Analog Cookbook & This Week in Experimental Film Fund
Iowa City, Iowa | Collective
Experimental, Documentary
We’re Analog Cookbook and This Week in Experimental–a rag tag team of filmmaker-artists who take a community-driven approach to filmmaking and believe that when we support one another we all succeed. We're fundraising to support our first ever 16mm film grant!
Analog Cookbook & This Week in Experimental Film Fund
Iowa City, Iowa | Collective
Experimental, Documentary
1 Campaigns | Iowa, United States
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We’re Analog Cookbook and This Week in Experimental–a rag tag team of filmmaker-artists who take a community-driven approach to filmmaking and believe that when we support one another we all succeed. We're fundraising to support our first ever 16mm film grant!
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Analog Cookbook and This Week in Experimental are proud to announce our first ever grant. This grant is designed to support the production of 16mm short films through a combination of cash and in-kind support.
Analog Cookbook is a film publication dedicated to analog filmmaking. Started by Kate E. Hinshaw in 2019, we have since produced 7 issues (with our 8th on the way) that cover everything from DIY recipes on how to develop film with mushrooms, cyanotype films, and how to modify old cameras, to thoughtful interviews and essays that grapple with analog film and grief, what it means to make 16mm work in the digital age, and environmentalism. What began as a quest to share hard to find analog filmmaking resources has grown into a community featuring artwork, essays, and darkroom recipes of over 150 artists and counting.
This Week in Experimental, is a weekly newsletter that shares opportunities, links to experimental media to watch for free online, and suggested readings. This project was started by Gabby Follett during the early days of COVID-19 lockdown in the US to share information with their experimental media students. It has since evolved into a public scholarship project housed on Substack, Instagram, and Discord designed to help experimental media artists and scholars share opportunities, tools, resources, and encouragement in a small, under-resourced area of media art.
About the Grant
We believe that despite the challenges that come with analog filmmaking, it should remain a living, breathing art form that is shared, taught, and passed on. We’re committed to nurturing a community where knowledge flows freely, voices are uplifted, and the tools to create on celluloid are made more accessible. This grant stems from this spirit—an offering to support filmmakers who are carving their stories into light and emulsion, one frame at a time.
This grant is designed to support the production of 16mm short films through a combination of cash and in-kind support. Behind the scenes we’ve partnered with Kodak Film Lab Atlanta and Moonshine Post to be able to grant the following:
☆ 5x 400ft rolls of Kodak Vision3 7219
☆ Free film processing and scanning
☆ Color grading services from Moonshine Post
☆ Film Festival/distribution strategy support from Analog Cookbook
☆ A cash grant to get the ball rolling
Let's talk numbers
Contributions go directly towards our grant. Proceeds alongside in-kind support will power our grant in our first year (Fall 2025-Fall 2026), though we hope to exceed our goal and raise enough money to power this grant through the end of 2027.
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Film Processing and Scanning: $5400
We've got some of these costs covered through the generous in-kind support from Kodak Film Lab Atlanta. This number ensures that we're able to cover the rest of it.
Cash Prize: $4,000
Seed money to get started, $1000 each in cash to our grantees. This covers 4 grants.
Admin Costs: $4000
There are a lot of costs that come with running a grant! This ensures that everyone gets paid, including our jurors who should be compensated for their time reviewing applications.
16mm Film: $2400
We've got enough film for our first round of grants from our personal film fridges, but this helps cover future grantees.
Incentives designed to support filmmakers
We've put together some great incentives--all aimed towards filmmakers, photographers, and artists who shoot film (or want to)! From issues of Analog Cookbook to workshops and film strategy sessions we want to help you make your film.
Our incentives fall into three different categories:
☆ Knowledge sharing ☆
Analog Cookbook has a wealth of knowledge from our contributors. Every issue includes recipes, tutorials, and essays all about process, concept, and execution.
☆ Mentorship ☆
Behind the scenes our team is a group of 5 who write, direct, exhibit, shoot, curate and program films. See our team page for specific areas of expertise. We're providing workshops and strategy sessions designed to help you wherever you are in your process.
