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Fund for Innovative Television

Chicago, Illinois

Grants

2024 (1 year)
$22,500

The Fund for Innovative TV produces independent documentary video and television that exposes audiences to diverse points of view. It runs the Media Burn Archive, which collects, restores and distributes documentary video and television created by artists, activists and community groups. With this X-Grant, the organization conducts interviews and research to provide history and context for its archival video collection.

2018 (1 year)
$50,000

Fund for Innovative TV produces independent documentary video and television that exposes audiences to diverse points of view. It runs the Media Burn Archive, which collects, restores and distributes documentary video and television created by artists, activists and community groups. With this International Connections Fund award, two American and two Russian filmmakers create a joint film that uses archival footage to critically engage with official and unofficial historical narratives.

1995 (1 year)
$30,000

To develop "Weekend TV," a series of programs about local affairs to air on WYCC/Channel 20 in Chicago.

1993 (1 year)
$150,000

To support planning, development, and fundraising, and for projects serving independent videomakers.

1991 (1 year)
$300,000

To support a season of the news-magazine show "The 90's."

1991 (1 year)
$150,000

To support marketing and other costs not covered by PBS for the news-magazine show "The 90s."