Academy gives $450,000 to film festivals
The Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded $450,000 to 24 U.S. film festivals for 2010.
Two fests, the Nashville Film Festival and the New Orleans Film Festival, are in the second year of a three-year grant that totals $75,000, while the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and Virginia Film Festival are in the final year of a three-year grant, also totaling $75,000. A full list of film festival program allocations follows the break.
Since 1999, the Academy's Festival Grants Program has awarded 222 grants totaling $3.95 million in funding.
The 2010 film festival program allocations are as follows:
$30,000
Chicago International Children's Film Festival
Cinequest Film Festival
Los Angeles Film Festival
Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
$25,000
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival
New Orleans Film Festival
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Virginia Film Festival
$20,000
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
San Diego Latino Film Festival
True/False Film Fest
$17,500
Provincetown International Film Festival
$15,000
San Francisco Silent Film Festival
St. Louis International Film Festival
$10,000
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Indie Memphis Film Festival
Phoenix Film Festival
Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
$2,500
Ozark Foothills FilmFest
The Women's Film Festival
Tucson International Jewish Film Festival
-- Paul Gaita
Image: New Orleans Film Festival
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