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Welcome to the Expo

51�� Staff — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:53:32 +0000

Schedule

There is no Expo Showcase this year, but we wanted to promote Expanding Communities partners programs. Using this tool, filmmakers can filter by program type, filmmaker type, and more to find resources that suit them best.

Soho Works

In partnership with, we are excited to extend a complimentary day pass to any Soho Works New York location. Soho Works is an international network of coworking spaces by Soho House, equipped with all the tools, tech and resources to help creative thinkers and businesses connect, collaborate, and grow. To coordinate your day pass, please complete and the team will be in touch.

How Do We Support our Creator Community: Expanding Communities Listening Session – Wednesday, Oct 4, 3pm

BREAKOUT DISCUSSION PROMPTS

LABS & FELLOWSHIPS
-What elements of labs/fellowships have been most impactful for you and why? For example – mentorship, funding, filmmaker education, project development, etc.
-What kind of labs have been helpful to you and what are some frustrations you have? What would be most impactful for you and why?

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
-What has been your experience with funding from nonprofit organizations?
-What type of funding has been most helpful for your projects/careers? (development grants, production grants, finishing grants, other resources, etc?)

DISCUSSION GUIDELINES

Take Space: Don��t be afraid to speak up! However, if sharing with a group is difficult for you, you can submit written comments via online form. If you have a disability and a group adjustment would help you participate, please inform your group facilitator.

Make Space: Be mindful of how much time you��re taking up. This is a collaborative discussion, and we want as many film and media creators as possible to participate.

Create a Culture of Respect and Inquiry: Please be respectful when offering suggestions or feedback. Some of the folks who run the filmmaker programs are in the room! You should still be honest, but keep in mind the goal of finding solutions, together.

It is natural to disagree during a discussion, and even disagree with organizations and their strategies. Again, please keep the discussion constructive and respectful.
Avoid assumptions about any member of the discussion or generalizations about social
groups. Do not ask individuals to speak for their (perceived) social group. Do not invalidate anyone��s experience.

Focus: Please stay on topic! There are many challenges filmmakers face, and we can��t possibly address them all in one session. If you are interested in discussing festivals, consider attending the Film Festival Alliance Listening Session tomorrow at 1pm.
Keep the Discussion Going!: Feel free to keep discussing during the Happy Hour following, and sign up to receive a Findings Summary from this event.

Owning It

Staff Admin — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000

About Owning It

Owning It, a program of 51��, is dedicated to supporting, connecting, and empowering women and non-binary creators and entrepreneurs who break down boundaries in the media and entertainment industry.

The program consists of thought leadership, an annual summit, accountability challenges, workshops, and more. Past Owning It guests include Rebecca Hall (Passing), Alice Wu (The Half of It), and Julie Deply (Two Days in Paris, The Before Trilogy, My Zoe).

Owning It provides an inclusive environment that expands and expresses a liberated movement for women and non-binary individuals as well as those that are our champions, advocates, and allies.

Accountability Challenges

Owning It hosts quarterly accountability challenges to take your pitch decks, loglines and elevator pitches to the next level by way of partnership support, mentorship, workshop and feedback from industry leaders. Subscribe to the Gotham Newsletter to hear when applications open for the next challenge!

Owning It Summit

Each year, during our annual summit, Owning It brings together women and non-binary filmmakers and entrepreneurs of all levels to share their experiences and expertise, learn new skills, and meet like-minded collaborators.

More with Owning It

Accountability Challenges

Through Owning It Accountability Challenges, we support women and non-binary creators and entrepreneurs as they complete their loglines, elevator pitches, pitch decks, and more. By providing opportunities to connect with others, hear feedback from industry leaders, and mentorship, participants walk away with the next steps needed to continue to grow their projects and careers.

Thought Leadership

Throughout the year, join Owning It for fireside chats and/or workshops with women and non-binary filmmakers and creators making an impact in their industry to hear about their experiences and gain insight into the film and media industry and how it can be applied to your own project and/or career.

Owning It Summit

Owning It brings together women and non-binary filmmakers and entrepreneurs of all levels to share their experiences and expertise, learn new skills, and meet like-minded collaborators.

Owning It Supporters

Contact

For more information on the Owning It program, upcoming events, or to be added to the Owning It newsletter, please contact equityprograms@thegotham.org.

Film and Media Career Development Program

Cait Carvalho — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:46:20 +0000

Now accepting applications for this summer’s Film and Media Career Development program!

