Film/Television/Radio and New Media: FY2003 Grants

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

Access | Arts on Radio and Television | Creativity | Heritage/Preservation

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Access

911 Media Arts Center (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support New Voices 3.0, a mentoring program that provides emerging film and video makers the opportunity to create broadcast-quality short documentaries for public television. Working with KCTS, the PBS affiliate in Seattle, 911 selects up to ten producers to participate in New Voices.

American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the production of Borders. The series of short documentaries by independent filmmakers and Internet artists will be offered to the public via the Web.

American Turkish Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support The Festival of Turkish Film - 1930-2003. The curated film series will showcase Turkish films selected for their artistic and historical significance.

Arab American Congress of Silicon Valley (on behalf of Arab Film Festival)
San Jose, CA
$5,000
To support the seventh annual Arab Film Festival. Held in venues in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose, the festival will present approximately 30 films to an estimated audience of 4,000 people.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Video Data Bank)
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support the transfer of approximately 400 titles in Video Data Bank's (VDB) 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 VDB's Web site, www.vdb.org.

Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support the Blind Youth and Adult Audio Project. 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.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. (aka Squeaky Wheel)
Buffalo, NY
$10,000
To support SWAP: Squeaky Wheel Access Program. The 16-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. (aka Third World Newsreel)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a digital media literacy and production education program. Components of the program will be the Advanced Film and Video Production Workshop, Wednesday Night Media Workshops and an Introduction to Final Cut Pro/Media Literacy Workshop Series.

Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the publication of Cineaste, a quarterly film magazine dedicated to the art and understanding of cinema. Cineaste will report on Asian-American filmmakers, Spanish films and images of Greece, and will publish a special supplement on history and the cinema.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc. (EAI)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Through an online catalog, more than 3,000 works will be available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums and other organizations.

International Film Seminars, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the 49th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. The weeklong event will bring together students, scholars, filmmakers, curators, librarians and film enthusiasts to explore and discuss the art of the moving image.

L.A. Freewaves
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the production and distribution of Not TV. The 26-part television series will showcase independent media artworks and broadcast them on local public access stations.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$60,000
To support the expansion of the Alive and Aloud and Library Access national outreach programs. Alive and Aloud distributes audio plays with curricula to schools in all 50 states and the Library Access program distributes audio plays to more than 700 libraries in low-income, underserved neighborhoods.

Media Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the development of innovative models of self-distribution for emerging film and video makers. Once developed, the models will be available on the Web.

New Orleans Video Access Center, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
To support workshops for media artists and students. Access to training programs and sophisticated production facilities will allow artists to create new work.

Video Machete (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support the distribution of youth-produced media art. Working with MediaRights.org, Video Machete will tour and exhibit a compilation of work by young artists, create a Web portal to access its database of titles and conduct workshops on methods of distribution.

Waterfront Festival
Saugatuck, MI
$7,500
To support the Waterfront Film Festival. More than 6,000 people will attend 60 screenings of independent films.

Writers' League of Texas (on behalf of Austin Cinemaker Co-op)
Austin, TX
$15,000
To support the Seminar Series, a year long program that will provide students the opportunity to learn a variety of filmmaking techniques. Courses to be offered include Intro to Super 8 Filmmaking, Art of Film Installation and Non-linear Editing.

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 2004 broadcast of P.O.V. (Point of View). As public television's longest running series devoted exclusively to the art of independent, non-fiction film, P.O.V. brings documentary artworks--rarely found in the mainstream media--into America's living rooms.

American Film Foundation
Santa Monica, CA
$45,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film about Tony Kushner. Wrestling with Angels will be a portrait of the playwright and his creative process.

Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collaborative, Inc.
(on behalf of Gancie Television)
Atlanta, GA
$45,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary about Jacob Lawrence. Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence will be a one-hour program that will examine the painter's professional and personal life.