- Want to screen your film in a gallery or festival? We can help with that.
- Need help figuring out processing film with different plants? Yup! Can do.
- Want to DP on film, but oh my god this one time I was loading film and all the film fell out in the changing bag and I freaked out and it took me an hour to get the film back on the core?...yeah we've been there.
☆ Paying it forward ☆
Choose to fund a filmmaker and know that that money will go directly towards a cash grant for our filmmakers.
Why do all this?
Why not? Starting a grant is a little nuts, we'll be the first to admit it. And many grant-gifting organizations run on a lot more funds than our little operation. We do this out of the love for our community, the love for film, and because this is the kind of grant we wish was around when we were starting out.
How you can help:
✿ Make a contribution, it's cash deductible! With generous fiscal sponsorship from Queer Fear Film Festival, you can get that sweet write off.
✿ In-Kind Support: Do you run a film lab? Have film sitting in the fridge? Boy, do we want to be friends. If you're able to offer free or discounted services or film, please let us know.
✿ Smash that follow button: The more followers on Seed&Spark the more we're able to help our future grantees!
✿ Share, share, share! Share this campaign on your socials, in your newsletter, heckin' bob print it out and turn it into a flyer. However you can help get the word out, helps us!
It takes a village, and our amazing community partners have provided in-kind support that has helped bring this grant to life. We've planted the seed, now we need your help to grow it.
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Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Film Processing + Scanning
Costs $5,400
Let's help filmmakers finish the film! This will support the scanning and processing costs of 4 grantees.
16mm Film
Costs $2,400
Help us get film in the hands of filmmakers!
Cash Grant
Costs $4,000
Seed money to help our filmmakers get started
Admin Costs
Costs $4,000
Funds to go towards managing the grant and ensuring that everyone gets paid.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Kate E. Hinshaw
Editor-in-chief, Analog Cookbook
Kate E. Hinshaw (She/Her) is a filmmaker, artist, and cinematographer whose work draws from personal experience and uses analog filmmaking techniques to explore themes of memory, mythology, southern folklore, and obscured narratives lost in history. Her films have screened at festivals including SXSW, Rooftop Films, New Orleans Film Festival, Denver Film Festival, and Indie Memphis. In 2019, she started Analog Cookbook as a way to build community with other analog filmmakers and share resources openly. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Cinematic Arts Department at the University of Iowa.
Gabby Follett
Creator of This Week in Experimental, editor at Analog Cookbook
Gabby Follett (Any Pronouns) is an Experimental Media Artist who makes films, videos, prints, and expanded cinema works that explore issues of race, migration, sexual orientation, gender identity, and ability status. Gabby is also an Assistant Professor of Film Production at the University of Rhode Island and the creator of This Week in Experimental, a weekly newsletter focused on providing resources to experimental artists seeking creative, intellectual, and exhibition opportunities.
Andi Avery
Editor at Analog Cookbook
Andi Avery (they/them) is a multimedia artist & filmmaker currently based in NYC. Their narrative film credits include Leaving Charlie and Eighty Twenty, both based on their experiences as a queer person and sex worker, and both shot by a crew comprised entirely of women and gender expansive folks. Their most recent film, Mishpucha, was awarded the Black Family Film Prize in 2023 and is currently in post-production. Andi’s film work has been exhibited at Atlanta Film Festival, Nitehawk Cinema, and London International Film Festival, among others.
Hogan Seidel
Editor at Analog Cookbook
Hogan Seidel (they/them) is a filmmaker and photographer based in Boston, Massachusetts. Their practice explores the intersections of eco-praxis, identity, and queer liberation, with a particular emphasis on experimental moving image and analog photographic processes. Working across Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm film, as well as medium and large format photography, Seidel employs techniques including photochemical abstraction, eco processing, botanical collage, cyanotype, optical printing, found footage, and in-camera editing. They are currently a studio resident at the Boston Center for the Arts through 2028 and are represented by Fountain Street Gallery in Boston. Seidel also serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Photography at Simmons University.
