Film Grants Available
The National Film Preservation Foundation is accepting applications for the Avant-Garde Masters Grants. These cash preservation grants support laboratory work to preserve significant examples of America’s avant-garde film heritage. The grants are available to nonprofit and public archives.
Avant-garde film is hard to define. Avant-garde film is generally produced and distributed outside mainstream film channels. Often created by a single filmmaker or a small team, these films are intended as artistic expressions. They often experiment with the film medium in unique and personal ways.
This grant supports the preservation of a film or films by a single filmmaker or cinematic movement significant to the development of avant-garde film in America. Works made within the last twenty years are not eligible. Applications should show how the proposed titles have made a significant contribution to the American experimental film movement and why they are in need of preservation. Proposals must also include plans detailing how the films will be made available to the public and the scholarly community.
This grant will fund several preservation projects ranging between $10,000 and $50,000.
Registration Deadline: March 19, 2010
Application Deadline: April 23, 2010
Grant Period: June 1, 2010 to August 1, 2011
ELIGIBILITY
Grants are available to public and nonprofit archives in the United States, including those that are part of federal, state, or local government. The grants target avant-garde films made in the United States or by American citizens abroad and not physically preserved by commercial interests. Materials originally created for television or video are not eligible, including works produced with funds from broadcast or cable television entities.
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