Lisa Strout, Director
New Mexico Film Office

BOARD OF ADVISORS

ELIGIBILITY
You must be at least 18 years old and a resident of NM, as defined in the Declaration of Residency form.

Application may be for the development, production, post-production or distribution of a film or video work of any length. Documentaries, feature films, animation, and experimental works are all eligible.

Applicant must be the principal creative author of the work. Crew members, editors or writers who are not in creative control of the project may not apply.

Projects must be independent productions, under the artistic and budgetary control of the individual owning the copyright.

Applicant must be able to supply the following documentation if awarded a Contract: Declaration of Residency Form; Federal Form W9; CRS number. To obtain a CRS number, call the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department at 505-827-0832 or visit www.state.nm.us/tax.

NM Film Office staff and members of the Governor’s Council on Film and Media Industries are not eligible to apply.

SERVICE TO STATE
In order to engage in a Contract with the State of New Mexico, the applicant must be willing and able to provide a service to the state in return for state funding. The proposed plan to provide a service must be made clear in the application. Services can take many forms, for example:

• Providing free training in the form of apprenticeships or internships for New Mexico residents who are either beginning their careers in the media industry, moving up in a union position, or gaining a new skill set
• Providing free lectures, seminars or demonstrations in educational settings
• Conducting free public screenings of completed works or works-in-progress

Applicants are encouraged to be inventive, and specific, when formulating their proposed service.

Awardees will receive a New Visions/New Mexico Contract. Noncompliance with the terms of the Contract may require the return of funds to state, and may affect subsequent requests for support.

NEW VISIONS/NEW MEXICO WILL NOT CONSIDER

• Industrial or promotional pieces
• Purchase of equipment or creation of new facilities
• Expenditures for the establishment of new organizations or programs
• Debt reduction
• Educational programs of public universities, public school districts or their components or affiliates
• Operating expenses of privately owned facilities, such as homes or studios
• Hospitality or entertainment costs for receptions, performance or museum openings, or fundraising benefits
• Projects with excessive gratuitous violence or sexual content, hard language, drug abuse, culturally sensitive material or a combination of the above

TERMS
Small Purchase Contracts will be awarded up to $20,000 per project. The award money includes gross receipts tax and will be available for a period of one year from the date the contract goes into effect, and will be forfeited if not used in that time period. Monies will not be provided up front in full, but will be subject to a schedule of invoice and payment, after work is performed and approved.

Awardees are expected to carry out a project that is consistent with the proposal that was approved for funding. If changes in the project are believed to be necessary, the awardee must send a written request to the NM Film Office prior to the expenditure of funds. Approval is not guaranteed.

Awardees are asked to acknowledge the New Mexico Film Office’s New Visions/New Mexico Program in the end credits of the completed film. We will also require a DVD copy of the finished project, publicity materials and press clippings pertaining to the project, documentation of authorized training, and notification of project completion.

Awardees must submit a final written report including a detailed statement accounting for services performed and expenses incurred, demonstrating compliance with the terms of the New Visions/New Mexico Contract.

CRITERIA
A panel of peers and professionals will score each application on the following:

• Artistic quality of the project
• The applicant’s demonstrated ability and creativity as represented in the submitted video sample
• Managerial and fiscal ability, including the capability of the applicant to carry out the proposed project
• Service to the state, including efforts to reach a broad, diverse audience
• Nature and extent of other earned revenue, in-kind goods and services, and/or public or private support

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2007 NV Winners

SPLIT ESTATE
Directed by Debra Anderson
SPLIT ESTATE follows an unfolding conflict in the Rocky Mountains today. As officials in Washington call for more domestic gas and oil production, citizens all over the West find themselves in the path of a new drilling boom.

MI VOZ; ONE COMMUNTY, MANY VOICES
Directed by Marcos Baca
MI VOZ; ONE COMMUNTY, MANY VOICES is a free YDI after-school program that involves middle school youth in all aspects of filmmaking. Subjects include: directing, scripting, acting and operating sound and video equipment. Through a series of lectures and hands on trainings, youth gain important developmental skills in problem solving, critical thinking and work ethic. Other benefits include: improving self-confidence, fostering creativity and teaching a means of expression.

THE PURPLE HAT
Directed by Gregory Doucette
THE PURPLE HAT starring Charles Durning a short film based on a story by Pulitzer Prize winning author Eudora Welty.

