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12/04/00 - ACV Announces ABC Scholarship Grant Program for Asian American Filmmakers

12.04 - Posted by Editor

ACV Announces ABC Scholarship Grant Program for Asian American Filmmakers

The fine folks at Asian CineVision are nominating candidates for an ABC scholarship and grant program -- looks like a great opportunity to score some dollars and some mentoring! The official press release follows:

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10.12.00 -- ABC, Inc. has selected Asian Cinevision to nominate Asian American candidates for the New Talent Development Scholarship & Grant Program. The program is designed to provide grants/scholarships to selected minority individuals in support of new writing, filmmaking and directing talent. The grants, of up to $20,000, will be used for completing film projects. ABC will award the grants/scholarships through participating schools, colleges/universities, civic/social service, professional organizations, educational governing boards, etc.

In addition, selected participants will be paired with a mentor during the 12-month grant period. The program concludes with a 3-day workshop in Los Angeles at ABC entertainment, Disney Studios and Walt Disney Imagineering.

APPLICANT CRITERIA
Applicants must be a current member of Asian CineVision. If you are not a member of ACV, your application will be disqualified. (download membership application along with grant/scholarship application from our website).
The scholarships and grants, open to all genres, are awarded to emerging artists who show promise in their respective media.
Applicants must show strong vision, original creative energy, and perseverance.
All applicants must submit work samples, a project budget, project description, current resume, and if the project is a narrative, a ten page excerpt of the script, storyboard, or a detailed treatment for documentaries.
Artists are required to attend progress meetings throughout the funding period with members of the review committee.
A mentor will be assigned to the selected artists.
All selected artists will be required to attend a three-day workshop/seminar at ABC Entertainment headquarters in Los Angeles. Scholarship/grant recipients outside of the Los Angeles area will be provided with roundtrip airfare and accommodations. ABC, Inc. would like first-look at all funded projects.

SCHOLARSHIPS
Will be awarded to high school students and full time undergraduate students. One award per academic year. The artist must be working on a project in the fields of filmmaking.

GRANTS
Will be awarded once a year, to artists who have a membership in a civic/social and or professional non-profit organization. The artist must be working on a project in the fields of filmmaking, television, screenwriting and/or directing.

PROGRAM CRITERIA
Applications can only be submitted through 501(C3) organizations in the continental US i.e. high school, colleges, universities and non-profit institutions and must be received between September 1st and December 30th of each year. Applications and supplemental materials must be postmarked to ACV by December 4, 2000. The ACV Selection Committee will select two semifinalists with the results announced January 30, 2001.

The applicant review committee will be comprised of members of the application institution, Disney/ABC, Inc. and industry. Notification begins in May. The student grant period begins August of the next academic year. Non-profit grants commence with notification.

CHECKLIST (include the following information with application):
__ resume
__ 500-800 word essay describing your career goals and interest in this field
__ work samples ( no more than 2 samples. no longer than 10 minutes combined. Clearly mark if work is cued and duration of excerpt. VHS only.
__ project budget
__ for narrative projects, submit a ten-page excerpt of the script, storyboard, or a detailed treatment ( no longer than ten pages) if it is a documentary project.

Remember: All applications and supplemental materials must be postmarked to ACV (address below) by December 4, 2000.

Please note: materials are non-returnable.

Click here to download the application form in Adobe Acrobat form. (To read the application forms, you'll need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader.) Or contact Noel Shaw, Program Coordinator:

ASIAN CINEVISION, Inc.
133 West 19th Street
Third Floor
New York, NY 10011
Ph: 212.989.1422
Fax: 212.727.3584
www.asiancinevision.org