2013 Grant Awards: Art Works

[ March 8, 2012 deadline ]

Artists Communities | Arts Education | Dance | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature | Local Arts Agencies | Media Arts | Museums | Music | Opera |
Presenting | Theater and Musical 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
$40,000
To support the 20th New York African Film Festival and the 16th edition of the African Film Festival Traveling Series, which will showcase contemporary and classic films from Africa and the African diaspora. The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music cinemas will serve as venues for the New York City programming.

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
To support the 51st 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
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the presentation of 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 Gene Siskel Film Theater)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the 2013 Black Harvest Film Festival. Held in August, the festival screens feature-length narrative and documentary films as well as short works.

Aurora Picture Show
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support several curated film series. Short films, documentaries, experimental work, and feature-length narrative films will be presented.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the presentation of several curated film and video series. The 13 series will include the ongoing exhibition of contemporary documentaries, experimental work, and the presentation of films from Europe, Asia, South America, and the Middle East.

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

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. (aka Squeaky Wheel)
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
To support SWAP: Squeaky Wheel Access Program. This 27-year-old program provides free and low-cost access to media equipment, workshops, screenings, artist residencies, and resources to local, national, and international film and video artists.

Camera News, Inc. (aka Third World Newsreel)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a digital media literacy and production education program. Components of the Third World Newsreel program will be the Advanced Film and Video Production Workshop, Wednesday Night Media Workshops, and an Introduction to Final Cut Pro/Media Literacy Workshop Series.

Center for Asian American Media (aka CAAM)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support the 31st San Francisco Asian American Film Festival. The event will showcase new work by and about Asian Americans and Asians.

Center for Documentary Studies
Durham, NC
$20,000
To support the 16th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The event will showcase work by emerging, established, and international documentarians.

Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the 25th 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
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support the 49th Chicago International Film Festival. Programming includes screenings of contemporary American and international feature length films, short works, and documentaries.

Cinema Seattle (aka Seattle International Film Festival)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support the 39th Seattle International Film Festival. Approximately 250 filmmakers will be invited to the 25-day event where more than 400 feature-length and short films will be screened.

Cinema Tropical, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Cinema Tropical Film Series. The three components include documentaries examining music genres and musicians from South America, the Cinema Tropical Festival, and the monthly series Tropical Tuesdays.

Cleveland International Film Festival, Inc. (aka Cleveland Film Society)
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
To support the 37th Cleveland International Film Festival. The Cleveland Film Society presents current work from around the world, complemented by educational programs that broaden the audience's appreciation for the art form.

Colorado Film Society (aka Boulder International Film Festival)
Boulder, CO
$10,000
To support the 9th Boulder International Film Festival. The four-day event features approximately 50 films, including narrative, documentaries, and short works.

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc. (aka DCTV)
New York, NY
$75,000
To support workshops, facilities access, and related activities. Downtown Community Television is devoted to making technologically sophisticated media equipment and training available to underserved communities through a range of courses and services.

Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital (aka DC Environmental Film Festival)
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the 2013 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital. The festival will present approximately 175 environment-themed narrative, documentary, and short films to an estimated audience of 30,000 people.

Enzian Theatre, Inc.
Maitland, FL
$10,000
To support the 22nd Florida Film Festival. More than 160 American independent, foreign, and short films and documentaries will be presented.

Facets Multimedia, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$65,000
To support the 30th Chicago International Children's 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
$75,000
To support the theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign films at Film Forum. Approximately 30 new films will be screened, and in many cases receive their United States premiere, between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014.

Film Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support Perspectives in World Cinema, which will include the curated film series Rendez-vous with French Cinema, New Italian Cinema, the New York Asian Film Festival, Latinbeat, and Spanish Cinema Now. Programming will also include Views from the Avant Garde, a screening series of experimental work held during the New York Film Festival, and Masterworks, retrospectives of global cinemas.

Firelight Media
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Firelight Media Production Lab, a mentorship and professional development program targeted to emerging diverse filmmakers. Participants receive year-round one-on-one support in writing, producing, editing, outreach, and social media strategies.

Houston Cinema Arts Society
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support the sixth Cinema Arts Festival Houston. The five-day festival includes narrative and documentary work, mixed-media performances, new media, and interactive installations.

Indo-American Arts Council, Inc. (aka IAAC)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the 13th New York Indian Film Festival. Held in the spring, the festival presents narrative feature films, short works, and documentaries made by, about, or featuring persons of Indian origin.

