2008 MCAF Grantees: Media / New Media
- Anne Frank Center USA, Inc., The, Celebrate Independent Thinking: Films on Contemporary Dutch-Jewish History
- To support a documentary film and lecture series.
- Christine Sciulli, Intercepting Planes
- To support a one-night, mobile, public light projection-intervention that projects video of white moving lines onto bare treetops in seven public parks located in neighborhoods from Washington Heights to Lower Manhattan between 4:30 PM and midnight in December 2008.
- Historic Harlem Parks Coalition, 7th Annual Historic Parks Film Festival
- To support a five-week free outdoor summer film festival, two nights per week in each of five Harlem parks.
- Mary Guiteras, Redacted
- To support a website called REDACTED and associated large, archival prints for display at ITP.
- Melissa Fowler, A Quarterly Film & Photography Lecture Series
- To support the launch of Double Visions: A Quarterly Film and Photography Lecture and Discussion Series which will feature notable emerging and established women directors, photojournalists, social documentary and fine art photographers.
- Swiss Institute, Exhibition Jordan Wolfson
- To support public events around the first solo exhibition with new work of the upcoming NYC artist Jordan Wolfson (1980) in an international environment.
- Anna Brady Nuse, Funf n Twist
- To support produce a new 15 min videodance short entitled “Funf n Twist,” to be screened in Lower Manhattan in a group show.
- Brenda Ray, The World Voices Project
- To support a 2 week long audio installation featuring a multi-lingual reading of the Declaration of Human Rights at the World Financial Center.
- Hector Canonge, Intersections
- To support the production and presentation of “Intersections,” a multimedia project about converted vans or trucks used to sell traditional foods and tropical fruits from the Caribbean.
- Kate Greer, That’s What She Told Me
- To support the production of my short film, That’s What She Told Me, to be shown in Manhattan proper, throughout New York, and at international film festivals.
- Kyle Lapidus, Wirefull Interventions
- To support 3 interactive projects with participatory performance elements, culminating in an exhibition and screening Riverside Park.
- Underground Cinema, Inc. , New York Underground Film Festival
- To support the production of the New York Underground Film Festival.
