Film/Television/Radio and New Media: FY2004 Grants

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

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Arts on Radio and Television

American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$250,000
To support the selection, acquisition, packaging, and promotion of films for broadcast on the public television series P.O.V. (Point Of View). As the longest-running PBS series devoted exclusively to the art of independent, non-fiction film, P.O.V. brings documentary artworks--rarely found in the mainstream media--to national audiences.

American Focus, Inc.
Charlottesville, VA
$40,000
To support the production of a documentary film about master craftworkers in the building arts. Intended for national PBS broadcast, Good Work will feature contemporary building artisans from a variety of traditions that contribute to America's architectural heritage.

Art 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$250,000
To support the third year of Art: 21, Art in theTwenty-First Century. A public television series about contemporary visual art and artists in the United States, the project will include one-hour programs as well as ancillary outreach activities.

Beale Street Caravan, Inc.
Memphis, TN
$10,000
To support production and national broadcast of the public radio series Beale Street Caravan. Weekly, one-hour programs featuring performances by blues artists will be broadcast on more than 300 public, community, and college radio stations nationwide.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
$535,000
To support development and production of the television series American Masters for PBS broadcast. Definitive documentary profiles of major cultural figures will be made available in 2005-06 to millions of viewers in all 50 states on 345 public television stations.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
$550,000
To support development and production of the television series Great Performances and Dance in America for broadcast on PBS. Regardless of geographic or economic limitations, American television audiences in all 50 states will be provided free access to a diverse range of cultural programming in 2005-06.

ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Inc. (on behalf of South Carolina Educational Radio)
Spartanburg, SC
$65,000
To support the production of new programs for the weekly radio series Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. National Public Radio will distribute the programs, hosted by National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Marian McPartland, to American audiences on 244 stations in the United States, and to international audiences via NPR's Worldwide Service.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Deep Focus Productions Inc.)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support research and development for a television documentary on the roles, impact, and depiction of Asian Pacific Americans in the American motion picture industry. The Asian Pacifics in American Cinema Project will bring to light the contributions that Asian Pacific Americans have made both in front of and behind the camera.

Film Odyssey, Inc.
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the production of a documentary film by Karen Thomas. Exiles in Hollywood will trace the personal journeys of European writers, directors, producers, composers, and actors who contributed to many of Hollywood's enduring films.

Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc.
Waltham, MA
$15,000
To support pre-production costs for a documentary film on Louisa May Alcott. Using interviews with scholars, dramatic re-creations, feature film clips, archival illustrations, and actors reading from Alcott's diaries, letters, and fiction, the film will provide a complex portrait of the author best known for her novel Little Women.

From the Top, Inc.
Boston, MA
$65,000
To support the production of new programs for the public radio series From theTop. The weekly, hour-long radio program features performances by exceptional young classical musicians (ages nine to 18), interviews, guest artists, and a 16-year-old roving reporter who profiles the young musicians.

Independent Production Fund, Inc. (on behalf of Mannes Productions)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the production of a public television series that will examine the science behind our experience of music. In one-hour programs, Music Instinct: Science and Song will explore scientific discoveries about the psychological and physical aspects of music's primal hold on human beings, and its connection to the world around us.

Independent Television Service, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$125,000
To support the selection, acquisition, and packaging of films for the 2004-05 season on the public television series Independent Lens. The series will provide the public with access to innovative dramatic, animated, and documentary works by independent filmmakers.

Iris Feminist Collective
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
To support the pre-production, writing, and early filming phase of a documentary by Jon Else about the making of a new opera. Wonders are Many will follow composer John Adams and director Peter Sellars as they create an opera based on the life of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
Anchorage, AK
$25,000
To support production of the weekly radio series Earthsongs. The one-hour program features recordings and live performances of contemporary Native American music and reaches an estimated audience of more than 60,000 people each week.