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 2003. A national television audience of 10-12 million watches each of these 90-minute programs every year.

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.

Columbia Music Festival Association (on behalf of EdArts)
Columbia, SC
$25,000
To support the research and development of scripts for an educational television series about music intended for children ages eight to 10. A character-driven dramatic series, SlamJam will provide young viewers with exposure to a variety of musical styles and genres.

Concert Productions, Inc.
Boston, MA
$115,000
To support the production of the public radio series From the Top to be broadcast in 2003-2004, as well as a two-hour From the Top television special to be taped in Carnegie Hall. The weekly, hour long radio program features performances by exceptional young classical musicians, ages nine to 18, interviews, guest artists and a 15-year-old "roving reporter" who profiles the young musicians.

Council for Positive Images, Inc. (aka CPI)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary on Katherine Dunham. Katherine Dunham: A Portrait of the Artist will be a 90-minute television program on the life and work of this African American anthropologist, dancer and choreographer.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (aka Thirteen/WNET New York)
New York, NY
$500,000
To support the development and production of the television series American Masters for PBS broadcast in 2003-2004. Definitive documentary profiles of major cultural figures will be made available to millions of viewers in all 50 states over 345 public television stations.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (aka Thirteen/WNET New York)
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 broadcast on PBS in 2004-2005. 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)
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 to American audiences on more than 242 stations in the United States, and to international audiences via NPR Worldwide.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Performance and Media Art)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary on composer Lou Harrison. Lou Harrison: A World of Music will be a feature-length film that will examine Lou Harrison's personal and professional life.

Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc. (on behalf of Ambrica Productions)
Waltham, MA
$50,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film on Mary Pickford. Using home movies, archival footage, photographs, interviews, atmospheric shots and Ms. Pickford's own films, the documentary will provide a portrait of a complex and powerful woman.

Independent Television Service, Inc. (aka ITVS)
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
To support the selection, acquisition and packaging of films for the 2003-2004 broadcast of the primetime public television series, Independent Lens. The series will provide the public with access to innovative dramatic, animated and documentary works by independent filmmakers.

Jack Straw Memorial Foundation (aka Jack Straw 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.

Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support planning, research and development of Lost and Found Film, a series of stories for television, created from rare, unusual and little-known moving image footage. Evolving from the Kitchen Sisters' Peabody Award-winning NPR series Lost and Found Sound, the series will use personal and archival film, found footage and "orphan films" to produce richly layered stories about daily life.

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 nearly 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. The daily news and information programs reach 360,000 listeners each week and are available via the Internet.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$40,000
To support the production and distribution of The Play's The Thing, a weekly radio theater series intended for broadcast on satellite and public radio stations nationwide. Up to 17 new radio plays, recorded live before audiences in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, will be produced.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$140,000
To support telecasts in 2004 of the 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 Stories 1st, a series of radio specials and a related online magazine featuring stories by independent radio producers and writers. Stories will be curated around themes such as Earth Day, Summer and Women's History Month, and will be broadcast by public radio stations as specials throughout the year.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. (aka The Met)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support post-production costs for a national PBS telecast of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. The plot revolves around the efforts of a young knight in 16th-century Germany to win the hand of his beloved by proving himself in a song contest with the help of a warm-hearted cobbler who happens to be a master singer.

Minnesota Public Radio, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$125,000
To support the production and national broadcast of classical music programming in 2003-2004. St. Paul Sunday, Pipedreams, Composers Datebook and broadcast concerts by the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra will reach more than 1.3 million listeners each week.

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
San Antonio, TX
$50,000
To support post-production costs for a three-part television series examining the cultural and artistic expression of Latino communities 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 fund Performance Today, SymphonyCast and World of Opera broadcasts, as well as the production of music segments for NPR's news programs.

