Tribeca Film Institute merges to for the children

The Tribeca Film Institute, the nonprofit arm of the Tribeca Film Festival, will merge with Renew Media, a fellow nonprofit for the arts. The decision to merge is expected to be formalized in early April, but the two boards have approved a memorandum authorizing the coupling. Funding from TFI for artists and filmmakers will benefit youth and mentorship programs for underrepresented artists, curated documentary series, panels and workshops, and the 3-year-old Summer Arts Institute, a film-intensive program for youth. The summer program is currently free for 20 people of high school age, but TFI plans to expand it into a larger, citywide undertaking. Meanwhile, under a grant from the MacArthur Foundation, an upcoming project, Reframe, will digitize and make archives available to the public with the goal of helping unseen films find a broader audience.

~ by STaco on March 3, 2008.