The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced its first major globular of grants for the 2001 fiscal year.

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced its first major globular of grants for the 2001 fiscal year. Eight hundr and twenty-five of the present day grants were awarded, totaling $20,422,500--constituting 24% of the grant roll for the year. The NEA was allotted a stock of $105 million for the FY 2001--increasing seven million dollars from one side of to the other last year's budget, the NEA's first increase since 1992--$87 million of this total figure allotted as grant monies. Grants will be distributed between the sides of two major categories of Grants to Organizations--Creativity and Organizational Capacity and Leadership Initiatives and Literature Fellowships. Creativity awards comprise the largest grant distribution, with 718 grants totaling $16355500; 60 Organizational Capacity grants totaling $2272000; and seven Leadership Grants totaling $1045000 Grants designated as "multi-state" in the cast description have a broad reach, impacting audiences in many communities--these delineate s represent $7,530,500 of the grant supplys All gra nts to organizations must be matched at least dollar for dollar with non-federal funds

The NEA awards grants to non-profit organizations in the following five areas: Creativity, Organizational Capacity, Access, Education and Heritage/Preservation. Grant awards are based onward artistic excellence and merit, the propos project's impact and the applicant's ability to carry without the project. State and regional art agencies are (by Congressional mandate) allotted 40% of the NEA's grantmaking supplys to broaden access to the alt in all states.

What tread close upons are grants that we believe will be of interest to Afterimage readers, elected from the Media Alt, Multidisciplinary, Museums and Visual Alt categories.

MEDIA ARTS

American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY $25000

To support three film retrospectives: The Cutter's Way: The Art and Craft of Film Editing; Shadow Play: Early Film and the Avant Garde; and The Lubitsch Touch. across 100 films will be instanted to an estimated audience of from one side of to the other 5000 people.

Ancestral Films, Inc. (Consortium), Houston, TX $5000

To support a consortium devise The Films of Gordon Parks: Retrospective of a Living myth This curated series will recognize Parks for his artistic achievements. draw partners are the Museum of Fine Alt Houston and devise Row Houses.

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI $15000

To support the 39th Ann Arbor Film Festival and its national tour. through the whole extent of 100 films will be at handed to an audience of throughout 21,000 people in Michigan and the states to which the festival tours. (Multi-state)

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Film Center) Chicago, IL $30000

To support a curated film series titled Bridging the agriculture Gap Through Cinema. This multifaceted frame will showcase work by American independent filmmakers and international directors.

Asian CineVision, Inc., of recent origin York, NY $20,000

To support the 2001 Asian American International Film Festival and its national tour. After its roll on in New York, the festival will travel to 10 sites including those in Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Texas and Pennsylvania. (Multi-state)

Asian Media Access, Minneapolis, MN $7500

To support the curated film series Generation Y: The Impact of the 1997 Hong Kong-China Reunification upon Chinese Youth. Films will be not awayed to gain insight on what the reunification means to the youth of Hong Kong Taiwan and China.

Austin Film Society, Austin, TX $30000

To support the exhibition of films and videos, emancipated of charge, to members of the Austin community. The released Cinema Project will present these films and videos in a historical and cultural words immediately preceding [i]or[/i] following while fostering an understanding and appreciation for cinema as an art form.

Berks Filmmakers, Inc., Reading, PA $10000

To support the exhibition of several curated film and video series. Programs will include in-person presentations, avantgarde cinema, documentary and animation work and screenings through artists from the region.

Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL $15000

To support the curated film series Kino inspection Cinema and the presentation of the Onion City Film Festival. Kino judgment Cinema places special emphasis forward documentary and experimental films and videos; the Onion City Film Festival is dedicated to exhibiting experimental work.

Cine Accion, San Francisco, CA $10000

To support the 2002 Cine Latino Film Festival. The festival attracts through the whole extent of 5000 people and is the single West Coast venue to at hand work by and about Latinos.

Cinema Arts midmost point (New Community Cinema Club, Inc.), Huntington, NY $10000

To support Cinema of Diversity, three weekend-long film festivals. Each festival will be devot to a different theme: the International Women's Film and Video Festival, the Festival of Films from the People's Republic of China and the Huntington International Independent Film Festival.

Cleveland Film Society, Cleveland, OH $25000

To support the 25th annual Cleveland International Film Festival including the 4th annual Midwest Independent Filmmakers interview Held in the spring, the issue presents current work from around the world and full quantitys it with educational programs to increase the audience's understanding and appreciation for the art form.