There are more than 500 artist residencies in the United States and over 2,000 internationally. Join the Alliance of Artists Communities for a tour of opportunities around the world and how they support creative practice. This session will cover tips for researching, applying for and funding a residency experience. Plus hear from Sundance Institute about exciting new platforms for filmmakers, editors and writers and how to apply!

This CID webinar is free and will take place on Tuesday, June 25th from 12pm - 1pm ET. Register now to reserve your spot today !

Pride Of The Ocean will embark on its final cruise this week, June 8th - 15th. In its tenth year, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and the beginning of the modern LGBT rights movement with an outstanding selection of films and filmmakers aboard. Watch for updates on a re-invented Cineslam Film Seminar program in the coming months!

Read more details and the full press release here.

NewEnglandFilm.com  has announced a free open call for the New England Film Star Award, a grant for a film by a New England filmmaker marginalized by race, gender, sexuality, able-bodiedness, or other. There is no fee to apply, and applications are due by July 15 .

For more information about the grant guidelines, eligibility requirements, and to apply click here .

Pare Lorentz was an award-winning documentary pioneer whose work illuminated the most pressing social issues in the United States. In his spirit, International Documentary Association (IDA) 's Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund  provides production and post production grants to full-length independent films that embody the spirit and artistic vision of Pare Lorentz's work.

 

Each year the fund will focuses on select issue areas that were hallmarks of Pare Lorentz's films . In 2019, our focus is economic inequality with grants up to $25,000. Apply by July 1, 2019 !

Learn more and start your application here .

National Endowment for the Arts has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2019. Included in this announcement is a $15,000 grant to

the Center for Independent Documentary in support of Henry Ferrini’s upcoming

film PRESIDENT OF BEAUTY: THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF LESTER YOUNG . This is the second NEA grant Mr. Ferrini has received for this film. Also included, is a grant of $25,000 to CID to support post-production costs for THE QUIET ZONE, a documentary film by Katie Dellamaggiore and produced by Tracie Holder.

Congratulations go out to all of the grantees!

The LEF Foundation announced 10 Moving Image Fund grants totaling $190,000 in support for New England-based independent documentary

filmmakers.

A production grant in the amount of $15,000 was awarded to ADAM'S APPLE , directed by Amy Jenkins. Adam’s Apple is a divergent coming-of-age documentary from the perspectives of the director and her teenage transgender son, Adam. Collaboratively they will trace the transition of Adam from pre-pubescent Audrey to evolving-young-man Adam in an exploration of what characterizes “maleness” for today’s gender-redefining youth.

IN THE HOLOCENE , directed by Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong, was also awarded a production grant in the amount of $15,000. The film will be a forensic look into the landscape, work, and stories of the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. A major tourist destination in

Thailand, the filmmakers want to capture the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary capitalist world collide, sometimes uneasily.

Read the full announcement which includes all grantees here.

A LONG WAY FROM HOME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BASEBALL'S DESEGREGATION , was a winner at the 2019  Telly Awards , receiving a GOLD Telly in the category of General (Individual) Television Documentary. The very competitive category produced only nine GOLD award winners.

A Long Way from Home , broadcast nationally on TV One in 2018, chronicles the experiences of the African-American and Latino players who integrated white professional baseball in the 1950s and '60s. Funding for the film was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Distributed by Giant Pictures, A Long Way from Home is available through iTunes , Amazon , and Kanopy .

Would you consider making  two clicks  to vote for the Upstander Project film  DAWNLAND  for the Independent Lens 2018-2019 audience award? It takes about 15 seconds and if you mention why you chose  Dawnland  and tag the film on social media (@DawnlandMovie) you will receive a big thank you from the crew!

WBCN AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION was the Centerpiece: Documentary Spotlight of the 2019 Independent Film Festival of Boston , and in addition to selling out the 900-seat Somerville Theatre (which led to a rush ticket line of people trying to get in...) 16 WBCN staff from the era who were in the film attended and participated in the Q&A that Robin Young hosted. The film received a glowing review in the Boston Sunday Globe by Pulitzer-nominated film critic Ty Burr ("I watched the movie with awe...").

Visit the film's website here .

Photo credit: Ron Pownall

In late April, Marc Smolowitz and THE G WORD team successfully raised over $60,000 on Kickstarter to help fund remaining principal photography. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the campaign. It was a great experience which surfaced many new contacts and areas to explore. During the campaign, the team released two mini-docs,  ZIP CODE 85349  about the little-known Gadsden School District in San Luis, AZ, and  BLACK INTELLIGENCE ,  a story set in Baltimore that shows how racism, poverty, and inequity continue to play out in startling ways for young, Black Gifted kids in our major urban centers. Collectively these two stories reached over 55,000 viewers and garnered much media attention. Over the summer the team will wrap principal photography with shoots in Gilroy, CA, and in Nashville, TN for The World Council for Gifted and Talented Children.

