Native American Public Telecommunications announces its annual open call for proposals from filmmakers. With funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the NAPT Public Television Program Fund will award support to video projects with significant Native involvement-including documentary, performance, cultural/public affairs and animation--and help bring the projects to national broadcast on public TV.  

Projects in any phase of production are eligible to apply for funding. Awards for research and development range up to $25,000, and awards for production or completion can be up to $100,000. NAPT does not fully fund programs, and awardees are required to seek additional funding from other sources.  

A five-person anonymous panel of public television professionals, independent producers and Native history and resource experts will review submissions and recommend the top proposals. NAPT will bring awardees to Lincoln, Neb., for training and orientation. Additionally, NAPT will assist producers with fundraising, navigating the public TV system, and thinking beyond the broadcast.  

Proposals are due by July 14, 2010.  

Visit us at www.nativetelecom.org/program_fund to read the full news release and to download the guidelines/application form.

Click here to download RFP 2010 full news release.

Click here to download RFP 2010 PDF application.

Click here to download RFP 2010 MS Word application.

The weather was warm and sunny in Park City, Utah, on January 28. Executive Director Shirley K. Sneve was there for the presentations by the Native Forum group, and to give filmmakers information about funding possibilities with NAPT. She also met up with Jack Kohler, Patricia Pena and Michelle Shining Elk, who worked with high school students in the "Native Gournd" project. As far as celebrity sightings?--Filmmaker Blackhorse Lowe and his parents. In the paper the next day, she read that Joan Rivers, Elton John and Fergie were there.

"I must have been on the other end of Main Street," said Sneve. "Anyway, it was great to meet the young filmmakers there and visit with Bird Runningwater and NAPT Board member Dustin "Owl" Johnson."

Jenni Monet is a versitile filmmaker with a desire to tell the Native story through the lens of those who lived it. In her newest documentary Losing Ground, Monet delves into the devastating affects climate change has on the small village of Iñupiat Eskimos in Kivalina, Alaska.

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