National Public Radio
Washington, DC
$45,000
To support the production and national broadcast of new documentary profiles of notable American artists. Twenty-six NPR Biography features will be aired in 2003-2004 on National Public Radio's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Toots Crackin Productions)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary about the "Silver Belles." Been Rich All My Life will focus on five women tap dancers who performed between sets by bandleaders Cab Calloway, Count Basie and Duke Ellington.

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 Lumiere Productions, Inc.)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the production of a six-part documentary television series on the history of documentary film. Intended for national PBS broadcast, To Tell the Truth will shed light on the art of non-fiction filmmaking from the advent of cinema to the 1970s.

Newark Public Radio, Inc. (aka WBGO)
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 to approximately 120 public radio stations throughout the country.

Paradigm Productions, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$45,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film on Jose Clemente Orozco. A member of the Mexican mural movement, 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 radio series of contemporary music. The series will serve a weekly audience of more than 300,000 listeners over 150 stations in 35 states and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka New York Philharmonic)
New York, NY
$55,000
To support the production of live, monthly radio broadcasts of performances by the New York Philharmonic in 2003-2004. Approximately five million listeners will hear each two-hour program.

Public Radio International, Inc. (aka PRI)
Minneapolis, MN
$65,000
To support the production, distribution and marketing of Studio 360 in 2003-2004. 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.

Radio Diaries, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the production of up to eight, 30-minute documentaries for the series Radio Diaries. A fusion of art and journalism, the program uses sounds, scenes, conversations and personal reflections to chronicle the lives of people over time, while weaving together a narrative thread to create drama.

Radio Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the production of a new series of public radio programs featuring the legendary American humorists Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding. Up to 52, half-hour Bob & Ray programs will be created using archival material that has not been heard since its original broadcast (1946-76).

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$200,000
To support a public television series featuring Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. The Music Show is designed to help a national audience appreciate the power and relevance of classical music in contemporary life.

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the production of up to ten new programs for the American Talkers radio series. Produced by David Isay for broadcast on NPR, the series presents the voices of ordinary Americans with an extraordinary penchant for storytelling.

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, a co-production of Ghostlight Films and WNET/New York, will be a six-part series intended for national PBS broadcast.

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
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 130 NPR stations in 2004-2005, 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 (on behalf of Riverwalk)
San Antonio, TX
$20,000
To support the weekly public radio jazz series Riverwalk, Live From the Landing. Distributed by PRI to 153 stations nationwide, each hour-long program combines live performance with interviews, oral histories and historical recordings to showcase the contributions of important artists and eras in jazz history.

Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. (TPT) (aka KTCA-TV)
St. Paul, MN
$100,000
To support the production of a three-part documentary film The American Home. The series, intended for broadcast on PBS, will explore the history and evolution of the single-family home in the United States in the 20th century.

University of New Orleans Foundation (on behalf of American Routes)
New Orleans, LA
$45,000
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. Folklorist Nick Spitzer hosts the two-hour, weekend-oriented program, in which he combines recordings of popular, folk, jazz and classical forms with in-studio performances, field features and interviews.

West Virginia Public Broadcasting Foundation, Inc. (aka Mountain Stage)
Charleston, WV
$30,000
To support the production and broadcast of the radio series Mountain Stage. Distributed by Public Radio International to 115 stations throughout the United States, the weekly, two-hour program presents contemporary music and traditional roots performers.

WHYY, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$70,000
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 406 NPR stations and heard by four million people each week.

Wisdom of the Elders, Inc.
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support the production of Turtle Island Storytellers, a series of traditional storytelling segments to be featured on the weekly Native-American radio program Wisdom of the Elders. Twenty-six, eight minute modules will showcase indigenous storytellers from around the country with stories, narration and music.

WNYC Radio, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the production of The Next Big Thing, a weekly public radio series reflecting the cultural life of the city. Hosted by Dean Olsher and distributed nationally by PRI, the series commissions radio producers, writers, musicians, artists and performers to create new works for the radio medium.

