First Look Media’s documentary unit, Field of Vision, has announced a new fellowship. A press release also revealed the year-long, collaborative program’s 2018’s fellows, and three of four of them are women. Designed to support filmmakers in achieving their long-term artistic goals, the fellowship will offer its participants assistance with “creating a framework for idea development, creative support, and a grant,” and Field of Vision will present workshops on topics such as research and legal issues.
The 2018 female fellows are Lyric R. Cabral, Michelle Latimer, and Garret Bradley. They were selected from filmmakers who had collaborated with Field of Vision over the last three years.
Cabral was awarded an Emmy for her directorial debut, “(T)error.” The doc screened at more than 50 festivals.
Latimer’s credits include Viceland docuseries “Rise” and Sundance short “Choke.” She’s currently working on a film adaptation of the best-selling novel “The Inconvenient Indian.”
Bradley’s debut feature doc, “Below Dreams,” debuted at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. Her short “Alone” premiered at Sundance 2017 and took home a Jury Award from the fest.
“We are establishing this fellowship program to support filmmakers beyond project-based commissions, and to invite artists to collaborate in our editorial process,” said Field of Vision executive producer and “Citizenfour” helmer Laura Poitras.
Executive producer Charlotte Cook added, “We have wanted to support filmmakers in as many ways as possible since the beginning of Field of Vision. We are so thrilled to create these fellowships to be able to collaborate further with these incredible artists, all of whom are visionaries whose work is at the forefront of exploring the ways of combining art and storytelling and expanding the form.”
Check out more about the first fellows below with bios courtesy of Field of Vision.
Director Lyric R. Cabral creates investigative work that exposes new information for the public record. Cabral’s directorial debut (T)errorwon an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary and was hailed by Variety as “a vital exposé”. (T)error has screened at more than 50 film festivals worldwide and is now available on Netflix. Lyric is a recipient of the International Documentary Association’s Emerging Filmmaker Award and has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. A current Rockwood/ Just Films fellow, Lyric is a former Sundance Women in Film fellow and a veteran of Sundance Institute’s Edit Lab and Creative Producing Lab. Prior to making films, Lyric worked as an editorial photojournalist; her photography was recently on exhibit in Gordon Parks: The Making of An Argument at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.
Recent Field of Vision film: The Rashomon Effect (in production)
Michelle Latimer (Métis/Algonquin) is a Toronto-based writer, director, activist, and actor. Her body of work includes Choke (Sundance 2011), which received a Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Honorable Mention in International Short Filmmaking and was chosen as one of TIFF Canada’s Top Ten in 2012; The Underground (TIFF 2014); Nimmikaage (Oberhausen 2016); the feature-length documentary ALIAS, which was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award; and the Viceland docuseries Rise (Sundance 2017). Michelle is currently working on her first dramatic feature The Freedom Project, adapting the bestselling novel The Inconvenient Indian (HBO/NFB) for screen, and being the showrunner for the series Red Nation Rising, which is in development for Sienna. She has programmed for ImagineNATIVE, Hot Docs Film Festival, and the Dawson City International Short Film Festival.
Recent Field of Vision film: Nuuca (TIFF 2017, Sundance 2018).
Garrett Bradley is a New Orleans-based filmmaker. Her debut feature documentary, Below Dreams, premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. Her work has been exhibited in several prominent venues, including the Getty Museum, Hammer Museum, Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rooftop Films, New Orleans Film Festival, Hot Docs, and SXSW. Her short film Alone (Sundance 2017), which was released as part of the New York Times’s Op-Docs series, won a Sundance Jury Award and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. She has received fellowships from the Sundance Institute, Ford Foundation, and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Garrett is also the co-founder of Creative Council, an artist-led afterschool program that helps high school students develop strong portfolios and applications for college. She currently teaches filmmaking at Loyola University.
Recent Field of Vision films: Like (SXSW 2016), The Earth is Humming (to be released)
