Film/Television/Radio and New Media: FY2002 Grants

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

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Access

American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the production of Virtual Lives, a series of short documentary works by independent filmmakers and Internet artists offered to the public via the Web. The series will combine independent filmmaking with community-building dialogue via an Internet site that will include episodic installments and features that encourage user participation.

Arab Women's Solidarity Association (on behalf of Arab Film Festival)
San Jose, CA
$5,000
To support the sixth annual Arab Film Festival. Held in venues in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose, this event will present approximately 30 films to an estimated audience of 3,000 people.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$5,000
To support SWAP: Squeaky Wheel Access Program. This 15-year-old program provides media equipment access, low-cost workshops, artists residencies and resource services to film and video artists locally and nationally.

Camera News, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a digital media literacy and production education program. This includes the 25th year of the Advanced Film and Video Production Workshop, the Wednesday Night Media Workshops, and the Introduction to Final Cut Pro/Media Literacy Workshop Series.

Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the publication of special supplements for Cineaste magazine. The organization will also increase its writers' fees.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Through Electronic Arts Intermix's on-line catalog, more than 3,000 works will be made available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums and other organizations.

International Film Seminars, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the 48th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. The event will bring together students, scholars, filmmakers, curators, librarians and film enthusiasts to explore and discuss the art of the moving image.

Jewish Arts Foundation
Palm Beach, FL
$5,000
To support the 13th Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival. The event is devoted to Jewish-subject films from international and American independent sources that otherwise would not be screened in Palm Beach.

National Black Programming Consortium
Pittsburgh, PA
$9,000
To support the fifth Prized Pieces film festival. The event, held in the fall, showcases new work by African and African American video and filmmakers.

Station Resource Group, Inc. (consortium)
Takoma Park, MD
$35,000
To support the Radio Exchange. Through this Web-based service, public radio stations will have access to creative radio productions, and individual producers will find new outlets for their work.

Arts on Radio and Television

American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$250,000
To support the selection, acquisition, packaging and promotion of films for the 2003 broadcast of P.O.V. (Point of View), a primetime public television series that showcases the art of independent, non-fiction filmmakers. As public television's longest running broadcast venue devoted exclusively to the art of nonfiction film, P.O.V. brings documentary artworks - rarely found in the mainstream media - into America's living rooms.

American University
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the production of literary programs on the radio series The Diane Rehm Show. These shows will feature fiction, poetry, biography, essays and more. Each week, one million listeners on 76 stations currently hear The Diane Rehm Show.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$20,000
To support the development and production of a radio series documenting the living music and cultural traditions of the Central Appalachian highlands. Intended for national broadcast, each program will combine musical presentations, interviews and narration.

Art 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$175,000
To support the second year of Art for the Twenty-First Century, a four-year public television series about contemporary visual art and artists in the United States. The project will include the production of four, one-hour programs featuring intimate profiles of artists and the contexts within which they work.

Association for Community Television
(on behalf of Welcome Home Productions)
Houston, TX
$50,000
To support the production of a documentary on Project Row Houses. Welcome Home will explore the transformation of Houston's Third Ward neighborhood from its decline to its current status as a role model for urban renewal.

Capital Concerts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support The National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth, two patriotic concerts at the U.S. Capitol to be nationally broadcast live on PBS in 2002. A national television audience of 10 12 million watches each of these 90-minute programs every year.

Center for Independent Documentary, Inc.
Waban, MA
$75,000
To support production of a documentary television series on self-taught artists. The six-part series will follow African American artists who make compositions out of bones, broken tools, fabric scrapes, torn-up roots, rusty buckets, burned rope, car parts and other "junk."

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the production and national distribution of the radio series, Chamber Music from Lincoln Center. Thirteen, one-hour programs will be offered free of charge to public radio stations across the country in 2002-03.

Choral Arts Society of Washington
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the production and distribution of the radio series, Celebrating the Choral Arts. Five, two-hour holiday specials will provide national audiences with concerts by the Choral Arts Society of Washington performed at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Concert Productions, Inc.
Boston, MA
$70,000
To support the production of the public radio series From the Top to be broadcast in 2002-03. The hour-long program combines performances by exceptional young classical musicians, ages nine to 18, interviews, guest artists, and a 14-year-old "roving reporter" who profiles the young musicians.

