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Boston New California Documentary Project Awards

The California Council for the Humanities is currently soliciting applications for its California Documentary Project, an awards program for film, video, radio and photography documentary projects. The project supports documentary work that records and reveals contemporary California life much the same way that artists such as Dorothea Lange and John Steinbeck documented the Dust Bowl area.

Grants of up to $20,000 are available. To obtain guidelines, please visit http://www.californiastories.org/guidelines/guidelines_ca_doc.htm. The next deadline is October 1, 2003.

The California Documentary Project is part of the Council's multiyear California Stories initiative designed to strengthen communities by bringing Californians together to tell the story of California.

In addition to the California Documentary Project, the Council offers awards of up to $5,000 under the California Story Fund. To obtain Story Fund guidelines, visit http://www.californiastories.org/guidelines/guidelines_ca_fund.htm.

California Story Fund projects encourage California communities to tell their stories and then bring communities together to discuss the collected stories' meaning and significance. California Story Fund formats can include photography and interpretive exhibits, radio or video documentaries, digital media, dramatic presentations and interpretive artwork.

The California Council for the Humanities is an independent, nonprofit state affiliate of the national Endowment for the Humanities. The Council has supported and created programs that bring people together around their history and culture for more than 25 years. For information on the Council and its programs, visit www.californiastories.org or call the Council's offices at 415/391-1474.