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THE CHRIS HOLTER FUND AT THE NEW JEWISH FILMMAKING PROJECT
 The New Jewish Filmmaking Program at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival will receive its third annual $2500 cash grant for this wonderful program which matches high school students with professional filmmakers to create a short film about some aspect of Jewish life and culture. “Gary’s Story,” is the third short film in a triptych called As Old as Our Eyes: a handsomely crafted, intimate documentary about and co-directed by immigrant Jewish teenagers from the former Soviet Union. The large younger generation of Jewish immigrants who came to the US as children, in the decade following Perestroika, is now coming of age. As Old As Our Eyes tells their story, from their own point of view.
 The New Jewish Filmmaking Program is supervised by Producer/Director, Sam Ball for Citizen Film. Sam's work has screened on public television in the US and abroad, and has been showcased a t prestigious independent film venues around the world including the Pompidou Center in Paris, NY MoMA and other major museums, cinematheques and film festivals. Two of his films screened at the Sundance Film Festival and received Golden Gate Awards at the San Francisco International Film Festival. His documentaries include three portraits of MacArthur Award winners: "Pleasures of Urban Decay," about cartoonist Ben Katchor; "A Bridge of Books," about Aaron Lansky, founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, and "Zimbabwe Wheel," about Ralph Hotchkiss, who trains wheelchair riders in developing countries to make their own chairs from available materials.
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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THE CHRIS HOLTER FIRST-TIME FILMMAKER AWARD
Film Arts Foundation will receive its third consecutive grant from the foundation, to provide a $1000 cash award to the filmmaker who's project in the S.T.A.N.D. program is judged the best. S.T.A.N.D is an acronym for Support, Training and Access for New Directors.
 The awards is administered by:
145 Ninth Street, #101, San Francisco, CA 94103
Contact: Eric Hayashi, Executive Director
Telephone (415) 552-8760 x 302
Website www.filmarts.org
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THE SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
 The San Francisco International Film Festival, celebrating it's 50th Anniversary, will receive a annual grant from our foundation, in memory of and honoring the life and work of San Francisco native, teacher and filmmaker, Chris Holter. The Chris Holter Humor In Film Award will provide a $2500 cash prize to the filmmaker whose film (short, documentary or feature, in any genre or technique, including animation) provides the most humorous and life-affirming portrayal of the human condition. Administered by The Metro Theatre Center Foundation, with funds from the Ora A. Holter Family Trust and The Chris Holter-Ron Merk Family Fund, the award will be decided by audience ballot, and be presented as part of the Golden Gate Awards.
39 Mesa Street, Suite 110, The Presidio
San Francisco, CA 94129
Contact: Graham Leggat, Executive Director
Telephone (415) 561-5039
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THE MADCAT WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
 The MadCat Women's International Film Festival will receive its first grant from the foundation, to provide a $1000 cash award to the film which portrays the most positive women's story dealing with issues of self-worth, inner strength and personal empowerment. The “Chris Holter-You Go, Girl! Award” will be presented at the closing night festivities by Metro Theater Center Board of Directors member, Carole Deutch.
 MadCat is the brainchild of Ariella Ben-Dov, the festival founder. Ariella is also a director, film maker and producer who studied film at Hampshire College and coordinates conferences at Sundance. Because women's stories and films made by women were not getting sufficiently programmed in film festivals, Ariella launched this all-volunteer, labor-of-love-supported festival.
 The MadCat Women’s International Film Festival seeks to exhibit provocative and visionary works that are original in their use of film and video media. The goal is to is to emphasize innovative works by women that challenge the use of sound and image and explore notions of of new notions of visual storytelling.
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The award is administered by
Madcat Film Festival
639 Steiner Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
Attention: Ariella Ben-Dov, Executive Director
Telephone (415) 436-9523
Website www.madcatfilmfestival.org
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