2011 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ March 11, 2010 deadline ]

Artists Communities | 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 (aka AFF)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the 18th New York African Film Festival and the 14th edition of the African Film Festival Traveling Series, which will tour to as many as 13 American cities and will showcase contemporary and classic films from Africa and the African diaspora.

American Documentary, Inc. (aka P.O.V.)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the digitization of filmmaker interviews produced for the television series P.O.V.(Point of View). Since the series began in 1988, P.O.V. has featured interviews with more than 200 artists whose films have been presented as part of the series.

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
To support the 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival. At the forthcoming festival, many genres will be presented including documentaries, animated films, cinéma vérité, narrative, and personal story cinema.

Anthology Film Archives (aka AFA)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support several curated film series. Within the eight 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
$30,000
To support the Video Data Bank's distribution service and related activities. Video Data Bank currently offers 2,050 titles by 500 artists for distribution.

Aspen Film
Aspen, CO
$15,000
To support the 20th Aspen Shortsfest film festival. Short live action, animated, and documentary films from the United States and abroad will be showcased.

Aurora Picture Show
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support the Annual Screening Series. Short films, documentaries, experimental work, and feature-length narrative films will be presented.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$30,000
To support the presentation of several curated film and video series. The nine series will include the ongoing exhibition of contemporary documentaries and the presentation of films from Japan and Hong Kong, as well as the films of directors Agnes Varda and Jacques Demy and British filmmakers Derek Jarman, Peter Greenaway and Ken Russell.

Belcourt Theatre, Inc.
Nashville, TN
$15,000
To support Weekend Classics and related visiting artist discussion programs. The repertory film series will include an exploration of the road movie genre, a Nicholas Ray retrospective, and films on Southern culture.

Berks Filmmakers, Inc
Reading, PA, PA
$10,000
To support the exhibition of several curated film and video series. Approximately 50 programs will focus on avant-garde cinema, documentary and animation work, presentations by filmmakers, and screenings of films by artists from the region.

Brattle Film Foundation, Inc. (aka The Brattle Theatre)
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
To support Classic Brattle. Six film series will be curated around a specific theme, genre, artist, and/or time period.

Center for Asian American Media
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the 29th San Francisco Asian American Film Festival. The event will showcase new work by and about Asian Americans and Asians.

Center for Documentary Studies (aka Full Frame Documentary Film Festival)
Durham, NC
$30,000
To support the 14th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The event will showcase work by emerging, established, and international documentarians.

Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the 21st 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 Cinema/Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the 47th Chicago International Film Festival. Programming includes screenings of contemporary American and international feature length films, short works, and documentaries.

Cleveland International Film Festival, Inc. (aka Cleveland Film Society)
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
To support the 35th Cleveland International Film Festival. The Cleveland Film Society 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.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc. (aka EAI)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Through an online catalogue, which includes more than 3,500 titles, works will be made available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums, and other organizations.

Facets Multimedia Incorporated
Chicago, IL
$100,000
To support the 28th 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 Forum
New York, NY
$120,000
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.

Film Independent, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support the 17th Los Angeles Film Festival. More than 200 films including dramatic features, documentaries, and short films will be presented.

Film Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$65,000
To support New Voices in World Cinema, which will include the curated film series New Directors/New Films Festival; Latinbeat, showcasing the work of filmmakers from Latin America and the Caribbean; and Film Comment Selects, focusing on new and established artists. Programming will also touch on Asian cinema and films by and about the Indian diaspora.

Film Streams, Inc.
Omaha, NE
$25,000
To support the exhibition of repertory film and special programs. Programming will include screenings of classic films, themed series, director retrospectives, and the presentation of contemporary work with visiting filmmakers.

George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$60,000
To support the preservation of endangered films directed by Cecil B. DeMille, James Ivory and Philip Kaufman. Each film (titles include DeMille's Call of the North made in 1914, Ivory's The Dehli Way made in 1964, and Kaufman's Goldstein made in 1965) will be restored so it can be made available for public viewing and scholarly research.

Hallwalls, Inc. (Consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
To support Migrating Media. Working with the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Hallwalls will provide digital preservation services to organizations with video collections in upstate New York.

