National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

series in partnership with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, and the Screenings in Schools
program, in which students view films and engage with artists in person or over Skype.
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (aka Jewish Film Institute)
$15,000 San Francisco, CA
To support the 37th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and related activities. Held in the summer, the festival
hosts film screenings, live music, and panel discussions in celebration of Jewish culture and tradition. Curatorial
collaboration with media art organizations such as Frameline and the Center for Asian American Media will
provide audiences with thematic programs that explore the ethnic, racial, and religious diversity of the Jewish
experience. Recent films screened at the festival include "Regarding Susan Sontag" by Nancy Kates, "Dough" by
John Goldschmidt, "Autism in Love" by Matt Fuller, and "Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict" by Lisa Vreeland.
Scribe Video Center, Inc.
$25,000 Philadelphia, PA
To support an exhibition and touring program on the history of participatory community media arts and related
activities. The exhibition will present works from the last 40 years created through community-based practices
at media art centers and video collectives across the country. Accompanied by a catalogue and web-based
materials, the exhibition will tour to venues such as the Downtown Community Television Center in New York,
New York; the Center for Media & Democracy in Burlington, Vermont; and Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky.
Select works also will be packaged for DVD and online distribution, as well as for broadcast on the WORLD
Channel to audiences nationwide.
SIFF (aka Seattle International Film Festival)
$70,000 Seattle, WA
To support the 43rd Seattle International Film Festival. One of the longest film festivals in the world at more
than three weeks, the event features hundreds of American and international films, as well as educational
programs, panel discussions, retrospectives, and tributes to recognized film artists. Programs to be presented at
the festival include a curated series dedicated to contemporary Chinese cinema, a free hands-on filmmaking
event for area students, and workshops for educators on incorporating filmmaking concepts into classroom
curricula. Artists will have additional opportunities to take part in professional development trainings,
screenplay workshops, and panels on topics such as creating work for the web and new models of distribution.
Works screened at recent festivals include "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of a Revolution" by Stanley Nelson,
"Very Semi-Serious" by Leah Wolchok, "Racing Extinction" by Louie Psihoyos, and "Margarita, With a Straw" by
Shonali Bose.
Standby Program, Inc. (aka Standby)
$25,000 Flushing, NY
To support the provision of moving image, audio, and time-based media artwork preservation services. In
partnership with such facilities as Mercer Media, Color Lab, and Chromavision, Standby provides preservation
services to artists at reduced rates without incurring the costs of equipment purchase and maintenance.
Through its program, Standby will preserve hundreds of hours of work by artists such as Tony Conrad, Kit
Fitzgerald, DeeDee Halleck, Les Levine, Mary Lucier, and Aysha Quinn. Archival works previously preserved
through the program include Bruce and Norman Yonemoto's "Made in Hollywood," Martha Rosler's
"Watchwords of the Eighties," and Judith Barry's "Echo."
Sundance Institute
$100,000 Park City, UT
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.