Detroit Educational Television Foundation
Detroit, MI
$15,000
To support research and development for a documentary on Vietnam War veterans as artists. Through the Green Door will be based on the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago where more than 140 artists' works are exhibited.

Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the production of a radio series of music from the National Folk Festival. In collaboration with the National Council for the Traditional Arts, Duquesne University's WDUQ-FM will select audio performances from the last 30 years of the festival to present a variety of artists and musical traditions.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
$500,000
To support the development and production of the television series American Masters for national PBS broadcast in 2002-03. Definitive documentary profiles of major cultural figures will be made available to millions of viewers in all 50 states over 340 public television stations.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
$550,000
To support the development and production of Thirteen/WNET's Performing Arts Series, including Great Performances and Dance in America for national broadcast on PBS in 2003-04. 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.

ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Inc.
(on behalf of South Carolina Educational Radio)
$65,000
Spartanburg, SC
To support the production of new programs for the weekly radio series Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. National Public Radio will distribute the programs to American audiences on more than 245 stations in the United States, and to international audiences via NPR Worldwide.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Geller Goldfine Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary tracing the history and impact of the Ballets Russes companies and the individuals who danced within them. Ballet Russes: A Living Legacy will cover the over eighty-year story of the blend of Russian, American, Canadian, Cuban and Latin American dancers and their impact not only within the dance community, but also on theater and film communities during the 20th century.

Films for Humanity, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support research and development for a documentary film on Robert and Frances Flaherty. Eyes to Illuminate: The Lives and Work of Robert and Frances Flaherty will examine the Flahertys' growth as artists when non-fiction film was emerging as an art form in and of itself, away from ethnographic and adventure filmmaking.

Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation
(on behalf of Bras Coupe Films)
$10,000
New Orleans, LA
To support the production of Stories from the Faubourg Treme. The one-hour documentary will feature six storytelling performers from America's oldest black urban neighborhood.

Illume Productions, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the production of a television documentary series about the meaning of monuments. Monuments: Reminders and Warnings will explore the meaning of monuments, the creative process behind them, and their role as purposeful public art that partly shapes American identity.

International Cultural Programming, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support a television series on the dance traditions of the Pacific Islands. Dances of Life will be a two-hour series as seen through the eyes of the people who practice it as an art form and way of life.

Jack Straw Memorial Foundation
(on behalf of Reel Women Productions)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support a documentary radio series that will profile objects held in museums that are rarely or never displayed. The Hidden Treasures Radio Project is intended for broadcast on National Public Radio's Morning Edition or Public Radio International's Studio 360.

Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
Anchorage, AK
$20,000
To support the 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 60,000 people per broadcast.

Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
Anchorage, AK
$25,000
To support arts reporting, performance and features on the nationally distributed radio programs National Native News and Native America Calling. These daily news and information programs, which reach 360,000 listeners each week, are also available via the Internet.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$15,000
To support the production of radio plays intended for national and international distribution. Three plays will be recorded in front of a live audience in collaboration with Washington, DC theater companies, and two plays based on recent Broadway/Off Broadway productions will be recorded in-studio.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$150,000
To support national telecasts in 2003-04 of the public television series Live From Lincoln Center. The series is broadcast on approximately 300 PBS stations across the 50 states and U.S. territories and reaches an average of five million viewers per program.

MediaRites
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support the production of an eight-part radio series by Dmae Roberts. 1st Person Radio Stories will focus on eight different people going through challenging experiences in their lives.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support post-production costs for a national PBS telecast of Alban Berg's Wozzeck. Based on Georg Buchner's play, this 20th century opera is about a low-ranking soldier who is tormented by his officers, his doctor and the mother of his child.

Minnesota Public Radio
St. Paul, MN
$70,000
To support the production and national broadcast of St. Paul Sunday, a weekly, one-hour radio series presenting the vitality, diversity and excellence of chamber music. The program will be heard on more than 215 radio stations throughout the United States in 2002-03.

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
San Antonio, TX
$100,000
To support production costs for a three-part television series examining the cultural and artistic expression of Latino communities found within the United States. Visiones: Latino Art and Culture will give viewers an overview of the growth of cultural arts centers, dance and theater companies, and other cultural organizations within the Latino Diaspora.

