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.
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