World Music Productions
Brooklyn, NY
$45,000
To support the production and distribution of the weekly public radio program Afropop Worldwide in 2003-2004. 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.

Youth Radio
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
To support Youth Voices on Art and Culture, a series of nationally distributed radio programs about art and culture, produced by young people. Youth-produced commentaries and short modules will air on NPR news programs, and half-hour specials covering youth culture will be produced for Public Radio International.

Creativity

(BAVC) Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the Videomaker Awards and the Artist-in-Residence Program. These programs will provide independent video artists and producers with critical technical assistance and the resources they need to finish their projects.

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 media artists in the creative use of new technologies.

African Film Festival, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the 9th New York African Film Festival and its national tour. The program will present the most accomplished African films from the past 20 years, including a retrospective of Abderrahmane Sissako's career.

American Film Institute Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support the Directing Workshop for Women. Each year, the program provides individuals with the necessary skills and portfolio to enter the directing field.

American Museum of the Moving Image
Astoria, NY
$15,000
To support three curated film series. World Film Showcase, Sound and Silents: Films in Two Versions, and New York Film Critics Series will include screenings of over 50 films and appearances by filmmakers and critics.

Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
To support the 41st Ann Arbor Film Festival. Over 125 films will be presented to an audience of over 30,000 people in Michigan and the states to which the festival tours.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Gene Siskel Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support a curated film series. Pan-Asian Cinema: A Non-Western Aesthetic will showcase work from Asia and the sub-continent.

Arts Engine, Inc. (on behalf of MediaRights.org)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support web-based information services for independent filmmakers. MediaRights.org's mission is to build bridges between documentary filmmakers and grassroots audiences.

Arts Engine, Inc. (on behalf of Big Mouth Productions)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film by Kirsten Johnson. The Class of '72 will explore the lives of people who were on death row when the Supreme Court abolished the death penalty on June 29, 1972.

Asian CineVision, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the Asian American International Film Festival. The festival will travel to 10 sites throughout the United States including Connecticut, Texas, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.

Asian Media Access, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
To support the eighth 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
$14,000
To support the Aspen Shortsfest film festival. Short, live action, animation and documentary films from the United States and abroad will be showcased.

Association of Independents in Radio
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
To support the Residency Project. Experienced radio producers will work at individual public radio stations to create new work on their own and with the staff at each station.

Austin Film Society (on behalf of Passage Productions)
Austin, TX
$10,000
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.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$25,000
To support the presentation of a curated film and video series. Over 70 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 36,000 people.

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

BFVF (Boston Film Video Foundation, Inc.)
Brighton, MA
$25,000
To support professional and artistic development opportunities for media artists in the New England region. Through a comprehensive media arts education program, the Boston Film/Video Foundation (BFVF) provides a full range of services to its constituency.

Black Maria, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the production of an interactive cinema work by Grahame Weinbren. The Nights: An Arabesque, based on The Thousand and One Nights, will be an installation that allows viewers to navigate from one story to the next.

California Newsreel (Resolution, Inc.)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the television series Africa in the Picture. Resolution, working with PBS Plus, will package and present three African feature films during February 2003.

Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the Onion City Film Festival. The Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series places special emphasis on documentary and experimental work; the Onion City Film Festival presents experimental work.

Cine Accion
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Cine Latino Film Festival. Over 90 films will be presented to an estimated audience of 5,000 people.

Cinema Arts Centre (New Community Cinema)
Huntington, NY
$10,000
To support a weekend film festival series. The programs will showcase African/African-American film and video, Latino/Hispanic films, works directed by women and a Chinese Film Festival.

Cinema Seattle
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the 8th annual Women in Cinema Film Festival. Approximately 35 films will be presented to an audience of over 7,000 people.

Cinema/Chicago
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the 39th Chicago International Film Festival. Over 60,000 people will see 125 films from around the world.

Cleveland International Film Festival, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$25,000
To support the 27th annual Cleveland International Film Festival, including the sixth annual 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 of, and appreciation for, the art form.

