Academy Awards $450,000 to US Film Festivals

True/False Film Fest

In case you think the Academy only hands out Oscars:
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Academy Foundation has awarded a total of $450,000 to 24 U.S. film festivals for the 2010 calendar year. Recipients range from Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and the Ann Arbor Film Festival to the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival and the True/False Film Fest.
Two festivals, the Nashville Film Festival and the New Orleans Film Festival, are in the second year of a three-year grant worth $75,000. The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and the Virginia Film Festival are receiving the third and final annual installment of another [...]

by Anna Robinson | November 4, 2009   
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