La Jicarita
Penasco, NM
$20,000
To support the production of a public radio series showcasing new writers from across the United States. Calling America will be a weekly series of two-to-three-minute modules of contemporary writers reading their poems, essays, and stories.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$150,000
To support production and broadcast of the television series Live From Lincoln Center. In 2005, the series will be aired on approximately 300 PBS stations across all 50 states and territories reaching five million viewers per program.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
To support post-production costs for a national PBS telecast of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. Distributed to approximately 340 PBS stations nationwide, Metropolitan Opera Presents is seen by three to five million viewers per program.

Minnesota Public Radio, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$50,000
To support an arts journalism initiative. Minnesota Public Radio will provide reporting on the arts on its national news and cultural programs, its regional network news service, its news and information service in southern California, and its Web site, mpr.org.

Minnesota Public Radio, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$150,000
To support the production and national broadcast of classical music programming. In 2004-05, St. Paul Sunday, Pipedreams, and broadcasts of the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra series will reach millions of listeners each week.

National Public Radio
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the production of arts features to be aired on national newsmagazine programs. Several multi-part series will examine regional theater in America, the evolution of an American style of acting, new voices in Latin music, and the role of criticism in the arts.

National Public Radio
Washington, DC
$150,000
To support the Classical Music Initiative. The project will include the recording, acquisition, and national radio broadcast of selected American orchestral performances on PerformanceToday, SymphonyCast, and Creators @ Carnegie; the presentation of American operatic productions for the World of Opera radio series; and the coverage of classical music throughout NPR's news programs.

New River Education Fund, Inc.
Washington, DC
$40,000
To support the production of a television documentary on a new work by architect I.M. Pei. Building China Modern will follow Pei to his ancestral home in Suzhou, China, as he oversees the design of a modern museum in one of the most ancient neighborhoods of China's preeminent classical city.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Robert Levi Productions)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film on Billy Strayhorn. Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life will chronicle the artist's career as composer and arranger for the Ellington Orchestra, as well as his relationship with the maestro.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Kitchen Sync)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the production of a documentary film by John Valadez. The Last Conquistador will be about sculptor John Houser, his bronze equestrian memorial to the Spanish explorer Juan de Oate, and the public discussion surrounding the future placement of the monumental public artwork in El Paso,Texas.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Firethorn Productions)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the research and development phase of a public television series about the history of African-American theater. It'll Be Me is intended for national PBS broadcast.

Newark Public Radio, Inc.
Newark, NJ
$65,000
To support the production of JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater, a weekly radio series of jazz concerts. The series is produced by WBGO/Newark and distributed by NPR, reaching nearly 220,000 listeners per week throughout the United States.

Pennsylvania Public Radio Associates, Inc.
Chester Springs, PA
$40,000
To support the production of concerts and sound portraits for Echoes, a daily radio series of contemporary music. The series will serve a weekly audience of more than 300,000 listeners on 150 stations in 35 states and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Public Radio International, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$65,000
To support the production, distribution, and marketing of Studio 360, a weekly arts and culture radio program. Designed to illuminate the role of the arts in our society, the series is a co-production of PRI and WNYC/FM.

Public Radio International, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support production of The Global Hit segments on the weekday news and information radio program, The World. The daily feature showcases world music for American audiences, offering listeners a unique perspective on other cultures through the medium of music.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$250,000
To support a public television and radio series featuring conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. Keeping Score: MTT on Music is designed to help a national audience appreciate the relevance of classical music in contemporary life.

Santa Monica College (on behalf of KCRW-FM)
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
To support the production of a radio series presenting classic American short crime fiction. Mean Street, USA: A Century of "Hard-Boiled" Short Crime Fiction will present hour-long programs of unabridged, full-cast dramatic readings of classic works written by masters of the genre.

Shirley Road Productions
Narberth, PA
$20,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary film on Margarita and Ramona de Saa. Mirror Dance is the story of identical Cuban twins who, though separated for nearly 40 years, continue to share a passion for dance.

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the production of new programs for the AmericanTalkers radio series. Produced by Dave Isay for broadcast on National Public Radio, the series presents the voices of ordinary Americans with an extraordinary penchant for storytelling.

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the production of the public radio series Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, and the distribution of related audiocassettes. The series, which will air on more than 140 National Public Radio stations, will present leading stage and screen actors reading both classic and new short fiction by established and emerging authors of diverse cultures.