National Public Radio
Washington, DC
$150,000
To support the NPR Classical Music Initiative. The initiative will include the recording, acquisition and national radio broadcast of selected American symphony orchestras on the daily classical music series Performance Today, the weekly program SymphonyCast, and the presentation of American operatic productions for NPR's World of Opera series.

National Public Radio
Washington, DC
$150,000
To support production and distribution of year-round jazz programming to reach national radio audiences. NPR's Jazz Initiative will include the Peabody Award-winning documentary program Jazz Profiles, Jazz Riffs and the development and acquisition of other jazz programming created for radio, satellite and Internet distribution.

New England Foundation for the Arts
(on behalf of ArtWorks Educational Foundation)
Boston, MA
$45,000
To support research and development for a television series on the arts for children. Targeted for six to 12 year olds, the 13-part series will champion the artistic development, literacy and expression of children.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Robert Levi Films)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film on Billy Strayhorn. Piano in the Background: The Story of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington will chronicle Mr. Strayhorn'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 Anker Productions)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support post-production costs for the two-part television series Music From the Inside Out. Intended for a national PBS broadcast, the series will explore the intangible qualities of music as seen through the eyes of the members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Newark Public Radio, Inc.
Newark, NJ
$70,000
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 National Public Radio to approximately 135 public radio stations throughout the country.

North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$30,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film profile of Margo Jones. Intended for national broadcast and distribution, the one-hour program will tell the story of Ms. Jones' rise to national recognition when she founded and ran the Fair Park in Dallas, the first professional resident theater outside New York.

Oregon Public Broadcasting (on behalf of Actual Films)
Portland, OR
$75,000
To support a television series on the Third Reich's attempt to seize and appropriate Europe's great art collections, and the efforts of the Allied Governments to preserve them. The Rape of Europa will be a three-part series intended for national PBS broadcast.

Paradigm Productions
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
To support research, development and scripting costs for a one-hour documentary film on Jose Clemente Orozco. A member of the Mexican mural renaissance, Jose Clemente Orozco rivaled Diego Rivera in technique, authenticity and talent, but never achieved the same recognition.

Pennsylvania Public Radio Associates, Inc.
Uwchland, PA
$40,000
To support the production of concerts and feature programs for Echoes, a nationally broadcast radio series of contemporary music. The series will serve a weekly audience of nearly 300,000 listeners from 175 stations in 36 states and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the production of live radio broadcasts of performances by the New York Philharmonic in 2002-03. Approximately 5 million listeners per month will hear each two-hour program.

Public Radio International, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$70,000
To support the production, distribution and marketing of Studio 360 in 2002-03. 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 Public Radio International and WNYC/FM.

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

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the production of a radio documentary for the series American Sound Portraits. To be aired on NPR's All Things Considered, David Isay will produce this program.

Sweet Bird Classics
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support a series of music education radio programs for children. Boombox Classroom is a new, multi-part series targeted to children in kindergarten through fifth grade that features classical and world music.

Sylvan House, Inc. (on behalf of Ghostlight Films)
Orange, CT
$100,000
To support the development and production of a television series on the history of the Broadway musical. Broadway: The American Musical will be a six-part series intended for national PBS broadcast.

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
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 125 National Public Radio stations in 2003-04, will present leading stage and screen actors reading both classic and new short fiction by established and emerging authors of diverse cultures.

Tundra Club
Bozeman, MT
$15,000
To support the production and national distribution of a series presenting the work of independent radio producers. Hearing Voices will be a compilation of documentaries, sound portraits and features that will be thematically curated.

University of New Orleans Foundation (on behalf of American Routes)
New Orleans, LA
$50,000
To support the production and national distribution of American Routes, a weekly radio series from New Orleans devoted to the roots of popular music and popular roots music. The series is currently carried by 150 radio stations and is heard by approximately 500,000 listeners each week.

University of Texas at Austin (on behalf of KUT)
Austin, TX
$30,000
To support the production and acquisition of arts and cultural programs to be broadcast nationally on Latino USA, a weekly English language radio journal of news and culture. The series is aired on 198 stations, reaching more than 200,000 U.S. listeners each week, and is heard worldwide through the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.

