"" 19 U.S. ~ilm ~fstivals Rf(fivf $)00,000 from A(adfmy HEATS Up ACADEMY The Academy has allocated $300,000 to 19 U.S. film festivals for calendar year 2006 ,.. programming. / 0 car-winning screenwriter Two additional festivals, the Los Angeles Fra9k Pierson, the immediate past Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival, have president of the Academy, joined received $50,000 each under a speCial mUlti-year producer Martin Elfand, executive grant program designed to give them assurance Dick Shepherd and film editor Dede of funding for long-term projects. Allen in November for a special The 19 festivals will receive grants 30th anniversary screening of the ranging from $4,000 to $30,000. A complete listing of grants is available at 1975 drama "Dog Day Afternoon." oscars.org/grants/fllm....grants.html. earned an Academy The Festival Grants Program was A ward nomination for the role of established by the Academy in 1999 and to Sonny, who, on a hot summer day, date has made 123 grants to mm festivals. attempts to hold up a bank for a quick score to pay for his male lover's sex-change operation. Los AnCJflfs ~ilm ~fstival Instead, his heist goes miserably Is thf Sf(ond to Rf(fiVf wrong, turning into a live television )-Yfar A(adfmy Grant event that transfixes . Directed by and The Los Angeles Film Festival is the produced by Martin Bregman and second major U.S. festival to benefit from last Elfand, "Dog Day Afternoon" won year's expansion of festival funding by the Academy Foundation. an Oscar for writing (original The festival will receive $50,000 from the screenplay) for Pierson. Academy in 2006 and $50,000 a year for the The film also earned Academy next two years, for a total of $150,000. Award nominations for leading Last year, the Telluride Film Festival in actor (pacino), actor in a supporting Colorado was the first to receive this special role (Chris Sarandon), directing fllllding from the Academy. "It's a way for us to help a festival secure (Lumet), mm editing (Allen) and a sturdy foundation for a project. If a festival Best Picture (Bregman, Elfand). knows that the fimding will continue to This screening featured a new print support the project over a number of years, it from the Academy Film Archive. can afford to take a few more chances," said Festival Grants Committee Chair Gale Anne Hurd. "We'll add a third festival next year and then step back and take a look at the idea to [1] EXECUTIVE DICK SHEPHERD, WHO OVER­ see if we want to continue in future years." SAW "DOG DAY" FOR WARNER BROS. The Los Angeles Festival has received grants [2] PRODUCER MARTIN ELFAND. from the Academy before, but under a different [3] ACADEMY IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT name. In 2001 , the then-named IFP West/Los FRANK PIERSON RECEIVED AN OSCAR FOR HIS ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY OF Angeles Film Festival received $20,000, and in "DOG DAY AFTERNOON." 2003 it was given a $25,000 grant. [4]"DOG DAY" FILM EDITOR (AND ACADEMY GOVERNOR) DE DE ALLEN. JUNE 2006 LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL

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