Grantee Database

Liu Jian

Country / Region:
• China

• 2013
• Film/Video
• China to United States

for a four-month grant to research and observe contemporary trends in film and animation in New York

Deepak Rauniyar

Country / Region:
• Nepal

• 2013
• Film/Video
• Nepal to United States

for a grant to travel to the U.S. and collaborate with a New York-based screenwriter on the development of a new feature film

Zefrey Throwell

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2013
• Film/Video
• United States to Malaysia

to support a six-week residency in Malaysia to gather testimony about being Bumiputra and the effects of the country’s current affirmative action program

Tom Vick

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2013
• Film/Video
• United States to Japan

to support two weeks of research in Tokyo on Japanese filmmaker Seijun Suzuki

Takayuki Yamamoto

• 2013
• Film/Video
• Japan to United States

for a six-month grant to research contemporary art, meet artists and curators, and participate in an artist residency program in the United States.

Zhang Qing

Country / Region:
• China

• 2013
• Film/Video
• China to United States

for a three-month grant to participate in a residency program and observe contemporary trends in visual art in New York

Center for Religion and Media, NYU

• 2012
• Film/Video

to enable filmmaker Yang Lina to participate in the 2012 Reel China @NYU Documentary Film Festival.

Cheung Hung Tammy

Country / Region:
• Hong Kong

• 2012
• Film/Video

For a five-month grant to conduct research on the film industry in the United States, explore new skills and work on her next film about education in the U.S.

Cho Seoungho

Country / Region:
• Korea

• 2012
• Film/Video
• United States to Cambodia

for a one-month grant to carry out research and shoot video at Angkor Wat in June 2012.

Du Haibin

Country / Region:
• China

• 2012
• Film/Video
• China to United States

for a six-month grant to meet with documentary filmmakers and conduct research for his first feature film.

Hawaii International Film Festival

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2012
• Film/Video

to support the Hawaii International Film Festival’s 2012 “Spotlight On Pen-Ek Ratanaruang,” a retrospective of the Thai filmmaker’s work that is to include a scholar-led panel discussion focusing on the expression of Thai culture and art through film.

• 1993
• Film/Video
• United States to United States

Support the participation of film specialists from Asia in the NETPAC conference on Asian cinema at the Hawaii International Film Festival in December 1993.

Art Works Projects for Human Rights

• 2011
• Film/Video
• United States to United States

to support international travel and per diem for Elizabeth Rubin and her American cinematographer to travel to Afghanistan in fall 2011 to conduct research and creative work on Studio Kabul.