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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...

The Portland Art Museum, through its Center For An Untold Tomorrow division, received a $325,000 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program. The grant funded the development and delivery of "THE ART OF RESILIENCE: A CONTINUUM OF TLINGIT ARTS" public program from August 2016 through July 2020. This program explored Tlingit history and culture through humanities-focused...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the International Documentary Association under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to support development of the documentary film "Bombshell" from May 1, 2022 to November 30, 2022. The film will trace the construction of the U.S. government's narrative on a past event, how a non-fiction work challenged that narrative, and how the government subsequently sought to reassert its...

Jezebel Productions Inc. received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to produce a 75-minute documentary film titled "The Five Demands: Two Volatile Weeks that Changed the Face of Higher Education." The documentary will tell the story of the 1969 campus strike by Black and Puerto Rican students at the City College of New York, who were at the forefront...

This federal Project Grant award of $300,000 was provided by the Department of the Interior's National Park Service Intermountain Region under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The funding will support Visual Communications Media, a non-profit media arts organization, to produce a 30-minute narrative film called "The Camera" that explores the intergenerational trauma and ongoing impacts of the Japanese American incarceration during World War...

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...

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...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $291,480 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to The Center For Independent Documentary, Inc. for post-production and outreach activities supporting the documentary film "The Blues Society." The film explores the history and impact of the Memphis Country Blues Festivals of the late 1960s. The award period is from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2025. As part of the Public Programs grant program, the...

Firelight Media Inc. received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Fellowships and Stipends program (CFDA 45.160). The award will support Firelight's management and administration of a grantmaking program providing 12-month stipends to 36 mid-career Black, Indigenous, and filmmakers of color. The subrecipient filmmakers will use the stipends to further develop historical or humanities-focused documentary film projects...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the International Documentary Association to support personnel expenses in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant was awarded on January 1, 2022 under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) and will support activities through December 31, 2023. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities for...