However, we invite you to browse the database below.
For more information, please contact Sy Rotter, Documentaries International, 1800 K St., NW, Suite 1120, Washington D.C. 20006. (202)429-9320.
The Jacques Salmanowitz Program for Moral Courage in Film
The Jacques Salmanowitz Program for Moral Courage in Film is devoted to encouraging the production of films concerned with acts of moral courage, providing role models for youth world-wide.
The Salmanowitz Program serves as a resource for independent filmmakers, university students, and faculty across the disciplines who wish to create documentaries that will inspire future generations.
The Program is named for Jacques Salmanowitz, a Swiss businessman, who was instrumental in bringing individuals trapped behind German lines in World War II to safety in Switzerland.
The Salmanowitz Program is established through a five-year grant which commenced September, 1999. The Program is sponsored by The Documentary Center at The George Washington University and made possible by a grant from the Documentaries International Film and Video Foundation, Washington, DC.
The grant establishes the Salmanowitz Professor who advises potential producers on the implementation of new documentary projects. Further, the grant supports the Salmanowitz Fellow, a graduate student from GWU's Department of History, who provides research and logistical support for the program.
The Salmanowitz Program offers the following resources and assistance to both professional and student filmmakers:
- Advice and Consultation
- The Program provides consultation on all phases of pre-production, production, and post-production to help guide producers to successful completion of their films.
- Funding
Database
- The
Salmanowitz Program has developed a database of over 400 potential funders
that provide support for films on the subject of moral courage. This
database includes information from the most current foundation registries.
Click here to search the database. - Production
Clearinghouse
- The Program provides access to producers and production organizations within the Washington metropolitan area that have agreed to work with the Salmanowitz Program to bring film projects through the financing, production and distribution process.
- Film
Archive
- The Salmanowitz Program maintains an extensive list of completed films and their distributors so that potential producers may develop projects that are distinct and unique.
- Distribution
- The
Salmanowitz Program is particularly interested in placing these new
and important films on moral courage in high school classrooms around
the world. We will work with school officials to bring completed projects
to classroom audiences in an effort to encourage all students to recognize
that they, too, have the ability to make a positive difference.
The databases and archive mentioned above will be available for on-line use shortly.
If you are a filmmaker of any kind - accomplished or aspiring - contact us with your story ideas for films in moral courage - at any phase of production - from concept to post-production. Let us work with you.
