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The nonprofit Santa Fe Film Institute (being the nonprofit that presents the Santa Fe International Film Festival, which you maybe knew previously as the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival) recently did its annual granting thing from which numerous New Mexico filmmakers get a few bucks to keep on making films. This year heralds roughly $25,000 in grants, which is no small amount for fledgling types…
Making a film takes time and money to complete.
This is why the Santa Fe Film Institute and the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area (NRGNHA) have teamed up for two new grants for filmmakers.
The grants — Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area Grant and the Los Luceros Grant — are specifically for local filmmakers.
SFFI partners with NRGNHA and adds more funds for filmmakers
Last year, the Santa Fe International Film Festival’s nonprofit organization, the Santa Fe Film Institute, handed out $12,000 in grant monies to New Mexico filmmakers, including Charine Gonzales of Santa Fe, Taos’s Hillary Bachelder and Albuquerque’s Erica Nguyen.
This year, Institute officials say they will up the ante with an additional $15,000 in grants through a partnership with the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area—as long as New Mexico remains firmly a part of the equation.
Since its inception, the Santa Fe Film Institute has invested in the next generation of filmmakers.
The Santa Fe-based organization announced $12,000 in grants and scholarships to New Mexico filmmakers and students.
In 2023, SFFI’s Regional Filmmaker Grants supported five New Mexican filmmakers with a total of $7,000 in funding.
The top Regional Filmmaker Grant was awarded to Charine Gonzales, a $4,500 grant for the project “How To Say ‘I Love You’ in Tewa.”
Some months after the Santa Fe International Film Festival (née Independent Film Festival) closed out its 15th year by packing in folks in numbers not seen since before the pandemic, its offshoot organization, the Santa Fe Film Institute, announced today it has awarded $12,000 in funding to five filmmakers and film students. This year’s cohort also represent the first time all recipients hail from New Mexico in the institute’s three-year grant-making history.
At $4,500 for her film How to Say “I Love You in Tewa,” Santa Fe-based Tewa filmmaker Charine Gonzales received the largest sum through the program’s Regional Filmmaker Grant. Taos filmmaker Hillary Bachelder, meanwhile, received $1,000 to pursue a documentary film about the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon fires from last year—the largest in New Mexico history; as did Albuquerque’s Erica Nguyen for her film Phantom Roots. Santa Fe filmmakers Katharine Broyles and Adrian Pijoan each picked up $500 for their next projects.
The Santa Fe Film Institute received a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts that will be used for the Santa Fe International Film Festival.
The funding will support free public programming at the festival, which the institute presents, that will run Oct. 18-22, as well as filmmaker honoraria, visiting artist travel and youth initiatives like SFiFF Student Day, institute operations manager Stephanie Love-Riner said.
The Santa Fe Film Institute aims to keep independent filmmakers creating visionary projects.
The New Mexico-based organization recently awarded more than $10,000 in grants and scholarships to filmmakers.
The $10,300 was given away in regional grants for filmmakers, the Imogene Hughes Scholarship Fund for college students, and the SFFI scholarship for high school students pursuing film studies in New Mexico.
“These opportunities for filmmakers in the area can seed the beginnings of a real wealth of people with the skills to make movies here,” says Jacques Paisner, SFFI president.
The Santa Fe Film Institute announced Dec. 12 that it has awarded $10,300 in regional grants for filmmakers; the Imogene Hughes Scholarship Fund for college students; and the film institute scholarship for high schoolers seeking to study film in New Mexico.
The filmmakers are Scott Hussion, with Dead Calm; Colleen Thurston, with Drowned Land; Raúl O. Paz Pastrana and Alan Domínguez, with Commerce City; and Owee Rae, with Bone Guitar. Regional grant winners for 2022 are based in New Mexico, Oklahoma, or Colorado, and grant amounts range from $500 to $4,000.
Santa Fe Film Institute (SFFI) has awarded over $10K in Regional Grants for filmmakers, the Imogene Hughes Scholarship Fund for college students, and the SFFI scholarship for high school students pursuing film studies in New Mexico.
Four filmmakers have been awarded in Santa Fe Film Institute’s (SFFI) second Regional Grant cycle. Grant recipients include Scott Hussion with Dead Calm, Colleen Thurston with Drowned Land, Raúl O. Paz Pastrana and Alan Domínguez with Commerce City, and Owee Rae with Bone Guitar. SFFI created this grant in 2021 as a professional opportunity to encourage and support filmmakers in New Mexico and the surrounding states of Colorado, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Texas. Regional Grant winners in 2022 are based in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Colorado, and this year’s awards range from $500 to $4,000.
The Santa Fe Film Institute finds a way to give back.
The nonprofit has three programs that help independent filmmakers in New Mexico.
“It’s really important and the cornerstone of our mission,” says Liesette Bailey, SFFI vice president. “By supporting local filmmakers it helps us fulfill our mission and really serves to our mission and we’re able to give back to the community.”
The Santa Fe Film Institute finds a way to give back.
The nonprofit has three programs that help independent filmmakers in New Mexico.
"It's really important and the cornerstone of our mission," says Liesette Bailey, SFFI vice president. "By supporting local filmmakers it helps us fulfill our mission and really serves to our mission and we're able to give back to the community."
The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival’s nonprofit arm, the Santa Fe Film Institute, announced today it will award $10,000 in grants and scholarships to filmmakers throughout the region in 2022. That’s an increase over last year’s $6,000, which was awarded in various increments to five filmmakers, and now includes special provisions for high school-aged applicants through the $1,000 SFFI Scholarship, and college students through the $2,500 Imogene Hughes Scholarship named for the late proprietor of the iconic Bonanza Creek Ranch who died last October.
Twenty-four New Mexico-based organizations are receiving grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
During the first round of grants, NEA awarded 1,248 grants across the country totaling more than $28 million.
The Santa Fe Film Institute is making big moves in film.
The organization received $10,000 in funding from the Santa Fe Community Foundation’s Native American Advised Fund’s most recent granting cycle.
Five filmmakers will be awarded for Santa Fe Film Institute’s (SFFI) first Regional Grant cycle. Grant recipients include Deja Bernhardt, Sharon Arteaga, Siena Sofia Bergt, Petyr Xyst, and Lois Lipman.
The SFFI team created this grant in 2021 as a professional opportunity to encourage and support filmmakers in New Mexico and the surrounding region. SFFI received applications from filmmakers throughout New Mexico, as well as the surrounding states of Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas during its first cycle.
The Santa Fe Film Institute has received a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for its Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, which will be staged Oct. 19-23.
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded a $20,000 grant to the Santa Fe Film Institute (SFFI). The grant will go to support the 14th Annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival (SFiFF), which will take place from Oct. 19-23. The grant marks the third consecutive year that the NEA has recognized SFiFF’s cultural and creative impact as a forum for international and independent cinema.
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