Independent Television Service, Inc. (aka ITVS)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support a 26-part television series titled Global Voices. The series will present documentaries funded through the Independent Television Services's (ITVS) International Media Development Fund and will also showcase programs from ITVS's archive of more than 900 titles.

Indo-American Arts Council, Inc. (aka IAAC)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the 11th Mahindra IAAC Film Festival. Held in the fall, the festival presents narrative feature films, short works, and documentaries made by, about, or featuring persons of Indian origin.

Jacob Burns Film Center, Inc.
Pleasantville, NY
$40,000
To support a curated film series. International Understanding Through Film will feature more than 100 films from China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, and Japan, and will include documentaries that focus on international issues.

Kartemquin Educational Films
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support the distribution of specific films from the Kartemquin collection as well as related outreach activities. A targeted outreach campaign will be tied to each title, including study guides and interactive educational materials

Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
$15,000
To support the 18th San Diego Latino Film Festival. The event presents more than 100 films from Mexico, Uruguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, the United States, Chile, Spain, Peru, and Colombia. 

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.

National Film Preserve, Ltd. (aka The Telluride Film Festival)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
To support the 38th Telluride Film Festival. Contemporary films (which must be a world or North American premiere) are programmed, as are classic films and retrospectives devoted to film artists.

New Community Cinema Club, Inc. (aka Cinema Arts Centre)
Huntington, NY
$10,000
To support several curated film series at the Cinema Arts Centre. The three programs will include silent films, films on art and artists, and documentaries from the United States and abroad.

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$40,000
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 Main Campus (on behalf of Athens Center for Film and Video)
Athens, OH
$15,000
To support the 38th 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
$20,000
To support the preservation of arts-related audio recordings in the Pacifica archive as well as other audio preservation activities. 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 22nd Palm Springs International Film Festival. Held in January, the event presents more than 200 films including narrative films by first-time filmmakers, feature films from around the world, documentaries, and short films.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Pacific Film Archive)
Berkeley, CA
$40,000
To support a curated film series screened at Pacific Film Archives and national tour. Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area (coinciding with the publication of a book by the same title) will highlight films and videos produced by Bay Area makers working from the late 1940s through 2000.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of UCLA Film and Television Archive)
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support L.A. Rebellion at UCLA Film and Television Archive. The curated series will concentrate on work produced by African American filmmakers from the 1960s through the early '80s.

Rooftop Films, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the 2011 Summer Series, held in outdoor settings throughout New York City. The programming includes screenings of independent films, both feature-length and short works, with accompanying live music and entertainment.

San Diego Asian Film Foundation
San Diego, CA
$15,000
To support the 12th San Diego Asian Film Festival. Held in the fall, the week-long event features short films, animated works, documentaries, and narrative feature films.

San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the 54th San Francisco International Film Festival and other related exhibition programs. The festival will showcase more than 250 films through its year-round programming. 

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (aka San Francisco Jewish Film Festival)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the 31st 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.

SIFF (aka Seattle International Film Festival)
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support the 36th Seattle International Film Festival. During the 25-day event, more than 200 feature films and 150 short works will be screened; approximately 200 filmmakers will be invited to attend.

Silent Film Festival (aka The San Francisco Silent Film Festival)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the 16th San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Newly-composed live music will accompany the films presented at the festival's 15 programs.

Southern California Asian American Studies Central (aka Visual Communications)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support Visual Communication's 27th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. The 10-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 public television series The Territory. The Territory is thematically programmed and includes work from various cinematic genres: documentary, animation, narrative, and experimental.

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium (aka Black Maria Film and Video Festival)
Jersey City, NJ
$15,000
To support the Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. Each year more than 60 organizations host the festival, which showcases short documentaries, experimental films and video art.

Washington DC International Film Festival, Inc. (aka Filmfest DC)
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the 25th annual Filmfest DC. The festival presents American independent films, cinema from around the world, classic restored Hollywood productions, movies for children, and special events for the senior population.

Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the Women Make Movies Distribution Service. The collection of more than 500 titles includes documentary, narrative, experimental, animated, and mixed-genre work created by artists worldwide.

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