Project Grant 18891665522

Folkstreams Inc. will receive $399,453 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program to support the preservation and expansion of its online collection of documentary films about American folk and roots cultures. Specifically, the Project Grant will enable Folkstreams to add 25 new films to its archive, upgrade 20 older films to 4K resolution by scanning 16mm prints, and enhance contextual information for 20 other films through added...

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 American Folk Art Museum was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will support the development and enhancement of ongoing virtual programming and the hiring of a new Community Engagement Educator position to better serve local communities. Specifically, the Museum will continue and expand virtual offerings such as...

The Academy Foundation, on behalf of a consortium of film archives and libraries, received a $1,589,350 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.312) to develop, test, and launch a free open access database and data sharing platform. This project aims to improve identification and access to underrepresented films and filmmakers across intersections of race, gender, ethnicity, ability, and sexuality in the nation's film collections. The database will...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) provides $155,090 to Appalshop, Inc. to preserve and improve access to its archival collections relating to Appalachian history and culture. Through digitization efforts of photographic negatives from 1935 to 1955 and 16mm archival films, as well as purchasing scanning equipment, the award supports enhancing public access to these...

The Bay Area Video Coalition, Incorporated (BAVC) received a $215,186 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The grant will fund a national study of audiovisual preservation to be conducted between March 2023 and February 2025. As part of the study, BAVC will design and implement surveys, interviews, and site visits to assess the demographics, practices, challenges, and needs of organizations...

This federal Project Grant award of $349,423.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) in expanding its "Circle of Care for Audiovisual Collections in Tribal Archives" initiative. The project aims to train tribal archivists and librarians in assessing, inventorying, digitizing, and managing audiovisual collections. Key activities include onsite workshops...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $110,000 two-year Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to International Film Seminars, Inc. (doing business as The Flaherty), a non-profit organization based in Brooklyn, New York. The grant funding will support the planning phase for the creation of a Film Study Center on the historic Flaherty Farm located in Dummerston, Vermont. The project aims to strengthen the organization's...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Documentary Educational Resources Inc. a $99,899 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant funded the CINEPEDIA ETHNOGRAPHICA project to develop an online expert- and user-generated union catalog for ethnographic film. The catalog will provide intellectual access and help preserve primary ethnographic film resources held in libraries, museums, and...

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...