Project Grant 19120053423

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...

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 (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, to support the planning phase for the creation of a Film Study Center on the historic Flaherty Farm in Dummerston, Vermont. This planning grant will fund a two-year effort to develop the infrastructure and programming for the proposed Film Study Center, which...

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 Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education awarded New York Film Academy LTD $2.1 million under the Education Stabilization Fund's Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund II Proprietary Institution Grant Funds for Students (CFDA 84.425Q) program. This Formula Grant provides funding to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic by supporting students at proprietary institutions of higher education. The grant award covers the period from February 16,...

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 federal Project Grant award of $120,000.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The grant supports the independent film and media arts field-building initiative led by the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), a non-profit organization focused on media arts, independent film, and audiovisual preservation. The grant will fund BAVC's efforts to enhance public engagement with the...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Living Arts Trust Inc., doing business as O Cinema, from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The grant supports personnel expenses under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). This program aims to provide opportunities for public participation in the arts, integrate arts strategies that promote well-being and community resilience, and build arts sector capacity and...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will fund a summer bridge program at Helena College in Montana called "A Bridge to Humanities Pathways in College: Using Film Production to Explore Local Culture and History." Over a two-year period ending in September 2023, the $144,719 in funding will support three summer programs where high school and at-risk college students research and produce documentary films on topics representing under-explored aspects of the...

This federal Project Grant award of $600,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) supports the production of a feature documentary film titled "JIMMIE & SANORA." The film, directed by Li-Shin Yu and produced by James Q. Chan in association with the Center for Asian American Media and City Lore Inc., tells the story of pioneering artist couple James Wong Howe, a two-time Oscar-winning...