Texas Public Radio
San Antonio, TX
$20,000
To support the weekly public radio jazz series Riverwalk, Live From the Landing. Distributed by Public Radio International to 147 stations nationwide, each hour-long program combines live performance with interviews, oral histories, and historical recordings to celebrate important artists and eras in jazz

University of New Orleans Foundation
New Orleans, LA
$75,000
To support the production and national distribution of American Routes, a weekly radio series devoted to the roots of popular music and popular roots music. Folklorist Nick Spitzer hosts the two-hour, weekend program in which he combines recordings of popular, folk, jazz, and classical forms with in-studio performances, field recordings, and interviews.

Van Cliburn Foundation, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$35,000
To support the production of a television special chronicling the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The festival is dedicated to the discovery of the world's finest young pianists.

Washington Opera
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support costs associated with the national radio broadcasts of performances by the Washington Opera. In partnership with National Public Radio, a series of operas will be recorded, produced, and aired on World of Opera.

West Virginia Public Broadcasting Foundation, Inc.
Charleston, WV
$30,000
To support production and broadcast of the radio series Mountain Stage. Distributed by Public Radio International to 106 stations throughout the United States, the weekly, two-hour program presents contemporary music and traditional roots performers.

Window to the World Communications, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$100,000
To support production and national distribution of the radio series Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. The series will consist of weekday, one-hour programs focusing on classical music in an informed, educational, and entertaining manner.

Wisdom of the Elders, Inc.
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support production of the radio series Wisdom of the Elders. One-hour programs will be distributed nationally and will include Native American storytelling, oral histories, music, and traditional healing stories.

WNYC Radio, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support The Integration Project, a model radio programming project. WNYC will develop programs that bridge classical music and news-talk formats within its own broadcast schedule, encourage local stations around the country to customize the model for their own communities, and make innovative programs available for national broadcast.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Vienna, VA
$25,000
To support production and distribution of the radio series Center Stage from Wolf Trap. The series provides national audiences with chamber music performances recorded at the Barns of Wolf Trap.

World Music Productions
Brooklyn, NY
$45,000
To support production and distribution of the weekly public radio program Afropop Worldwide. The series showcases the contemporary musical cultures of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, and is distributed by Public Radio International to approximately 100 radio stations in the United States.

Total Arts on Radio and Television grants: 45
Total Arts on Radio and Television dollars: $3,860,000

Challenge America: Access to the Arts

Act One, Inc.
Hollywood, CA
$10,000
To support the TV Track Curriculum. The workshop will focus on the specific requirements of screenwriting for television programs.

American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the production of Borders. The series of short documentaries by independent filmmakers and Internet artists is offered to the public via the World Wide Web.

American Film Institute, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the Directing Workshop for Women. Each year, the program provides individuals with the necessary skills and portfolios to enter the directing field.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$10,000
To support a new initiative, the Learning Center. The program will encourage community participation in the distribution of media art works in the Appalachian region, by sending six media artists to community centers, high schools, and colleges with their film and video projects.

Arab American Congress of Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA
$5,000
To support the eighth annual Arab Film Festival. Held in venues in San Francisco, Berkeley, and San Jose, the festival will showcase independent filmmakers working with Arab themes.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Video Data Bank)
Chicago, IL
$39,500
To support the transfer of works in the 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 and Visually Impaired Audiences
Seattle, WA
$18,000
To support the Blind Youth and Adult Audio Project. The series of workshops will introduce visually impaired people to the creative possibilities and latest techniques of audio production while they design their own radio program.

Arts Engine, Inc. (on behalf of MediaRights.org)
New York, NY
$12,000
To support improved access to independent films. The project will provide online access to films, filmmakers, and distributors, and will offer workshops for librarians, teachers, and nonprofit administrators to guide them in the use of independent media for their constituencies.

Camera News, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a digital media literacy and production education program. Components of the program are the Advanced Film and Video Production Workshop, Wednesday Night Media Workshops, and an Introduction to Final Cut Pro/Media Literacy Workshop Series.

