Neh Grants - The National Endowment for Humanities

Afterimage, Sept, 1999

The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced 163 grants to organizations totaling $17.6 million. The awards fall into several categories including K-12 Education, Higher Education, Museum, Film and Radio and Library and Special Projects. Of special note in this round of awards are 14 Schools for the Millennium grants, which are intended to aid schools in incorporating computers into humanities curriculums and to serve as models for the use of computer technology in day-to-day teaching. Below are grants that we believe will be of interest to Afterimage readers.

FILM AND RADIO

Austin Film Society, Austin, TX $200,000

Completion of a three-hour documentary film on the life of George Wallace.

Calliope Film Resources, Inc., Lexington, MA $30,000

Planning of a 60-minute documentary film biography of Henry David Thoreau, his contributions to American philosophy and community life, and his role as an antislavery activist.

Camera News, Inc.,/Third World Newsreel, New York, NY $30,000

Planning for a three-hour documentary film on Harlem in the twentieth century.

Center for Independent Documentary, Waban, MA $50,000

Scripting of a one-hour documentary film using the story of the murder of Dr. Parkman in the nineteenth century as a case study in historiography.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York, NY $300,740

Production of a 90-minute documentary film on the work of photographer Alfred Stieglitz.

Educational Film Center, Annandale, VA $600,000

Production of a two-hour documentary film on the establishment and funding of the Federal Theater during the New Deal and the controversy over governmental support for the arts that led to the Theater's demise in 1939.

ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Spartanburg, SC $60,000

Scripting of a two-hour documentary film on the rise of American youths' cultural, economic and political rights in the twentieth century and the development of a teen subculture.

Films Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA $30,000

Planning for a one-hour documentary film on civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.

Film/Video Arts, New York, NY $9,619

Consultation with scholars to develop a one-hour documentary film on the life of Annie Oakley and her significance in American history and popular culture.

Global Policy Forum, District of Columbia $10,000

Development of a documentary film on the rise of Egyptology, relations between the Middle East and West, and the ramifications of the Egyptian campaign on Napoleon's career.

History Institute for Media and Education, Shelbourne, VT $60,000

Scripting of a 90-minute documentary film exploring the history of the Miss America Pageant and changes in popular images of American womanhood.

History Institute for Media and Education, Shelbourne, VT $5,000

Consultation with scholars to develop a one-hour documentary film on women's contributions to the early development of photography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Image Film/Video Center, Atlanta, GA $226,155

Production of a documentary film on the life and work of writer Zora Neale Hurston.

Interfaze Educational Productions, Inc. $9,950

Development of a two-part film series tracing the evolution of the social welfare state from the public assistance policies of the nineteenth century to contemporary policies.

KCET-TV, Los Angeles, CA $702,134

Production of a three-hour documentary film on the life and career of Woodrow Wilson.

Kitchen Sync, New York, NY $10,000

Consultation with historians and biographers to plan a one-hour documentary about the life and legend of nineteenth-century Mexican bandit Joaquin Murrieta.

Long Bow Group, Inc., Brookline, MA $700,776

Production of a two-hour documentary film on China's Cultural Revolution.

Nebraskans for Public Television, Lincoln, NE $65,000

Scripting of a 90-minute documentary film on the life and public career of Emma Goldman.

New Images Productions, Inc., Berkeley, CA $472,311

Production of a 90-minute documentary film portrait of Invisible Man author Ralph Ellison.

New York Historical Association, Cooperstown, NY $60,000

Scripting of a 60-minute documentary film on Oneida, the nineteenth-century Utopian community.

Pacific Street Film Projects, Inc., Hastings-on-Hudson, NY $10,000

Consultation with scholars to refine the treatments for a six-hour documentary film series on aviation history and its impact on society and the human imagination.

Spark Media, District of Columbia $551,111

Production of a documentary film about the 35-year partnership between Viven Thomas and Alfred Blalock, the interracial medical team that pioneered cardiac surgery amid the racially-charged atmosphere of the mid-twentieth-century American South.

WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, MA $600,776

Production of a three-hour documentary film on the life and career of Ulysses S. Grant.

Women Make Movies, New York, NY $29,460

Planing of a documentary film on the historical development and significance of the Cinderella fairy tale in its variants around the world.

LIBRARY AND SPECIAL PROJECTS

National Video Resources, New York, NY $282,200