Awards

Hosted by Tribeca Festival, 2026

“Dirty Days in Fun City” by Katie Heiserman and Elana Meyers was selected to participate in the Tribeca Creators Market + Work-in-Progress Showcase, which features a highly curated selection of storytellers pitching new feature, episodic and audio projects to an array of companies and influential industry leaders..

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Hosted by BRIC Arts Media, 2025-2026

“Dirty Days in Fun City” by Katie Heiserman and Elana Meyers was selected to participate in the BRIClab Film + TV Residency, which incubates innovative and ambitious documentary filmmakers working on short form, episodic, or feature length non-fiction films.

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Hosted by Ji.hlava IDFF, 2025

“Dirty Days in Fun City” by Katie Heiserman and Elana Meyers was selected to participate in the Ji.hlava New Visions Forum, a platform for the presentation of carefully selected documentary and audiovisual projects from Europe, U.S. and East & Southeast Asia at various stages of development, production, or post-production.

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Hosted by the Camden International Film Festival, 2024

“Survival Without Rent” by Katie Heiserman and Elana Meyers was selected to participate in “Shorts In-Session,” a works-in-progress initiative which presented short documentaries in-production and post-production to a panel of industry experts at the 2024 Camden International Film Festival (CIFF). “Shorts in Session” is managed by American Documentary, UFO (Untitled Filmmaker Org), and Chicken & Egg Films.

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Hosted by The Feminist Institute, 2024

“Survival Without Rent” by Katie Heiserman and Elana Meyers was selected to participate in the Feminist Institute’s archival creative works showcase as part of their annual Pop-Up Memory Lab. The showcase evening highlighted how artists and media-makers utilize archives to retell the past and activate the present.

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Hosted by the New York Preservation Archive Project, 2023-2024

Due to special grant funding from the Robert A. & Elizabeth R. Jeffe Foundation, the New York Preservation Archive Project has awarded Jeffe Fellowships since 2016 to support the work of documenting, preserving, celebrating, and educating about the history of historic preservation in New York City.

Hosted by New York University and the American Association for State and Local History, 2022

The NYU Cities Collaborative and the GSAS Public Humanities Initiative, with support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, launched the Summer Urban Public Humanities Fellowship for graduate students interested in exploring multi-disciplinary aspects of urban life and experience.

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