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the CyberStudio Training and Screening Series and Video Training Workshops. Downtown Community Television is devoted to making technologically sophisticated media available to underserved communities by providing a range of courses.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Through an online catalog, works will be made available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums, and other organizations.

International Film Seminars, Inc.
New York, NY
$17,000
To support the 50th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. The week-long event will bring together students, scholars, filmmakers, curators, librarians, and film enthusiasts to explore and discuss the art of the moving image.

International Media Resource Exchange, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the African Diaspora in the Americas project. Films from Latin and South America will be made available to the public through distribution services and a national tour.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$39,500
To support the expansion of the Alive and Aloud and Library Access national outreach programs. The project will include the production of, and curriculum development for, an audio play based on Oedipus the King.

National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$15,000
To support radio production workshops for adults and high school students. Training will take place during the 2004 Community Radio Conference and the National Youth in Radio Training Project Conference, which will be held simultaneously in Albuquerque, N.M.

Pacific Islanders in Communications
Honolulu, HI
$7,000
To support the Community Media Workshop. To be held in July 2004, the workshop will train participants in various digital media production skills.

Pittsburgh Film Makers, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$32,000
To support the Artist Services Program. The program will include workshops, classes, facilities access, and community outreach.

Portland Art Museum (on behalf of Northwest Film Center)
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support Searchlight. Targeted to women and diverse populations, the two-year program will provide media production and literacy skills to an underrepresented community.

Scribe Video Center, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support a workshop program and other related activities. Scribe Video Center is a community-based media arts center that provides students and artists with the tools and skills necessary to produce video art works.

Station Resource Group, Inc. (consortium)
Takoma Park, MD
$20,000
To support a consortium project titled the Public Radio Exchange. A peer review process for audio pieces will be Internet-based and will link public radio stations, community stations, and independent producers for the digital distribution of radio content.

Waterfront Festival
Saugatuck, MI
$10,000
To support the Waterfront Film Festival. More than 6,500 people will attend 60 screenings of independent films, both narrative and documentary, at the summer festival.

Creativity

911 Media Arts Center
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support the Artists-in-Residence Program and the New Works Laboratory. Through equipment access and technical support, the program nurtures emerging and established media artists in the creative use of new technologies.

African Film Festival, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the 11th New York African Film Festival and its national tour. The program will present an overview of the last 50 years of African cinema.

American Museum of the Moving Image
Astoria, NY
$15,000
To support several curated film series. Together, Master Class: The Art of Screenwriting, Great Performances: Films Selected by the New York Film Critics Circle, and Repertory Nights will involve screenings of over 70 feature films and personal appearances by filmmakers.

Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor, MI
$20,000
To support the 42nd Ann Arbor Film Festival. More than 125 films will be presented to an audience of approximately 21,000 people in Michigan and in the states the festival tours.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support a curated film series. Celebrating American Cinema: Icons and Innovators will showcase films representing three genres - the western, the war film, and film noir - and retrospectives of the directors D. W. Griffith, Buster Keaton, Dorothy Arzner,Preston Sturges, and Orson Welles.

Arts Engine, Inc. (on behalf of Big Mouth)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support post-production and outreach costs for a documentary film by Kirsten Johnson. Life After Death Row will examine the consequences of the Supreme Court's 1972 decision to abolish the death penalty, and the more recent decision in Illinois of clemency for all of that state's death row inmates.

Asian CineVision, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Asian American International Film Festival. The festival will travel to 10 sites throughout the United States including campuses and cultural institutions in North Carolina, Nevada, and Maryland.

Asian Media Access, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
To support the ninth Chinese Film Showcase. The curated film series will feature films and videos from Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan.

Aurora Picture Show
Houston, TX
$11,000
To support a curated film series. Media Archeology: A 16mm Film Collectors' Series will showcase films ranging from home movies to stock footage.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the presentation of a curated film and video series. Over 90 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 25,000 people.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. (BAVC) (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the Videomaker Awards. In collaboration with Southern Exposure, this program will provide independent video artists and producers with critical technical assistance and the resources they need to finish their projects.

