2008 Grantees:
Curatorial Media (7 Organizations)
This grant area recognizes the vast local and national resources of new and archival programming that breaks with traditional media boundaries. The grant provides organizations with the necessary resources to curate innovative and thematic presentations within contemporary contexts that help inform and educate specific communities and the general public.
Sprout
Sprout is dedicated to helping people with developmental disabilities grow through challenging, creative and fun experiences that enhance socialization, self-confidence and inclusion. Since its founding in 1979 Sprout has provided a year-round travel program of vacations as well as a year-round program of day and evening cultural, social and art-related activities in New York City for people with developmental disabilities. Since 1995, Sprout has run an annual weekend-long music and arts festival for an average of 225 people with developmental disabilities complete with live bands, video screenings, interactive art projects, carnival games, and other entertainment.
Educational Video Center (Urban Visionaries Film Festival)
The mission of the Urban Visionaries Film Festival (UVFF) is to provide youth with a forum to raise and discuss social, economic, cultural and political issues through the exhibition of youth-produced media. UVFF will present five 28-minute programs featuring the best films of the festival to be aired on MNN's Youth Channel.
ACT UP Oral History Project
The ACT UP Oral History Project exists to conduct long-format interviews with members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), which through an innovative use of nonviolent civil disobedience, street theater, imaginative graphic design and sophisticated use of both mainstream and alternative media, transformed the response to the AIDS crisis in the United States and worldwide. They have conducted 83 interviews, with 100 people still waiting to be interviewed.
Art For Change
Art for Change is a multi-disciplinary not-for-profit organization based in East Harlem working with artists who lack access to space to promote their art, develop professionally, network, and interact with diverse communities. Through a variety of cultural and artistic programs, performances, seminars, discussions, and exhibits showcased at Carlitos Café y Galeria, they attempt to increase access to the arts and awareness of important social issues
Rooftop Films
Rooftop Films is a non-profit film festival and production collective that supports, creates, promotes, and shows short and feature-length films that wouldn't otherwise be made or seen. Rooftop Films features a series of unique outdoor screenings throughout the city. Rooftop Films will produce 13 episodes of a weekly television series called “Rooftop TV,” a showcase for the best of Rooftop Films’ acclaimed collection of short films.
Paper Tiger TV
Paper Tiger Television (PTTV) is an open, non-profit, volunteer video collective with the mission to “smash the myths of the information industry”. Paper Tiger has been creating fun, funky, hard-hitting, investigative, compelling and truly alternative media for 25 years. PTTV has inspired media-savvy community productions and activism around the world.
Deep Dish TV
For 20 years Deep Dish TV has been a laboratory for new, democratic and empowering ways to make and distribute video. It is the first national grassroots satellite network, providing programming from public access and Indymedia producers for community cable stations and public interest satellite channels. To date it has distributed over 300 hours of television series that challenge the suppression of awareness, the corruption of language and the perversion of logic that characterizes so much of commercial media.
