Project Grant 19279003424

This federal Project Grant award of $100,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) supports the MediaMaker Fellowship and Preservation Access programs operated by The Bay Area Video Coalition, Incorporated (BAVC). The MediaMaker Fellowship provides stipends, production funds, and mentorship opportunities for media makers across the country. The Preservation Access program offers affordable...

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 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges (CFDA 19.415) program, provides $1,550,000 in funding to Film Independent, Inc. to support the organization's FY 2024 Global Filmmakers Program. The award period runs from September 6, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The Global Filmmakers Program delivers a comprehensive set of artistic and professional development...

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 National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $148,522 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to the Fort Ross Conservancy, doing business as California State Park Coop, for the project "COMING ROUND: THE KASHIA-POMO STRUGGLE FOR HOMELAND." Through this June 1, 2022 project grant concluding December 31, 2022, the Fort Ross Conservancy will produce a documentary film and accompanying public programming telling the story of the...

The Bay Area Video Coalition, Incorporated (BAVC) was awarded a $229,275 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the Community-Based Preservation Education and Training program. The program will deliver an innovative, multi-pronged training initiative focused on hands-on videotape preservation skills through national community-based training for over 30 cultural workers and a one-year fellowship for a post-graduate preservationist at BAVC Media. These activities...

This federal Project Grant award for $600,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) will support the production of a documentary film with the working title "ADELANTE!" The film will serve as a biographical portrait of the influential Chicano playwright, activist, and director Luis Valdez, exploring the history and significance of Chicano identity through the lens of Valdez's pioneering theatrical company El...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $600,000 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to City Lore Inc., a non-profit cultural organization based in New York City. The grant will support the production of a feature documentary film titled "JIMMIE & SANORA" directed by Li-Shin Yu and produced by James Q. Chan. The film tells the story of two-time Oscar-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe and radical writer Sanora...

The Academy Foundation received a $100,000 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 support the implementation phase of the Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 temporary exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Opening in February 2022, the exhibition explores the visual culture of Black cinema from its early days to just after the Civil Rights Movement with the...

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...