West Virginia Public Broadcasting Foundation, Inc.
Charleston, WV
$40,000
To support the production and national broadcast of the radio series Mountain Stage. Distributed by Public Radio International to more than 125 stations throughout the United States, the weekly, two-hour program presents contemporary music and traditional roots performers.

WHYY, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$75,000
To support the production and national broadcast of the radio series Fresh Air with Terry Gross. The award-winning daily journal of contemporary arts, culture and issues is broadcast on 355 public radio stations and heard by three million people each week.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Vienna, VA
$25,000
To support the production and distribution of the radio series Center Stage from Wolf Trap. The 13-part series provides national audiences with chamber music performances recorded at the Barns of Wolf Trap.

World Music Productions
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support the production and national distribution of the weekly public radio program Afropop Worldwide in 2002-03. 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 U.S.

Writer's Center (on behalf of Out of the Box Productions)
Bethesda, MD
$15,000
To support research and development costs for a documentary on Frank Gehry's addition to the Corcoran Gallery of Art. The film will explore Washington's architectural heritage juxtaposed with the proposed design, while also examining new museum architecture both here and abroad.

Challenge America Access

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the CyberStudio for the Arts Residency Program and Video Training Workshops Program. Downtown Community Television is devoted to making technologically sophisticated media available to underserved communities by providing a range of courses.

Jack Straw Memorial Foundation (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support the Blind Youth and Adult Audio Project. With Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences, the series of workshops introduces visually impaired people to the creative possibilities and latest techniques of audio production while they design their own radio program.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$50,000
To support the distribution of two audio plays to 2,500 underserved public secondary schools and 700 public libraries, including those for the blind or visually impaired. In addition, L.A. Theatre Works will provide the organizations with promotional materials to augment the collection.

New Orleans Video Access Center, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
To support the provision of workshops and production equipment for media artists and students. The New Orleans Video Access Center offers, at greatly reduced rates, access to training and sophisticated production facilities for artists to create new work.

Creativity

911 Media Arts Center
Seattle, WA
$17,500
To support the Artists-in-Residence Program. Through equipment access and technical support, the program nurtures emerging and established artists in the creative use of new technologies.

African Film Festival, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the exhibition and tour of a series of films from Africa. The theme of the 2002 festival is "The Next Generation: African Cinema Today."

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

American Indian Film Institute
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the 2002 annual American Indian Film Festival and the quarterly film journal Indian Cinema Entertainment. At the 27th anniversary festival, documentaries and feature films will be presented along with work by emerging Native filmmakers.

American Museum of the Moving Image
Astoria, NY
$15,000
To support three curated film series. The Vanguard: African American Film Pioneers, Rudolph Valentino, and Masters of Cinematography will include screenings of over 60 feature films and 20 personal appearances.

Ancestral Films, Inc.
Houston, TX
$5,000
To support the fourth Houston Pan-Cultural Film Festival. Held biannually, this event will focus on the work of American independent filmmakers and emerging directors from Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
To support the 40th Ann Arbor Film Festival and its national tour. Over 125 films will be presented to an audience of over 21,000 people in Michigan and the states to which the festival tours.

Art Institute of Chicago for the Video Data Bank
(on behalf of the Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support Showcasing American Independent and International Cinema. This curated film series will present 35 contemporary and classic films to Chicago audiences in the newly constructed Gene Siskel Film Center.

Asian CineVision, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the 2002 Asian American International Film Festival and its national tour. After its run in New York, the festival will travel to 10 sites throughout the United States including Wisconsin, Florida, North Carolina, Texas and Pennsylvania.

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

Aspen Filmfest (Independent Films)
Aspen, CO
$10,000
To support the Aspen Shortsfest film festival. Short, live action, animation and documentary films from the United States and abroad will be showcased.

Atlantic Public Media, Inc.
Woods Hole, MA
$40,000
To support www.Transom.org. The project is a public radio/Internet initiative designed to foster new and artistic audio artworks.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$25,000
To support the presentation of underrepresented works of cinema spanning more than 100 years of film history. Over 135 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 34,000 people.

Austin Film Society (on behalf of Passage Productions)
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Susanne Mason. Let It Roll: A History of the Texas Penitentiary recounts the inmate-led revolt against prison conditions in Texas during the 1960s and 1970s.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the Artist Equipment Access Program. The program provides training, technical assistance and equipment access services to artists and independent producers.

