Totaling $5.3 million dollars in grants since 1999, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Festival Grants Program has always been designed to encourage film festivals to bring audiences together with films and filmmakers that they might not otherwise encounter. To achieve this and ultimately grow film festival audiences, the Academy has given grants to festivals that encourage a particular audience, reach underserved regions, celebrate particular genres, grow the impact of festivals, and help smaller festivals that need a bit more leverage.
AFI FEST International Filmmakers and Guest Artistic Directors – $30,000
Ann Arbor Film Festival Filmmaker Retrospective Programs – $20,000
Arabian Sights Film Festival Guest Filmmakers – $3,750
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Retrospective Program and Festival Theme – $10,000
Black Maria Film and Video Festival Re-Fueling the Independent Spirit: Outreach and Access – $3,210
Chicago Int’l Children’s Film Festival Education and outreach programs for low income students – $30,000
Cleveland Int’l Film Festival Focus on LGBT Filmmakers (multi-year grant) – $50,000
KidFilm Arts-in-education outreach film programs – $10,000
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Retrospective Spotlight program – $20,000
Los Angeles Film Festival Master Classes on the Art and Craft of Film – $30,000
Mill Valley Film Festival Focus on Spanish Language Cinema – $30,000
New Orleans Film Festival 25th Anniversary Spotlight: Focus on Black Filmmakers – $20,000
New York African Diaspora Int’l Film Festival “Being Black in Latin America” program – $7,000
Out On Film Filmmaker appearances and Q and A sessions – $2,700
Ozark Foothills FilmFest “Breaking Through: Promoting Cultural Understanding through Film” – $3,340
San Francisco Int’l Film Festival World Cinema Spotlight (three-year grant) – $25,000
San Francisco Int’l LGBT Film Festival New Storytelling in LGBT Cinema – $30,000
San Francisco Silent Film Festival Educational Programs – $20,000
Seattle Int’l Film Festival African Pictures (three-year grant) – $50,000
SEEfest (South East European) Must-SEE Cinema – $4,400
St. Louis Int’l Film Festival Women in Film Sidebar – $20,000
True/False Film Fest Neither/Nor Sidebar Program (three-year grant) – $25,000
Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival Expanding Our Reach: Inspiring New Communities with New Ideas – $10,000
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