Berks Filmmakers, Inc.
Reading, PA
$7,000
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.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. (Squeaky Wheel)
Buffalo, NY
$15,000
To support SWAP: Squeaky Wheel Access Program. The 17-year old program provides media equipment access, low-cost workshops, artist residencies, and resource services to film and video artists locally and nationally.

Cabin Creek Center for Work
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the production of a documentary film by Barbara Kopple. Out of Our Minds (OOOM) will follow the first year of classes at the High School for Contemporary Arts in the South Bronx.

Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the 16th Onion City Film Festival. The Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series emphasizes documentary and experimental films and videos and the Onion City Film Festival is dedicated to exhibiting experimental work.

Chicago International Film Festival - Cinema Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the 40th Chicago International Film Festival. More than 60,000 people will see 130 films from around the world.

Cine Accion, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Cine Latino Film festival and a curated film series. More than 120 films will be presented to an estimated audience of 7,000 people.

Cinema Seattle
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the ninth Women in Cinema Film Festival. Approximately 25 films will be presented to an audience of more than 7,500 people.

Cinema St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the 13th St. Louis International Film Festival. Over 200 short and feature-length films will be presented to an audience of 16,500 people.

Cleveland International Film Festival, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
To support the 28th Cleveland International Film Festival, including the seventh Midwest Independent Filmmakers Conference. The event presents current work from around the world and complements it with educational programs to increase the audience's understanding and appreciation of the art form.

Denver Film Society
Denver, CO
$20,000
To support the 27th Denver International Film Festival. The event will present more than 150 films from the United States and abroad to an audience of more than 30,000 people.

Doc Arts, Inc.
Durham, NC
$20,000
To support the seventh Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The event will showcase work by emerging, established, and international documentarians.

Experimental Television Center, Ltd.
Newark Valley, NY
$10,000
To support a year-round residency program for media artists. The Experimental Television Center provides film and video artists access to sophisticated production facilities.

Facets Multi-Media, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support the 21st 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 Arts Foundation (on behalf of Thompson Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the production and post-production costs for an experimental documentary by Elizabeth Thompson. A Bird Flies Like Birds will tell the story of Carmen, a survivor of torture during the conflict in Guatemala, as she grapples and comes to terms with her past.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Madcat Women's Int'l Film Festival)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the 8th MadCat Women's International Film Festival. Over 50 films will be presented to an audience of approximately 6,000 people in California and in the states the festival tours.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Flower Films and Video)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary video by Les Blank. Butch Anthony is about the life and work of the self-taught artist from Alabama.

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support educational and exhibition activities. Designed to assist media artists from beginner to advanced, the program will offer special workshops and seminars as well as enhanced exhibition opportunities.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of K Bik Films)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support production and post-production costs for a television documentary by Ruby Yang. A Moment in Time will be a history of Chinese Americans through their movie-going experiences in American Chinatowns.

Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY
$45,000
To support several curated film series. Mass Production and Individual Expression in World Cinema will examine the films produced by film studios in Asia - the Shaw Brothers in Hong Kong and Japan's Shochiku Company - and will include a retrospective of the films by director Joseph Losey.

Film/Video Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Artist Mentor Project. Participants create individual film/video projects and have free access to on-site training, equipment and facilities, career counseling, information resources, and screenings of their work.

Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc.
Waltham, MA
$15,000
To support post-production and distribution costs for a documentary by Michal Goldman. Living in the Coops is about the United Workers Cooperative Colony, a utopian housing cooperative in the Bronx built by Jewish immigrant workers in the 1920s.

Foundation For Creative Broadcasting, Inc. (KXCI)
(on behalf of Outright Radio)
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
To support the production of radio programs to be hosted by David Gilmore. Outright Radio will focus on unique people in the gay community.

Frameline
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the presentation of a lecture series. Close-Up: Visionaries of Modern Cinema will feature the works of film professionals whose work has influenced lesbian and gay media over the years.

Independent Eye, Ltd.
Sebastopol, CA
$10,000
To support the production of a radio series by Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller. Hitchhiking Off the Map will combine documentary and drama techniques to explore transformations in people's lives.

Independent Feature Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the IFP Market. The conference and exhibition provides independent filmmakers from across the country the opportunity to present their work to the industry.

