Take a bow: Indie Memphis receives grant from Oscars organization
A golden statuette is nice, but sometimes green stuff is even nicer.
The Indie Memphis Film Festival has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Oscars organization, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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The amount was the maximum available to Indie Memphis under Academy guidelines, based on the festival’s annual operating budget of just under $180,000. The grant was the first the Oscars organization had awarded to Memphis.
Overall, 24 film festivals received $450,000 from the Academy Foundation, the Academy’s educational and cultural wing. Grants ranged from $30,000 (the Los Angeles Film Festival) to $2,500 (the Ozark Foothills FilmFest).
More than 130 festivals applied.
Indie Memphis executive director Erik Jambor said the festival applied for the grant in order to increase the participation of regional and national filmmakers and to expand its outreach into schools, low-income neighborhoods and other underrepresented communities.
The other festivals that received $10,000 grants were the Phoenix Film Festival; Montana’s Big Sky Documentary Film Festival; and the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival in Nevada City, Calif.
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