Program |
Category |
Grant Year |
Grant Amount |
Electronic Media & Film |
General Support |
FY20 |
$ 16,000 |
Project Title: |
Independent Feature Project |
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Project Description: |
The Independent Feature Project (also knows as the Independent Filmmaker Project or IFP) requests General Program Support for its ongoing activities, including its signature professional development programs for filmmakers and digital storytellers, conferences/classes, and screenings and exhibits. |
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Individual Artists |
Film, Media & New Technology |
FY20 |
$ 22,500 |
Project Title: |
(Artist: Jamie Boyle), Anonymous Sister |
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Project Description: |
To support the post-production of the documentary ANONYMOUS SISTER by artist Jamie Boyle. When her mother & sister become addicted to prescription opioids, Jamie Boyle begins a sweeping examination of America's largest drug epidemic. |
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Individual Artists |
Film, Media & New Technology |
FY20 |
$ 22,500 |
Project Title: |
(Artist: Abbesi Akhamie), In My Father's House |
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Project Description: |
To support the pre-production of the narrative feature IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE by artist Abbesi Akhanie. A Nigerian-American woman travels for the first time to Nigeria to confront her father who abandoned her as a child. |
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Individual Artists |
Film, Media & New Technology |
FY20 |
$ 20,000 |
Project Title: |
(Artist: Chelsi Bullard), Kids Can Spit |
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Project Description: |
To support the post-production of the documentary KIDS CAN SPIT by artist Chelsi Bullard through IFP. Teenagers of color in a Brooklyn public school innovate a new genre of hip-hop in a city-wide science meets rap competition. |
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Individual Artists |
Film, Media & New Technology |
FY20 |
$ 22,500 |
Project Title: |
(Artist: Sabine Krayenbühl), Obsessed with Light |
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Project Description: |
To support the post-production of the documentary OBSESSED WITH LIGHT by artists Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum through IFP. The first feature length documentary film about American visionary performer and groundbreaking innovator, Loïe Fuller. |
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Individual Artists |
Film, Media & New Technology |
FY20 |
$ 17,500 |
Project Title: |
(Artist: Chithra Jeyaram), Our Daughters |
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Project Description: |
To support the post-production of the documentary OUR DAUGHTERS by artist Chithra Jeyaram through IFP. This hybrid documentary feature examines open transracial adoption through an immigrant lens. |
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Individual Artists |
Film, Media & New Technology |
FY20 |
$ 20,000 |
Project Title: |
(Artist: John Mattiuzzi), Pine Bush |
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Project Description: |
To support the post-production of the documentary PINE BUSH by artist John Mattiuzzi through IFP. An alien being wanders into the small town of Pine Bush and begins rummaging through the fragmented lives of those who become irresistibly drawn to him. |
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Individual Artists |
Film, Media & New Technology |
FY20 |
$ 20,000 |
Project Title: |
(Artist: Deborah Dickson), Still Not Equal |
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Project Description: |
To support the post-production of the documentary STILL NOT EQUAL by artist Deborah Dickson through IFP. In the most segregated school system in the US, a young Latino principal in the Bronx inspires his students to become change agents. |
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Individual Artists |
Film, Media & New Technology |
FY20 |
$ 25,000 |
Project Title: |
(Artist: Esra Saydam), The Mesopotamian |
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Project Description: |
To support the pre-production of the narrative feature THE MESOPOTAMIAN by artist Esra Saydam. An urban love story set in the EMS world of New York City from the eyes of Ela, a mysterious Middle Eastern immigrant who recently becomes an EMT. |
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Individual Artists |
Film, Media & New Technology |
FY20 |
$ 20,000 |
Project Title: |
(Artist: Marlo Poras), Untitled LGBTQ Ice Skating Documentary |
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Project Description: |
To support the post-production of the documentary UNTITLED LGBTQ ICE SKATING DOCUMENTARY by artist Marlo Poras through IFP. Lesbian ice dancer Laura Moore recruits a group of proudly queer figure skaters to challenge the deeply conservative sport. |
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Individual Artists |
Film, Media & New Technology |
FY20 |
$ 20,000 |
Project Title: |
(Artist: Zara Katz), Women on the Outside |
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Project Description: |
To support the post-production of the documentary WOMEN ON THE OUTSIDE by artist Zara Katz through IFP. This documentary follows a determined millenial in Philadelphia & her extended family as they try to maintain love in the shadow of incarceration. |
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Total: $ 226,000 |