Princess Grace Award
Graduate Film Scholarship, 2000
Additional Grants:
2006 Special Project Grant
2016 Special Project Grant
2022 Special Project Grant
2012 Professional Development Grant
2016 Professional Development Grant
2017 Professional Development Grant
2018 Professional Development Grant
2017 Flaherty Seminar Participant
2018 Flaherty Seminar Fellow
Mitch McCabe is a queer artist, filmmaker and educator whose work spans narrative, nonfiction and experimental film, mining themes of class, politics and identity grounded in their native Midwest. Their short and feature films have screened at Sundance, True/False, New Directors/New Films, Sheffield, Ann Arbor, Camden, Clermont-Ferrand, Winterhür, Edinburgh, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts and New York Film Festivals. Their feature HBO documentary “Youth Knows No Pain” screened at IDFA, Lincoln Center and AFI Silverdocs. A 2019 Sarah Jacobson awardee and past fellow of MacDowell and the Flaherty Seminar, McCabe’s work has been supported by MASS MoCA, NYSCA, Yaddo, LEF, Jerome and Djerassi Foundations. They received their BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College and their MFA from New York University. They live and work between Michigan and New York.
