The Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) of New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) is opening submissions for its movie Preservation grants for the 2020 cycle on October 1, 2020.
The deadline is February 1, 2021.
Since 1995 the WFPF has been bringing consciousness to girls’s huge accomplishment in filmmaking by funding preservation of movies made by American girls all over the place and movies made within the US by girls from different international locations. To date, we’ve preserved roughly 135 of those American-made movies, bringing again into view necessary misplaced movies and important however neglected movies from the previous, exhibiting that ladies have been integral to filmmaking since its inception.
From the outset, the WFPF’s ambition has been to make seen girls’s filmmaking achievement in all of its breadth, selection, and innovation. Preserved movies in our roster characterize all genres and lengths together with: narrative, documentary, experimental, and animated movies, in addition to house films and different varieties. Our intention has all the time been to point out the range of girls’s filmmaking by together with as many voices and vantage factors as doable. To this finish we now have funded movies by girls of all colours, a variety of ethnicities, and these representing in any other case marginalized voices.
In this mild, we want to make it possible for Black filmmakers and archives and establishments that maintain movies by Black girls are conscious of our grant and invite them to use for our 2020 grant. We welcome movies on points that resonate with Black Lives Matter, but in addition on some other topics, and in any style. Applicants with movies by girls from BIPOC communities are particularly inspired to use. However, we proceed to welcome movies of any and all genres, by girls makers who’re from all cultures and backgrounds.
Please word that the movie’s authentic format will need to have been movie. (We don’t fund born video works with this grant.) Also word that this can be a preservation grant for an present movie, not a manufacturing grant for a movie in-progress.
Grants of as much as $10,00zero are awarded for movie preservations biennially, although grant awards are sometimes smaller.
Please start the applying course of early because it requires an in depth finances primarily based on an accredited movie preservation laboratory’s examination of the movie components for use. Shipping components to the lab takes a while.
Please use the hyperlinks under to entry the applying and pointers:
Join singer/musical director and sheet music archivist Michael Lavine on Saturday, October 10th at 12 Noon ET for an American Popular Song Society program honoring the Broadway composer and cabaret artist Arthur Siegel. Arthur wrote the music for lots of the songs within the New Faces Broadway reveals of 1952, 1956, 1962 and 1968. He primarily collaborated with June Carroll, however in later years, Arthur wrote with different lyricists. He musically directed most of Ben Bagley’s Revisited cd’s over time, offering preparations and additionally singing on them! Michael shall be joined by quite a few stars from Broadway and Cabaret, who shall be presenting songs by Arthur. Michael may even inform some tales of his friendship withArthur. Performers lined as much as entertain: Steven Brinberg, Fay DeWitt, Natalie Douglas, Jay Aubrey Jones, Jon Peterson, T. Oliver Reid, Steve Ross, Sandy Stewart, KT Sullivan, and Sara Zahn.
For extra data on the Free Zoom occasion please go to the web site of the American Popular Song Society: http://apssinc.org/zoom.html
Michael Lavine has labored as a musical director, pianist, vocal coach and singer all around the world. He provides grasp courses on auditioning in New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Bangkok, Australia, Singapore, Tokyo, Manila, Martha’s Vineyard and different places. Michael musically directed productions of Rent, Sweeny Todd, and Thoroughly Modern Millie on the Shanghai Theatre Academy. He has accompanied Broadway and tv stars n New Orleans, San Francisco, Australia, Hollywood and at 54 Below, Feinstein’s, and the Metropolitan Room in New York. Michael performed The Little Mermaid starring Emily Skinner. He additionally usually performs for the Outer Critic’s Circle Awards in New York and musically directed the Broadway Cares Teddy Bear Auction for its complete 15-year run. Michael has performed orchestras in quite a few cities across the nation For the previous a number of years, Michael has been producing a collection of CD’s referred to as Lost Broadway And More, recording songs from Broadway reveals which have by no means been recorded earlier than. A graduate of Columbia University, Michael owns one of many bigger privately held sheet music collections on this planet. More data could be discovered at Michael’s web site, www.michaellavine.internet.
MAC & The PATH Fund, Inc® presents Rockers On Broadway: Band Together on Monday, November 9, 2020. The occasion shall be a particular streaming profit live performance that includes digital performances and particular appearances. This 12 months we have a good time our superb COMMUNITY – the perseverance and energy in opposition to all odds of performing artists!
Rockers is the unique Broadway rock live performance collection, a enjoyable distinctive charity occasion, that includes Broadway’s finest rockin’ out with The Broadway All Star Band. Already slated to rock with us are: Michael Cerveris, LaChanze, Adam Pascal, Megan Hilty, Ryann Redmond, Morgan James, Brian Gallagher, Donnie Kehr, Jen Perry, Ryan Peete, and rising star Isabelle Gottfried. Hosted by Ben Cameron, and that includes Alexa Ray Joel, Julie Halston, Jerry Mitchell, Ginger Minj, Randy Rainbow, with a particular look by Cyndi Lauper.
The arts group has been direly affected by the coronavirus outbreak and subsequent cancellation of a whole lot of Broadway reveals and Live Events throughout the nation. Our aim is elevate a lot wanted funding for our arts training companions and the newly created PATH Fund’s Community Relief Grant Program to offer fast monetary help to these in our group affected by Covid-19.
Each 12 months Rockers On Broadway® honors trade luminaries who’ve impressed and enhanced the group. Our Lifetime Achievement Award honoree is the incomparable Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award–winner – Billy Porter. Billy is a vogue trailblazer, activist, fierce performer and an inspiration to us all.
Producers Vivek J. Tiwary, Arvind Ethan David and Eva Price are thrilled to announce that the Broadway forged of Jagged Little Pill, with seven-time Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Alanis Morissette, shall be internet hosting a digital Broadway fundraising occasion to profit the Biden Victory Fund, on Tuesday October 13, 2020 from eight:00-9:00PM ET (5:00-6:00PM PT). Featuring performances, conversations, and messages from particular shock company, this formally sanctioned Biden Victory Fund Event helps the Biden For President marketing campaign to elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the following President and Vice President of The United States of America. Tickets can be found from $25.00, at bit.ly/JLPforBiden.
“I couldn’t be happier to express my passion for conscionable leadership in America with our Jagged Little Pill Broadway team,” stated Alanis Morissette. “Each person within this musical is a force of nature and activism in their own right, and I am thrilled to come together to support TRUE democracy, and political and relational grace, with our whole JLP family.” “Our show is all about encouraging action and making your voice heard,” stated Price, Tiwary and David, who function Event Chairs alongside lawyer and Broadway investor Andrew Byrnes. “So, we are thrilled to be adding our voice to the Biden-Harris chorus this election season, and we hope to inspire Americans to exercise their right to vote this November. We are indeed fighting for the soul of our country, and the cast of Jagged Little Pill is full of heart and soul.” Contribution Levels for the Event are: Supporter: $25; Advocate: $100; Sponsor: $250; Champion: $1,00zero; and Co-Host: $10,00zero (write/elevate), which features a digital meet & greet with the forged of Jagged Little Pill.
The ongoing suspension of Broadway performances as a consequence of COVID-19 will proceed till additional discover. While a return date has but to be decided, #JaggedLittleBroadway is now providing refunds and exchanges for tickets bought by way of January three, 2021.
