The Interbay Cinema Society (ICS) is accepting applications for the next round of Lightpress Grants. The deadline is Nov 30, 2024 at 11:59 PM PT. Awards will be announced on Jan 1, 2025.
Since its inception in 2016, ICS has given over $150,000 in $1000 grants to filmmakers to have their work digitized at Lightpress, a transfer house based in Seattle, which is also home to the Interbay Cinema Society.
We are accepting grant applications from US-based filmmakers, international filmmakers, and new proposals from former Lightpress Grant recipients.
Every six months, in January and July, the Interbay Cinema Society gives grants to 10 filmmakers working in 8mm, Super 8mm, 16mm or 35mm film to have 2 and 4K high resolution scans of their work made through Lightpress, a transfer house in Seattle.
We give grants to established and emerging filmmakers. Students are not eligible.
Grants are given for 3 hours of scanning. Note that the scans are not “in real time,” so how much material can be scanned depends on a lot of variables. This is a $1200 value.
Filmmakers who receive grants must use them within the six- month period specified, or the grants expire.
Entries submitted from June 1 to November 30 will be considered for the grants announced on January 1.
Entries submitted from December 1 to May 31 will be considered for the grants announced on July 1.
I want to thank you again for the Lightpress grant last year. The scans are gorgeous, and I’m working that material into a variety of new works. I should be finishing one of the new films really soon.
-Kate Lain, grant recipient, 2019
