The Lef Foundation today announced nine grants totaling $165,000 awarded to indie documentary films by New England filmmakers. Frederick Wiseman's upcoming "National Gallery" is one of the films currently in production which will receive $15,000. The Lef Foundation is a group supporting the creation and presentation of contemporary work in the fields of visual art, performing art, new media, literary art, architecture and design. The awarded films are: Ben Avishai & Ken Winikur - J Street ($15,000) J Street follows a progressive American-Jewish lobby group as it takes on the entrenched establishment, its founders struggling to build a movement while maintaining their ideals. Chris Boebel & Christine Walley - Exit Zero ($15,000) In a narrative about the filmmakers’ family, Exit Zero offers an unusually intimate look at the lasting effects of deindustrialization in the United States and the ways that Americans talk – and fail to talk...
- 5/3/2012
- by Austin Dale
- Indiewire
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