EXTENDED DEADLINE TO APPLY: March 11th by 11:59p EST

Program Dates: Monday, June 17 – Friday, August 9

Downloadable Program One Sheet here

About

51�� EDU Film and Media Career Development program allows students from across the country to learn from industry professionals and provides the resources needed to make informed and strategic decisions as they complete their academic studies. This is a great opportunity for students or recent grads who are looking to get a head start on navigating career choices and opportunities.

During this 8-week virtual program students:

— Attend Industry-Led Conversations.
— Develop a project, culminating into a verbal and visual pitch.
— Receive career and creative mentorship + feedback from Industry professionals.

Students are exposed to a variety of career choices, gain a working knowledge of the film and media industry sectors, pitch their project concepts, and engage with makers and industry leaders during Gotham Week 2024.

Students are connected to dozens of industry professionals spanning fiction, documentary and audio formats, including leaders from A24 Films, A+E Television Networks, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Fox, Showtime, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Film Nation, Impact Partners, The PBS Foundation, ITVS, Magnolia Pictures, NPR, SFFilm and The 51 Fund.

Student alumni of the program, launched in 2020, have gone on to work with companies such as A24, Apple, Amazon Studios, CBS News, HBO Documentaries, PBS Kids, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Showtime Networks, Nickelodeon, Nike, NBC Universal, Paramount, and the United Talent Agency (UTA).

Join us for a program info session on Monday, February 12th @ 5:00p EST!

Extended Deadline to Apply to the Program: March 11th

Application can be found

Questions? Please contact ccarvalho@thegotham.org

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility

— Must be currently enrolled in an accredited undergraduate or graduate program.
— OR alum from an academic institution within the last year (2023 – 2024).

Requirements

— Completed Application
— Letter of Recommendation
— Resume

Application Form

Application can be found .

Deadline for applications: Monday, March 11th

Program Components

— Coffee Break Chats: A new prompt will be suggested for each week��s coffee break chat as a way to open up the students creatively and socially.
— Peer-to-Peer Meetups: Students work together to hold each other accountable through the development process for their creative concepts by providing insightful feedback and support.
— Industry Led-Conversations: Moderated sessions in which students gain a better understanding of the Industry professional’s career path, current role, and the future of the media sector/ecosystem in which the professional works.
— Career and Creative Mentorship: One-on-one sessions with Gotham staff and mentors.
— Concept Pitch Feedback: Each student will have the opportunity to pitch and receive feedback on their project concepts to Industry Professionals.

Scholarship Opportunities

The Joel Schumacher | Sophia Cranshaw Scholarship sponsored by the MTV Entertainment Group: Five (5) undergraduate and graduate students who are members of Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities as well as those who identify as LGBTQ+.

This scholarship opportunity also includes enrolled in the MTV Entertainment Group’s Ambassador’s program; a semester-long, paid internship within MTV Entertainment Group.

The Sidney Poitier Initiative Scholarship: Five (5) undergraduate students who are members of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities.

The Sidney Poitier Initiative��s mission is to honor the legacy of the groundbreaking actor, director, and activist by supporting equity programs that further the film and media careers of students, professionals, and organizations from historically excluded backgrounds.

The Executive Leadership Fellowship sponsored by Soledad O��Brien: Two (2) two women or non-binary undergraduate students who are members of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities.

This opportunity is designed to provide undergraduate women and nonbinary students of color the mentorship necessary to deepen their institutional knowledge in order to advance their film executive careers in the areas of Communications + Marketing, Development, and Distribution.

*Applicants can identify which opportunities they would like to be considered for on their application.

51�� Film and Media Institute Announces Student Filmmakers And Entrepreneurs Selected For 2023 Gotham EDU Film And Media?Career Development Program

51�� Staff — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:44:40 +0000

Fifth Cycle of the Gotham EDU Program Includes New Scholarships in Support of Students from Underrepresented Backgrounds

New York, NY (June 14, 2023) �C 51�� (51��) announced today its selections for the Summer 2023 cohort of 51�� EDU Film and Media Career Development Program. 51��’s six-week program catapults students into the media workforce with mentorship, candid industry insights, comprehensive resources, and support in developing their skills as the next generation of industry changemakers.

The expanded 2023 curriculum will cover development, pitching, marketing, distribution, new technology, and entrepreneurship, with workshops, peer-to-peer sessions, and open conversations that allow students to explore opportunities and carve a strategic path into the media industry. This year’s list of industry professionals, spanning fiction, documentary, and audio formats, includes leaders from A+E Television Networks, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Impact Partners, ITVS, Magnolia Pictures, SFFilm, and The 51 Fund.

