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The Academic Film Archive of North America is a 501(c)(3) public benefit organization, incorporated in the State of California on March 5, 2001 for the purpose of acquiring, preserving, documenting and promoting academic film by providing an archive, resource, and forum for continuing scholarly advancement and public exhibition. No one (including Director Geoff Alexander) receives a salary, we spend no money on fundraising activities, and all of your donations contribute to activities relating to our mission. Our bylaws are available for your review.

We invite you to make a tax-deductible financial donation or you may also donate by sponsoring a film for digitization and uploading so everyone can view it free. Either way, we will send you a tax confirmation letter within one week of receiving your donation.

We now have archived more than 10,000 films, and due to space limitations we cannot take in more for the time being. If you'd like to donate films, we might be able to find another home for them. Please contact us.

Listed below are the people and institutions who have helped us through their generous donations this year (click here to see donors of past years). Our deepest thanks to you all.

2020 Donors:

Anne & Mark's Art Party

2019 Donors:

Anne Marie Sconberg Charitable Fund
Steven Katten
Don Klugman
Lemhi County, Idaho Historical Society (Hope Benedict)
Evan Mills

2018 donors:

Chaim Drizin
Sonya Friedman
Janet Gentile Herrero
Steven Katten
Don Klugman
Dan Reeser
Carsten Schmidt
Anne Marie Sconberg Charitable Fund

2017 donors:

Samuel Gasster
Dan & Karen Greenbank
Kevin Harrang
Steven Katten
Don Klugman
Andrew Lowd
Gay Mackintosh
William T. Plummer
Anne Marie Sconberg Charitable Fund
Bente Torjusen West

2016 donors:

Lisa Croner
Norma Jean Dupire
Karen H. Greenbank
Jerrold A. Hiura
Don Klugman
Andrew Lowd
Helen G. Mackintosh
Anne Marie Sconberg Charitable Fund
Thomas G. and Elaine C. Smith Family Trust

Corporate Donors

Adobe Systems American Association of Advertising Agencies Applied Materials Excellence in the Arts (a program of Arts Council Silicon Valley, for funding our appearance at the Association for Moving Image Archivists conference in Savannah, November, 2008, and Vancouver, November 2003)
Applied Materials (Matching Grant Program) Chieftain Royalty Company Gartenberg Media Enterprises GreenCine, Inc. (Jonathan Marlow) http://www.greencine.com/main
Johnson & Johnson Intuit, courtesy Patrick O'Connor
Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Giving Campaign) THE PROCESS of Santa Fe (NM) Veritas Software

Filmmaker Donors

The following filmmakers have generously donated all, or part of their collections to us:

Johanna Alemann John Barnes
Norman Bean
Dan Bessie
John Bishop(Media Generation)
Judith Bronowski
Ralph Buchsbaum (posthumous donation from daughter Vicki Pearse)
Peter Chermayeff
Jack and Fran Davidson (Davidson Films)
Bill Deneen
Ginny (Ray) Garner
Alvin Gordon (through Anne Mackenzie)
Milan and Shanta Herzog
Silas Johnson (the late Johnson's films were donated by Rod and Thia Brown)
Bob Kalsey
Isidore Mankofsky
Sid Milstein
Bert Salzman
Lois Siegel
Philip Stapp
Bert Van Bork
Clifford B. West

Institutional Donors

Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences American Film Institute Anaheim Public Library Anaheim Union High School District Appalachian State University Arts Council Silicon Valley (for funding of the History San Jose film series)
Auburn University Physics Dept. Austin College, Sherman, TX Castellano Family Foundation Central Texas Library System Creative Capacity Fund Dallas County Schools East Baton Rouge Parish (LA) Public Library Euclid Middle School, Littleton, CO
Fresno (CA) County Library Illinois State Museum Milpitas (CA) Public Library Minneapolis Public Library Natick (MA) Public Schools New York University Cinema Studies Department Normandale (MN) Community College Northern California Ecumenical Resource Center, San Jose,CA
Northern Kentucky U (Psychology Dept.) Palo Alto French Film Society Ringling College of Art and Design (Sarasota, FL) Raoul Wallenberg High School (San Francisco) Saint Martin's College, O'Grady Library, Lacey, WA
San Jose State University Satilla (GA) Library Shasta College Smithsonian Institution Somerset (NJ) County Library Spokane (WA) Public Schools Springfield (MA) Technical Community College Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive Suffolk (NY) Community College Sunrise Media (NY) UCLA Film Archive (Siskiyou County, CA. film library) University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
University of Northern Kentucky Watertown (NY) High School West Valley College, Saratoga, CA
Weston Woods Institute, Weston, CT (Morton Schindel)
Whitaker Foundation, St. Louis, MO