Cinema Tropical, the leading promoter of Latin American cinema in the United States, has been approved for a $15,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support our ongoing exhibition program, the Cinema Tropical Film Series, that this year coincide with the 20th anniversary of the organization. Cinema Tropical’s exhibition series is among 1,073 projects across America totaling nearly $25 million that were selected during this first round of fiscal year 2021 funding in the Grants for Arts Projects funding category in 14 artistic disciplines.
“The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support this project from Cinema Tropical,” said Arts Endowment Acting Chairman Ann Eilers. “Cinema Tropical is among the arts organizations across the country that have demonstrated creativity, excellence, and resilience during this very challenging year.”
“We are very thankful for the support from the National Endowment for the Arts, particularly in this year that our organization is preparing to celebrate its 20th anniversary amidst the challenges that the pandemic has generated,” said Carlos A. Gutiérrez, Executive Director of Cinema Tropical.
New York-based Cinema Tropical (CT) was founded by Gutiérrez and Monika Wagenberg in 2001 with the mission of distributing, programming and promoting what was to become the biggest boom of Latin American cinema in decades, CT has brought U.S. audiences some of the first screening of films such as Amores Perros and Y Tu Mamá También. Through a diversity of programs and initiatives, CT is thriving as a dynamic and groundbreaking 501(c)(3) non-profit media arts organization experimenting in the creation of better and more effective strategies for the distribution and exhibition of foreign cinema in this country. In 2011, in occasion of the organization's tenth anniversary, The Museum of Modern Art paid tribute to the work of Cinema Tropical with the special series ‘In Focus: Cinema Tropical.’
Established by Congress in 1965, the National Endowment for the Arts is the independent federal agency whose funding and support gives Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities. Through partnerships with state arts agencies, local leaders, other federal agencies, and the philanthropic sector, the Arts Endowment supports arts learning, affirms and celebrates America’s rich and diverse cultural heritage, and extends its work to promote equal access to the arts in every community across America. Visit arts.gov to learn more.
