2011 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ August 12, 2010 deadline ]

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Visual Arts

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

Media Arts

American Museum of the Moving Image (aka Museum of the Moving Image)
Astoria, NY
$65,000
To support the Moving Image Source, a website that is a resource for students, curators, scholars, filmmakers, and others interested in the moving image. Launched in the spring of 2008, Moving Image Source is a repository for information about film, including original writings about film and film history, calendars of events from art houses both in this country and abroad (with detailed postings on retrospectives and film festivals), and a searchable database about films.

Arts Engine, Inc. (aka Media That Matters Film Festival / MediaRight) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film by Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman. In conjunction with Human Rights Watch (HRW), Arts Engine will produce The E-Team, a feature-length documentary about HRW's emergency workers who investigate human rights abuses in various hotspots around the globe.

Association of Independents in Radio, Inc.
Boston, MA
$84,000
To support Public Media Makers Shift, a program of professional development services for independent radio producers. Activities will include mentorships, residencies, workshops, training, and networking and resource opportunities.

Atlantic Public Media Inc
Woods Hole, MA
$35,000
To support Transom.org, a website that acts as a showcase, workshop, audition space, library, and master class for producers. The project encourages both emerging and experienced independent audio producers to tell their stories on public radio.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support the Mediamaker Awards program, that will provide independent video artists and producers with the technical assistance and resources they need to finish their projects. There will be eight emerging and mid-career artists selected for the year-long program; they will have access to Bay Area Video Coalition's state-of-the-art facilities as well as receiving technical training through BAVC's digital media workshops.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. (aka Squeaky Wheel)
Buffalo, NY
$40,000
To support SWAP: Squeaky Wheel Access Program, a 25-year-old program that provides media equipment access, low-cost workshops, artist residencies, and resource services to film and video artists locally and nationally. Through this program, film and video cameras, microphones, light kits, sound equipment, and editing facilities are made available for rental.

Center for Independent Documentary, Inc. (Consortium)
Sharon, MA
$20,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Elizabeth Harrington. In conjunction with the Virginia Heritage Music Trail: The Crooked Road, the Center for Independent Documentary will produce The Winding Stream that tells the story of the Carters, the Cashes, and the efforts of the present day family to keep their legacy alive.

Denver Film Society
Denver, CO
$10,000
To support the Young Filmmakers Workshop, a series of classes in filmmaking for middle and high school students. Workshops range in skills for novices to those with prior filmmaking experience and include instruction in screenwriting, camera work, editing, lighting, and scoring.

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$95,000
To support workshops, facilities access, and related activities. Downtown Community Television is devoted to making technologically sophisticated media available to underserved communities by providing a range of courses and services.

Educational Video Center
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the Youth Documentary Workshop that teaches high school students to research, shoot, and edit documentaries about issues in their communities. The 15-week course develops the participants' leadership and critical literacy skills by immersing them in a project in which they move from research through post-production, finishing with public screenings of the work.

Free History Project
San Francisco, CA
$26,000
To support production and post-production costs for an experimental documentary film by Sam Green. Fog City will be a documentary about weather and landscape and will include a collage of moving images that illuminates and explores fog in the urban environment.

IFP-Minnesota
St. Paul, MN
$30,000
To support educational activities, access to film and video equipment for media artists in the region, and a screening series. Workshops include Elements of Screenwriting, Directing the Non-actor, and Documentary Bootcamp.

Independent Feature Project, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$85,000
To support Independent Film Week that provides independent filmmakers from across the country the opportunity to present their work to the industry. One-on-one meetings between producers and financers, distributors, exhibitors, funders, and broadcasters are held throughout the week in New York City; screenings are offered throughout the day, while seminars and workshops are held concurrently at nearby locations.

International Film Seminars, Inc. (aka The Flaherty)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the 57th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, a week-long event to be held at Colgate College in Hamilton, New York. The seminar brings together students, scholars, filmmakers, curators, librarians, and film enthusiasts to explore and discuss the art of the moving image.

Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
To support the production and national distribution of a series of audio documentaries to be produced by Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva. Hidden Kitchens World will explore life and culture through food across the globe with stories ranging from the Quaker chocolate communities of England to honey hunters in India and bread bakeries in Morocco.

L.A. Freewaves
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support Out the Window, a commissioning and exhibition project. L.A. Freewaves will commission 60 video artists to create 2-minute works to be shown on 2,200 Los Angeles metro buses every day over the course of two months.

