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THE CHRIS HOLTER YOSEMITE FUND
 Thanks to a generous donation from Chris' mother, Ora A. Holter, to the
Yosemite Fund/John Muir Heritage Society, Chris Holter’s name was added to the Fund’s Honor Wall in June 2005 at the Yosemite Valley Visitor
Center. The Holter family spent many summer vacations in Yosemite National Park, and Yosemite held a very special place in Chris’ heart.
This gift will support the return of native plants to Royal Arches
Meadow, create new exhibits at the Visitor Center, expand the Buffalo
Soldier mounted patrol education program, and the restoration of the
Olmsted Point vista viewing area.
The award is administered by:
The Yosemite Fund
155 Montgomery Street, Suite 1104
San Francisco, CA 94104
Contact: Bob Hansen, President
Telephone (415) 434-1782
Website www.yosemitefund.org
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THE CHRIS HOLTER YOUTH MEDIA SCHOLARSHIPS
 A grant of $2,500, was given to BAVC and the LGBT youth organization, LYRIC, to provide advanced training in digital audio and video, as well as one-on-one mentoring by an industry professional at BAVC The award was decided jointly by these two organizations after a written application process which sought to identify talented young people with potential and creativity. The recipients were: Caroline Le and Tyzea Brown.
LYRIC's mission is to build community and inspire positive social change through education enhancement, career training, health promotion, and leadership development with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth, their families, and allies of all races, classes, genders, and abilities. LYRIC envisions a diverse society where LGBTQQ youth are embraced for who they are and encouraged to be who they want to be. By working towards social justice and supporting young leaders, their families and allies, LYRIC is building a world that that honors, respects and appreciates LGBTQQ youth and their contributions.
Bay Area Video Coalition, or BAVC is a nonprofit media arts center. BAVC was launched in 1976 as a way to make emerging video technology accessible to independent mediamakers. Today, with that mission still at its core, BAVC provides video editing suites and a number of media services at subsidized rates to independent projects, trains hundreds of industry professionals each year in its workshops, teaches low-income youth to create media, and gives awards, residencies, and project completion grants to media artists.
| The award was administered jointly by BAVC and LYRIC. |
Bay Area Video Coalition
2727 Mariposa Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94110
Contact: Wendy Levy,
Director of Media Arts and Education
Telephone (415) 558-2170
Website www.bavc.org |
Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center
127 Collingwood Street, San Francisco, CA 94114
Contact: Todd Addams, Operations Manager
Telephone (415) 703-6150 ext. 14
Website www.lyric.org |
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THE CHRIS HOLTER FUND AT THE NEW JEWISH FILMMAKING PROJECT
 A $2500 annual gift was established by the foundation to support The New Jewish Filmmaking Project, a program of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, produced by Citizen Film. The NJFP gives a group of Bay Area teenagers the training, framework and resources to tell their own stories exploring what it means to be young and Jewish today. Participants in the program come from diverse social and economic backgrounds, including many first-generation immigrant families. Launched in 2001, the core activities of the NJFP include media literacy and 16mm film production classes, nine months mentorship on their collaborative film projects, and the world premiere of the completed films during the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival which takes place every summer.
 Citizen Film is an independent documentary production company dedicated
to telling personal stories with care and dignity. The company works
with community institutions to make and distribute films that foster
active participation in civic and cultural life. Citizen film works with
the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival to supervise the production of
the films made under the New Jewish Filmmaking Project.
 The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival promotes awareness, appreciation
and pride in the diversity of the Jewish people. Festival programs are
meant to create community and strengthen consciousness of Jewish
identity, history and culture; provide a dynamic and inclusive forum for
exploration of and dialog about the Jewish experience; and encourage independent filmmakers working with Jewish themes. We seek to build
bridges to other ethnic and religious communities. We promote respect
for the human rights and dignity of all people.
During the festival, the foundation also co-hosted (with the LGBT Alliance of the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation) a reception for filmmakers, SFJFF guests and board members at the home of Ron Merk, where filmmakers and guests mingled, networked, and enjoyed a wonderful selection of food, drink and great conversation. The popularity of the first reception resulted in the decision to make this an annual event for our foundation.
 The award is administered by:
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
145 Ninth Street, Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94103
Contact: Peter Stein, Executive Director
Telephone (415) 621-0556 ext. 304
Website www.sfjff.org
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An annual cash award of $1,000 was awarded to a first-time filmmaker in the S.T.A.N.D. program whose completed film was selected by the program supervisors as the best stand film in 2005. The money is to be used by the filmmaker for their film project. The S.T.A.N.D. Program's main goal is to provide Support, Training and Access For New Directors. An annual cash award of $1,500 was also given to the S.T.A.N.D. program to be utilized as needed within the program to help other S.T.A.N.D. filmmakers with special production expenses. The first year's prize was won by filmmaker Karim Scarlata for his comedy short film, “Larrylandia,” seen below receiving his check from Ron Merk.
The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley brings together poets, prose and screenplay writers for workshops and mentoring in the craft and the business of writing. The goal is to move writers closer to publication or production. The Screenwriting Program provides individual attention to screenwriters and filmmakers, helping them fine-tune their work-in-progress stories or screenplays into well-crafted scripts. Each year, the Chris Holter Screenwriting Scholarship Fund will assist an aspiring writer with a stipend to attend the workshop.
