The Against the Grain Artistic Scholarship grants $1,000 to college students majoring in performing arts, visual arts, journalism, or mass communications. To be eligible, students must be of at least 25% Asian and/or Pacific Islander ethnicity, be enrolled full-time, have demonstrated leadership abilities, and have a minimum GPA of 3.0. For more information, click here.
Exclusive to students based in Florida, the Sarasota Film Society gives out five renewable $2,000 scholarships to students studying visual arts every year. Students must be majoring in film, computer animation, creative writing, illustration, or motion design; attend an accredited Florida college; reside in Sarasota or Manatee counties; and maintain a 2.75 GPA. For more information, click here.
This nonprofit offers several scholarships for prospective students, as well as one exclusively for the visual arts. The scholarship—10 applicants will be selected to receive an award of $5,000—is available to African American or Black graduating high school students and scholars pursuing an undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral degree in visual arts. For more information, click here.
Every year, this foundation offers multiple scholarship options, including the Irene Runnels-Paula McStay awards: two $5,000 scholarships to students in Texas. Students must be attending a public or private Texas school with radio, television, film, public relations, digital marketing, marketing/advertising/communications, or broadcasting as a major field of study. For more information, click here.
Made by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, this scholarship is named in honor of Dr. Jack G. Sheehan, a renowned critic advocating for fair representation of Arabic people in the media. It awards $2,500 to Arab American university students majoring in journalism, radio, television, and/or film. For more information, click here.
Every year, Blumenthal Arts and the Gordon Hay Scholarship Committee award two students who are pursuing a nonperformance career in theater with $10,000. The merit-based award is granted to exceptional students who are high school seniors or college first-years or sophomores in the Charlotte, North Carolina, and Knoxville, Tennessee areas. For more information, click here.
These scholarships offered by the Art Guild, each worth $1,000, are a fantastic opportunity for graduating high school seniors in Nassau County, New York, who plan to attend college to study visual arts, including drawing, painting, sculpture, fashion design, set design, and photography. For more information, click here.
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences offers three scholarships of $10,000 for high school seniors who intend to pursue a career in the film and television industry. NATAS also offers regional scholarships throughout the country. For more information, click here.
The New York Women in Film Scholarship Program strives to support women involved in media production. This scholarship for film students is offered to undergraduate women at Brooklyn College, the City College of New York, Columbia University, Brooklyn College’s Feirstein School of Cinema, Hunter College, New York University, and Stony Brook Manhattan Center for Creative Writing and Film. For more information, click here.
The National Council of Jewish Women awards this $1,500 scholarship to a student who has completed 12 units of classes in a community college in Los Angeles County. They must be enrolled in a film, television, cinema, or theater program and plan to enter the field to be eligible. For more information, click here.
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Association Française de Recherche sur l'histoire du Cinéma
French film historians and scholars association. Publishes the journal 1895 on film research, film history, methods and tools.
British Universities Film & Video Council
BUFVC promotes the production, study and use of moving image, sound and related media in higher education and research.
Society for Cinema & Media Studies
Devoted to the scholarly study of film, television, video and new media. Formerly the Society for Cinema Studies.
Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF) (International Federation of Film Archives)
Association of film archives, dedicated to rescuing film both as cultural heritage and historical documents.
A California organization devoted to advancing animation. It is a branch of the ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film D'Animation).
Advancing and preserving the art of the moving image. Includes the AFI Conservatory, the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival, and the AFI's National Center for Film and Video Preservation.
Broadcast Film Critics Association
The Broadcast Film Critics Association is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing 169 television, radio and online critics. Includes the Critics' Choice Awards, reviews of new releases, and more.
Centre national de la cinématographie (CNC)
CNC is a French regulatory, promotional and preservational organization for film.
International Documentary Association
Promoting nonfiction film and video, supporting documentary filmmakers, and sponsor of an annual documentary film festival.
Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries International (FOCAL International)
International professional trade association representing film/audiovisual libraries, professional film researchers, producers and others working in the industry.
National Film Preservation Board (Library of Congress)
Includes the National Film Preservation Foundation, Moving Image Archives, National Film Registry, and information on preservation research.
In 1988, the (United States) Library of Congress established the National Film Preservation Board, to preserve film deemed "culturally, historically, or esthetically important". Each year, the board selects 25 films to add to the National Film Registry. Herein is the complete list of those films so honoured to date.
American Screenwriters Association (ASA)
Organization dedicated to the promotion of and encouragement of screenwriting as an art form.
Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA)
National association representing independent producers of diverse size and scope working in film, television, and multimedia.
Independent Film & Television Alliance
Formerly known as the American Film Marketing Association (AFMA), IFTA is the trade association for independent motion picture and television production and distribution companies.
Founded by Robert Redford and dedicated to the development of artists of independent vision and the exhibition of their new work. Sponsor of the Sundance Film Festival.