Tiffany Albright
Filmmaker and Founder of Queer Fear Film Festival
Tiffany Albright (She/Her) is a deviant queer writer and filmmaker based in Greensboro, NC. Her work centers women and LGBTQ+ stories, and explores identity, gender, sexuality, and class in genre settings from horror to romance. She is the founder of Queer Fear Film Festival, The Crackling Quill, and Lunar Kitchen Films.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Analog Cookbook and This Week in Experimental are proud to announce our first ever grant. This grant is designed to support the production of 16mm short films through a combination of cash and in-kind support.
Analog Cookbook is a film publication dedicated to analog filmmaking. Started by Kate E. Hinshaw in 2019, we have since produced 7 issues (with our 8th on the way) that cover everything from DIY recipes on how to develop film with mushrooms, cyanotype films, and how to modify old cameras, to thoughtful interviews and essays that grapple with analog film and grief, what it means to make 16mm work in the digital age, and environmentalism. What began as a quest to share hard to find analog filmmaking resources has grown into a community featuring artwork, essays, and darkroom recipes of over 150 artists and counting.
This Week in Experimental, is a weekly newsletter that shares opportunities, links to experimental media to watch for free online, and suggested readings. This project was started by Gabby Follett during the early days of COVID-19 lockdown in the US to share information with their experimental media students. It has since evolved into a public scholarship project housed on Substack, Instagram, and Discord designed to help experimental media artists and scholars share opportunities, tools, resources, and encouragement in a small, under-resourced area of media art.
About the Grant
We believe that despite the challenges that come with analog filmmaking, it should remain a living, breathing art form that is shared, taught, and passed on. We’re committed to nurturing a community where knowledge flows freely, voices are uplifted, and the tools to create on celluloid are made more accessible. This grant stems from this spirit—an offering to support filmmakers who are carving their stories into light and emulsion, one frame at a time.
This grant is designed to support the production of 16mm short films through a combination of cash and in-kind support. Behind the scenes we’ve partnered with Kodak Film Lab Atlanta and Moonshine Post to be able to grant the following:
☆ 5x 400ft rolls of Kodak Vision3 7219
☆ Free film processing and scanning
☆ Color grading services from Moonshine Post
☆ Film Festival/distribution strategy support from Analog Cookbook
☆ A cash grant to get the ball rolling
Let's talk numbers
Contributions go directly towards our grant. Proceeds alongside in-kind support will power our grant in our first year (Fall 2025-Fall 2026), though we hope to exceed our goal and raise enough money to power this grant through the end of 2027.
Film Processing and Scanning: $5400
We've got some of these costs covered through the generous in-kind support from Kodak Film Lab Atlanta. This number ensures that we're able to cover the rest of it.
Cash Prize: $4,000
Seed money to get started, $1000 each in cash to our grantees. This covers 4 grants.
Admin Costs: $4000
There are a lot of costs that come with running a grant! This ensures that everyone gets paid, including our jurors who should be compensated for their time reviewing applications.
16mm Film: $2400
We've got enough film for our first round of grants from our personal film fridges, but this helps cover future grantees.
Incentives designed to support filmmakers
We've put together some great incentives--all aimed towards filmmakers, photographers, and artists who shoot film (or want to)! From issues of Analog Cookbook to workshops and film strategy sessions we want to help you make your film.
Our incentives fall into three different categories:
☆ Knowledge sharing ☆
Analog Cookbook has a wealth of knowledge from our contributors. Every issue includes recipes, tutorials, and essays all about process, concept, and execution.
☆ Mentorship ☆
Behind the scenes our team is a group of 5 who write, direct, exhibit, shoot, curate and program films. See our team page for specific areas of expertise. We're providing workshops and strategy sessions designed to help you wherever you are in your process.
- Want to screen your film in a gallery or festival? We can help with that.
- Need help figuring out processing film with different plants? Yup! Can do.
- Want to DP on film, but oh my god this one time I was loading film and all the film fell out in the changing bag and I freaked out and it took me an hour to get the film back on the core?...yeah we've been there.
