Project Grant MA245614OMS20
- The George Eastman Museum was awarded a $500,649 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Museums for America (MFA) program to conserve and digitize fragile films from the Anwar Sheikh Pakistani Collection created between 1950-1979. The grant period is from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. Under the award, the museum will hire two full-time film specialists to repair, clean, document, and stabilize the Pakistani films in Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu. Once...
- The George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY was awarded a $500,417 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to digitize and provide free online access to nearly 600 hours of audio and audiovisual recordings documenting interviews, lectures, and gallery discussions with significant photographers, actors, filmmakers, scholars, curators, and critics. This 3-year project, with a start date of September 1, 2024 and completion date...
- 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 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...
- 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...
- 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 University of Hawaii at Manoa will digitize 890 motion picture film reels and videotapes from its Henry Kuualoha Moving Image Archive of Hawaii collections in order to provide access to historical materials documenting Hawaii's path to statehood and its varying impacts on native Hawaiian and Japanese American populations from the 1920s to 2000s. Funded by a $1,050,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation...
- The Museum of the Moving Image received a $188,166 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to improve collections management and access to its permanent collection. Funded through the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301), the project will upgrade the Museum's collections management system, develop and implement a new public collections browser, and create 865 additional public-facing catalog records. These deliverables will facilitate expanded...
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $126,576 Project Grant under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery. The grant will fund the conservation treatment of 29 South Asian miniature paintings and drawings dating from the 16th to 19th centuries, which are currently inaccessible to visitors and researchers due to their poor condition. A professional conservator will document the treatment process through...
- The federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures program provides $294,532 to Chromadiverse, Inc. to preserve, digitize, and make publicly accessible the Margaret Elizabeth "Marbeth" Schnare photography collection of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. The 3-year project (10/1/2024 - 9/30/2027) will inventory, transport, digitize, and rehouse the collection of 6,000 photographs and 100 documents, and develop a...
THE GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM WILL CATALOG AND PRESERVE 1,004 UNIQUE FILM TITLES IN ITS SOUTH ASIAN CINEMA COLLECTION. A TOTAL OF 1,285 INDIAN AND PAKISTANI FILM PRINTS WERE IN IMMINENT DANGER OF DESTRUCTION WHEN THE EASTMAN MUSEUM RECOVERED THEM FROM AN ABANDONED MULTIPLEX IN CALIFORNIA IN 2014, FROM THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE NATIONAL ARCHIVE IN 2016, AND FROM A SHUTTERED CINEMA IN HOUSTON, TEXAS IN 2017. THE MUSEUM NOW HOLDS THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF SOUTH ASIAN FILMS HELD OUTSIDE OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT REPRESENTING BOLLYWOOD, LOLLYWOOD, MALAYALAM, PUNJABI, TAMIL AND TELUGU PRODUCTIONS. THIS PROJECT ENTAILS CURSORY FILM CLEANING, PLACING EACH REEL OF FILM ONTO A NEW CORE, AND PLACING EACH REEL INTO A NEW CAN. FILMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE MUSEUM?S ONLINE CATALOG OF FILM RECORDS TO ADVANCE THE WORK OF RESEARCHERS, SCHOLARS, AND ARCHIVISTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. ACCESS TO PROJECTABLE PRINTS WILL BE PROVIDED THROUGH ARCHIVAL SCREENINGS AND FILM LOANS.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $249.5k | 7/14/20 |