2010 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence
[ March 12, 2009 deadline ]
Artists Communities |
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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 17th New York African Film Festival and the 13th edition of the African Film Festival Traveling Series, which will tour to 13 or more American cities. The program will showcase contemporary and classic films from Africa and the African diaspora.
American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the digitization of filmmaker interviews that have accompanied works broadcast on the television series P.O.V. Since the series began in 1988, P.O.V. (Point of View) has featured companion interviews with the artists whose films have been presented as part of the series.
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
To support the 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival. More than 120 films will be presented to an audience of approximately 15,000 people in Michigan and the states to which the festival tours.
Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$50,000
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.
Appalshop, Inc. (Consortium)
Whitesburg, KY
$15,000
To support Appalshop at 40. In partnership with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the Appalshop film series will tour to 25 venues across the United States.
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 2,000 titles by 450 artists for distribution.
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. Documentary Dialogues will be a year-long exhibition program featuring new documentary work from the United States and abroad.
Arts Engine, Inc. (aka Media That Matters Film Festival/MediaRights)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 10th 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.
Aspen Film
Aspen, CO
$15,000
To support the 19th Aspen Shortsfest film festival. Short live action, animation, and documentary films from the United States and abroad will be showcased.
Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$35,000
To support the presentation of several curated film and video series. More than 80 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 18,000 people.
Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$85,000
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, as well as the dissemination of information to the public.
Belcourt Theatre, Inc.
Nashville, TN
$15,000
To support the presentation of a curated film series and related visiting artist discussion program. More than 100 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 40,000 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
San Rafael, CA
$15,000
To support the 33rd 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 28th San Francisco Asian American Film Festival. The event will showcase new work by and about Asian Americans and Asians.
Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$15,000
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 Inc. Cinema-Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the 46th Chicago International Film Festival. More than 60,000 people will see 150 films from around the world.
Cleveland International Film Festival, Inc. (aka Cleveland Film Society)
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
To support the 34th Cleveland International Film Festival. The festival presents current work from around the world and complements it with educational programs to increase the audiences understanding of, and appreciation for, the art form.
Colorado Film Society (aka Boulder International Film Festival)
Boulder, CO
$10,000
To support the 6th Boulder International Film Festival. Held in February, the Cleveland Film Society will present more than 50 films from the United States and abroad to an audience of 15,000.
Denver Film Society
Denver, CO
$10,000
To support the 33rd 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
$20,000
To support the 13th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The event will showcase work by emerging, established, and international documentarians.
Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
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 Theatre, Inc.
Maitland, FL
$10,000
To support the 19th annual Florida Film Festival. Held in the spring, the event presents more than 160 films to an audience of 25,000.
Facets Multimedia Inc.
Chicago, IL
$100,000
To support the 27th 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.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the 16th Los Angeles Film Festival. More than 100 films including dramatic features, documentaries, and short films will be presented to an anticipated audience of 80,000.
Film Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
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 the work of filmmakers from Latin America and the Caribbean; and Film Comment Selects, focusing on new and established artists.
Frameline
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support a retrospective of films by Andy Warhol. Warhol's better known works (Chelsea Girls, Sleep) will be exhibited alongside his less-often seen films.
Independent Media Artists of GA, Etc. Inc. (aka Atlanta Film Festival)
Atlanta, GA
$7,500
To support the 34th 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
$10,000
To support workshops and related activities on the preservation of media collections. The workshops will be held at not-for-profit organizations across the United States.
Indo-American Arts Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 10th 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 (east) Indian origin.
Jacob Burns Film Center, Inc.
Pleasantville, NY
$35,000
To support a curated film series. International Understanding Through Film will feature more than 100 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 approximately 10,000 people.
Kartemquin Educational Films
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the distribution of documentary films made between 1968 and 1984. Kartemquin-produced films, including Hoop Dreams, have been exhibited nationally and internationally at film festivals, played theatrically, and have aired nationally on public television.
MadCat Women's International Film Festival
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the 14th MadCat Women's International Film Festival and national tour. Approximately 75 films will be presented to an audience of 5,000 people.
Media Arts Center San Diego (aka San Diego Latino Film Festival)
San Diego, CA
$15,000
To support the 17th San Diego Latino Film Festival. The films and videos exhibited are produced by Latinos or are about the Latino experience.
Miami Dade College (on behalf of Miami International Film Festival)
Miami, FL
$15,000
To support the 2010 Miami International Film Festival. Held in March, the event presents more than 137 films to an audience of 75,000 people.
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
$125,000
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.
Nashville Film Festival
Nashville, TN
$7,500
To support the 41st Nashville Film Festival. The event features student films and videos, documentaries, narrative films, and experimental work.
National Center for Jewish Film, Inc.
Waltham, MA
$10,000
To support the preservation and restoration of the Yiddish-language film Yiddle With His Fiddle. This musical comedy, made in 1936 by Joseph Green and Jan Nowina-Przybylski, stars Molly Picon as a girl who disguises herself as a boy in order to travel the countryside with her father as a fiddling duo.
National Film Preservation Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$55,000
To support the first year of production of a DVD anthology, Treasures V: The West.
National Film Preserve, Ltd. (aka The Telluride Film Festival)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
To support the 37th 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
$10,000
To support several 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.
Newport International Film Festival
Newport, RI
$10,000
To support the 13th Newport International Film Festival. More than 100 films will be presented to an audience of approximately 10,000 people.
Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$35,000
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
$10,000
To support the 37th 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. Of the 50,000 tapes housed in the archive, approximately 25 percent represent arts programming.
Palm Springs International Film Society
Palm Springs, CA
$20,000
To support the 21st Palm Springs International Film Festival. Held in January, the event presents more than 200 films to an audience of approximately 130,000 people.
Portland Art Museum (on behalf of Northwest Film Center)
Portland, OR
$35,000
To support the Northwest Film and Video Festival and its tour throughout the Northwest. The festival showcases new work by media artists living in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Pacific Film Archive)
Berkeley, CA
$50,000
To support Endangered Films and Videos: Preserving the Avant-Garde. More than 15 films and videos by Bay Area artists will be preserved by Pacific Film Archive.
RiverRun International Film Festival
Winston-Salem, NC
$10,000
To support travel and related costs for filmmakers and industry professionals to attend the 12th RiverRun International Film Festival. Held in the spring, the event presents approximately 100 films to an audience of 13,000 people.
San Diego Asian Film Foundation (aka San Diego Asian Film Festival)
San Diego, CA
$15,000
To support the 11th San Diego Asian Film Festival. Held in the fall, the 10-day event features short films, animated works, documentaries, and narrative feature films.
San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support a curated film series. International Perspectives will feature contemporary international experimental film and video work.
San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
To support the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival and other related exhibition programs. Approximately 400 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 116,000 people.
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the 30th 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
$20,000
To support the 36th Seattle International Film Festival. More than 400 films will be presented to an audience of 150,000 people.
Silent Film Festival (aka The San Francisco Silent Film Festival)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the 15th 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
$20,000
To support Visual Communication's 26th 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.
Houston, TX
$25,000
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 one million viewers per year throughout Texas.
Video Association of Dallas, Inc. (aka VideoFest)
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support VideoFest 23. The event will present independent, alternative, and non-commercial media to an audience of approximately 8,000 people.
Washington DC International Film Festival, Inc. (aka Filmfest DC)
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the 24th annual Filmfest DC. The event includes free films for children, older people, and underserved communities.
Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
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 2010 Woodstock Film Festival. The event includes screenings, panels, workshops, and concerts.
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