Nea 2000 First Round Grants - National Endowment for the Arts; includes list of grants - Statistical Data Included

Afterimage, March, 2001

Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater, Inc., Lincoln, NE $10,000

To support the 2001 Great Plains Film Festival. Held biennially in the summer, the festival provides a showcase for film and video artists working in the American heartland (Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.)

Global Action Project, Inc., New York, NY $10,000

To support Urban Voices, a media production and literacy program for more than 150 economically disadvantaged young people. Through the workshops, these young producers will gain skills and the ability to deconstruct mainstream media images.

Greenway Arts Alliance (on behalf of Displaced Films), Los Angeles, CA $35,000

To support postproduction costs for a six-hour documentary television series by David Zeiger about students in their last year of high school. Intended for national PBS broadcast, "Senior Year" will follow 15 seniors from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles. (Multi-state)

Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute, Hot Springs, AR $7500

To support the 2001 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. Attended by over 16,000 people, this festival is dedicated to the art of non-fiction film.

Independent Films, Aspen, CO $10,000

To support the Aspen Shortsfest Film Festival. Short, live action, animation and documentary films from the U.S. and abroad will be showcased.

Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc., Atlanta, GA $7500

To support the 25th Atlanta Film and Video Festival. This event presents the best of current independent film and video to an average audience of 6000 people.

Interfaze Educational Productions, Inc., Berkeley, CA $15,000

To support the production of a documentary film by Marilyn Mulford and Claudio Duran on the experiences of Chilean artist-exiles. Archeology of Memory will combine archival footage, interviews, storytelling and reenactments to illustrate remembrances of this historical time. (Multi-state)

International Latino Cultural Center (Chicago Latino Cinema), Chicago, IL $25,000

To support the 17th Chicago Latino Film Festival. Held annually in the spring, this festival offers over 100 films to an average audience of over 45,000 people.

Jewish Film Festival, San Francisco, CA $20,000

To support the 2001 Jewish Film Festival and expansion of the organization's Web site. The festival, devoted to Jewish-subject films, will be held over a one-month period in San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto and Mann County; the Web site will serve as an information resource and include an image library and archive. (Multi-state)

Kartemquin Educational Films, Chicago, IL $47,000

To support production and postproduction costs of a documentary film titled Refrigerator Mothers by Gordon Quinn, J. J. Han ley and David Simpson about autism. The film will paint an intimate portrait of an entire generation of mothers, already laden with the challenge of raising profoundly disordered children, who lived for years under the dehumanizing shadow of "mother blame." (Multi-state)