Organizations Filed Purposes:
Produce & distribute educational media.
FHP Program Summary for Schedule OIn 2020, The Free History Project, Inc. (FHP) provided production consultations to independent documentary filmmakers, including Tiffany Schlain, Lisa Rovner, Christina DiPasquale, Sarah Friedland, Yony Leyser, and many others. Consultations focused on documentary filmmaking in general as well as specific topics such as fundraising, archival research, story support, and distribution.In addition, FHP spoke with students at colleges and universities about documentary filmmaking and live cinema. These presentations were at schools including Bard, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and NYU Abu Dhabi. As far as screenings and performances went, 2020 began much as usual, with shows of A Thousand Thoughts, a live cinema collaboration with the Kronos Quartet. The piece premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2018 and has since engaged audiences in England, Greece, Australia, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, and across the United States. 2019 was an impactful performance year, and demand remained strong at the start of 2020. FHP also presented a screening of the short piece Don't Call Me Gay Zelig about Jim Fouratt in February 2020. But by March, of course, essentially all screenings and other in-person events were cancelled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With in-person events on hold indefinitely through most of 2020, the organization continued developing The Oldest Person, a feature film weaving together portraits of the people who hold the Guinness World Record for being the oldest person alive. The organization also continued research and some remote production on the upcoming project 32 Sounds, a live cinema piece slated to premiere in 2022. FHP also live-streamed the short piece 7 Sounds via the Headlands Center for the Arts and IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam). FHP continued its long-running outreach efforts with the feature film, The Weather Underground, including through domestic, international, home and educational distribution. While screenings are typically a part of outreach efforts, the COVID-19 pandemic precluded in-person events in 2020. FHP also continued to distribute The Universal Language, a 30-minute, educational documentary on the history of the invented language Esperanto. FHP focused on distributing the film through direct downloads from a website created for the film, as well as educational collections and university libraries.Finally, though not exhaustively, FHP raised money for its annual grant for women, gender non-conforming, and trans filmmakers called The Sarah Jacobson Film Grant. Because it was such a hard year for independent filmmakers, FHP expanded the grant, awarding two artists with the SJFG rather than the usual one. FHP gave a grant of $2,500 each to filmmakers Masami Kawai and Rhea Storr.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Sam Green | Treasurer | 40 | $60,402 |
| Mark Decena | President | 0 | $0 |
| Carrie Lozano | Vice President | 0 | $0 |
| Conchita Lozano-Batista | Board Member | 0 | $0 |
| Charlotte Lagarde | Board Member | 0 | $0 |
| Chi-Hui Yang | Board Member | 0 | $0 |
| Alison Byrne Fields | Board Member | 0 | $0 |
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