More good news for female filmmakers at Sundance: Women In Film, Los Angeles awarded over $33,000 in cash and in kind-grants at “Unstoppable — The Road to Yes,” its 9th Annual Women in Film Sundance Filmmakers Panel discussion. The panel featured filmmakers and media makers including Liz Garbus (Director/Producer, What Happened, Miss Simone?), Kim Longinotto (Director/Producer/Cinematographer, Dreamcatcher), and Lois Vossen (Founding & Deputy Executive Producer, Independent Lens). The $33,000 will go towards a number of female-driven projects.
The 2015 WIF/CalmDown Productions Grant, decided by a jury of educators, filmmakers, and artists, was awarded to Stella Kyriakopoulos for VOLTA, a 12-minute short about the tragic aftermath of a fallen economy in Greece and how it affects a mother and daughter. The grant translates into $5,000 cash from Women In Film and CalmDown Productions, Inc.; 5,000
feet of film stock; and $1,000 worth of budgeting and scheduling
software.
The jury selected Kitty Green as the recipient of the WIF Special Recognition
Grant for her short film, The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana
Baiul, which tells the story of little girls in war-torn Ukraine auditioning to play Oksana Baiul, the former Olympic figure skating champion. Green will receive $1,000 cash from WIF, plus $1,000 worth
of budgeting and scheduling software.
The 2015 recipients of WIF’s Documentary Grant, established to
recognize and award a deserving female documentarian in the Sundance Film
Festival Program, are Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcaliffe for their collaboration on (T)ERROR, an examination of the U.S.’s so-called ‘War on Terror.’ The pair will be provided with $5,000 cash from WIF, plus $1,000 worth of budgeting and scheduling software.
Ilinca
Calugareanu, filmmaker of Chuck Norris vs Communism, and Louise Osmond,
filmmaker of Dark Horse, were both presented with WIF Grants in the amount $1,000.
