Additional Support Awarded to Film Archives Impacted by Natural Disasters: Cinemateca de Cuba, Permanencia Voluntaria and Archivo de Imagenes en Movimiento
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today recipients of its 2018 FilmCraft and FilmWatch grants. In addition to the 51 FilmCraft and FilmWatch grants awarded, the grants committee set aside $15,000 to help with the recovery efforts at three international archives devastated by hurricanes and earthquakes in 2017. Those archives are Cinemateca de Cuba in Cuba, Permanencia Voluntaria in Mexico and Archivo de Imagenes en Movimiento in Puerto Rico. This funding is in addition to support and expertise that is already being provided by the Academy Film Archive.
“This year the Grants are proud to support 51 organizations whose innovative programs reach broad audiences, underserved high school and college students, support mid-career and emerging filmmakers, and engage and enrich their local communities. The Grants also reached out to support several film archives devastated by recent climate events. It is the Grants’ privilege and responsibility to fund organizations, rising and established, that reflect both The Academy’s values and its leadership role in the arts,” said Buffy Shutt, chair of the Academy’s grants committee.
The Academy’s FilmCraft and FilmWatch grants were established to identify and empower future filmmakers from nontraditional backgrounds, cultivate new and diverse talent, promote motion pictures as an art form, and provide a platform for underrepresented artists. Grants range from $5,000-$15,000, and a total of $500,000 was awarded for the 2018-2019 grants year.
The grant recipient institutions and programs are as follows:
FilmCraft Grants
American Film Institute (Los Angeles, CA) – Directing Workshop for Women
Austin Film Festival (Austin, TX) – The Diversity Focus Program
Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) – Film Scoring Artist In Residence
California State University, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA) – Urban Stories Film Incubator
Camden International Film Festival (Camden, ME) – Points North Institute 2018 Artist Programs
Program provides hundreds of independent documentary filmmakers from diverse backgrounds with unique opportunities for education, professional development and artistic expansion.
Chicken & Egg Pictures (New York, NY) – 2018 Accelerator Lab for First and Second-Time Filmmakers
Columbia University School of the Arts (New York, NY) – Diversity Casting Initiative
Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles, CA) – ACTION! Cinema As Connection
Educational Video Center (New York, NY) – Youth Documentary Workshop
Facets of Multi-Media (Chicago, IL) – Chicago Film Summits
Hollywood CPR (Los Angeles, CA) – Entertainment Artist, Craft and Technicians Certificate Program
Independent Filmmaker Project (New York, NY) – Independent Filmmaker Labs
Inner-City Filmmakers (Los Angeles, CA) – Arts Education, Pre-Professional Training, Career Counseling and Jobs Placement Program
International Documentary Association (Los Angeles, CA) – Educational and Cultural Public Programs
Kartemquin Educational Films (Chicago, IL) – Diverse Voices in Documentary
Maysles Institute (New York, NY) – Community Producers Program 2018
New Orleans Film Society (New Orleans, LA) – Emerging Voices Mentorship Program
New York Stage and Film Co. (New York, NY) – New York Stage and Film Filmmakers’ Workshop
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (San Francisco, CA) – Filmmaker Training Program
Reel Works Teen Filmmaking (New York, NY) – Filmmaking Workshops and Workforce Development
Initiatives
San Francisco Film Society (San Francisco, CA) – Doc Talks at SFFS FilmHouse
Silver Bullet Productions (Santa Fe, NM) – Lights Camera Learning: Writing and Acting Workshop for Pueblo and Tribal Students
Streetlights (Los Angeles, CA) – Job Training and Placement Program
Sundance Institute (Park City, UT) – 2018 Native Filmmakers Lab
The Center for Documentary Studies (Durham, NC) – School of Doc
The Ghetto Film School (New York, NY) – The Fellows Program
UnionDocs (New York, NY) – Professional Development Labs
Women in Film (Los Angeles, CA) – ReFrame Sponsor/Protégé Program (in partnership with the Sundance Institute)
Women Make Movies (New York, NY) – Production Assistance Program
FilmWatch Grants
Alabama Moving Image Association (Birmingham, AL) – 20th Anniversary Sidewalk Film Festival
American Documentary | POV (New York, NY) – POV Engage
American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY) – The Margaret Mead Film Festival
Anthology Film Archives (New York, NY) – The Cinema of Transgender
Big Sky Film Institute (Missoula, MT) – Native Filmmaker Initiative
Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY) – A Year of Resistance
Center for Asian American Media (San Francisco, CA) – Spotlight, Retrospective and Out of the Vaults Programs
Denver Film Society (Denver, CO) – CineLatino Mini-Fest and CineLatino Festival Sidebar
Frameline’s San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival (CA) – Telling Our Stories: Navigating the Pathways and the Promises of Greater Gender Equality for Queer Women Filmmakers
George Eastman Museum (Rochester, NY) – Festival of Film Conservation
International Children’s Media Center (Chicago, IL) – Global Girls/Women’s View Residency & Festival
Los Angeles Filmforum (Los Angeles, CA) – Los Angeles Filmforum Screenings
Milwaukee Film (Milwaukee, WI) – Black Lens
National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, DC) – 2018 Native Cinema Showcase
New York International Children’s Film Festival (New York, NY) – Girls’ Point of View Program
Outfest (Los Angeles, CA) – Outfest Fusion Film Festival
Oxford Film Festival (Oxford, Mississippi) – Expanding LGBTQ Stories in Mississippi
Ragtag Programming for Film and Media Art (Columbia, MO) – Neither/Nor Series
ReelAbilities Film Festival (various locations) – Enhancing Accessibility Options
San Francisco Cinematheque – (San Francisco, CA) – Trans-Visions
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (San Francisco, CA) – Casting Out the Couch
San Francisco Silent Film Festival (San Francisco, CA) – Educational Programs
The Academy’s Grants program provides financial support to qualifying film festivals, educational institutions and film scholars and supports the Academy’s overall mission to recognize and uphold excellence in the motion picture arts and sciences, inspire imagination and connect the world through the medium of motion pictures. The Academy Grants program has awarded a total of $12,194,000 to non-profit institutions and film festivals.
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