��It is essential that we provide talented young people from historically excluded backgrounds with the skills and guidance they need to succeed in this rapidly evolving industry,�� said Jeffrey Sharp, Executive Director and Cait Carvalho, Director, Gotham EDU. ��By equipping them with the tools and resources to navigate new distribution paradigms, emerging technologies, and more, we can help to level the playing field and ensure that all voices are represented across the media ecosystem.��

Attendees are supported with scholarships from the Sidney Poitier Initiative, honoring the legacy of groundbreaking actor, director, and activist Sidney Poitier; the Questlove Scholarship sponsored by iHeartMedia; and the MTV Joel Schumacher & Sophia Cranshaw Scholarships, in support of LGBTQ+ and BIPOC undergraduates. Select students are participating tuition-free with the support of partner institutions, including founding Gotham EDU program partner Colgate University, Lincoln University, The University of Florida, and the Islamic Scholarship Fund.

51�� EDU 2023 Career Development Program runs in two sessions, from June 5 to July 14, 2023, and July 17 to August 18, 2023. The first Career Development Program was held with 22 students in 2020. The Summer 2023 program will be the fifth edition, with two sessions of 20 students each. It will continue to be run virtually to improve access for students across the country. The student participants will also have the opportunity to receive feedback on their concept presentations during one-on-one industry feedback sessions. Select students will participate in paid internships at 51�� and MTV Entertainment Group’s Ambassador’s Program.

This year��s Gotham EDU cohorts hail from 25 colleges and universities across the US. Student alumni of the program have gone on to work at A24, Apple, Amazon Studios, CBS News, HBO Documentaries, PBS Kids, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Showtime Networks, Nickelodeon, Nike, NBC Universal, Paramount, and the United Talent Agency (UTA).

Other Gotham EDU initiatives underway for 2023 include the Executive Leadership Program, the Focus Features & JetBlue Student Short Film Showcase, and the Colgate University NYC Study Group.

Gotham EDU 2023 Career Development Program scholarship recipients include:

The MTV Joel Schumacher & Sophia Cranshaw Scholarships:

Graviela Hernandez Sosa, American University
Jennesy Herrera, Hunter College
Juliet Reynolds, Arizona State University
Ivan Rome, Columbia University
Melanie Wu, The New School

The Questlove iHeart Scholarship:

Mia De Jesus, Hunter College
Christopher Brandon Medina, Miami Dade College
Dara Nicole D��az R��os, Emerson College
Tyra Robinson, Bethune Cookman University
Sarah Sy, University of California, Davis

The Sidney Poitier Initiative Scholarship:

Oreoluwa Akinyode, Maryland Institute College of Art
Jeremiah Battle, Stevenson University
Maya Darby, University of North Carolina
Linnea Hopkins-Ekdahl, Columbia University
Betselot Shifferraw, Loyola University Maryland

The Burke Family Foundation Scholars:

Vanessa Alzate, Marymount Manhattan College
Jeremy Kurt, Purchase College
Isabela Molina, Yale University
Jenna Morgan, University of California, Davis
Cloe Rankin, Boston University
Mariatou Saho, New York University
Hailey Paige Sullivan, Emory University
Laila Wilson, Stony Brook University

Students selected for the Gotham EDU 2023 Career Development Program include:

Elizabeth Armstrong, Colgate University
Ayla Babanikos, University of Florida
Eli Berliner, Yale University
Grace Chen, American University
Phillip Divon, Lincoln University
Laine Girolamo, Colgate University
Hannah Goff, Colgate University
Tina Huang, Yale University
Ishikaa Kothari, Yale University
Katrina Lee, University of Florida
Cynthia Lin, Yale University
Maryam Mir, New York University
Ayesha Nawal Mubin, Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema
Bridget Perdomo, University of Florida
Jasmine P��rez, University of Florida
Ava Wigdor, Colgate University

About the Gotham Film & Media Institute

51�� celebrates and nurtures independent film and media creators, providing career-building resources, access to industry influencers, and pathways to wider recognition. The organization, under the leadership of Executive Director and award-winning producer Jeffrey Sharp, fosters a vibrant and sustainable independent storytelling 51�� through its year-round programs, which include Gotham Week, Gotham Labs, Filmmaker Magazine, the Gotham Awards, Gotham EDU, Owning It, and Expanding Communities.

