent producers from around the world.
Silent Film Festival (aka The San Francisco Silent Film Festival)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the 13th San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Newly composed live music will accompany the films presented at the festival's 11 programs.
Southern California Asian American Studies Central (aka Visual Communications)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the 24th 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.
Southwestern Alternate Media Projects, Inc. (aka SWAMP)
Houston, TX
$20,000
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.
Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support the Dallas Video Festival 2.2. The event will screen works that highlight technological innovations.
Washington, DC International Film Festival, Inc. (aka Filmfest DC)
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the 22nd annual Filmfest DC. The event includes free films for children, older people, and underserved communities.
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.
Woodstock Film Festival, Inc.
Woodstock, NY
$10,000
To support the 2008 Woodstock Film Festival. The event includes screenings, panels, workshops, and concerts.
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