Columbia University Teachers College (on behalf of African Diaspora Film Festival)
New York, NY
$7,500
To support the African Diaspora Film Festival. The event will present over 50 films from the United States and abroad to an audience of over 4,000 people.

Day, Swing, Grave Productions
Culver City, CA
$20,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film by Meena Nanji and Amie Williams. View Through a Grain of Sand will examine the lives of three women refugees from Afghanistan now living in Pakistan.

DC Productions, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the production of a radio documentary series by Dan Collison. Homeplace will examine the meaning of home to Americans living in communities struggling to survive.

Denver Film Society
Denver, CO
$15,000
To support the 26th Denver International Film Festival. The event will present over 150 films from the United States and abroad to an audience of over 30,000 people.

Digital Innovations Group
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the second cycle of the Crossover program. The program combines the sensibilities and storytelling skills of independent filmmakers with the tools necessary to create interactive works.

Doc Arts, Inc.
Durham, NC
$20,000
To support the 6th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The event will showcase work by emerging, established and international documentarians.

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support ConnecTV. The two-year training/mentorship program will provide up to 20 producers with disabilities the skills and resources to create their own television and Internet broadcasts.

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 annual 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.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Suzan Pitt Films)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the production of a narrative animated film by Suzan Pitt. El Doctor is the story of a very old doctor whose views are transformed when a fictional saint visits him.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Manning Sax Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support production and post-production costs for a one-hour film by Erin Sax and Caitlin Manning. The Prison Show is about a 20-year-old call-in radio program that reaches inmates in Texas prisons and the community that has formed around the show.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of 3 Dogs Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the post-production costs for an experimental documentary film by Naomi Uman. Mala Leche will examine the life of an immigrant family living in the small agricultural town of Pixley, California.

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$55,000
To support the Masters Project. Designed to assist mid-career media artists, the program will offer special workshops and seminars as well exhibition opportunities.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Flower Films and Video)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the post-production costs for a documentary by Les Blank. White Feathers, Black Bones is about the life and vision of David Hoffman, an American tea importer.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of CineMamas Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support post-production costs for a one-hour documentary by Victoria Funari. Maquilopolis will profile women workers in Tijuana's assembly factories.

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support the Ninth Street Media Arts Consortium. Four media arts organizations, all housed in the same building, will share resources, staff and facilities that serve media artists and audiences.

Film Institute of Northern California (on behalf of the Mill Valley Film Festival)
Mill Valley, CA
$5,000
To support a curated film series. Cinema Africa, Wild Stories will take place during the 26th Mill Valley Film Festival.

Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY
$45,000
To support Images Across the Divide. The curated film series will showcase films from Turkey, Spain and the Middle East.

Film/Video Arts, Inc.
Broadway, NY
$20,000
To support the Intern Program and the Artist Mentoring Project. In both programs, participants create individual film/video projects and have free access to on-site training, equipment and facilities, and career counseling.

Film/Video Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Chimpanzee Productions)
Broadway, NY
$60,000
To support the production of an experimental documentary film by Thomas Allen Harris. The Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela is about the first wave of exiles to leave South Africa in 1960 to tell the world about apartheid.

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

Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater, Inc.
Lincoln, NE
$10,000
To support the Great Plains Film Festival. The festival provides a showcase for film and video artists working in the American heartland.

Friends of Walter C. Pierce Community Park
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the production of a radio series by Katie Davis. Neighborhood Stories will be composed of essays, sound portraits and oral histories of the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

IFP MSP (Independent Feature Project/North)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the purchase of film and video equipment for use by media artists in the region. Over 100 film and video makers are expected to benefit from the project.

IMAGE (Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc., Inc.)
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support the 27th Atlanta Film and Video Festival. The event presents the best of current independent film and video to an average audience of 13,000 people.

