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1996

Matrimony’s Speed Limit (1913) America’s First Women Filmmakers Collection 14 min.35mm, B&W, silent Director: Alice Guy-Blache How men Propose (1913) & Too Wise Wives (1921) 9 min & 80 min. Director: Lois Weber 35mm, B&W, silent Grant Awarded to:  The Library of Congress

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1997

A Sister to Carmen (1913) Director, Producer, Actress: Helen Gardner 70 min. 35mm, B&W, silent Grant Awarded to:  Cinema Museum, London Raisin’ Cotton (1938-1941) Director, Editor: Emma Knowlton Lytle 50 min. 8mm, B&W, color, sound Grant Awarded to:  Southern Media Archive Four Short Films (1934-1948) Director: Mary Ellen Bute Grant Awarded to:  Anthology Film Archives

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1998

Behind the Scenes (1914) Writer: Margaret Mayo Actress: Mary Pickford 72 min. 35mm, B&W, silent Grant Awarded to:  The George Eastman House Where Are My Children (1916) Directed by Lois Weber 53 min. 35mm, B&W, silent Grant Awarded to:  The Library of Congress 10 Short Films (1960’s) Director: Storm de Hirsch Grant Awarded to:  New...

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1999

Divine Horseman: The Living Gods of Haiti (1947-51) Director: Maya Deren 16mm B&W, sound Grant Awarded to:  New American Cinema Group/Filmmakers’ Cooperative Paris, Maine & Chocorua, NH (1929-34) Director: Elizabeth Woodman Wright 83 min. 16mm, B&W, silent Grant Awarded to:  Northeast Historic Film Gandhi in India (1934) Director: Adelaide Pearson 11 min. 16mm, color, silent...

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2000

Liza’s Pioneer Diary (1976) Directed by Nell Cox 87 min. 16mm, color, sound Grant Awarded to:  University of Kentucky, King Library Deliverance (1918) Writer, Producer, Actress: Helen Keller 62 min. 35mm, B&W, silent Grant Awarded to:  The Library of Congress Eugene and Agnes Meyer Home Movies (1927-1933) 96 min. 16mm, B&W, silent Grant Awarded to:...

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2001

A Fool and His Money (1912) Directed by Alice Guy Blaché 10 min. 35mm, B&W, color, silent Grant Awarded to:  National Center for Film & Video Preservation, AFI The Blot (1921) 78 min; incomplete films (1913-1916) Directed by Lois Weber 35mm, B&W, silent Grant Awarded to: The Library of Congress Barnard College Film Collection –...

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2002

Tarantella, Imagination, New Sensations in Sounds (1940-1949) Animator, Director: Mary Ellen Bute 16mm, color, sound Grant Awarded to:  Cecile Starr Unmasked (1917) Director, Writer, Actress: Grace Cunard 35mm, B&W, silent Grant Awarded to:  The George Eastman House For the Soul of Rafael (1920) Writer: Dorothy Yost 78 min. 35mm, B&W, sound Grant Awarded to:  American...

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2003

Christine of the Big Tops (1926) Screenwriter: Sonya Levien 60 min. 35mm, B&W, sound Grant Awarded to:  George Eastman House Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)  Director: Mimi Pickering 40 min. 16mm, B&W, color, sound Grant Awarded to:  Appalshop My Lady of the Lilacs (1916) Writer: Beta Breuil 10 min. 35mm, B&W, silent Grant...

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2006

Abstraction (1981) Director: Rosalind Schneider 8 min. 16mm, color, sound Grant Awarded to: Rosaline Schneider All Women Are Equal (1972) Director: Marguerite Paris 15 min. 16mm, B&W, sound Grant Award to: MIX, New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival Attica (1974) Director, Writer, Producer, Editor: Cinda Firestone Fox 80 min. 16mm, color, sound Grant...

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2007

Before Need Redressed (1995) 42 min. Director, photographer, editor: Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley 16mm, color, sound Grant Awarded to:  Lucinda Barnes Bent Time (1984) Director, producer, cinematographer, editor: Barbara Hammer 22 min. 16mm, color, sound Grant Awarded to:  Barbara Hammer 3 Short Films-Jane Morrison Lipstick 74 (1974) 8 min. The Fang Gang (1973) 7...

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2008

Parallax (1973) Director: Rosalind Schneider Choreographer: Edith Stephen (21 min.) 16mm, color, sound Grant awarded to Rosalind Schneider South East Coal Company (1979) Director: Wendy Ewald (30 min.) 8mm, B/W & color, sound Grant awarded to Appalshop Will (1981) Director: Jessie Maple (70 min.) 16mm, color, sound Grant awarded to Black Film Center/Archive, Smith Research Center Anything You...

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2009

A Land of Their Own (1950) Producer, Cinematographer: Hazel Greenwald (20 min.) 16mm, color, sound Grant awarded to Center for Jewish History Mixed Pets (1911) Director, Writer, Producer: Alice Guy Blache (8-10 min.) nitrate, color, silent Grant awarded to National Audio Visual Conservation Center 7 Short Films -Bette Gordon I-94 (1974) 3:20 min.; An Algorithm (1977) 11...

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2010

Growing Up Female (1970) Directors: Julia Reichert and Jim Klein (53 min.) 16mm, B/W, sound Grant awarded to Julia Reichert Dodge House 1916 (1965) Writer and Producer: Ester McCoy (18 min.) 16mm, color, sound Grant awarded to Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution The Last To Know (1981) Producer and Director: Bonnie Friedman Camera: Bonnie Friedman, Nancy...

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2012

A Child’s Introduction to the Wonders of Space (1979) (12 min.) B/W,  16mm,  sound Director: Rachel Reichman Grant awarded to Rachel Reichman Doppelganger (1987) (7.5 min.) color, Super 8mm, sound Director: Peggy Ahwesh Grant awarded to Andrew Lampert, Curator of Collections, Anthology Film Archives Glass Gardens (1982) (5 min.) B/W, 16mm, sound Director and Animator: Lisa Crafts Grant awarded...

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2014

Tramp Strategy (1911) (10min.) B/W, 35mm, Silent Director:  Alice Guy Blaché Grant awarded to Eye Film Institute The Student Nurses (1970) (89min.) Color, 35mm, Sound Co-Writter, Co-Producer, Director: Stephanie Rothman Grant awarded to Jake Perlin Metroliner (1974-75) (35min.) B/W, 16mm, Sound Producer, Director and editor: Victoria Hochberg Grant awarded to Victoria Hochberg Aftermaths: Some Food...

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