International House of Philadelphia (on behalf of Film at International House)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support several curated film series. The programs will include a series devoted to the world-renowned Janus Collection, directors' retrospectives, a focus on documentaries, and silent films with live orchestral accompaniment.

Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
$15,000
To support the 20th San Diego Latino Film Festival. The films and videos exhibited are produced by Latinos or are about the Latino experience.

National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Inc. (aka National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture)
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To support services to the nonprofit media arts field. The National Alliance of Media Arts Centers will focus on three core areas: 1) a leadership institute for delegates from the field; 2) conducting regional meetings with constituents; and 3) updating a report on changing production, exhibition, and distribution trends and the economic impact and creative practice of the media arts field.

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc. (aka NALIP)
Santa Monica, CA
$20,000
To support Doing Your Doc: Diverse Visions, Regional Voices, a series of regional conferences. NALIP will offer seminars in four different cities concentrating on documentary film development and production for emerging documentarians from underserved communities.

National Center for Jewish Film, Inc.
Waltham, MA
$75,000
To support the retrospective film series Essential Yiddish Cinema. The program will consist of feature-length and short films produced in the 1920s and 1930s.

New Orleans Film and Video Festival, Inc. (aka New Orleans Film Society)
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support the 24th New Orleans Film Festival and other year-round programming. Films include narrative, documentary, and shorts, and come from the United States and abroad.

New York International Childrens Film Festival, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 2013 New York International Children's Film Festival. Approximately 100 animated, experimental shorts, documentaries, and feature films will be presented at various venues throughout the New York metropolitan area.

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.

Parallel Studios Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
To support currents 2013. To be held in June and presented at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, this event will include video art, single- and multi-channel installations, web art, gaming, sound installations, and multimedia performances.

Portland Art Museum (on behalf of Northwest Film Center)
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support the Northwest Filmmakers' Festival and regional tour. The event showcases new work by media artists living in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and British Columbia.

Provincetown International Film Festival
Provincetown, MA
$10,000
To support the 2013 Provincetown International Film Festival. Now in its 15th year, the festival presents more than 60 American independent films, documentaries, and shorts, as well as international work.

Ragtag Programming for Film and Media Art (aka Ragtag Cinema / True False Film Festival)
Columbia, MO
$25,000
To support the True/False Film Festival and other curated film series. The True/False Film Festival, presented in March, focuses on documentary film; other film programs include a series devoted to 1970s American cinema, another to international work, and films by under-represented voices in the United States.

Reel Lives, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the 13th Media That Matters Film Festival, a compilation of short films addressing key social issues. Following its opening in September, the festival will be distributed by DVD, broadcast, and streamed for free online.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Pacific Film Archive)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
To support Committed Cinema, a curated film series. The work to be presented ranges from Elia Suliaman's films from Palestine to Laura Poitras's trilogy on Iraq.

RiverRun International Film Festival
Winston-Salem, NC
$10,000
To support Films with Class. Throughout the school year, RiverRun partners with 25 elementary, middle, and high schools to screen American independent and international work to students and produces a curriculum to accompany the program.

Rooftop Films, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
To support the 2013 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 (aka San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF))
San Diego, CA
$15,000
To support the 14th San Diego Asian Film Festival. Held in the fall, the week-long event features approximately 160 documentaries, narrative feature films, short films, and animated works.

San Francisco Film Society (aka SFFS)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support the 56th San Francisco International Film Festival and other related exhibition programs. The San Francisco International Film Festival will showcase more than 260 films. Through its year-round programming, SFFS will present current American independent and international feature films as well as programs devoted to French film, Italian film, animation, and documentaries.

Silk Screen (aka Silk Screen: Asian American Film Festival)
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support Silk Screen: Asian American Film Festival. Silk Screen anticipates bringing to Pittsburgh films, filmmakers, actors, and directors from across Asia -- from Turkey to Japan, including Israel and other countries in the Middle East.

Southern California Asian American Studies Central (aka Visual Communications)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support Visual Communication's 29th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. The 11-day festival is Southern California's showcase of independent Asian international and Asian Pacific American film and video work.

Tribeca Film Institute
New York, NY
$50,000
To support Tribeca All Access, a professional development program for film directors and writers from underserved communities. The year-long program provides artists with access to industry professionals and other resources to help them move forward to complete their narrative and documentary projects.

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