National Film Preservation Foundation
Programs
American Film Preservation Grants
Preserving American films through grants. Saved 68 titles through grants to 28 institutions. Among the films slated for preservation are Trailin (1921), a Tom Mix mystery-western; The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy (1980), a short feature by Kathleen Collins; Dian Fossey Gorilla Lecture Film (1973), research footage of gorillas in East Africa; Chocolate Babies (1997), a dramatic feature about LGBT+ activists exposing political corruption during the AIDS epidemic; After the Earthquake/Despus del Terremoto (1979), a fiction short about Nicaraguan refugees in San Francisco, made by Lourdes Portillo and Nina Serrano; and An Equal Chance (1920), a dramatized documentary produced by the National Organization for Public Health Nursing on challenges faced by medical workers during the 1918 flu epidemic.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2022 – Dec 31, 2022Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$816.1KThe Field Guide to Sponsored Films
Promoting Access. The NFPF websites online component of The Field Guide to Sponsored Films (2006) hosts 160 films free to stream from 13 organizations. In addition, the NFPF funded three access projects in 2021 to George Eastman Museum, Northeast Historic Film, and UCLA to create 4K scans of past grant projects. Once digitized, these will join 107 films preserved through NFPF programs already available in the online screening room as part of the launch of the NFPFs new streaming app. Additionally, continued working on the partnership with the EYE Filmmuseum Netherlands to make available more than 50 American films that have been unseen for decades.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2022 – Dec 31, 2022Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$75.5KTreasures from American Film Archives
Promoting film preservation through publications. The foundation produces DVD sets in the Treasures from American Film Archives series and books that advance national film preservation efforts. With support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, the NFPF continues production on Treasures 6: Next Wave Avant-Garde Film, a 5-hour DVD box set surveying 28 experimental filmmakersfrom Abigail Child to Phil Solomonwho rose to prominence after 1965. The sets release is planned for 2024.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2022 – Dec 31, 2022Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$71.3K
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