Meeting with David Gordon re doc futures funding:

1) conference with direct cinema from past - retrospective
2) conference with current filmmakers - forward looking
3) conference that brings the three together

Film preservation funders - National Film Preservation Foundation, Lef foundation

Cuppola, Lucas, other filmmaker foundation

Companies, corporate foundations who have new technologies that would be interested in this center; google for example.

Pilot stage - young people

macarthur lab - residencies through the museum, visiting artists/scholars

Federal sources for applied humanities/digital humanities

Colab - radio documentaries, community based work (knight foundation)

Most of the NEH grants have passed for this year.

Local foundations...

Ford foundation - Darren Walker (low income artistic franchise foundation)

Depending on how it is framed, we can decide how to pitch.

Annie E. Casey, Ford, MacArthur, Surdna and Rockefeller Foundations, the Haas Family Trusts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. (funded center for social media)

rom David G.
the Humanities Collections RFP from NEH might be of interest; http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/HCRR.html

LEF New England seeks to accomplish its mission through deeper, more focused, multi-year funding of selected film projects, and by sponsoring programs that highlight the rich history and ongoing legacy of innovation within New England’s independent film community.