Project Grant GA23397815

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 $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 about Shirley Clarke, a groundbreaking American independent filmmaker. The film will explore Clarke's pioneering role in creating diverse, independent films in the United States during the 1950s-1980s that challenged traditional Hollywood narratives. It will highlight how Clarke, as the only...

This $600,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) on February 1, 2025. The grant supports the production of a documentary film titled "Diamond Diplomacy: U.S. Japan Relations Through a Shared Love of Baseball" by The Center For Independent Documentary, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Newton, Massachusetts. The documentary film examines how baseball has played a...

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 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 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...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) will support the production of the documentary film "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 visionary artist couple James Wong Howe, a two-time Oscar-winning cinematographer, and Sanora Babb, a radical...

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...

This $600,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to support the production of the feature-length documentary film "COMING HOME: FIGHT FOR A LEGACY." The film will explore the history of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), the first female pilots to fly for the U.S. military during World War II, and interwoven with their story, the experiences of the Black female pilots...