Film Festival Grant Recipients

2012

Festival Program Award Amount
Ann Arbor Film Festival (MI) 50th Anniversary Archival Programming $20,000
Athens International Film and Video Festival (Ohio) Let's Talk About Water screening and seminar program $10,000
Berkshire International Film Festival (Great Barrington, MA) Talent Campus $10,000
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (Missoula, MT) Retrospective Programming and the Reel Sounds sidebar $10,000
Chicago International Children's Film Festival Free tickets, Directors in the Schools and educational curriculum development $20,000
Chicago International Film Festival World Cinema Spotlight $50,000
Cleveland International Film Festival Focus on Filmmakers $50,000
Cucalorus Film Festival (Wilmington, NC) Voices Program $10,000
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (Durham, NC) Thematic Program $20,000
Indie Memphis Film Festival Visiting filmmakers and community outreach $10,000
Los Angeles Film Festival Free Screenings Program $30,000
Maryland Film Festival (Baltimore) New Waves In World Cinema $10,000
New York Arab and South Asian Film Festival (New York, NY) Daoud Abd El-Sayed Mid-Career Retrospective and Master Class $5,000
Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 30 Years of Outfest: The Films That Sparked a Cultural Revolution $20,000
Palm Springs International ShortFest Filmmaker Forums $20,000
Pan African Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA) StudentFest $10,000
RiverRun International Film Festival (Winston-Salem, NC) 2012 Spotlight: "Landmark Science Fiction Films" $15,000
San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival World Cinema Program $30,000
San Francisco Silent Film Festival Educational Programs $20,000
Santa Barbara International Film Festival Field Trip to the Movies $20,000
South East European Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA) Audience Development $5,000
St. Louis International Film Festival Women in Film Sidebar $15,000
Tallgrass Film Festival (Wichita, KS) Filmmaker Hospitality $15,000
True/False Film Fest (Columbia, MO) Visiting Filmmaker Program, SWAMI Mentoring Program, Film Academy Student Track, Outreach to Students and Minorities $20,000
Virginia Film Festival (Charlottesville) Community Outreach & Education Program $20,000

Total Awarded: $450,000


See a list of previous Film Festival Grant recipients