ERROL FLYNN'S GHOST: HOLLYWOOD IN HAVANA  (2018; Dir. Gaspar González), on the cultural impact of American movies in mid-20th century Cuba, is screening at NHdocs: The New Haven Documentary Film Festival on Thursday, June 6, at 6:30 p.m . 

Admission is free. More info here .

FROM BAGHDAD TO THE BAY has received its 6th festival award: the Celebration of Courage Award for Outstanding Documentary Film from OUT HERE NOW: the Kansas City LGBT Film Festival , and is one of their highest awards in the festival.

The film will screen in Kansas City on Saturday, 6/22 at 1:00pm at the Unity Temple on the Plaza. More info here .

From Baghdad to the Bay  is a documentary that follows the journey of an Iraqi refugee and former translator for the US military. Wrongfully accused of being a double agent, tortured by the U.S., and ostracized from his family and country, Ghazwan Alsharif struggles to rebuild his life in the United States while coming out as an openly gay man. Visit the film's website here .

Scenes from  BLANKET TOWN: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN MILL TOWN   are currently featured as part of the  Swannanoa Valley Museum and History Center's  2019 exhibit about the Beacon blanket mill and its impact on Western North Carolina.   Blanket Town   director Rebecca Williams, was recently the featured speaker at the museum's History Cafe where she talked about labor issues, the migration of the textile industry to the South, and shared clips from the film.

EXILE AND COMMUNITY: THE LIFE OF CAROLA DOMAR will be screening on July 14th at 7:30pm at the World Fellowship Cente r:

World Fellowship Center

368 Drake Hill Road

Albany, NH 03813

(603) 447-2280

This film is a story of reconciliation chronicling a young Jew’s experience in Nazi Germany, her escape from fascism, and her search for community. Domar’s story has particular relevance in the context of current mass migration and anti-semitism. A discussion will follow with Carola Domar’s daughter, Erica Banderob and the producer, Susan Orleans Rieder.

THE FAITHFUL , directed by Annie Berman, was awarded a completion support grant from the 2019 Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) , a regrant partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts Electronic Media and Film Program.

The Faithful is a feature length essay film exploring the enduring phenomenon of three global icons: Elvis Presley, Pope John Paul II, and Princess Diana. Launched by the discovery of a Pope lollipop for sale at the Vatican, the filmmaker embarks on what will become an obsessive 20-year journey to the annual memorials of these icons documenting the rites and rituals of their followers, in this meditation on fans, faith, and image. MAAF funding will support the sound design, mix, and voice-over recording

They are still seeking additional funds for color, final output, and outreach and distribution. Learn more and contribute here .

A message from filmmaker, John Antonelli:

THE EARTH IS TIRED recently received a grant from the Norma and Ernie Siegler Trust that will make it possible to return to Haiti for another round of shooting. We are filming the progress of the restoration of the drastically depleted marine life there. Fishermen have been catching fish that are as small as two inches to try to sustain their impoverished families. Each time we go, we are able to record a significant increase in the size of the fish being caught by the local fishermen. The change is due to programs that have been implemented where they've swapped out their fishing for fish traps with larger openings that let smaller fish pass through. We are also filming scenes with the fishermen and their families to reveal how their lives are shifting because of the size of their catch. Its slow but meaningful progress. We are also going to shot some drone footage of the nearly 45 million tress that have been planted over the years in an effort to restore Haiti's devastated forests. 

Mitch Teplitsky's  RETURN TO THE ANDES  will be screening at the  4th Annual May Sumak Quichwa Film Festival  on Friday, June 14 at NYU's King Juan Carlos Center in New York City. Time TBA. The Festival is a celebration of Indigenous and community filmmaking in the Quechua languages spoken throughout the diaspora, from the Andes to the United State, that will also travel to New Jersey and Ecuador. Return to the Andes is the story of a Peruvian immigrant in New York City who returns to her birthplace after 20 years to help rural women start businesses, and ends up running for mayor, fed up with the machismo, corruption and decline of her town.

Mitch will be attending the  Latin American Studies Association 20198 Film Festival   , as a volunteer to screen films from and about Latin America, in Boston May 24-27 .

A message from CID sponsored filmmaker, David Wells:

As a self-employed magazine photographer turned film-maker, people ask me exactly what it is that do I do. Well, a fun video that I started almost year ago just posted so I can happily share it with you, so you can see what a self-employed film-maker does. In this short, eight minute film, “An Astrolabe Adventure,” the writer, Lee Lawrence, takes you on an adventure as she learns how to use the greatest app of its day – the astrolabe. This device helped astronomers, surveyors and navigators calculate height, tell time and aid in direction. The Astrolabe was the precursor to the sextant, the Theodolite (today’s surveyor’s tool) and even the slide rule. Please take a look at: An Astrolabe Adventure here .

No Film School has released their extensive list of summer 2019 grant opportunities.

Check it out here .