Summer Deadlines for Writers, Media Artists, Landscape Designers and More!

Hi Everyone!

Thanks so much for all your sweet notes and congratulatory emails about my upcoming wedding and my book launch (the first is in September, the second is in January). I have been so busy and will continue to be so I think the best I can do this summer is just post as much as I can when I get announcements sent to me.

The following opportunities are from Funds for Writers, Women Arts, and my pal and sticker kitty Cathy Tedford.

(WRITERS) Authors League Fund Emergency Funds: The Authors League Fund was established by the Authors League of America, Inc., to help career authors and dramatists in the United States and in financial distress due to an urgent situation. The Fund makes interest-free loans to professional writers in need; for example, writers with health problems and inadequate health insurance, or older writers whose income has ceased. Loan-seekers must show need and documentation of their professional status. Method of contact: telephone, letter or email. staff@authorsleaguefund.org www.authorsleaguefund.org Main Phone: (212)268-1208 / Main Fax: (212)564-5363 ***I got one of these once! It really helped.

(MEDIA ARTS) The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Media Fund / Open Door Completion Fund – Awards averaging $20,000 - $30,000 to independent media producers for completion of provocative and engaging projects intended for public TV broadcast and in final post-production phase. Projects should appeal to Asian American viewers AND to a broader TV audience. CAAM considers most genres, including drama, documentary, experimental, animation, and mixed genre. Applicants must submit a full length rough cut. Projects must be standard broadcast length. See website for application guidelines and procedures. Center for Asian American Media, Attn: Media Fund 2007, 145 Ninth Street, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA 94103, T: (415) 863-0814 ext. 106, mediafund@asianamericanmedia.org, http://mediafund.asianamericanmedia.org. Receipt Deadline: August 12, 2010

(ALL) NEA Access to Artistic Excellence Grants – Supports projects that encourage and support artistic creativity, preserve our diverse cultural heritage, and make the arts more widely available in communities throughout the country. Particularly relevant are projects that demonstrate innovation by generating new forms of art making, new directions in the field, and/or innovative uses of creative resources, as well as those that extend the arts to underserved populations. Open to arts organizations in all disciplines; see website for complete guidelines (specific to each discipline) and application instructions. National Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20506, http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/Artsed.html. Deadline: August 12, 2010

(FILMMAKERS) San Francisco Film Society / Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants Program (Fall, 2011) – Provides funding for narrative feature films made in the San Francisco Bay Area that, through plot, character, theme, or setting, significantly explore human and civil rights, anti-discrimination, gender and sexual identity, and other urgent social justice issues of our time. Grants support screenwriting and script development, preproduction, and post-production expenses. In addition to a cash grant, recipients will receive a range of benefits through the society’s filmmaker services programs. Applicants must be in a key creative role (screenwriter, producer, or director), be at least 18 years old, have a strong connection to the San Francisco Bay Area, and be SFFS members at the Filmmaker Pro level or above (membership is $90/year and can be purchased at time of application). Full-time students ineligible. Application process begins with submission of Letter of Inquiry on the SFFS website; finalists will be asked to submit further materials. SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants, c/o San Francisco Film Society, 39 Mesa St., Ste. 110, San Francisco, CA 94129, http://www.sffs.org/filmmaker-services/grants-and-prizes/sffskrf-filmmaking-grants.aspx. Deadline (LOI): August 13, 2010

(LANDSCAPE ARTISTS/DESIGNERS) CDAN Research Grants: Think Landscape 2010: Fundación Beulas, through the CDAN, is launching in 2010 its first research grants, for the purpose of promoting studies of the theoretical aspects of landscape, encouraging drafting general projects that may pave the way for further studies. The research projects that may be awarded this grant will address the generic theme of landscape, conceived in all its facets: artistic, aesthetic, historical, geographical, patrimonial, economical, territorial, biological, etc.

The grant is intended for individual researchers, from the European Union and Latin American countries, who demonstrate their experience, such as doctoral professors, though it is not necessary that they be attached to a university. This grant consists of 15,000 euros. All the documents must be written in Castilian Spanish. For more info, please go to www.cdan.es or email: info@cdan.es

Deadline is September 20th 2010, in person or by post, at the following address:
Centro de Arte y Naturaleza
Fundación Beulas
Avenida del Doctor Artero, s/n
22004 Huesca

URGENT FILMMAKER GRANT DEADLINE, THEATER GRANTS AND MORE!

