The Adrienne Shelly Foundation provides awards and scholarships through various partnerships with some of the most prominent academic and filmmaking institutions in the country. We do not make direct awards to students and filmmakers. If you are interested in receiving funding from The Adrienne Shelly Foundation, please visit the websites of our current partners for further information:
American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women
Columbia University School of the Arts Film Division
IFP
Nantucket Film Festival
New York Women in Film & Television
New York University Tisch School of the Arts,
Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television
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December 10th, 2010
Attend a free screening and Q&A of 2009 ASF grantee Rebecca Richman Cohen's WAR DON DON
December 10th, 2010
Film star Patricia Clarkson lunches with ASF auction winner Tom Wardach
December 2nd, 2010
Congratulations as well to 2009 grant recipient Dee Rees, who wrote and directed "Pariah,"
December 2nd, 2010
Congrat's to 2007 grant winner Maryam Keshavarz, whose "Circumstance" has been selected into the 2011 Sundance Film Festival's Dramatic Competition category.
December 2nd, 2010
2009 ASF/Columbia University Best Female Director's award/grant winner Lauren Wolkstein reports that her short "Cigarette Candy"
December 2nd, 2010
Congrat's to 2008 ASF/Columbia University Best Female Director award winner and grantee Madeleine Olnek
October 26th, 2010
2010 ASF/Nantucket Film Festival grant winner Jennifer Arnold's award-winning Sundance documentary A SMALL ACT opens Friday October 29th