University of California, Los Angeles, Office of Contract and Grant Administration

The Documentary Film Legal Clinic (DFLC) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) provides pro bono legal services to independent documentary filmmakers by working with law students under the guidance of experienced media attorneys. DFLC also offers presentations, workshops, and interactive sessions through a variety of organizations on a wide range of legal issues that are relevant to independent filmmakers. This grant helps DFLC extend and expand its Documentary Film Festival Legal Education Program at various film festivals, as well as host events locally in Los Angeles, to conduct legal education programs for filmmakers.

The How Housing Matters to Families and Communities competitive research program is a multi-year effort to build a body of evidence to guide U.S. housing policy and practice. During the Great Recession and its aftermath, the nation’s 89,000 cities, counties, and other local entities lost large shares of their revenues and tax base because of plummeting housing sales and real estate transfer taxes. UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs will use this grant to examine how the housing market boom and bust affected local public finances and identify economic, fiscal, institutional and political features that make municipalities more resilient.

In support of the Research Network on Youth Mental Health Care (over three years).

In support of the design and development of a clinical information management system for the Research Network on Youth Mental Health Care (over three years).

To support research on coral reef ecosystems and species in aquarium organism collection areas in Indonesia and the South Pacific (over three years).