Oh, Filmforum received one of those last year as well. And all that money went to honoraria and film rentals to experimental filmmakers...
On 2/29/12 9:11 AM, "Steve Polta" <stevepo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > For the record, the Academy Foundation actually does have an "Institutional > Grants" program which provides financial support to small avant-garde film > organizations (among other orgs) and another grant which supports film > festivals. > Info here: http://www.oscars.org/education-outreach/grants/index.html > list of institutional recipients here: > http://www.oscars.org/education-outreach/grants/institutional/recipients.html > > There are dozens of recipients on that list, including Millennium Film > Workshop, San Francisco Cinematheque and, notably, San Francisco's Ninth > Street Center for Independent Film, which received $5000 [the average grant > award] in support of its "Canyon Cinema screening program." (This is all > public information, via the link above.) > > Whether a $5,000 grant from this organization is considered significant is I > guess debatable but as Director of San Francisco Cinematheque (a > recipient)and I certainly wouldn't say no to moreI sure ain't complaining... > > Steve Polta > > > > --- On Wed, 2/29/12, Tom Whiteside <tom.whites...@duke.edu> wrote: >> >> From: Tom Whiteside <tom.whites...@duke.edu> >> Subject: [Frameworks] more on the Academy >> To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com> >> Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 5:28 AM >> >> I started this yesterday but shelved it; now that others have posted I am a >> bit more confident and will send --- This is such an interesting >> statement. I know what you mean, but still There are avant-garde sympathetic >> folks at the Academy... Could we possibly hope for ³supportive² or even >> aim for ³enthusiastic?² OK, how about substantial funding for Canyon Cinema >> and the other 20 or so (100?) small avant-garde film organizations that need >> it right now? Take a tiny fraction of what you spend on regular old Lavish >> Hollywood Lifestyle and show some respect for experimental film. It is >> very nice, it really is, that both Brakhage and Kuchar got their memorial >> moments at the Oscars, but why not something for them while they were still >> alive? I know the Academy is doing very important work in film >> preservation and that¹s really all I know about their connection to >> experimental film. But taken as an industry, taken as American Culture #1, >> taken as a commercial art form that has learned and benefitted from the work >> created by experimental film pioneers for decades, why not show some respect >> and take 0.5% of the Movie Star Champagne Budget and fund art in this >> country? Painting had an Academy once, but some painters broke away from it. >> Tom >>
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