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911 Media Arts Center
http://www.911media.org Offers access to media-making tools for artists at a low cost
A.J. Muste Institute
339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 533-4335 Fax: (212) 228 6193 Email: ajmusteinst@igc.org Website: www.ajmuste.org
Funds for projects that promote social change.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills CA 90211-1972
Phone: (310) 247-3059 Fax: (310) 859-9351
Richard Miller Phone: (310) 247-3000 Email: ampas@oscars.org Website: http://www.oscars.org
Send legal-size SASE after January 1 to receive entry form for $2,000, $1,500
and $1,000 awards in dramatic, experimental, documentary, animation.
Agape Foundation Fund for Nonviolent Social Change
1095 Market St., Suite 304, San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 701-8707 Fax: (415) 701-8706 Email: info@agapefn.org Website: www.agapefn.org
Western states only, funds films/videos that promote the use of nonviolence,
they support films/videos that are unable to secure funding from traditional
sources.
American Film Institute
P. O. Box 27999
2021 N. Western Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90027
Phone: (213) 856-7691 Fax: (213) 476-4578 http://www.afi.com
Call, write or check website for application instructions.
Three-week training program for mid-career women in the media arts to learn
about narrative directing and to apply for production grant positions.
American Public Television (APT)
120 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
http://www.apton-line.org Phone: (617) 338-4455
Acquires finished programs and develops/produces original programming
concepts. Undertakes the distribution of programming that is tailored to specific
interests or demographics.
America At a Crossroads
http://www.cpb.org/grants/crossroads/index.html
Promotes programs that inform and enrich dialogue on public affair issues. Focuses on
Post 9/11 world and affects on political and social realities.
Annie E. Casey Foundation Attention: Office of the President
701 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
http://www.aecf.org/about/grantguidelines.htm
Fosters public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that
more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.
Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
Dr. Jonathan T. Howe, Executive Director
111 Riverside Ave., Ste. 130, Jacksonville, FL 32202-4921 Phone: (904) 359-0670
Email: arthurvining@msn.com Website: www.jvm.com/davis
Provides partial support for major educational series assured of airing nationally
by PBS. The Foundations prefer proposals for "capstone" grants which assure
completion of production funding.
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia St., San Francisco CA 94110
Email: ata@atasite.org Website: http://www.atasite.org
Phone: (415) 824-3890 Fax: (415) 824-0526
They have equipment access available at subsidized rates to artists, community
organizations, and people on limited incomes.
Astraea Foundation
116 East 16th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 529-8021 Fax: (212) 982-3321
Email: info@astraea.org www.astreafoundatiion.org
This supports cultural/media film/video on issues involving lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues.
Barbara Deming Memorial Fund
P. O. Box 40-1043, Brooklyn, NY 11240-1043
Offers up to $1,000 per grant, open to women whose projects speak for peace and social justice.
Bay Area Video Coalition
2727 Mariposa Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: (415) 861-4328 Fax: (415) 861-4316
Email: awards@bavc.org
Website: www.bavc.org San Francisco Bay Area only, with the exception of the Phelan Award, which is
available to artists born in California, regardless of current residence.
Bogliasco Foundation
http://www.liguriastudycenter.org/
hey grant semester-long fellowships for scholars or artists to work
at the Liguria Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy, near Genoa. The Fellowship is
designed for advanced creative work or scholarly research in archaeology,
architecture, classics, dance, film or video, history, landscape architecture, literature,
music, philosophy, theater, or visual arts.
California Arts Council
1300 I Street, Suite 930, Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 322-6555 Fax: (916) 322-6575
Offers grants & programs for film & media makers.
California Documentary Project
Los Angeles office: (213) 623-5993 San Francisco office: (415) 391-1474
San Diego office: (619) 232-4020 Email: info@calhum.org Website: www.calhum.org
It is designed to encourage documentarians of the new millennium to create
enduring images and text of contemporary California.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Email: info@ceip.org Website: http://www.ceip.org
Private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between
nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States.
