Project Grant 18840843421

The American Film Institute (AFI) received a $132,708 project grant award from the U.S. Department of Education under the Education Stabilization Fund program. The grant period runs from July 31, 2021 through July 31, 2022. The Education Stabilization Fund program provides funding to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. AFI will use the grant funds to deliver services that address the impacts of the pandemic on the education sector in Los Angeles, California. While details...

The American Film Institute (AFI) received a three-year, $750,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. Through this funding, AFI will undertake an effort to document and provide intellectual access to short films from the silent and early sound film eras (1910-1933) as part of its authoritative AFI Catalog online resource. By including these short films, the AFI Catalog will illuminate...

This $100,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) supports artistic and professional development resources and incubator labs for independent nonfiction filmmakers. The award recipient, Sundance Institute, a non-profit organization, will use the funding to operate its Feature Film Program and Documentary Film Program, which provide artistic and professional...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Firelight Media Inc. a $1.8 million Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Fellowships and Stipends program (CFDA 45.160) from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2023. Under the award, Firelight Media will administer a grantmaking program providing 36 stipends of $50,000 each to mid-career Black, Indigenous, and filmmakers of color. The stipends will support the development of historical or humanities-focused documentary film...

Under the $147,795.20 Project Grant award from the Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Film Independent, Inc. will provide skills training to 24-30 Emirati filmmakers through online and in-person workshops on short film and episodic storytelling by March 2023. The award is part of the Investing in People in The Middle East and North Africa program, with the objective of promoting cultural understanding through media efforts. Film Independent will teach filmmakers to craft...

The Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded a $1,415,570 cooperative agreement to Film Independent, Inc. under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges (CFDA 19.415) program. The two-year award, beginning September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024, will support the GLOBAL MEDIA MAKERS project. Under this cooperative agreement, Film Independent, Inc. will deliver services focused on cultural exchange and professional development in global...

The Academy Foundation, on behalf of a national consortium of film archives and libraries, was awarded a $211,540 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to research and design a searchable online resource for underrepresented film collections. The grant-funded project will develop a dataset gathering individuals and film titles from secondary sources related to social, gender, racial, ethnic, ability, sexual...

The Sundance Institute received a $105,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the Documentary Sustainability Project. This program aims to strengthen the documentary filmmaking field through knowledge exchange, cross-sector collaboration, and research between July 1, 2021 and December 31, 2022. The Project Grant funding will allow the Sundance Institute to deliver services under the National Endowment for the Arts' Promotion of the Arts Grants to...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary Film Independent, Inc. received a $1,253,355 Cooperative Agreement from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges (CFDA 19.415) program, awarded September 10, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2027. The award supports the Global Media Makers (GMM) program, an international exchange initiative designed to advance American preeminence in global film and media...

The Black Lily, Inc., doing business as the Blackstar Film Festival, received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The funding will support personnel expenses from January 2022 through December 2023 in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities for all...