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Documentary Filmmakers Reeling After Trump Administration Kills Humanities Grants “In Furtherance Of The President’s Agenda”
The Trump administration's abrupt cancellation of humanities endowment grants is devastating documentary filmmakers.
Since 1965, NEH has awarded over $6 billion to support museums, historic sites, universities, teachers, libraries, documentary filmmakers, public TV and radio stations, research institutions, scholars, and local humanities programming.” “On April 2, late in the evening, we learned that our funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) was unexpectedly and illegally terminated,” Christina Marouda, founder of the Indian Film Festival Los Angeles, wrote on Facebook. Last October, on the UN’s International Day of the Girl, the NEH crowed on Instagram that it was supporting Nancy Drew: The Case of the American Icon, “an upcoming documentary, on the OG #girlboss.” That grant of $600,000 to filmmaker Cathleen O’Connell is among those reportedly chopped.
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