The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Friday that the Academy Foundation has awarded $500,000 in grants to 73 schools and film-related nonprofit organizations.
The money was targeted at internship programs in colleges and universities ranging from NYU, USC, CalArts and UCLA to Montclair State in New Jersey and Columbia College Hollywood in Tarzana; women, minority and job training programs from the American Film Institute, Film Independent’s Project: Involve and Inner-City Filmmakers; and screening series and visiting filmmaker programs from a variety of colleges, film festivals and organizations, from major organizations like the George Eastman House and the Writers Guild Foundation to small ventures like the Micromedia screening series at the Echo Park Film Center (below)in Los Angeles.
“The Academy strives to make the motion picture industry as accessible as possible to new talent and the public,” said Grants Committee Chair Andrew Marlowe in the press release announcing the grants.
Last year the Academy Foundation awarded the same amount of money to 64 organizations. Over its 42-year history, the foundation has awarded more than 700 institutional grants and $6.3 million in funding. It also supplies funding for film scholars, cultural organizations and film festivals, with an annual disbursement of more than $1 million.
More information on the grants program is available at http://www.oscars.org/education-outreach/grants/.
This year’s grants:
Internship Programs
$10,000
California Institute of the Arts (Valencia)
Columbia University School of the Arts (New York City)
Emerson College (Boston)
New York University – Kanbar Institute of Film & Television
University of California, Los Angeles – Film and Television Program
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem)
University of Southern California (Los Angeles)
$9,500
New York University – Moving Pictures Archive and Preservation Program
$8,300
Stanford University
$7,500
Columbia College Hollywood (Tarzana, CA)
DePaul University (Chicago)
Florida State University (Tallahassee)
Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles)
$5,000
Brooklyn College
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
Hampshire College (Amherst, MA)
Montclair State University (New Jersey)
Penn State University (University Park)
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
University of Arizona (Tucson)
Institutional Grants
$15,000
American Film Institute (Los Angeles) – Directing workshop for women
Streetlights (Los Angeles) – Job training program
$12,500
Inner-City Filmmakers (Los Angeles) – Job training program
Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Film program
$10,000
Film Independent (Los Angeles) – Project: Involve
George Eastman House (Rochester, NY) – Visiting artist series
UCLA Film & Television Archive – Screening series
Writers Guild Foundation (Los Angeles) – Education programs
$7,500
The ACME Network (Los Angeles) – The ACME Animation Program
American Documentary (New York City) – History of Documentary film project
Cornell Cinema (Ithaca, NY) – Visiting filmmaker program
The Flaherty/International Film Seminars (New York City) – 56th Flaherty Film Seminar
Frameline (San Francisco) – Frameline at the Center screening series
International Documentary Association (Los Angeles) – Doc U Seminar series
Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville, NY) – Filmmaker residencies
The MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, NH) – Filmmaker residencies
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston – Visiting filmmakers program
National Association of Latino Independent Producers (Santa Monica, CA) – Latino Producers Academy
New York Women in Film & Television – Women’s film symposium
Salt Lake City Film Center – Visiting artists program
Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) – Guest speakers’ program
$5,700
Crowing Rooster Arts (New York City) – Cine Institute Haitian film training program
$5,000
Appalshop (Whitesburg, KY) – AMI Advanced Lab program
The Autry National Center of the American West (Los Angeles) – Crossing Borders film series
Brooklyn Museum (New York City) – First Saturdays screening series
California College of the Arts (Oakland) – Master class program
California State Summer School for the Arts (Los Angeles) – Visiting artist residency
Cinefamily (Los Angeles) – Silent Treatment film series
Film Forum (New York City) – Premiere screenings/filmmakers-in-person program
IFP (New York City) – Independent filmmaker labs
IFP Chicago – Producers’ workshop series
The Light Factory (Charlotte, NC) – German New Wave tribute program
Maysles Institute (New York City) – filmmaking education program scholarship fund
Northwest Film Forum (Seattle) – Visiting artist program
Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) – Conference on film criticism
Oklahoma City Museum of Art – Hollywood Costume Design exhibition
Outfest (Los Angeles) – Access LA seminar series and screenwriting lab
Paramount Center for the Arts (Peekskill, NY) – Music and Film series
SIFF (Seattle) – FutureWave Filmmakers Visits program
San Francisco Film Society – Artist-in-residence program
Southern Arts Federation (Atlanta) – Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers
Squaw Valley Community of Writers (CA) – Screenwriting program
Tribeca Film Institute (New York City) – Tribeca All Access program
Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY) – Guest filmmaker series
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) – Filmmakers in Conversation program
Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH) – Visiting filmmaker series
$3,700
Berklee College of Music (Boston) – Visiting artists program
$3,500
IFP Minnesota – Independent Producers Conference
3rd i South Asian Independent Film (Berkeley, CA) – Speaker series
$3,000
Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles) – Microcinema screening series
$2,800
Boulder Public Library (CO) – Stan Brakhage screening program
$2,500
Northeast Historic Film (Bucksport, ME) – Summer film symposium