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

Boston Film Video Foundation, Inc.
Boston, MA
$30,000
To support professional and artistic development opportunities for media artists in New England. Through a comprehensive media arts education program, the New England Film and Video Festival, and works-in-progress screenings (Rough Cuts), the foundation provides a full range of services to its constituents.

Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the Independent Feature Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the Onion City Film Festival. The Independent Film and Video Festival places special emphasis on documentary and experimental films and video and the Onion City Film Festival is dedicated to experimental work.

Cinema Arts Centre (New Community Cinema)
Huntington, NY
$10,000
To support The Weekend Mini-Focus Series: A Journey Across Four Continents. The curated film series will showcase American independents, African/African American cinema, films from the Peoples Republic of China, and Latino/Hispanic work.

Cleveland Film Society
Cleveland, OH
$25,000
To support the 26th annual Cleveland International Film Festival, including the fifth annual Midwest Independent Filmmakers Conference. Held in the spring, the event presents current work from around the world along with educational programs to increase the audience's understanding of, and appreciation for, the art form.

Community Media Productions, Inc.
Yellow Springs, OH
$50,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary series produced by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert. Intended for national broadcast on PBS, A Lion in the House follows five families whose lives are transformed when each family learns one of their children has cancer.

DC Productions, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the production of a series of radio documentaries by Dan Collison. Waiting It Out will follow the stories of Americans whose lives are in transition.

Four Oaks Foundation (on behalf of DocuClub)
New York, NY
$7,500
To support the exhibition of documentary films. DocuClub's mission is to facilitate filmmakers in the making of their documentaries by providing a supportive community to screen, provide feedback, and assist in the completion and distribution of the work.

EBS Productions, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the 2002 International Film Financing Conference. This annual event encourages and increases collaborations between American producers and international film production entities.

Experimental Television Center, Ltd.
Newark Valley, NY
$10,000
To support a year-long residency program for media artists from throughout the United States. 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 annual Chicago International Children's Film Festival and related media arts programs for children. Activities include animation workshops, a media arts camp, media literacy courses, curriculum development, and special exhibitions of films for children throughout the year.

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$57,000
To support the Artist to Artist project. This mentorship program will encourage emerging and mid-career artists to connect with more established media-makers to further develop their skills.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Nathaniel Dorsky Film & Video)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the production of an experimental silent film by Nathaniel Dorsky. This new work will explore the meaning of devotion.

Film Arts Foundation (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support the Ninth Street Media Arts consortium, a project in which four media arts organizations, all housed in the same building, will share resources, staff and facilities. Already viewed as a national model of partnership, the consortium will formalize its processes to include joint decision-making, governance and program delivery.

Film Arts Foundation
(on behalf of Wadi Rum Films & Little Dust Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$55,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Roko Belic, Jazmine Dellal and Adrian Belic. Freedom Writers is a story about a low-income high school English class and its extraordinary teacher.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Locomotion Films)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the production of an experimental documentary film by Jay Rosenblatt. Phantom Limb will be about loss and grief.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Waveland Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support production, post-production and distribution costs for a documentary program by John Hewitt. Smokestack Lightnin' tells the story of the blues artist Chester Arthur Burnett, also known as Howlin' Wolf.

Film Forum (Moving Image, Inc.)
New York, NY
$60,000
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.

Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY
$40,000
To support three curated film series. A New Wind from the East will showcase films from India, Egypt and South Korea.

Film/Video Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Internship Program. Each year, Film/Video Arts provides emerging artists with mentoring opportunities, training and access to equipment.

Foundation for Independent Video and Film
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the publication of The Independent Film and Video Monthly and maintenance of its on-line companion resource. This nationally distributed magazine provides information on all aspects of independent film and video production including practical, esthetic and scholarly articles.

Frameline
San Francisco, CA
$16,000
To support the presentation of a film series. Modern Masters of Lesbian and Gay Cinema will feature the works of six filmmakers who have influenced lesbian and gay media for the past quarter-century.

Harvard University (on behalf of Harvard Film Archive)
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
To support the presentation of two film retrospectives. One will focus on the work of the German director Werner Schroeter, and the other on the Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha.

Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute
Hot Springs, AR
$7,500
To support the 2002 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. Attended by over 16,000 people, the festival is dedicated to the art of nonfiction film.

Independent Eye, Ltd.
Sebastopol, CA
$5,000
To support the production of two radio programs 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
$25,000
To support the Independent Feature Film Market. Held in the fall, this six-day conference provides independent filmmakers from across the country the opportunity to present their work to the industry.

Independent Feature Project/West
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the 2002 Los Angeles Film Festival. Over 100 films, including dramatic features, documentaries, shorts and music videos, will be presented.

Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc., Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support the 26th Atlanta Film and Video Festival. The event presents the best of current independent film and video to an audience of approximately 13,000 people.

International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the 18th Chicago Latino Film Festival. Over a 10-day period, Chicago Latino Cinema exhibits the work of directors of Ibero or Latin American descent, as well as films directly related to Latino culture.

iotaCenter (Iota Fund)
Los Angeles, CA
$16,000
To support Kinetica 4, a traveling film exhibition program. The project will primarily feature films by Jordan Belson and James Whitney.

Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support the production of Lost & Found Sound & Beyond, a collection of new radio stories by Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva (aka the Kitchen Sisters). Exploring American life through recorded sound, the works will be aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

L.A. Freewaves
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support Appropriate/Appropriated, the eighth celebration of independent video and new media. The biannual event will include work by artists creating single channel work, installations, CD-ROMs and innovative Web sites.

Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
$5,000
To support the ninth annual San Diego Latino Film Festival. The films and videos exhibited must be produced by Latinos or be about the Latino experience.

Millennium Film Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,500
To support the exhibition of experimental film and video art and the provision of filmmaking workshops. Exhibition programs will feature the work of avant-garde cinema and video from the U.S. and abroad.

National Asian American Telecommunications Association
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. The 10-day event showcases the work of new Asian Pacific American film and video makers.

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

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Only Child Motion Pictures)
$15,000
New York, NY
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary produced by Ira Wohl and Katie Cadigan. John Cadigan will direct People Say I'm Crazy.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Nobody's Girls)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support finishing costs for a documentary on the children's opera Brundibar, produced by Mirra Bank. The dance company Pilobolus and author/illustrator Maurice Sendak are collaborating to revive the opera. The film will track its development from rehearsals through premiere.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Lumiere Productions)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support research and development costs for a documentary series by Ali Pomeroy, Cal Skaggs and David Van Taylor. To Tell the Truth will explore the history of nonfiction film, shedding light on the art of filmmaking itself and on the way documentarians have helped shape popular history.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Mrex Productions)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support post-production costs for an experimental documentary by Reiko Tahara. Enmyoin tells the story of a 95-year old Japanese female Buddhist priest.

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$5,000
To support Weekend Rarities, a curated film exhibition series. The project will present director retrospectives and thematic programming.

One Reel
Seattle, WA
$5,000
To support the 1 Reel Film Festival. Dedicated to showcasing the works of contemporary American filmmakers who work in short format, the event takes place during the annual Bumbershoot Seattle Arts Festival.

Pittsburgh Film Makers, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support an experimental film forum during the annual Three Rivers Film Festival. The initiative will enable experimental filmmakers to share their work and ideas with each other and the audience.

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support On The Edge, a series of residencies for artists, scholars and curators focusing on experimental cinema. Each residency will be one week long, with lectures, workshops, panels and screenings.

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the 2002 Jewish Film Festival and related activities. The festival, devoted to Jewish-subject films, will be held in July and August of 2002 in San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto and Marin County.

Scribe Video Center, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support Scribe's workshop program. Classes assist independent artists, community organizations and the interested novice in understanding the language and craft of storytelling through film and electronic media technology.

Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Inc.
Nashville, TN
$5,000
To support the 2002 Nashville Independent Film Festival. The event features student films and videos, documentaries, narrative films and experimental work.

Southern California Asian American Studies Central, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$17,500
To support the 17th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. Held in the summer, the event 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 statewide distribution of The Territory. As the longest running public television showcase of media art in the United States, the 13-part series presents independent film and video works to over 12 million viewers throughout Texas.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers
Nevada City, CA
$5,000
To support the Screenwriters Program. The eight-day workshop is centered on the essence of storytelling and provides participants with an understanding of the language and grammar of film necessary for a clear, readable and intelligent script.

