2009 Partnership Grants

Carib Gold

(1956), African American crime drama set among the shrimpers of Key West, with Ethel Waters and Cicely Tyson (Southern Methodist University). Play film

Cordele, Georgia

(1936), scenes filmed for a town portrait by H.C. Kunkleman (University of Georgia).

Dime Store

(1949), Dorsey Alexander’s abstract exploration of found objects (Pacific Film Archive).

Fitzgerald, Georgia

(1947), town portrait (University of Georgia). Play film

Life and Death of a Sphere

(1948), geometric animation by Dorsey Alexander (Pacific Film Archive).

Making of “Americus’ Hero”

(1928), home movie showing the shooting of a lost town portrait film by Don Newland (University of Georgia).

North Beach

(1958), Dion Vigné’s kinetic, super-condensed portrait of the San Francisco neighborhood (Pacific Film Archive).

Paper Collage

(1955), Dion Vigné’s animation of cut-outs (Pacific Film Archive).

Prairie Fire

(1977), documentary short about the Nonpartisan League, a farm-based political party founded in 1915 to fight exploitation by Eastern capitalists (State Historical Society of North Dakota ).

The United States of America

(1975), James Benning and Bette Gordon’s minimalist cross-country road movie (Anthology Film Archives).