As part of the Adrienne Shelly Foundation’s mission to aid in the advancement of talented women filmmakers, we have committed funds to the establishment of the following:

American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women
The Adrienne Shelly Foundation Production Grant will be given each Spring to a participant at the Los Angeles-based AFI's Directing Workshop for Women. The foundation will also underwrite the Adrienne Shelly Master Class in Directing as part of this prestigious program.

Columbia University School of the Arts Film Division
The Adrienne Shelly Award for Best Female Director will be granted each Spring to a promising filmmaker.

IFP
The Adrienne Shelly Director’s Grant will be awarded to a promising filmmaker annually, beginning summer/fall 2007.

Nantucket Film Festival
The Adrienne Shelley Excellence in Filmmaking Award will be presented at the Festival each Spring to a female writer/director who shows outstanding achievement in the art of filmmaking.

New York Women in Film & Television
The Adrienne Shelly Foundation Finishing Funds Grant will be awarded each Spring to a promising filmmaker.

New York University Tisch School of the Arts,
Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television
The Adrienne Shelly Foundation Scholarship will be awarded annually to an incoming sophomore student, beginning with the fall semester of 2007.

The Sundance Institute
The Adrienne Shelly Foundation Women Filmmakers Grant will be awarded each July to a filmmaker coming out of the Feature Film Program's June Director's Lab.