Hello Experimenters!
We’re on the second and final week of the Summer 2021 2 Week Film Challenge! It’s been really exciting to see progress stills and hear from you on Discord about your projects and about other things. Looking forward to engaging with more of you as time goes by.
In solidarity,
Gabby
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Emergency Funds
Artist Relief Cycle XIII due June 23rd
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
Onassis Emergency Fellowships 2020/21
Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants
Filmmaker’s Guide To Applying For US Coronavirus Federal Relief
Emergency Resources for Artists and Freelancers
COVID-19 Funding for Artists in New England
Calls for Entry
Experimental Film Odyssey Earlybird Deadline June 30th
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Earlybird Deadline June 30th
Blacksphere festival Early bird late Deadline June 30th
Antimatter Regular Deadline June 30th
WNDX Festival of Moving Image due June 30th
ULTRAcinema 2021 Regular Deadline June 30th
Fracto Film Encounter due July 1st
AIR Gallery due July 4th
Slamdance Early Deadline due July 5th
Visions of Nature due July 7th
Film Fest Kodama Regular Deadline July 15th
Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival Regular Deadline July 20th
Experimental Film Odyssey Regular Deadline July 30th
ENGAUGE EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021 due July 1st
AIR Gallery Open Call due July 4th
Folklore and Traditions due July 7th
ANALOGICA Regular Deadline July 10th
Film Fest Kodama July Deadline July 15th
INCADAQUÉS OPEN CALL 2021 due July 15th
Found Footage Magazine Issue #8 Paper Submission Deadline July 15th
123rd SSA Annual Exhibition due July 18th
Media City Film Festival due July 31st
Blacksphere festival Regular Deadline June 30th
2021 Punto y Raya Festival due August 2nd
Film Fest Kodama August Deadline August 4th
On Media. Signals and Connections due August 7th
ExperimentoBio 2021 due August 15th
Slamdance Regular Deadline due July 5th
MONSTERFUCKERS due September 1st
Decolonising Film & Screen Studies due September 1st
The 2021 Film And Video Poetry Symposium Deadline September 4th
Freedom for Free due September 7th
Open Residencies & Fellowships
(Egg)celerator Lab due June 22nd (TOMORROW)
Caldera AIR due June 25th
ACE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE due June 25th
Swimming in AIR (remote) due June 25th
North Star Fellowship due June 28th
Artists-In-ATHICA due June 30th
Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship due June 30th
Women In Film Finishing Fund due June 30th
Light Work Artist-in-Residence due July 1st
LEF/CIFF Fellowship due July 5th
Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship due July 9th
Digital Diasporas due July 15th
Stiwdio Maelor Residency due July 19th
What is Evidence? due July 31st
McColl Center for Art + Innovation Summer Deadline May 15th
HMK 5-month Residency due May 31st
HMK 6-week Residency due May 31st
Gallery 263 Exhibition Proposals due August 1st
Bemis Center Artist-in-Residence due August 16th
AirLand due September 10th
HAMBIDGE RESIDENCIES – Spring 22 due September 15th
McColl Center for Art + Innovation Fall Deadline May 15th
Online Artists Support Program
The Loisaida Center Emerging Artist Residency
Open Funds
Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund due June 28th
The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists due June 30th
Interchange Artist Grant due July 5th
American Stories Documentary Fund due July 5th
Sundance Institute | Stars Collective Granting Fund due July 16th
AXS Film Fund due September 4th
Black Artists Grant (UK)
Things to Watch
Remains to be Streamed, IG Live (Ongoing, Tuesdays 8PM PT)
Who Will Start Another Fire (June 11th – 24th)
Film Celebrating Pride Month (June 11th – 30th)
Cousins and Kin: Anti-Ethnography (June 16th – July 15th)
LA Filmforum presents Memory Imaging (June 20th – June 27th)
Stephanie Syjuco, Body Double (June 21st – June 27th)
Anthology Presents Holly Fisher (June 16th -29th)
Optimism by Deborah Stratman (June 17th – July 1st)
They Still Want to Kill Us (May 26th – July 31st)
TEFF: Director’s Choice Collection 2021 (June 1st – August 1st)
Black Nations/Queer Nations? (June 24th 6PM ET)
Stateless: Archiving Mother – Marcia Michael (July 9th 7PM London)
Things to Read
Article/Essay: The Puerto Rican Lower East Side and the Queer Underground by Juan A. Suárez
Book Recommendation: How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Poem: Summer by Chen Chen
Things to Do
Assignment: This month, I challenge all of you to make a film in two weeks. Your goal should be to make something you can submit to festivals/open calls in two weeks. This is the second & final week of the challenge! It’s time to edit what you collected last week. If you’re feeling isolated from other experimental people, I decided to make us a Discord server! Use it to share some progress or vent your frustrations.
Journal: For Pride Month, we’re writing letters. Each Pride Monday, I’m going to ask you to write a letter to someone. That person can be living or dead, real or fictional. You don’t have to share this letter in any way, but obviously if you feel brave and open go for it. I want to leave you with the quote that inspired me to share this: “Letter writing is transformative. Letter writing is harm reduction” – Red, Survived & Punished
4) We are fast approaching the anniversary of The Stonewall Uprising, the reason we celebrate Pride in June in the states. Write to a young queer and/or trans person (or some far off queer and/or trans person not yet born) and explain the Uprising, its importance, and how it changed the world–this may require some research.