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
$30,000
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/Midwest
Chicago, IL
$7,500
To support the 12th IFP/Midwest Independent Filmmaker's Conference.

Independent Feature Project/West
Beverly Hills, CA
$10,000
To support the Los Angeles Film Festival. Over 100 films including dramatic features, documentaries and short films will be presented to an anticipated audience of 30,000 people.

International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the 19th Chicago Latino Film Festival. Over a two-week period, Chicago Latino Cinema (CLC) will exhibit the work of directors of Ibero or Latin American descent, as well as films directly related to Latino culture.

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. Exploring American life through recorded sound, the works will be aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

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

Media Process Educational Films
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support production and post-production costs for a television documentary by Robert Hercules and Cheri Pugh. The Mengele Twins is about Eva Kor, a surviving twin of the atrocities committed by Josef Mengele, who used twins as human guinea pigs during the Third Reich.

Millennium Film Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the exhibition of experimental film and video art and filmmaking workshops. Exhibitions will feature the work of 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. Moving Image (aka Film Forum) is devoted to bringing a broad array of the highest-quality new work by emerging artists, as well as more established figures, to a large and diverse general public.

NAATA (National Asian American Telecommunications Association)
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 Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc.
Santa Monica, CA
$15,000
To support the Annual National Conference targeted to Latino film and video producers. Through plenary sessions, hands-on workshops, seminars, exhibits and screenings, the event explores the state of the industry and technology for Latino media 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 York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Strange Attractions, Inc.)
New York, NY
$60,000
To support post-production costs for an experimental documentary film by Peter Friedman and Roger Manley. Beyond Belief: The Power of Things will examine the meaning of the word "belief" as it applies to religion and our everyday lives.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Only Child Motion Pictures, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support 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 Gravity Hill Films)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the production of an experimental film by Jem Cohen. Chain will examine the homogenization of our landscapes.

Northwest Film Center (Portland Art Museum)
Portland, OR
$40,000
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.

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support production and editing facilities for independent filmmakers at WigglyWorld Studios. Out of the Can offers flatbed-editing facilities; Roll Camera provides 16mm camera and sound packages; and New Model Edit offers a non-linear editing suite.

Ohio University Main Campus (on behalf of Athens International Film Festival)
Athens, OH
$10,000
To support the 30th Athens International Film and Video Festival. The event features narrative work, documentaries and short films produced in the United States and abroad.

Pittsburgh Film Makers, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support a series of media arts workshops. Designed for children, non-traditional students and experienced producers, these classes will be offered at night and on weekends to encourage broader community participation.

Public Art Films, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Tony Silver. Arisman: Facing the Audience is a portrait of Marshall Arisman, a painter, illustrator, sculptor, printmaker and teacher.

Reel Sisters
Brooklyn, NY
$7,500
To support the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival and Lecture Series. The event is dedicated to presenting the work of women of color.

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support a curated film/video series. What About Now? New Media Perspectives will focus on experimental work by young and emerging artists from across the United States.

San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the 46th annual San Francisco International Film Festival. The event presents more than 200 films from 50 countries to an audience of 87,000 people.

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the Jewish Film Festival and related activities. The festival, devoted to Jewish-subject films, premieres both films and videos by independent producers from around the world.

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

Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Inc.
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the Nashville Independent Film Festival. The event features student films and videos, documentaries, narrative films and experimental work.

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support production and post-production costs for an audio installation by David Isay. Remember the Forgotten Ones will be based on the oral histories of photographer Milton Rogovin.

Soundprint Media Center, Inc.
Laurel, MD
$20,000
To support artists' fees for a documentary radio series. A Day in the Life of programs, produced by independent radio artists, will capture 24 hours in the life of a subject and condense it into a half hour documentary.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers
Nevada City, CA
$5,000
To support the Screenwriters 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
$15,000
To support 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 for Film and Television
Salt Lake City, UT
$115,00O
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.