Independent Feature Project-North
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support educational activities and access to film and video equipment for media artists in the region. Over 500 film and video makers are expected to benefit from the project.

Independent Feature Project/Midwest
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the 13th IFP/Midwest Independent Filmmaker's Conference. The event provides opportunities for filmmakers to learn from, and meet with, industry professionals.

Independent Feature Project/West
Beverly Hills, CA
$20,000
To support the Los Angeles Film Festival. Over 150 films including dramatic features, documentaries, and short films will be presented to an anticipated audience of 35,000 people.

Independent Films
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 (on behalf of Latent Films)
Atlanta, GA
$35,000
To support the production of an experimental documentary film and installation work by Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum. Milk will examine the controversies surrounding the many uses of this fluid food.

Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Ect., Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support the 28th Atlanta Film Festival. The event presents the best of current independent film and video to an average audience of 15,000 people.

Independent Pictures
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
To support the 2004 Ohio Independent Film Festival. Over 130 films will be presented to an estimated audience of 3,000 people.

Kartemquin Educational Films
Chicago, IL
$50,000
To support the production of a documentary film by Maria Finitzo. At the Heart of the Matter will examine the issue of stem cell research by following a family for whom the subject has particular relevance on several levels.

Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the production of a radio series by Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva. Lost and Found Food will explore American life and culture through food.

L.A. Freewaves
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the ninth biennial celebration of experimental media arts. How Can you Resist Wires and Waves will present single-channel, multi channel, installation, and new media art via on-site exhibitions, cable television, and the Web.

LogTV, Ltd.
Spencer, NY
$25,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary video by Slawomir Grunberg. Portraits of Emotion will follow Jonathan Lerman, a 15 year-old artistic prodigy diagnosed with autism.

Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the 11th San Diego Latino Film Festival. The films and videos exhibited must be produced by Latinos or about the Latino experience.

MediaRites
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support the production of a radio series by Dmae Roberts. AsianAm: Profiles of Contemporary and Historic Asian Americans will feature stories about unsung heroes in Asian American history and modern times.

Mill Valley Film Festival (California Film Institute)
Mill Valley, CA
$10,000
To support a curated film/video series devoted to the presentation of documentaries. The screenings will feature guests and guided discussions among artists, filmmakers, scholars, and members of the audience.

Millennium Film Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the exhibition of experimental film and video art and a series of filmmaking workshops. Exhibitions will feature avant-garde cinema and video from the United States and abroad.

Moving Image, Inc.
New York, NY
$65,000
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 more established figures, to a large and diverse general public.

Nashville Independent Film Festival Nashville, TN
To support the Nashville Film Festival. The event f
$7,500
eatures student films and videos, documentaries, narrative films, and experimental work.

National Asian American Telecommunications
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and other exhibition activities. The film festival will showcase the work of new Asian Pacific American film and video makers.

National Audio Theatre Festivals, Inc.
Hempstead, NY
$10,000
To support the Audio Theatre Workshop. The series of classes trains audio artists in script writing, performance for radio, and technical skills to produce innovative live radio drama.

New Community Cinema, Inc.
Huntington, NY
$10,000
To support two curated film series. Discovering the World of Central Asian Contemporary and Classical Films will present work from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tadjikistan, and Film Festival from the People's Republic of China will showcase films made in China after 1949.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Strange Attractions)
New York, NY
$41,000
To support post-production costs for an experimental documentary film by P. Friedman and R. Manley. Mana, The Power of Things will examine the meaning of the word "belief" as it applies to religion and our everyday lives.

Northwest Film Forum (on behalf of Pinwheel Productions)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support production and post-production costs for an experimental narrative film by Jamie Hook. Even If It Kills Me tells the story of a 39-year-old woman grappling with taking her own life.

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support Deep Focus, a curated film exhibition series. The project will present director retrospectives by narrative and experimental filmmakers in Seattle's Grand Illusion Cinema and Little Theatre.

Ohio University Main Campus (on behalf of Athens Ctr. for Film and Video)
Athens, OH
$10,000
To support the 31st 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
Palm Springs, CA
$20,000
To support the 16th Palm Springs International Film Festival. Held in January, this event presents more than 200 films to an audience of over 75,000 people.