Greetings all,
First, just to let you know, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation has temporarily suspended funding for this coming year. I'll let you know when and if things change. In the past, I have suggested that particular foundation for some of you writers and visual artists...so just in case you are planning to apply for a grant, hold off until you hear more news. On the cheerful side, below are some upcoming grants and a residency that are definitely happening this coming year. And thank you everyone for your kind words of support for my book and this website. It looks like my book will come out sometime late 2010 or early 2011. But I'll keep you posted! Best wishes, Mira

(FILMMAKERS) Open Door Completion Fund
The Center for Asian American Media Open Door Completion Fund: Offered twice a year, this round of funding is for applicants with projects in the final post-production phase. To be eligible a full-length rough cut must be submitted with the proposal. Awards range from $20,000 to $30,000. CAAM funds should be the last monies needed to finish the project and deliver the broadcast master. The review process takes approximately three months. Deadline: August 6, 2009 by 5pm Pacific Time. For more info, go to: http://www.mediafund.asianamericanmedia.org/funding/

(MEDIA ARTS) Frameline Film & Video Completion Fund
The Frameline Film & Video Completion Fund provides grants to emerging and established lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender filmmakers. The Fund seeks to provide a much-needed source of funding for LGBT artists constantly struggling to secure the funding needed to complete their works. Grants ranging from $5,000 to $10,000 are available for works that represent and celebrate our diverse stories and reflect LGBT life in all its complexity and richness. Submissions are being accepted for documentary, educational, narrative, animated or experimental projects about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their communities. The deadline for this year’s submissions will be in October 2009. Entries must be postmarked by this date. Awards will be announced in February 2010. Applications will be available from the website in August: http://www.frameline.org/filmmaker-support/completion-fund/

(MEDIA ARTISTS) Visual Studies Workshop Residencies
Visual Studies Workshop sponsors artists' residencies in photography, artists' books, digital video and multimedia, 16mm film and analog video. Residencies are project-based and are for a period of one month. VSW will provide access to facilities, and housing on the premises. An honorarium of $2000 is provided, (pending receipt of funding for 2010). Applications are being accepted through October 16, 2009 for residencies in 2010. To apply: Fill in and mail the application form. You will need to include a resume, project description, work samples and a SASE for return of materials. Applications should be postmarked by October 16, 2009. For more information, please go to: http://www.vsw.org/artists/artstsprogs.html.

(WRITERS) Sigurdur Nordal Institute Fellowships
The Snorri Sturluson Icelandic Fellowships are granted to writers, translators, and scholars in the humanities to enable them to stay in Iceland for at least three months, to improve their knowledge of the language, culture, and society. The amount of each fellowship covers travel expenses to and from Iceland, plus living expenses while in the country. Applicants should submit a brief but thorough account of the purpose of their stay, specifying the anticipated duration, as well as a curriculum vitae. Write to Árni Magnússonar Institute for Icelandic Studies, Sigurður Nordal Office at PO Box 1220, 122 Reykjavik, Iceland or see web site for more details. Deadline: October 31, 2009. Website: http://www.hi.is/page/a_inter_snorri_sturluson_fellowships. E-Mail: nordals@hi.is.

(PERFORMING ARTS) Sundance Theatre Laboratory
The Sundance Theatre Laboratory, a three-week workshop, offers playwrights and other theater artists the opportunity to develop new plays or explore new approaches to existing scripts. Up to eight projects are selected for the Laboratory, held at Sundance in Utah in July. The program provides professional actors, dramaturgs, rehearsal space, stage management, round-trip air transportation, accommodations, and food for the team working on each project. Applications may be submitted by individual playwrights, though playwright/directors teams are preferred. There is a $30 entry fee. Write or consult web site for guidelines and application. Write to: Sundance Theatre Laboratory, 8530 Wilshire Blvd. 3rd Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90036. Or E-Mail: theatre@sundance.org. Website: http://www.sundance.org. Deadline: December 15, 2009.

(PERFORMING ARTS) The Theatre Communications Group/International Theatre Institute (TCG/ITI): Travel Grants: Travel Grants have been designed to foster cultural exchange and artistic partnerships between theatre professionals in the United States and their counterparts in Russia, Eastern Europe or Central Europe. These $3,500 grants will support trips in either direction by theatre artists, administrators and educators, enabling these professionals to share ideas, gain exposure to each other's cultural traditions and contemporary theatre techniques and/or work together. This grant program was developed by TCG in collaboration with the International Theatre Institute and is funded by the Trust for Mutual Understanding. Please see the website for more information: http://www.tcg.org/grants/iti/iti_index.cfm