Standby Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the provision of state-of-the-art, broadcast-quality, post-production video equipment to 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 for Film and Television
Salt Lake City, UT
$110,000
To support a colloquium on documentary film and 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.

Taos Talking Pictures, Inc.
Taos, NM
$7,500
To support the Taos Talking Picture Film Festival and related activities. The event is held in the spring and showcases films by independent filmmakers working in all genres, including narrative, experimental and documentary.

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium
Jersey City, NJ
$18,000
To support the 2002 Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. Over 60 organizations throughout the United States host the festival each year, and it draws over 800 entries annually from all over the country.

University of California at Berkeley
(on behalf of Pacific Film Archive)
$40,000
Berkeley, CA
To support 50 Years of Bay Area Avant-Garde Film and Video. This curated, two-part exhibition series will present a comprehensive overview of the Bay Area's contribution to experimental cinema.

Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support the 16th Annual Dallas Video Festival. Over a five-day period, the event will present classic work programmed with new video art.

Washington, DC International Film Festival
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the 2002 Washington, DC International Film Festival. Held annually in the spring, the event includes free films for children, senior citizens and underserved communities.

Heritage/Preservation

Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$12,000
To support a curated film series. The Iron Lens will focus on the rise of experimental film in Pittsburgh during the 1970s.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the provision of national video preservation services to artists and arts organizations and other related activities. Services include: the recording, retrieval and preservation of video art and art on video, and the dissemination of information to the interested public.

District of Columbia Jewish Community Center, Inc.
(on behalf of Washington Jewish Film Festival)
$5,000
Washington, DC
To support the 13th Annual Washington Jewish Film Festival. To be held in the fall of 2002, this event celebrates Jewish culture and the richness of the Jewish experience through the language of film.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
(on behalf of Independent Media Arts Preservation)
$10,000
New York, NY
To support workshops and consultations to teach arts organizations how to care for and preserve their media collections. The Independent Media Arts Preservation organization was formed to support the preservation of art works reflecting the early history of independent media.

George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support the preservation of five films made in the United States between 1917 and 1923. The films are especially notable because they are early classics from the careers of Douglas Fairbanks, Viola Dana, Harold Lloyd and Mae Murray.

Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the preservation of critically endangered films from the museum's nationally recognized collection that are crucial to the history of film as an art form. The museum's Film Department saves 50 - 100 films from disintegration each year 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 three historically and culturally significant films in jeopardy of decomposing. The center's collection contains the only surviving copies of these films.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (consortium)
Staten Island, NY
$10,000
To support the cataloging and preservation of work from the radio series New American Radio. New American Radio (1989-1998) was a weekly series that encouraged artists from all disciplines to create radiophonic art works.

University of California at Los Angeles
(on behalf of UCLA Film & Television Archive)
$7,500
Los Angeles, CA
To support a curated film series. The retrospective will feature Ida Lupino as both an actress and a director.

Vasulkas, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$5,000
To support the restoration and transfer of hundreds of hours of reel-to-reel and videotape to a digital format. The Vasulka Archive and the Media Study/Buffalo Collection contain a broad variety of video artworks that span the medium's lifetime.

Organizational Capacity

911 Media Arts Center (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support the biannual National Alliance of Media Arts Centers' conference. Scheduled for fall of 2002, the event will explore innovations and trends in the media arts field.

Association of Independents in Radio
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
To support expansion of the publication Airspace and the redesign of the association's Web site. These two communication vehicles deliver a broad range of services to independent radio producers.

Foundation for Independent Video and Film (consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the continuation of The Media Arts Environmental Scanning Tour of Regional Organizations in partnership with the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers. The foundation and the alliance have implemented a series of forums bringing together media artists and administrators to address issues affecting the professional needs of those working in the field.

Latino Entertainment Media Institute
Burbank, CA
$10,000
To support the Conversations With program, a series of discussions with celebrated directors, writers and actors centered on the guests' education, career achievements and other professional accomplishments. The intimate presentations, modeled after Inside the Actor's Studio, give invaluable information to individuals seeking a career or advancement in the entertainment industry.

National Alliance of Media Arts Centers
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the enhancement of the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers' Web site. The alliance is the main service organization for media arts organizations.

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