The Sffilm Documentary Film Fund (Dff) officially has deemed the 2021 winners.
Now in its 10th year, Dff awarded a total of $60,000 in grant funding to four documentary projects, in $15,000 increments each. The funding will support feature-length documentaries in post-production.
Per the official Sffilm announcement, the Dff supports “non-fiction films that are distinguished by compelling stories, intriguing characters, and an innovative visual approach.” The 2021 winners include “Against the Tide,” “Driver,” “Hummingbirds,” and “Weed Dreams.”
“In an incredibly competitive slate of submissions, we are thrilled with the winning selections,” Masashi Niwano, Sffilm Director of Artist Development, said. “All of these films explore the human experience in new and powerful ways that truly moved our jury to tears.”
Since its founding in 2011, the Sffilm Documentary Film Fund has distributed nearly $1 million to filmmakers across the nation. The 2021 Dff is made possible by support from Jennifer Hymes Battat and the Jenerosity Foundation.
The 2021 panelists...
Now in its 10th year, Dff awarded a total of $60,000 in grant funding to four documentary projects, in $15,000 increments each. The funding will support feature-length documentaries in post-production.
Per the official Sffilm announcement, the Dff supports “non-fiction films that are distinguished by compelling stories, intriguing characters, and an innovative visual approach.” The 2021 winners include “Against the Tide,” “Driver,” “Hummingbirds,” and “Weed Dreams.”
“In an incredibly competitive slate of submissions, we are thrilled with the winning selections,” Masashi Niwano, Sffilm Director of Artist Development, said. “All of these films explore the human experience in new and powerful ways that truly moved our jury to tears.”
Since its founding in 2011, the Sffilm Documentary Film Fund has distributed nearly $1 million to filmmakers across the nation. The 2021 Dff is made possible by support from Jennifer Hymes Battat and the Jenerosity Foundation.
The 2021 panelists...
- 1/27/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The International Documentary Association has unveiled 13 films receiving $850,000 in funds as part of its Enterprise Documentary Fund production grants.
The titles, announced Monday at the Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival in Washington, D.C. are “After Sherman,” “Aftershock,” “Body Parts,” “Driver,” “Free Renty: Lanier v. Harvard,” “Hossain,” “Magic & Monsters,” “Razing Liberty Square,” “Riotsville, USA,” “Testament,” “Untitled Amazon Documentary,” “Untitled Free Speech Project” and “Untitled Stasi.”
Nausheen Dadabhoy and Jialing Zhang were named as recipients of the Logan Elevate Grants of $25,000 each. Supported by The Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, the Logan Elevate Grants support emerging women filmmakers of color.
“With unique vision and voice, these grantees confront us with complicated truths about our pasts, presents and futures, recalling for me Maya Angelou’s famous quote: Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better,” said Carrie Lozano, who was director of the Ida Enterprise Documentary Fund...
The titles, announced Monday at the Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival in Washington, D.C. are “After Sherman,” “Aftershock,” “Body Parts,” “Driver,” “Free Renty: Lanier v. Harvard,” “Hossain,” “Magic & Monsters,” “Razing Liberty Square,” “Riotsville, USA,” “Testament,” “Untitled Amazon Documentary,” “Untitled Free Speech Project” and “Untitled Stasi.”
Nausheen Dadabhoy and Jialing Zhang were named as recipients of the Logan Elevate Grants of $25,000 each. Supported by The Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, the Logan Elevate Grants support emerging women filmmakers of color.
“With unique vision and voice, these grantees confront us with complicated truths about our pasts, presents and futures, recalling for me Maya Angelou’s famous quote: Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better,” said Carrie Lozano, who was director of the Ida Enterprise Documentary Fund...
- 10/19/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci have announced the grantees of this year’s Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund.
The grant, funded by Gucci, provides production finances for feature-length documentary films examining domestic and international social justice issues.