Long Haul Productions, Inc.
Three Oaks, MI
$35,000
To support production and post-production costs for a series of audio documentaries by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister. American Anthology will examine a wide range of timely issues such as the effect of undocumented workers in a small town in Iowa; the current social, political, and environmental issues of the Salton Sea; boomtowns in North Dakota; and the prospects for Idlewild, Michigan, a once-vibrant resort for African Americans that has fallen into disrepair.

National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Inc. (aka NAMAC)
San Francisco, CA
$85,000
To support services to the not-for-profit media arts field. NAMAC will focus on three core areas: 1) providing technical assistance to its constituency; 2) expanding its online information and social media network; and 3) planning for its 2012 national conference.

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc. (aka NALIP) (Consortium)
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
To support Doing Your Doc: Diverse Visions, Regional Voices, a series of regional conferences. In collaboration with the Center for Documentary Studies (aka the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival), NALIP will offer seminars in four different cities concentrating on documentary film development and production for emerging documentarians from underserved communities.

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc. (aka NALIP)
Santa Monica, CA
$20,000
To support the eighth Latino Media Market that will connect filmmakers with representatives from both the not-for-profit and commercial film and television fields. Organizations that will participate include Miramax Films, HBO, American Documentary/POV, Fine Line Features, and the Sundance Channel.

Ninth Street Media Consortium, Inc. (aka Ninth Street Independent Film Center)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support a programmatic collaboration at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center, a consortium of eight media arts organizations, all housed in one building. The collaboration involves the continuing implementation of a shared information technology department for the occupants and a facilities department.

Northwest Documentary Arts & Media (aka NW Documentary)
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support documentary workshops and related activities for media artists in the Pacific Northwest. The programs will encourage artists to enhance their storytelling skills through hands-on educational classes, access to film, video and audio equipment, and additional resources.

Outpost Artists Resources (aka The Outpost)
Ridgewood, NY
$8,000
To support the Cuts and Burns Residency Program. Selected multimedia artists are provided with free access to Outpost's facilities and editors to complete their work.

Paradigm Productions, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
To support production and post-production costs for a personal documentary by Rick Tejada-Flores. In The Road to Chulumani, the filmmaker will examine his family's history as it relates to Bolivia (his grandfather was President of Bolivia from 1934-1936) and the repercussions for both his family and the country itself.

Portland Art Museum (on behalf of Northwest Film Center)
Portland, OR
$73,000
To support Cinema in Situ, a series of community-based artist residencies. Media artists will work within various communities throughout the state of Oregon, partnering with community organizations, schools, social service agencies, and other organizations to create documentaries, short narratives, and public service announcements about issues in their communities.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Pacific Film Archive) (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$65,000
To support Behind the Scenes, an artist residency program specifically for film specialists working outside of the directorial role (screenwriters, editors, and cinematographers). A partnership between the San Francisco Film Society and Pacific Film Archive, the artist-in-residence will conduct workshops and master classes, deliver lectures and presentations, and participate in public screenings in Berkeley and San Francisco.

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the production and publication of Cinematograph 8: Oral Histories. The journal will bring together discussions with noted filmmakers (Stan Brakhage, Hollis Frampton, Trinh Minh-ha) recorded at San Francisco Cinematheque events over the past several decades along with newly commissioned interviews with emerging filmmakers.

Scribe Video Center, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$85,000
To support workshop programs and 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 artworks.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers (aka Squaw Valley Screenwriters)
Nevada City, CA
$10,000
To support the Screenwriting Program, a week-long workshop that focuses on the essence of storytelling and teaches participants how to "show" rather than "tell" their stories. During the project, professional staff will provide 25 students with an introduction to the language and grammar of film to help them write clear, readable, and intelligent scripts.

Standby Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support access to state-of-the-art, broadcast-quality production and post-production video equipment for media artists and independent producers. Standby's access program is a unique model of collaboration between a not-for-profit arts organization and privately owned businesses, wherein Standby has agreements with several of the best video editing facilities in New York so media artists may use their services during off-hours (evenings and weekends) at rates discounted by as much as 80% off the usual commercial rates, which range from $300 to $1,000 per hour.

Sundance Institute
Park City, UT
$150,000
To support the Feature Film Program. The program offers emerging screenwriters, directors, producers, and composers the opportunity, support, and resources needed to successfully create new work.

Tribeca Film Institute
New York, NY
$45,000
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.

Tundra Club (aka Hearing Voices: Radio Art)
Bozeman, MT
$33,000
To support Vox Popic Music, a radio series that will explore the history of popular music from the 1940s to the present. To be produced by Barrett Golding, with each hour will be devoted to a particular decade, the seven-hour series will include interviews with everyday people describing how music affected their lives, juxtaposed with the songs that are mentioned.

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506

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