Congratulations to the Spring 2015 recipients of the LEF Foundation Moving Image Fund awards. As a funder and resource for nonfiction filmmakers in New England, the LEF Foundation has helped bring to life an amazing - and important - array of nonfiction films (see a sampling in their highlight reel). Among the most recent LEF grantees is past MCC awardee James Rutenbeck … [Read more...]
Funding for Individual Artists in Massachusetts
Ethan Murrow (Drawing & Printmaking Fellow '16), WOODLAND MADRIGAL - SUCCULENT ODE (2016), graphite on paper 52x36in You're a Massachusetts artist and you're looking for grants. Here are some ideas. (Article updated August 2022.) Direct Funding for Artists When Massachusetts individual artists ask us about grants, our first response is to strongly encourage … [Read more...]
To an Artist Seeking Funding
To make art, you sometimes you need to find a way to fund it. These days, that can mean traditional grant funding programs, like Mass Cultural Council's Artist Fellowships or Local Cultural Council grants, or alternative methods like crowdfunding or microfunding. We asked a group of artists and funders: What's the most important thing for an artist to keep in mind in asking … [Read more...]
Trashy Artist Opportunities
Don't be frightened. Feed the monster clown! Documentary Filmmakers The LEF Foundation's Moving Image Fund supports independent New England film and video artists creating new documentaries. The program has deadlines throughout the year. The deadline for Letters of Inquiry for the program's Production and Post-Production grants is approaching. For Production, competitive … [Read more...]
Kickstarting DocYard
This is what happens when interesting ideas get together and make interesting idea babies. In the past, we've talked about The DocYard; it's a documentary film screening/networking series based at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square, designed to foster the Boston-area filmmaking community. Among the films screened in DocYard's first season was Today the Hawk Takes One … [Read more...]