The Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded $455,000 to 25 U.S. film festivals for the 2012 calendar year.

The 2012 film festival grants allocations are as follows:

$50,000

• Chicago International Film Festival – World Cinema Spotlight program
• Cleveland International Film Festival – Focus on Filmmakers

$30,000

• Los Angeles Film Festival – Free Screenings program
• San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival – World Cinema Spotlight program

$20,000

• Ann Arbor Film Festival (MI) – 50th Anniversary Archival program
• Chicago International Children’s Film Festival – Directors in the Schools, Educational
  Curriculum Development and free tickets
• Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (Durham, NC) – Thematic program
• Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival – “30 Years of Outfest” retrospective program
• Palm Springs International ShortFest – Filmmaker Forums
• Santa Barbara International Film Festival – Field Trip to the Movies program
• True/False Film Fest (Columbia, MO) – Visiting Filmmaker program; SWAMI Mentoring program; Film Academy Student Track; Outreach to Students and Minorities
• Virginia Film Festival (Charlottesville) – Community Outreach and Education program

$15,000

• RiverRun International Film Festival (Winston-Salem, NC) – 2010 Spotlight program: Landmark Science Fiction Films
• St. Louis International Film Festival – Women in Film Sidebar

$10,000

• Athens International Film and Video Festival (Ohio) – “Let’s Talk About Water” screening and seminar program
• Berkshire International Film Festival (Great Barrington, MA) – Talent Campus
• Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (Missoula, MT) – Retrospective Programming and the
  Reel Sounds Sidebar
• Cucalorus Film Festival (Wilmington, NC) – Voices program
• Indie Memphis Film Festival – Visiting Filmmakers and Community Outreach
• Maryland Film Festival (Baltimore) – New Waves in World Cinema program
• Pan African Film Festival (Los Angeles) – StudentFest

$5,000

• New York Arab and South Asian Film Festival (New York City) – Retrospective Program
• South East European Film Festival (Los Angeles) – Audience Development
• Tallgrass Film Festival (Witchita, KS) – Filmmaker Hospitality

Since its establishment in 1999, the Academy’s Festival Grants Program has distributed 277 grants totaling $4.85 million in funding.