[Frameworks] Applications for the 2016 Helen Hill Award (Orphan Film Symposium)

[Dan Streible]

Independent filmmakers & media artists!

Apply now for the 2016 Orphan Film Symposium's Helen Hill Award.
www.NYU.edu/orphanfilm/helenhill2016apply.php

Recipients are funded to participate in the symposium and screen their
work. NYU presents the next edition of "Orphans" April 6-9, 2016, at
the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center's
Packard Theater in Culpeper, Virginia.

The Orphan Film Symposium biannually confers its Helen Hill Award,
jointly administered by NYU’s Department of Cinema Studies and the
University of South Carolina's Film and Media Studies Program.

Established in 2008, this award honors work that affirms the artistic
legacy, lived values, and everyday passions of the late filmmaker,
artist, activist, and educator Helen Hill. In a media culture
dominated by corporate interests and consumerist values, the Helen
Hill Award supports independent, innovative filmmaking of exceptional
talent. The award goes to filmmakers whose work celebrates and
embodies such things as creativity, self-expression, animation,
small-gauge film, homemade movies (and all things made by hand),
collaboration, generosity, liberal spirituality, activism, love, play,
community, and connection.

Recipients screen and discuss their work at the biennial Orphan Film
Symposium, attended by an eclectic mix of media artists, scholars,
archivists, curators, programmers, distributors, preservationists,
educators, collectors, and other film enthusiasts.

The award funds recipients' travel and accommodations at the four-day
event. Past awardees: James Kinder and Naomi Uman (2008);  Danielle
Ash and Jodie Mack (2010); Jo Dery and Jeanne Liotta (2012); andWerner
Nekes (2014).

To apply, e-mail a PDF file to Laura Kissel <laura at sc.edu>

Include:
an artist statement (150 words or less);
filmography (noting awards and exhibitions);
a link to sample works viewable online.


Indicate HELEN HILL AWARD APPLICATION in the subject line.

DEADLINE: September 4, 2015

Questions about the award? Write to Prof. Laura Kissel (USC Film and
Media Studies)