Provincetown International Film
Provincetown, MA
$10,000
To support the sixth Provincetown International Film Festival. Over 50 independent films will be screened to an estimated audience of 10,000 people.

Regents of the University of California (on behalf of Pacific Film Archive)
Berkeley, CA
$40,000
To support a curated film and video series. Documentary Voices will showcase documentary filmmaking as it is practiced worldwide.

Ridge Street Theater, Inc. (on behalf of Hypnotic Pictures)
New York, NY
$65,000
To support the pre-production, production, and post-production costs for an experimental narrative film by Bill Morrison. Photosensitive will tell the story of a young woman who experiences photosensitive epileptic seizures.

San Diego Asian Film Foundation
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the fourth San Diego Asian Film Festival. Held in the fall, the four-day event features short films, animated work, documentaries, and narrative feature films.

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support a curated film and video series. Lessons Learned will feature contemporary media artists screening their own works paired with influential works by their avant-garde forebears.

San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the 47th San Francisco International Film Festival. The event presents over 200 films from 50 countries to an audience of 90,000 people.

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the 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.

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the creation of radio stories based on interviews collected from StoryCorps kiosks in New York City. StoryCorps, produced by David Isay, is a nationwide initiative to instruct and inspire citizens to record oral interviews.

Soundprint Media Center, Inc.
Laurel, MD
$20,000
To support the Age of Discovery. Through this international residency program, audio artists will produce documentaries focusing on youth culture.

Southern California Asian American
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the 20th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. The event is Southern California's showcase of independent Asian International and Asian Pacific American film and video work.

Southwestern Alternate Media
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support the production and statewide 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 over 12 million viewers throughout Texas.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers
Nevada City, CA
$6,000
To support the Screenwriting Program. The workshop is centered on the essence of storytelling and teaches participants how to "show" rather than "tell" their stories.

Standby Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support access to state-of-the-art, broadcast quality, post-production video equipment for artists and independent producers. Standby's access program is a unique model of collaboration between a nonprofit arts organization and privately owned businesses.

Sundance Institute
Salt Lake City, UT
$115,000
To support a series of educational workshops and labs that offer emerging screenwriters, directors, producers, and composers the opportunity, support and resources needed to successfully develop new creative work.

Teachers College, Columbia University
(on behalf of African Diaspora Film Festival)
New York, NY
$7,500
To support the African Diaspora Film Festival. The event will present over 70 films from the United States and abroad to an audience of over 4,000 people.

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium
Jersey City, NJ
$20,000
To support the Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. Over 60 organizations host the festival each year, which draws more than 700 entries from throughout the country.

Tundra Club
Bozeman, MT
$20,000
To support the production of (((Hearing Voices))) to be curated by Barrett Golding. These radio documentaries will consist of people around the country talking about their life, their work, and their community.

University of Florida (on behalf of Documentary Institute)
Gainesville, FL
$10,000
To support the purchase of music rights for a television documentary by Sandra Dickson and Churchill Roberts. Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power will use jazz, R&B, black protest, and gospel tracks to evoke the tensions of the 1960s.

University of Illinois at Chicago (on behalf of School of Art and Design)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support post-production costs for an experimental documentary by Silvia Malagrino. Burnt Oranges will examine life under the authoritarian regime that governed Argentina in the 1970s.

Upstate Films, Limited (on behalf of Timed Exposures)
Rhinebeck, NY
$25,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Ralph Arlyck. Following Sean is about a young man who grew up in Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco during the 1960s.

Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$15,000
To support the 18th Dallas Video Festival. The event will present classic work programmed with new video art.

Video Veracity, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
To support post-production costs for a television documentary by Rebecca Snedeker. Queen for a Day will give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the debutante season in New Orleans.

Washington, DC International Film
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support Filmfest DC. The event includes free films for children, senior citizens, and underserved communities.

