Applications Are Now Open the NYWIFT/WFPF Grant
The NYWIFT WFPF Preservation Grant cycle is now open The deadline is June 15th.
Since 1995 the Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) of New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) has been bringing awareness to women’s enormous accomplishment in filmmaking by funding preservation of films made by American women everywhere and films made in the US by women from other countries. To date, they have preserved approximately 150 of these American-made films, bringing back into view important lost films and significant but overlooked films from the past, showing that women have been integral to filmmaking since its inception.
For the second consecutive grant cycle, The Women’s Film Preservation Fund is thrilled and honored to receive continued support from the Leon Levy Foundation. In 2021, the Foundation’s generous award helped the WFPF preserve award-winning documentaries, and experimental works that are now enjoying restoration premieres at the Trinidad Tobago Film Festival, Port of Spain, Trinidad; the Academy Film Archive, Los Angeles, CA; the Museum of Modern Art, and Anthology Film Archives, New York, New York. More premiere announcements will be announced later this year. Additionally, due to additional funding partners, such as the Academy Film Archive and the Library of Congress, the WFPF is able to preserve more titles this past grant year than in recent previous grant cycles. Without these entities and individuals that make contributions, these films would have been lost to time and obsolete technology.
From the outset, the WFPF’s ambition has been to make visible women’s filmmaking achievement in all of its breadth, variety, and innovation. Preserved films in their roster represent all genres and lengths including: narrative, documentary, experimental, and animated films, as well as home movies and other forms. Their aim is to show the diversity of women’s filmmaking by including as many voices and vantage points as possible.
On this week’s episode we brought you to the premiere of the newly restored 1988 documentary, One Hand Don’t Clap by Kavery Kaul. The restoration of the film was made possible by the Women’s Film Preservation Fund. Check out the full episode here.
To apply visit the Women’s Film Preservation fund website.