Eleven projects — Jon Sesrie-Goff’s “After Sherman,” Shaunak Sen’s “Airborne,” Sabaah Folayan’s “Ain’t I A Woman,” Débora Souza Silva’s “Black Mothers,” Nesa Azimi’s “Driver,” Jasiri, Moyo and Duke’s “Jasiri,” Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s “King Coal,” Zaynê Akyol’s “Rojek One Day,” Rachel Lears’ “To The End,” Sura Mallouh’s “Untitled” and Kate Stonehill’s “Untitled Privacy Project” — have been selected this year to receive a total of $140,000 in funding. A majority of these films were directed by womxn and explore female-led narratives or stories about environmental change.
The 2020 awardees were chosen by a jury composed of actor KiKi Layne, filmmaker Opal H. Bennett, film festival programmer Brett Story,...
The grant, funded by Gucci, provides production finances for feature-length documentary films examining domestic and international social justice issues.
Eleven projects — Jon Sesrie-Goff’s “After Sherman,” Shaunak Sen’s “Airborne,” Sabaah Folayan’s “Ain’t I A Woman,” Débora Souza Silva’s “Black Mothers,” Nesa Azimi’s “Driver,” Jasiri, Moyo and Duke’s “Jasiri,” Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s “King Coal,” Zaynê Akyol’s “Rojek One Day,” Rachel Lears’ “To The End,” Sura Mallouh’s “Untitled” and Kate Stonehill’s “Untitled Privacy Project” — have been selected this year to receive a total of $140,000 in funding. A majority of these films were directed by womxn and explore female-led narratives or stories about environmental change.
The 2020 awardees were chosen by a jury composed of actor KiKi Layne, filmmaker Opal H. Bennett, film festival programmer Brett Story,...
- 9/1/2020
- by Janet W. Lee
- Variety Film + TV
Forty eight projects have been chosen for the online edition,
Projects on climate change movement Extinction Rebellion and the Saudi Arabia women’s football team are among those selected for Sheffield Doc/Fest’s 2020 online marketplace MeetMarket.
The documentary market will take place via virtual video-conferencing from June 8-10 June, with the Alternate Realities Talent Market running on the same dates.
Among the 48 projects from 500 applications selected for the MeetMarket is Xr Beyond The Emergency from the UK. Directed by Maia Kenworthy and Elena Sánchez Bellot and produced by Katrina Mansoor, it centres on the ordinary people who are devoting...
Projects on climate change movement Extinction Rebellion and the Saudi Arabia women’s football team are among those selected for Sheffield Doc/Fest’s 2020 online marketplace MeetMarket.
The documentary market will take place via virtual video-conferencing from June 8-10 June, with the Alternate Realities Talent Market running on the same dates.
Among the 48 projects from 500 applications selected for the MeetMarket is Xr Beyond The Emergency from the UK. Directed by Maia Kenworthy and Elena Sánchez Bellot and produced by Katrina Mansoor, it centres on the ordinary people who are devoting...
- 4/14/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Updated with list of new fellows, 7 Am: Firelight Media has announced newest group of 12 Fellows selected for the 2019-21 Firelight Documentary Lab. Several of them will attend at the Documentary Lab’s 10th Anniversary Gala tonight in Harlem.
Here is the list of new fellows and their projects; read details of the program below:
Colleen Thurston
Drowned Land, Oklahoma is a land of scenic lakes, ideal for recreation and weekend getaways. But these lakes are man-made, a result of the federal government flooding private property and the forced displacement of the people who called the lands beneath home.
Dru Holley
Buffalo Soldiers of the Pacific Northwest is the story of African-American soldiers who served between the Civil War and the 20th century and their impact in the Pacific Northwest.
Emily Cohen Ibañez
In Fruits of Labor, a Mexican-American teenager dreams of graduating high school when increased Ice raids in her...
Here is the list of new fellows and their projects; read details of the program below:
Colleen Thurston
Drowned Land, Oklahoma is a land of scenic lakes, ideal for recreation and weekend getaways. But these lakes are man-made, a result of the federal government flooding private property and the forced displacement of the people who called the lands beneath home.
Dru Holley
Buffalo Soldiers of the Pacific Northwest is the story of African-American soldiers who served between the Civil War and the 20th century and their impact in the Pacific Northwest.
Emily Cohen Ibañez
In Fruits of Labor, a Mexican-American teenager dreams of graduating high school when increased Ice raids in her...
- 11/7/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
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