Past
Grantees

SARAH TEITLER received funding to support Habana (work title), a one-hour experimental video documentary about the city of Habana, Cuba. The project explores the space where art and anthropology meet. It grows out of questions concerning how to represent complex places and explore the reciprocal relationships between people and space.

Funding was awarded to JADE WU for In Search of Golden Phoenix: The Invisible Legacy, a documentary that begins with a personal tale about domestic abuse and expands into a global legacy of wartime abuse in correlation to the rise and definition of domestic abuse in Asian and Asian American culture.

MARCUS YOUNG, Minneapolis, MN, was awarded funding for Thoughts #1 & Thoughts #2, two experimental shorts that portray the filmmakers quiet reflections on his place in a society of cumulative violence and recent war. Amidst a myriad internal struggles, the filmmaker poses the personal inquiries of how to be a good personhow to be a working, multi-cultural, positively out, not-so-young, spirit-filled, contributing citizen-artist in an isolating society.

MARK BECKER received funding for Romantico, a one-hour documentary about Carmelo and Arturo, two musicians who immigrated illegally to the United States. They came here in order to work and send money home to their families in Mexico. Romantico is about the border and how economic policy colludes with border politics to tear families apart.

GREGORY BRANCH received funding for Real-Life Reconciliation, a documentary about four very different people brought together by a brutal murder. Living on different continents, speaking different languages, and being of different racial groups, two committed the murder, and the other two are the parents of the victim. Nevertheless, the four are a family.

A grant was awarded to KATY CHEVIGNY in support of The Class of 72, a documentary film that explores the lives of inmates who were released from Death Row after the Furman vs. Georgia Supreme Court decision in 1972, which found capital punishment to be unconstitutional.

BILLY GOLFUS, Minneapolis, MN, received support for Sex & the Single Gimp, a romantic comedy about a paraplegic who tries to learn to swing dance in his wheel chair in order to meet women.

A grant was awarded to TANA HARGEST in support of New Negrotopia, an interactive new media project that will examine the theme of utopian space and the hegemony of race.

YAEL KANAREK was awarded a grant in support of World of Awe, a cross-media project based in the genre of the travelers tale. It explores the connections among storytelling, memory and technology.

Funding was awarded to ROSS KAUFFMAN for Born into Brothels, a documentary that follows the lives of children of prostitutes who live in the brothels of Calcutta's largest red-light district.

CHRIS LARSON, St. Paul, MN, received a grant for The Trial (Untitled), a uniquely idiosyncratic installation that features a man attached to a machine that is powered by two horses.

ADAM LEVY, Minneapolis, MN, was awarded funding for 10,000 Years, a feature-length music-driven animated allegory about youth violence and international conflict.

NORA LIGORANO & MARSHALL REESE (previous recipients), received funding for Fiber Optic Video Tapestry, an experimental installation project comprised of a hand woven wall tapestry made from electronic image and data transmission materialsfiber optics, wires, and various sized LCD screens.

KRISTIN LUCAS was awarded a grant in support of The Electric Donut, an experimental single channel video and DVD installation based on visions of the future. Using family photographs, Super-8 films, and home videos, Lucas will construct personal futuristic visions.

MARTI LUFKIN, St. Paul, MN, received a grant to support He Aint Heavy, a personal documentary about her severely brain damaged brother and his impact on their family.

RENA MUNDO was awarded a grant in support of The Farm: Experimenting With Utopia, a documentary about the rise and fall of the most famous commune in the history of the United States, the people who devoted their lives to it and the entire communitys painful re-entry into mainstream America after it collapsed.

Funding was awarded to MAYU NAKAMURA for Fever, a bilingual narrative drama about a Japanese teenager who becomes pregnant by a married American man and stands trial for drowning her baby.

JOHN OBRIEN, Lake Elmo, MN, received support for The Rise and Fall of it All, a new media work that uses the complementary aspects of music, sound, narrative and imagery to explore the challenges faced by various people who inhabit the margins of society.

Funding was awarded to STEFAN ROLOFF in support of The Red Orchestra, an impressionistic documentary about the experiences of one of the largest Nazi resistance groups, embedded in a visual language where survivor and eyewitness accounts give close-up views.

KIT-YIN SNYDER received funding for Double Exposure, a video project of poetically inspired first-person reflections and observations examining the filmmakers passage from young Chinese girl to middle-aged Chinese-American woman.