Girls Film School at The College of Santa Fe recently received a $12,000 grant from the Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its residential film and video empowerment program for young girls. GFS also received a $2,000 grant from the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities for the program's Visiting Artists & Scholars lecture series. The $12,000 grant will allow GFS to train the college's female film students as mentors and train graduates of the 2000 GFS pilot program as assistant mentors. GFS2001 is a two-week residential program for 20 students from around the country on the basic concepts of writing, producing, acting, editing, film and video and web site design. The program ends with a public screening of the student's work at The Screen, the college's art house cinematheque located at the Garson Communications Center. GFS is committed to multicultural, multilevel participation with approximately 50% or more of the students representing Hispanic, Native American and other ethnic groups.
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