Huge Grants>Hugh Grant

By Alex DeVore, September 25, 2024

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, and the 2024 cohort of grantees includes Makaio Frazier, who picked up the $9,000 Los Luceros grant for filmmakers who include the Los Luceros historic site in their projects; Casiano Andrés Salazar, who earned the $4,000 Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area grant for a project about hoop dancing; Zoe Colfax for her film on the tragically under-known town of Blackdom, New Mexico; and Amanda Erickson, who picked up $5,000 for her upcoming documentary She Cried That Day about Native women and allies working to combat the Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives Crisis. Three out-of-staters also received grants, but we’re here more for the New Mexico people than we are for Colorado and Texas people. Sorry, Colorado and Texas people—we love locals.
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