NEA awards $20,000 grant to Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
By Teya Vitu
January 17, 2022
The Santa Fe Film Institute has received a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for its Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, which will be staged Oct. 19-23.
This is the third straight year the film festival has received NEA grants, the institute reported.
This grant supports educational and free public programming at what will be the 14th annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival. The educational programs include filmmaker question-and-answer sessions, discussion panels and a Student Day, festival operations manager Stephanie Love said.
The festival screens some 150 short and full-length films.
“It is meaningful for both local filmmakers and film artists worldwide for Santa Fe Film Institute to receive this support,” SFiFF Executive Director Liesette Paisner Bailey said in a news release.