The Tribeca Film Institute's second annual Tfi New Media Fund is awarding a total of $400,000 in grants to an assortment of interactive, non-fiction, transmedia projects. They range from $50K to $100K apiece, with funding effective immediately. List of recipients below. The selection committee is comprised of notables in the world of technology, film, media and the arts: Frank Rose (author of The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories), Steve Coulson (Creative Director, Campfire), Andrew Devigal (Multimedia Editor, The New York Times), Marc Schiller (Founder of Wooster Collective and CEO of Bond Strategy and Influence), Ian Inaba (Executive Director of Citizen Engagement Lab), Aina Abiodun (Founder and CEO, StoryCode), and Lina Srivastava (Strategist, Activist, Transmedia Designer, Writer). The grant recipients are: Alma, A Tale of Violence Key Participants: Miquel Dewever-Plana, Isabelle...
- 8/22/2012
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
NEW YORK -- The 10th annual Urbanworld Vibe Film Festival announced $45,000 in prizes Monday for several winning projects. Florian Gaag's German/Polish gang drama Wholetrain took home best narrative feature honors and a $5,000 award provided by Lionsgate. American Blackout, Ian Inaba's study of African-American voter suppression, was named best narrative documentary feature and awarded $10,000 from the Wal-Mart Voices of Color Film Series. Blackout earned a special jury prize this year at the Sundance Film Festival. The audience award at this year's fest, which marked Urbanworld's new trial partnership and co-branding venture with Vibe magazine, went to Matt Ruskin and Scott K. Rosenberg's Word.Life: The Hip Hop Project. Executive producer Bruce Willis' docu follows nearly four years of a music-based program dedicated to helping New York City youths. The filmmakers were awarded $10,000 in Kodak film stock.
- 6/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- This year Ioncinema.com is covering the 2006 edition of the Sundance Film Festival Live from Park City, Utah. We’ll be on hand to cover the festival, and while we won’t be able to cover everything from A to Z: here is a comprehensive beforehand look at the selections in each of the festival’s sections. (Note: To access individual preview pages, simply click on the links below) January 19th to the 28th, 2006Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('January 19, 2006'); Docu Competition"American Blackout," Ian Inaba's assessment of the career of U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and the purported suppression of the black vote historically and in the 2004 election in Florida and Ohio. "Crossing Arizona," Joseph Mathew's mosaic of human stories enmeshed in Arizona's illegal immigration crisis. "God Grew Tired of Us," Christopher Quinn and Tom Walker's account of the culture shock that hits four Sudanese
- 1/17/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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