The Sundance Institute announced its latest round of grantees for its Arts Organization Grants today, which includes Cinema Tropical as one of the eighteen U.S.-based BIPOC-lead arts organizations and collectives that will receive support. Each of the granted organizations working in film, theater, or emerging media will receive a grant between $5,000 and $20,000, with levels determined based on the organization’s demonstrated track record of impact within their priority communities, and the stated need and operating budget of the organization.
Funding will be used to strengthen the organizations themselves in their ongoing work and/or be directly regranted to artists. The selected organizations all applied following a field-wide nomination process by trusted and long-standing partners, including peer arts organizations, foundations, and Sundance Institute alumni artists.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2021, Cinema Tropical is a New York City-based media arts non-profit organization dedicated to the programming, distribution, and promotion of U.S. Latinx and Latin American cinema. Through a diversity of programs and initiatives, Cinema Tropical is thriving as a dynamic and groundbreaking organization experimenting in the creation of better and more effective strategies for the distribution and exhibition of cinema in this country.
Other Latinx organizations that were also announced as grant recipients include AdocPR, the organization dedicated to Puerto Rican documentary films; Femme Frontera, the film organization made up of women filmmakers from the U.S.- Mexico border region; and the Undocumented Filmmakers Collective, which tackles the systemic inequities that undocumented immigrants face in the field not only as sources of stories but more importantly as creators, artists, and primary audiences.
