The academy foundation, on behalf of a national consortium of the academy film archive, american film institute, black film center/archive at indiana university, library of congress, national film…

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 orientation, and cultural identities. Researchers and scholars across the country will be able to use the online resource to more efficiently discover films and individuals historically marginalized or excluded from the American film canon. The planning project has the potential to advance practice in the museum and library fields by strengthening services for the American public through improved access to underrepresented film collections.

The academy foundation, on behalf of a national consortium of the academy film archive, american film institute, black film center/archive at indiana university, library of congress, national film preservation board, and the ucla film & television archive, will research and design a free searchable online resource to reassess and change how underrepresented materials are identified in the nation?s film collections. This planning project will develop access to a dataset that gathers individuals and film titles from secondary scholarly sources, specifically with respect to social, gender, racial, ethnic, ability, sexual orientation, and cultural identities. Scholars and researchers at public, private, and academic libraries and archives across the country can use the online resource to accelerate the discovery of individuals and films that have been historically marginalized or excluded from the american film canon.