Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

9/1/2001 - 3/31/2002

Funding Totals

$60,000.00 (approved)
$60,000.00 (awarded)


Carville: Secret World, Silent People

FAIN: GN-26199-01

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (Brooklyn, NY 11201-8301)
John L. Wilhelm (Project Director: February 2001 to October 2002)

Scripting for a 60-minute documentary film on the history of the Carville, Louisiana, leprosy hospital, its patients, their loss of civil liberties, and the efforts to control the spread of leprosy in the United States.