2009 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence
[ March 10, 2008 deadline ]
Dance |
Design |
Folk & Traditional Arts |
Literature |
Local Arts Agencies
Media Arts |
Museums |
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
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the 16th 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.
Alabama Moving Image Association, Inc. (aka Sidewalk)
Birmingham, AL
$7,500
To support the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival. More than 150 films will be screened to an estimated audience of 14,000 people.
American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the digitization of filmmaker interviews that have accompanied the works broadcast on the television series P.O.V. Since the series began in 1988, P.O.V. has featured companion interviews with the artists whose films are a part of the series.
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
To support the 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival. More than 120 films will be presented to an audience of approximately 13,000 people in Michigan and in the states to which the festival tours.
Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$25,000
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 Gene Siskel Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support a curated film series at the Gene Siskel Film Center. The Documentary Challenge will be a year-long exhibition program featuring new documentary work from the United States and abroad.
Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Video Data Bank)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the Video Data Bank's distribution service and related activities.Video Data Bank currently offers 5,700 titles by 450 artists for distribution.
Arts Engine, Inc. (aka Media That Matters Film Festival/MediaRights)
New York, NY
$7,500
To support the ninth 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.
Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the presentation of several curated film and video series. More than 90 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 18,000 people.
Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. (aka BAVC)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support low-cost audio and video preservation services to artists and arts organizations throughout the nation. Services include the recording, retrieval, and preservation of audio/video art and of performances archived on various media, and the dissemination of information to the public.
Berks Filmmakers, Inc.
Reading, PA
$7,500
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
San Rafael, CA
$15,000
To support the 32nd Mill Valley Film Festival. Programming includes short films, documentaries, independent American films, and films from abroad.
Center for Asian American Media
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival. The project will showcase new work by and about Asian Americans and Asians.
Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$12,000
To support the Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the 20th 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 (aka Chicago International Film)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the 45th 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
$15,000
To support the 34th Seattle International Film Festival. More than 400 films will be presented to an audience of 160,000 people.
Cleveland International Film Festival, Inc. (aka Cleveland Film Society)
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
To support the 33rd 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
$15,000
To support the 32nd Denver International Film Festival. The event will present more than 150 films from the United States and abroad to an audience of more than 45,000 people.
Doc Arts, Inc. (aka Full Frame Documentary Film Festival)
Durham, NC
$15,000
To support the 12th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The event will showcase work by emerging, established, and international documentarians.
Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
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.
Facets Multimedia, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$75,000
To support the 26th 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 Independent, Inc. (aka IFP/Los Angeles)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
To support the 15th Los Angeles Film Festival. More than 125 films including dramatic features, documentaries, and short films will be presented to an anticipated audience of 90,000.
Film Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$55,000
To support New Voices in World Cinema which will include several curated film series. The programs to be presented are the New Directors/New Films Festival; Latinbeat, showcasing films from Latin America and the Caribbean; and Film Comment Selects, focusing on new and established artists.
Friends of Art & Film in Central Maine (aka Maine International Film Festival)
Waterville, ME
$7,500
To support the Youth Film Program of the Maine International Film Festival. The curated film series includes screenings for local schools, summer youth programs, and children and families; the Maine Student Film & Video Festival; and special events and workshops.
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.
Independent Films, Inc. (aka Aspen Film)
Aspen, CO
$15,000
To support the 18th Aspen Shortsfest film festival, showcasing short live action, animation, and documentary films from the United States and abroad.
Independent Media Artists of GA, Etc., Inc. (aka IMAGE)
Atlanta, GA
$7,500
To support the 33rd Atlanta Film Festival. The festival presents the best of current independent film and video to an audience of 13,000 people.
Independent Media Arts Preservation, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the Making Video History symposium. To be held in the spring of 2009, the symposium will focus on the history of video, including documentaries, narrative work, and experimental and image-processed videos from the 1960s to the present.
Independent Television Service, Inc. (aka ITVS)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support a 26-part television series titled Global Voices. The series will air on the new digital channel PBS World to an estimated audience of 25 million people.
International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago (aka Chicago Latino Film Festival)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the 25th Chicago Latino Film Festival. Over a two-week period, the center will exhibit the work of directors of Iberian or Latin American descent as well as films directly related to Latino culture.
Jacob Burns Film Center, Inc.
Pleasantville, NY
$20,000
To support a curated film series. International Understanding Through Film will feature more than 70 films from China, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, and Poland and will include documentaries that focus on international issues.
Jewish Museum (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 2010 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.
Light Factory (aka The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film)
Charlotte, NC
$7,500
To support a curated film exhibition series. More than 26,000 people are expected to attend.
MadCat Women's International Film Festival (aka MadCat)
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the 13th MadCat Women's International Film Festival and national tour. Approximately 75 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 16th San Diego Latino Film Festival. The films and videos exhibited are produced by Latinos or are about the Latino experience.
Millennium Film Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
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
$80,000
To support the theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign films at Film Forum. 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
$40,000
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
$8,000
To support the 40th Nashville Film Festival. The event features student films and videos, documentaries, narrative films, and experimental work.
National Film Preserve, Ltd. (aka The Telluride Film Festival)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
To support the 36th 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.
New Community Cinema Club, Inc. (aka Cinema Arts Centre)
Huntington, NY
$7,500
To support three curated film series at the Cinema Arts Centre. The program will include silent films, films on art and artists, and documentaries from the United States and abroad.
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 Northwest Film Forum's two theaters.
Ohio University Belmont (on behalf of Athens Center for Film and Video)
Athens, OH
$10,000
To support the 36th Athens International Film and Video Festival. The event features narrative work, documentaries, and short films produced in the United States and abroad.
Pacifica Foundation
North Hollywood, CA
$15,000
To support the preservation of arts-related recordings in the Pacifica archive. Of the 50,000 tapes housed in the archive, approximately 25 percent represent arts programming.
Palm Springs International Film Society
Palm Springs, CA
$15,000
To support the 20th Palm Springs International Film Festival. Held in January, the event presents more than 230 films to an audience of approximately 125,000 people.
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Pacific Film Archive)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
To support a guest presenters series to accompany film screenings at the Pacific Film Archive. Guests will include filmmakers, curators, critics, historians, academics, actors, and musicians.
San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival The festival presents more than 100 films from 40 countries to an audience of 75,000 people.
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the 29th 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 14th San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Newly composed live music will accompany the films presented at the festival's 14 programs.
Southern California Asian American Studies Central (aka Visual Communications)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
To support Visual Communications' 25th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. 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
$15,000
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 presents independent film and video works to more than 12 million viewers per year throughout Texas.
Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium (aka Black Maria Film Festival)
Jersey City, NJ
$15,000
To support the Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. More than 50 organizations host the festival each year, which draws more than 700 entries from throughout the country.
Washington DC International Film Festival, Inc. (aka Filmfest DC)
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the 23rd 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 2009 Woodstock Film Festival. The event includes screenings, panels, workshops, and concerts.
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