National Film Preservation Foundation Invites Applications for Avant-Garde Masters Grants Program

The National Film Preservation Foundation is accepting applications for the Avant-Garde Masters Grants Program, which provides cash grants to support lab work thatpreserves significant examples of America's avant-garde film heritage.

The program supports the preservation of a film or films by a single filmmaker or from a cinematic group 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 American experimental film or, if the works are lesser known today, demonstrate how the films will contribute to a better understanding of avant-garde film history. Proposals must also explain why the proposed films are in need of preservation and include plans detailing how the films will be made available to the public and scholars.

Grants are available to public and 501(c)(3) 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 U.S. or by American citizens abroad that are not physically preserved by commercial interests. Materials originally created for television or video, including works produced with funds from broadcast or cable television entities, are not eligible.

The grant must be used to pay for new laboratory work involving the creation of new film preservation elements (which may include sound tracks) and two new public access copies, one of which must be a film print.

The program will fund several preservation projects ranging between $5,000 and $50,000.

For complete program guidelines, application requirements, and information on other NFPF funding programs, visit the foundation's Web site.

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Primary Subject: Arts and Culture