Film preservationists, take note. New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) is helping keep the history of women’s cinema alive. Submissions are now open for NYWIFT Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) Grant.
“The WFPF preserves films made by American women and films made in the U.S. by women from other countries,” a press release explains. “For more than 20 years the Fund has preserved over 135 films by women of all genres including: experimental, animation, narrative, documentary, home movie, among others.”
WFPF is not a production grant — it is specifically designed to support individual filmmakers and institutions working to preserve an existing film.
Grants of up to $10,000 are awarded biennially.
Criteria include — but are not limited to — “artistic, historic, cultural, and/or educational importance of the film, especially its relation to the role of women in film history,” “significance of the key creative women in the production,” and “urgency of the need to preserve the film.”
The deadline to apply is June 15.
Application guidelines and an application form can be found at WIFT’s site.
