2021 Nancy Mysel Grant Recipient Announced
The Film Noir Foundation is proud to announce the recipient of this year's $5,000 FNF/Nancy Mysel Legacy Grant—Ari Negovschi.
Ari Negovschi is the Media Preservation Graduate Assistant for the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is overseeing the preservation of the Perry Miller Adato film collection. (Ms. Adato was the first female director to receive an award from the Director's Guild of America for her 1978 film Georgia O'Keefe and whose subjects included Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso.)
She has worked at the Autry Museum as an Exhibition Media Production Assistant for the award-winning Floral Journey: Native North American Beadwork, the 52nd Chicago International Film Festival, and as an Audio/Video Transfer Specialist at a Chicago-based digitization firm. As a transfer specialist, she developed a passion for hidden collections while digitizing historically significant personal, industrial, and cultural films. Inspired by her time working on the Adato collection, Ari hopes to continue canonizing work by female directors through film preservation.
The FNF's charitable grant, funded by the Mysel family in honor of the late film preservationist Nancy Mysel who supervised FNF restorations of The Prowler and Cry Danger, grants funding to students enrolled in film restoration and preservation studies. The FNF congratulates Ari on her grant award!