SWAMP (Southwestern Alternate Media Projects, Inc.)
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.

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium
Jersey City, NJ
$18,000
To support the Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. Over 60 organizations throughout the United States host the festival each year which draws over 700 entries from all over the country.

Vasulkas, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$15,000
To support the creation of a video installation work by Steina Vasulka. The piece will consist of seven channels of spherical images projected on large round screens with discreet sound sources.

Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support the 17th Annual Dallas Video Festival. The event will present classic work programmed with new video art.

Visual Communication (Southern California Asian American Studies Central, Inc.)
Los Angeles, CA
$18,000
To support the 18th annual 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.

Washington, DC International Film Festival
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the Washington D.C. International Film Festival. The event includes free films for children, senior citizens and underserved communities.

WBEZ Alliance, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$15,000
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 to share expertise.

Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the distribution of selected films on DVD from the Women Make Movies collection. In honor of their 30th anniversary, 10 films will be digitized and made available to schools, libraries and cultural institutions.

ZeroOne - The Art and Technology Network
Palo Alto, CA
$60,000
To support the production of a video game artwork by Bill Viola. The Night Journey - An Interactive Artworld is based on the universal story of a mystic's journey through seven different levels towards enlightenment.

Heritage/Preservation

American Indian Film Institute
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support the 29th annual American Indian Film Festival. At the 2003 festival, documentaries and feature films will be presented along with work by emerging Native American filmmakers.

Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the preservation of films directed by Willard Maas, Paul Sharits and Larry Jordan. The films, of considerable historical and aesthetic importance, exist on old and decaying internegatives, many of which are more than 35 years old.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. (aka BAVC)
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 (BAVC) will launch an audio preservation and remastering service center.

George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$45,000
To support Before Mickey: Masterworks of Early Animation. George Eastman House will restore unique and endangered animated films of the silent era, produced and/or directed by pioneers of American cartoons between 1916 and 1929.

Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Phase III of the Cataloging Project, an on-line compatible database created to assist artists and organizations in cataloging their media materials. The database consists of a template- designed to be shared--that includes fields for a numbering system, format, production date, synopsis, artist's name, etc.

Iota Fund (aka iotaCenter)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the preservation of films by Jules Engel from the Dr. William Moritz Collection. Jules Engel, who began his career working on Walt Disney's Fantasia (1939), is an important figure in the field of abstract animation.

Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
$32,500
To support the preservation of endangered films from the museum's nationally recognized collection. Each year, the Museum of Modern Art'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
$15,000
To support the preservation of The Living Orphan. The center's collection contains the only surviving copy of this film, which is in danger of decomposing.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
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.

New York Women in Film & Television
(on behalf of Women's Film Preservation Fund)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support a curated film series and national tour. Since 1996, the Women's Film Preservation Fund has supported the preservation of films in which women held significant creative roles.

Pacifica Foundation
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support initial work to preserve arts-related recordings in the Pacifica archive. Of the 40,500 tapes housed in the archive, approximately 25 percent represent arts programming.

Radio Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
To support the Bob & Ray Permanent Archive. Bob & Ray were radio humorists who were on the air nationally for 40 years.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles
(on behalf of UCLA Film and Television Archive)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
To support a retrospective film series devoted to director Frank Borzage. Frank Borzage was a pioneer in the use of soft-focus photography and set the Hollywood standard for romantic atmosphere.

Leadership

Minnesota Public Radio
St. PAUL, MN
$500,000
To support the first phase of a multi-year leadership initiative aimed at developing the next generation of classical music programming for public radio. The project will include an assessment of current programming, the establishment of a fund for the development of programming using new digital technologies and other related activities.

Window to the World Communications, Inc. (on behalf of 98.7 WFMT Radio)
Chicago, IL
$150,000
To support the production and national distribution of the radio series Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. The series will consist of daily, one-hour programs focusing on classical music in an informed, educational and entertaining manner.

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