IndieCollect engaged in outreach and enlisted institutions including the UCLA Film and Television Archive,[1] Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman House, Anthology Film Archives, Library of Congress, and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to rescue film negatives from the vaults.
[3] For Solomon Northup's Odyssey, IndieCollect used crowdfunding to develop a print of the film created.
[3] [4][5][6][7][8][2] IndieCollect is working to assess 2,000 videotapes from Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) that were stored in poor conditions.
[1] The organization received a $200,000 challenge grant from the Ford Foundation in August 2014 to archive 6,000 films in three years.
With the grant, IndieCollect intends to create an index, an encyclopedia, and engage in identification-and-collection outreach.