How to Find Funding and an Audience, For Your Independent Film Production with Cynthia Close
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Cynthia Close, Executive Director and currently President of Documentary Educational Resources, (DER – for over 43 years, a successful distributor of documentary film to the international broadcast, educational and consumer markets) has conducted workshops, served on pitch panels and festival juries, worldwide and mentored many filmmakers through the difficult and often confusing process of taking an idea and turning it into a successful, feature documentary film. She will discuss the process of presenting yourself and your project to funders while also building an audience. She is currently acting as fiscal sponsor for over 40 projects that are “in production” and managed grants from major funders including the NEA, NEH, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, ITVS, LEF Foundation, Sloan Foundation and many others.
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CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives
CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!