Grant for $1,000 for Women Directors!

THE NANCY MALONE DIRECTING AWARD

The Nancy Malone Directing Award provides $1,000 to a New York area based woman director for a narrative short or feature film.

Nancy Malone was a founding member of Women in Film in Los Angeles. She began her career as an actress, worked as an executive and then as a producer and director—one of the first women directors in television.

In 1976, she became the first female vice-president of television at 20th Century Fox. In 1977 she was awarded one of the first Crystal Awards by Women in Film for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry. She won an Emmy Award for producing Bob Hope: The First 90 Years (1993) (TV) and was nominated for Emmy Awards for directing episodes of Sisters in (1991), and The Trials of Rosie O'Neill in (1992). In 2007, she was inducted as an honoree into the "She Made It: Women Creating Television and Radio" collection at the Paley Center for Media.

Guidelines
Films may be of any length. The funds will be awarded to help complete a work-in-progress. Films must have completed principle photography to be eligible. Films that are already finished are not eligible. Filmmakers must be based in the New York City area.

INSTRUCTIONS

Please download the application form from the top right of this page, fill iout the form, or facsimile thereof, and submit with a 2-page description of the project; a project budget, indicating amount raised to date; a list of key creative personnel with one-paragraph bios; and a DVD of the work-in-progress.

Applications must be received by July 25, 2011.

Applicants’ paperwork may be sent electronically, but works-in-progress must be mailed or delivered. DVDs must be labeled with the project name and name of the director. To submit paperwork electronically, email this form, the project description, the bios and the budget as separate attachments to development@nywift.org.

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Mail or deliver the DVD of the work-in-progress, with a copy of the paperwork, if not sent electronically:

New York Women in Film & Television
Nancy Malone Directing Award
6 East 39th Street 12th FL
New York, NY 10016

Applications and DVDs must be RECEIVED by July 25, 2011. There will be no exceptions.

Questions?
Contact Easmanie Michel at 212-679-0870 x 39, or email development@nywift.org.