Hammer Film Grants
BARBARA HAMMER LESBIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKING GRANT – QUEER | ART
The Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant is an annual grant that will be awarded to self-identified lesbians for making visionary moving-image art. Work can be experimental animation, experimental documentary, experimental narrative, cross-genre, or solely experimental. Applicants must be based in the U.S. This grant was established by Hammer in 2017 to give needed support to moving-image art made by lesbians. The grant is supported directly by funds provided by Hammer and administered through Queer|Art by lesbians for lesbians, with a rotating panel of judges.
BARBARA HAMMER AWARDS – THE QUEER CINEMA PROJECT, SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
The SFSU Queer Cinema Project supports creators of LGBTQ+ film through the annual Barbara Hammer Awards for SFSU undergraduate and graduate students. A faculty panel will select two applicants, each of whom will receive an award towards completion of an LGBTQ-themed film. All genres of film at any stage of production will be considered. Herself a SFSU graduate in Film (1975), Hammer sought to support the work of the next generation of LGBTQ+ student filmmakers.
BARBARA HAMMER FEMINIST FILM AWARD – ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL
Barbara Hammer was a filmmaker with a profound commitment to expressing a feminist point-of-view in her work. In 2020, filmmaker Lynne Sachs received the Grand Prize at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen for a film she made with and for Hammer. With funds from the prize, Lynne created this Ann Arbor Film Festival award for a work that best conveys Hammer’s passion for celebrating and examining the experiences of women. Qualifying work by artists of any gender will be considered.
BARBARA HAMMER ESTATE MATCHES GRANT FOR SFSU QUEER CINEMA PROJECT
“The Barbara Hammer Award and the challenge grant fit within her vision of encouraging other artists and filmmakers,” Burke said. “The School of Cinema and the Queer Cinema Project are vital parts of the University. To support them is an honor and a testament to the beginning of Barbara Hammer’s long career.”
The gift is a match to a 2018 challenge grant from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, which made an additional $25,000 grant to QCP in 2018. The Hammer estate’s $25,000 endowment and $2,000 cash gift, in combination with the Logan Foundation’s grants, amount to $77,000 in support of QCP.
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