Founded in 1910, its work is nonpartisan and dedicated to achieving practical results.
Carole Fielding Student Production & Research Grants
http://www.ufva.org Competitive awards presented annually to students whose research and production
projects meet rigorous standards of academic scholarship. Up to $4,000 is
available for film, video, or multimedia production and up to $1,000 is available
for research projects in historical, critical, theoretical or experimental studies..
Center for Independent Documentary
1608 Beacon St., Waban, MA 01268 Phone: (508) 528-7279
Email: info@documentaries.org Website: www.documentaries.org
Multiple Grant Programs. Also provides services on a sliding scale and may
select one or two projects a year to receive services for free. Seeking proposals
on an ongoing basis from independent producers for the production of
documentaries on contemporary issues.
Change, Inc.
P. O. Box 54, Tapiva, FL 33924 Phone: (212) 473-3742 Fax: (212) 995-8022
Emergency grants for artists in all disciplines needing help with rent, medical
expenses, utility bills, fire damage, etc and grants up to $1000.
Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation
http://www.kingfoundation.org
Provides scholarships to outstanding undergraduate students in television and
film production and postproduction Grants for outstanding MFA projects
at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern Ca.
Chiapas Media Project (CMP)
http://www.chiapasmediaproject.org
A bi-national partnership that provides video equipment, computers and
training, enabling marginalized indigenous and campesino communities in
Southern Mexico the opportunity to create their own media.
Chicago Resource Center
104 S. Michigan Ave., Ste. 1220, Chicago, IL 60603
Phone: (312) 759-8700 Awards grants to nonprofits that serve the gay/lesbian community.
Chicago Underground Film Fund
3109 North Western Ave., Chicago, IL 60618
Phone: (773) 327-FILM Fax: (773) 327-3464
Email: info@cuff.org Website: http://www.cuff.org
Promotes works that pushes the boundaries, defies commercial expectations
and transcends the mainstream of independent filmmaking.
Chicken & Egg Pictures
NYC office 162 Fifth Ave suite 901 NYC, NY 10010
SFO office 39 Mesa Street, suite 209 San Francisco, Ca 94129
Email info@chickeneggpics.org
Email for more information and closing dates
Columbia Foundation
One Lombard Street, Suite 305, San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone: (415) 986-5179 Email: carolyn@columbia.org Website: http://www.columbia.org/index.htm
The foundation gives priority to Bay Area film makers; to films or videos that
will be used by Columbia Foundation-funded public-interest organizations to
further their work in human rights and sustainable communities and economies; and to projects for which a grant of $5,000 to $25,000 makes a difference in getting the project started or completed.
Compton Foundation http://www.comptonfoundation.org
There are no cut-off dates for discretionary grants, they focus most of their
grant-making in the areas of Peace & World Order, Population, and the
Environment. Most of the Foundation's grants for Culture & the Arts are
discretionary grants ranging in size from $200 to $10,000.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
901 E St. NW, Washington, DC 20004-2037
Phone: (202) 879-9734 Fax: (202) 783-1019 Email: askus@cpb.org Website: www.cpb.org
Accepting proposals for the Public Television Future Fund and are open to any
project that addresses large-scale opportunities to increase non-federal revenues,
create new operating efficiencies and improve the quality of service that
stations provide to their communities.
Dance Film Association, Inc.
48 West 21st Street, #907, New York, NY 10010
Phone/Fax: (212) 727-0764 Website: http://www.dancefilmsassn.org
Postproduction grant up to $2,000 for films about dance.
Delaware Humanities Forum
100 West 10th St., Ste. 1009, Wilmington, DE 19801
Phone: (302) 657-0650 Fax: (302) 657-0655
Email: dhfdirector@dhf.org Website: www.dhf.org
Supports humanities programs for the public sponsored by nonprofit
organizations. Projects should foster an understanding of the humanities
disciplines or apply the humanities to topics of public concern.