EL SALON MEXICO
Directed by Paul Glickman and Tamarind King
EL SALON MEXICO - Set the to music of Aaron Copland’s classical composition of the same name, this children’s animation illustrates the story of Antonito, his burro and rooster as they sneak out one night to experience a fiesta for the first time. Never in their wildest dreams could they have imagined what would happen to them that night.

IN PLACE OUT OF TIME
Directed by Erin Hudson
IN PLACE OUT OF TIME is a poetic portrait documentary about Embree Hale, a life-long resident of Hillsboro, New Mexico, who sold his backhoe and picked up a camera in pursuit of a photographic quest to take a picture of every petroglyph and pictograph in New Mexico.

SHIMASANI
Directed by Blackhorse Lowe
SHIMASANI, set in the late 1920's on the Navajo reservation, teenage Mary Jane spends her life caring for her grandmother and living a traditional lifestyle. After being exposed to a world geography book, she must decide on whether to maintain her traditional life or go out into the larger world.

NOT ONLY JUST COFFEE
Directed by Patricia McInroy
NOT ONLY JUST COFFEE is an experimental and personal documentary exploring themes of immigration, death and media along the U.S./Mexico border and beyond. Coffee serves as a centerpiece to understand and connect cultures, histories and people throughout the work.

HEARING VOICES
Directed by Randy Nargi
HEARING VOICES is New Mexico-created half-hour comedy series about Jessi Nolan, a recently-widowed, 30-something voiceover actress who flees Los Angeles for a fresh start in Albuquerque. With her deceased husband's dog Max as her only companion, Jessi starts off her new life in the Duke City. But in an ironic nod to sitcoms of the sixties, Jessi makes the supernatural acquaintance of Gabriel Mountbatten, a classic stage actor of the 1930s.

2006 NV Winners

SPLIT ESTATE
Directed by Debra Anderson
SPLIT ESTATE follows an unfolding conflict in the Rocky Mountains today. As officials in Washington call for more domestic gas and oil production, citizens all over the West find themselves in the path of a new drilling boom.

RUDOLFO ANAYA: THE MAGIC OF WORDS
Directed by David E. Ellis
Rudolfo Anaya, New Mexico writer and recipient of the National Medal for the Arts, is the subject of a one-hour film that explores his life - from rural poverty and a near-fatal childhood accident - to a hard-won success as America's first great Hispanic novelist.

ABSENT FATHERS
Directed by Rafael Hernandez
A documentary about boys in Northern New Mexico that have to become men at a young age because they don't have fathers around. The documentary shows the many negative consequences that affect young men without fathers but also the positives that can come out if it.

UNCOVERED
Directed by Matthew Linnell
Through the eyes of a five-year-old boy, we experience a life of freedom and curiosity as it runs headlong into the adult world of boundaries and taboos.

THE RESURRECTION OF HONORE PAGE
Writer/Director, Nancy Holley Hughes, Producer, Eileen Torpey
A brilliant woman of the cloth experiences a crisis of faith that reaches its zenith in a New Mexico ghost town.

RED MESA
Directed by Ilana Lapid
On a cattle ranch on the US/Mexico border, a young woman's secret love story forces a painful coming of age.

ARCHIPELAGO (phase one)
Directed by Cory Metcalf & David Stout
The Archipelago project is a live cinema installation utilizing simulation techniques to create a complex synthetic eco-system inhabited by evolving artificial life forms. The New Visions award facilitated the creation of software development tools to further the first phase of project production and interactive animation prototypes.

A RACE AGAINST TIME: THE FIGHT TO SAVE NM’S NATIVE LANGUAGES
Directed by Jonathan Sims
New Mexico's native languages and their communities are in a race against time when dealing with language loss and revitalization. This home grown New Mexico documentary explores the situations, issues and emotions that come with language loss in New Mexico's Pueblo communities.

COMMITTING POETRY IN TIMES OF WAR
Directed by Stavros, Executive Producer Eric Sirotkin
A visually stunning glance at a community’s response to teachers fired for refusing to censor their students, police brutality at peaceful protests, and enforced "free speech zones" - a nation at war abroad and with its people. With its “blood pounding” slam poetry, the film was nominated for Best Documentary in South Africa’s Everglades International Film Festival, won the 2007 Poetry Film of the Year award, and is screening worldwide.