WBEZ Alliance, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the Third Coast International Audio Festival. Established in 2001 as a "Sundance for Radio," the festival provides an opportunity for documentarians, feature reporters, and audio artists from around the globe to gather and share their expertise, and for listeners to hear some of the best work currently produced.

Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a broadcast outreach initiative. Women Make Movies is the leading distributor for women's media with a collection of more than 500 films and videotapes created by artists worldwide.

Heritage & Preservation

Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the preservation of films by Marie Menken and Storm De Hirsch. The materials for these films have been placed permanently with Anthology Film Archives by the estates of the filmmakers. The 61 total works will be preserved on 16mm film and duplicated for distribution.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support ongoing, low-cost video preservation services to artists and arts organizations throughout the nation. In addition, Bay Area Video Coalition will launch an audio preservation and remastering service center.

George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support In Glorious Technicolor. Unique and endangered Technicolor films produced between 1927 and 1951 will be preserved.

Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Magnetic and New Media Preservation Online Sourcebook. The online resource will provide the latest information for video and audio preservation contacts and include information on new media, installation, and related paper ephemera preservation.

Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
$10,000
To support the transfer of films from the David Bradley Film Collection to videotape and DVD. The university's collection includes work by D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. De Mille, and Charlie Chaplin.

Museum of Modern Art
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 (MoMA's) Department of Film and Media saves 50 to 100 films by transferring them from unstable nitrate stock to acetate, and also preserves fading and damaged acetate films.

National Center for Jewish Film
Waltham, MA
$20,000
To support the preservation of The Cantor's Son and His Wife's Lover. The center's collection contains the only surviving 35mm prints of the films, both of which are in danger of decomposing. Once preserved, the films will be presented worldwide at film festivals, media arts centers, libraries, museums, and universities.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (consortium)
Staten Island, NY
$5,000
To support a consortium project to archive work from the radio series New American Radio. Artists including Pauline Oliveros, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Charles Amirkahnian produced work for the series.

Pacifica Foundation
Universal City, CA
$15,000
To support the initial phases of preservation of arts-related recordings in the Pacifica archive. Of the 40,500 tapes housed in the archive, approximately 25 percent represent arts programming, which include radio adaptations of plays, poetry, literature readings, original radio dramas, artist interviews, and sound sculptures.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of UCLA Film and TV Archive)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
To support the 12th Festival of Preservation. Consisting of films preserved at the UCLA Film andTelevision Archives, the film festival presents work ranging from the silent era to more contemporary cinema.

Silent Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support the 9th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Held during the summer, the event presents film programs with live musical accompaniment. Films to be screened include The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, Lady of the Night, and The Circus.

South Carolina Archives and History Foundation
Columbia, SC
$5,000
To support the preservation and distribution of the film It's Grits. Directed by Stanley Woodward in 1979, It's Grits examines the culture of the South through the lens of this regional cuisine.

Services to Arts Organizations and Artists

Association of Independents in Radio
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
To support expansion of the publication Airspace and the association's Web site. The two communication vehicles deliver a broad range of services to independent radio producers.

Film Arts Foundation (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support the Ninth Street Media Arts Consortium. Four media arts organizations, housed in the same building, will share resources, staff, and facilities that serve artists and audiences.

Foundation for Independent Video and Film
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the Information Services Project. The project consists of the publication The Independent Film and Video Monthly, the electronic newsletter Splice!, one-on-one artist advice and referral services, and online directories.

Hollywood Theater of the Ear (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
To support the publication of The Well Tempered Audio Dramatist. Working with the National Audio Theatre Festivals, Hollywood Theater of the Ear will provide nuts-and-bolts instruction on the writing, producing, and directing of audio drama.

Independent Television Service, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support the International Public Television (INPUT) Conference in 2005. The conference, to be held in San Francisco, will bring together media artists and public television professionals from around the world to view productions and exchange information.

National Alliance of Media Arts
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support the Open Knowledge Initiative. Designed to strengthen the media arts field infrastructure, this Web-based program will convene artists and arts administrators to exchange information, build coalitions, develop strategies, and offer support.

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc.
Santa Monica, CA
$5,000
To support the Latino Media Resource Project. The online database will provide a one-stop source of information targeted to Latino independent producers.

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