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
How to Apply
News
March 8th, 2010
Congrat's to Kathryn Bigelow on her ground-breaking Best Director win for THE HURT LOCKER.
March 8th, 2010
Excellent article on women in Hollywood, and the scarcity of female actors and directors.
March 4th, 2010
2008 ASF/NYU scholarship winner Marissa O’Guinn's film MAKE IT STOP is a finalist in the Tisch School of the Arts Fusion Film Festival
March 1st, 2010
Congrat's to 2008 ASF/Women in Film Finishing Fund recipient Emily Abt, whose first feature film, TOE TO TOE, received a fantastic review February 26th in The New York Times
February 22nd, 2010
2007 AFI/Adrienne Shelly Foundation Production Grant recipient Pam Johnson won 2nd place in a Scriptapalooza TV competition for her Office Spec script.
January 30th, 2010
2008 ASF/NYU Scholorship winner Marissa O'Guinn's color sync film "MAKE IT STOP!" has been selected as an undergraduate finalist in NYU's Fusion Film Festival 2010
January 23rd, 2010
2008 ASF/NYU scholarship winner Marissa O'Guinn finished post production on her short Color Sync Workshop film MAKE IT STOP
January 16th, 2010
2008 ASF/Columbia University Best Female Director Madeleine Olnek's film COUNTERTRANSFERENCE selected to be one of five "Sundance Classics".
January 9th, 2010
2009 ASF/Sundance grant recipient Dee Rees just wrapped production on PARIAH.
January 2nd, 2010
ASF/Women in Film Finishing Fund Winner Emily Abt's ALL OF US on Showtime
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