The Durfee Foundation
1453 Third St., Ste. 312, Santa Monica, CA 90401
Phone: (310) 899-5120 Fax: (310) 899-5121
Email: admin@durfee.org Website: www.durfee.org/contact/index.html
Deadline: November 5, yearly and provides ARC (Artists' Resource for
Completion) grants which provide rapid, short-term assistance to individual
artists in Los Angeles County who wish to complete work for a specific,
imminent opportunity that may significantly benefit their careers.
Empowerment Project
8218 Farrington Mill Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27517
Phone: (919) 928-0382
Email: media@empowermentproject.org Website: http://www.empowermentproject.org/
Provides facilities, training and consultation for independent filmmakers,
producers, artists, activists and organizations working in video and other
electronic media; as well as produces and distributes its own documentary
films. Academy Award-winning directors Barbara Trent and David Kasper are
available for presentations and screenings.
Experimental Television Center
8218 Farrington Mill Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27517 Phone (919) 928-0382
Finishing funds (up to $1,500) awarded to individual artists and has
presentation funds (up to $1,000) to organizations. Media Arts Technical
Assistance Funds (Up to $2,000) to organizations.
San Francisco Film Society
39 Mesa Street
San Francisco, Ca (415) 516 5000
Fiscal sponsorships and grants. www.sffs.org
Ford Foundation
Director, Media Arts and Culture
320 E. 43rd St., New York, NY 10017
Website: www.fordfound.org.
Supports public broadcasting and the independent production of film, video
and radio programming, and supports efforts to engage diverse groups in work
related to the media and to analyze the media's effect on society.
Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP)
1761 N St. NW, Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 835-3650 Fax: (202) 835-3651
Email: President: pcwilcox@fmep.org Editor/Analyst: jeff@fmep.org
Website: http://www.fmep.org/
Committed to "informing Americans on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and
assisting in a peaceful solution that brings security for both peoples." The
grant making program provides support for organizations and individuals
working toward a solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Frameline
http://www.frameline.org/
Supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, visibility through media arts.
Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking
Phone: (212) 629-0500 ext. 215
Email: Grants@JewishCulture.org
Parent organization: National Foundation for Jewish Culture
Phone: (212) 629-0500 Fax: (212) 629-0508
Email: nfjc@jewishculture.org
Established by Steven Spielberg, this fund is designed to support the creation of
original documentary films and videos that promote thoughtful consideration
of Jewish history, culture, identity, and contemporary issues among diverse
public audiences.
Glaser Foundation
P. O. Box 91123, Seattle, WA 98111
Email: grants@glaserfoundation.org http://www.gfcf.org
Focuses on three program areas: progress definition and measurement; animal
advocacy; and socially conscious media. In each of these areas, the Foundation
develops and pursues its own initiatives and also provides funding support to
other nonprofit organizations.
Harburg Foundation
225 Lafayette Street, Room 813, New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 343-9453
Email: yipharburg@choreographics.com http://www.choreographics.com/harburg/fdation.htm
Advances and promotes new works of American political art, especially those
efforts which speak to cultural and societal issues and include television, videos,
shows, concerts, radio programs, and all artistic media.
Harvestworks
Website: http://www.harvestworks.org
Contact Director Carol Parkinson for more information: (212) 431-1130
Deadlines vary. New Works Residencies deadlines November. Offers a Digital
Media Arts Center to cultivate artistic talent using electronic technologies. Also
offers various programs, production studios, grant opportunities, education,
communal lab practice and distribution.
Haymarket People's Fund
42 Seaverns Avenue, Boston, MA 02130
Phone: (617) 522-7676 Fax: (617) 522-9580
Email: haymarket@igc.org Website: http://www.haymarket.org/index.htm
Support for New England film/video makers for films with strong connection
to community organizing work.
HBO America Undercover
Send proposal or tape to Greg Rhem, HBO
1100 Sixth Ave., NY, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 512-1670 Fax: (212) 512-8051
Provides production funds for American indie docs; Cinemax Reel Life acquires
completed docs or offers finishing funds for partially completed projects.