☆ Paying it forward ☆
Choose to fund a filmmaker and know that that money will go directly towards a cash grant for our filmmakers.
Why do all this?
Why not? Starting a grant is a little nuts, we'll be the first to admit it. And many grant-gifting organizations run on a lot more funds than our little operation. We do this out of the love for our community, the love for film, and because this is the kind of grant we wish was around when we were starting out.
How you can help:
✿ Make a contribution, it's cash deductible! With generous fiscal sponsorship from Queer Fear Film Festival, you can get that sweet write off.
✿ In-Kind Support: Do you run a film lab? Have film sitting in the fridge? Boy, do we want to be friends. If you're able to offer free or discounted services or film, please let us know.
✿ Smash that follow button: The more followers on Seed&Spark the more we're able to help our future grantees!
✿ Share, share, share! Share this campaign on your socials, in your newsletter, heckin' bob print it out and turn it into a flyer. However you can help get the word out, helps us!
It takes a village, and our amazing community partners have provided in-kind support that has helped bring this grant to life. We've planted the seed, now we need your help to grow it.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Film Processing + Scanning
Costs $5,400
Let's help filmmakers finish the film! This will support the scanning and processing costs of 4 grantees.
16mm Film
Costs $2,400
Help us get film in the hands of filmmakers!
Cash Grant
Costs $4,000
Seed money to help our filmmakers get started
Admin Costs
Costs $4,000
Funds to go towards managing the grant and ensuring that everyone gets paid.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Kate E. Hinshaw
Editor-in-chief, Analog Cookbook
Kate E. Hinshaw (She/Her) is a filmmaker, artist, and cinematographer whose work draws from personal experience and uses analog filmmaking techniques to explore themes of memory, mythology, southern folklore, and obscured narratives lost in history. Her films have screened at festivals including SXSW, Rooftop Films, New Orleans Film Festival, Denver Film Festival, and Indie Memphis. In 2019, she started Analog Cookbook as a way to build community with other analog filmmakers and share resources openly. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Cinematic Arts Department at the University of Iowa.
Gabby Follett
Creator of This Week in Experimental, editor at Analog Cookbook
Gabby Follett (Any Pronouns) is an Experimental Media Artist who makes films, videos, prints, and expanded cinema works that explore issues of race, migration, sexual orientation, gender identity, and ability status. Gabby is also an Assistant Professor of Film Production at the University of Rhode Island and the creator of This Week in Experimental, a weekly newsletter focused on providing resources to experimental artists seeking creative, intellectual, and exhibition opportunities.
Andi Avery
Editor at Analog Cookbook
Andi Avery (they/them) is a multimedia artist & filmmaker currently based in NYC. Their narrative film credits include Leaving Charlie and Eighty Twenty, both based on their experiences as a queer person and sex worker, and both shot by a crew comprised entirely of women and gender expansive folks. Their most recent film, Mishpucha, was awarded the Black Family Film Prize in 2023 and is currently in post-production. Andi’s film work has been exhibited at Atlanta Film Festival, Nitehawk Cinema, and London International Film Festival, among others.
Hogan Seidel
Editor at Analog Cookbook
Hogan Seidel (they/them) is a filmmaker and photographer based in Boston, Massachusetts. Their practice explores the intersections of eco-praxis, identity, and queer liberation, with a particular emphasis on experimental moving image and analog photographic processes. Working across Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm film, as well as medium and large format photography, Seidel employs techniques including photochemical abstraction, eco processing, botanical collage, cyanotype, optical printing, found footage, and in-camera editing. They are currently a studio resident at the Boston Center for the Arts through 2028 and are represented by Fountain Street Gallery in Boston. Seidel also serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Photography at Simmons University.
Tiffany Albright
Filmmaker and Founder of Queer Fear Film Festival
Tiffany Albright (She/Her) is a deviant queer writer and filmmaker based in Greensboro, NC. Her work centers women and LGBTQ+ stories, and explores identity, gender, sexuality, and class in genre settings from horror to romance. She is the founder of Queer Fear Film Festival, The Crackling Quill, and Lunar Kitchen Films.