PRESS CONTACT:

gothamteam@ledecompany.com

Owning It Alumnus Kate Downey on the Accountability Challenge

51�� Staff — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 19:04:41 +0000

Kate Helen Downey

51��’s March Owning It Accountability Challenge: Pitch Decks is almost here! Read an alum’s thoughts on the program below, then be sure to .

Can you share a little bit about your background?

I came up in theater and live events, as an Assistant Director at New York City Opera and an Assistant Producer at the Public, then transitioned into live event startups by helping build Museum Hack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. After years of creating live experiences inside museums across the country, I co-founded Caveat NYC, a theater putting on educational entertainment in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. We produced a lot of live podcast shows, and being a longtime podcast listener, I became curious about producing our live show content in podcast form. During the pandemic, while live theaters were shut down, I transitioned fully into the podcast industry, and started producing podcasts & live episodes with Pushkin, Himalaya, and Wondery. I also produce Celebrity Book Club with Chelsea Devantez. Naturally, I became interested in producing my own podcast. That��s what brought me to the OI Accountability Challenge!

Why were you interested in participating in the OI Accountability Challenge?

After years of taking other peoples�� podcast ideas from concept to fully realized show, I found myself overwhelmed and procrastinating when it came to giving my OWN idea the same treatment. I was frustrated with how long I was putting off taking the necessary steps to move the project forward, and how easy it was to prioritize other people��s projects over my own. I needed accountability and deadlines to make myself show up! A friend had previously worked with 51��, and suggested the OI Accountability Challenge when I shared my frustrations with her, and I signed up immediately.

Can you describe your experience participating in OI Accountability Challenge? What aspects were most impactful for you?

Honestly it��s a program that perfectly understands the challenges creative people have when trying to move their own projects forward. From the moment I was accepted into the Challenge, I was moved through the process with gentle but firm reminders, clear expectations, and supportive information. It really gives you no excuses to procrastinate.

What have you been up to since participating in the Challenge?

I��ve been sharing my deck with friends in the industry for feedback and networking, gathering my team to produce a sizzle, and building out my pitch strategy with tools provided in the Challenge.

Do you have any advice for fellow creatives about making the most of their involvement in the challenge this year?

Don��t wait for the perfect time – do it now! And don��t lose momentum once you��ve got some.

Kate Helen Downey (she/her) is the Co-founder of Caveat NYC, Lead Producer of Wondery, and Producer of Celebrity Book Club with Chelsea Devantez. Find her at www.katehelendowney.com, and as @katehelendowney on Twitter & Instagram.

Announcing the Owning It Accountability Challenge Cohort for August 2022

51�� Staff — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 16:47:16 +0000

As part of 51��s Owning It program, the Pitch Deck Accountability Challenge connects 12 women and non-binary creators working on film, TV series, or audio/podcast pitch decks with an accountability partner and expert industry mentors to refine their current pitches.

Over the month of August, participants will participate in workshops and meet with their partners and mentors in preparation for a five-minute pitch and feedback session with a panel of industry leaders during the culminating Pitch Feedback Session with Kamala Avila-Salmon, Head of Inclusive Content for the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group; Ginger Chan, Senior Vice President of Consumer Communications at Endeavor; and Meghan Ross, Head of Creator Success at Seed&Spark.

In addition to sharing their pitches, participants will also speak about their experience in the Accountability Challenge and respond questions from attendees.

By providing opportunities to connect with others, hear feedback from industry leaders, and mentorship, participants walk away from the Accountability Challenge with the tools necessary to develop and present successful pitches to potential funders across industries.

Congratulations to the creators and projects selected to participate in the Owning It Pitch Deck Accountability challenge, including:

Jeanell Allen

Reigning from the chaotic Sunshine State of Florida, Jeanell Allen is a New York City-based actress, writer and producer. She has acted on television shows such as Blue Bloods, Law & Order: SVU, and The Blacklist. Jeanell has written five television pilots and screenplays such as her socio-psychological thriller ��CODE-S,�� which received 8��s on the The Black List. It was applauded for its ability to “tell [a story] incredibly unsettling and full of dread, using the carceral nature of mental health care to create an environment where the protagonist feels totally powerless and at the mercy of people with a hidden agenda.” In her work, she explores the themes of Black femininity, mental health, and out-of-this-world scenarios while centering the Black experience and creating highly-developed worlds yet to be seen on the screen. Also she has placed in major screenwriting competitions such as the Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship Competition, WeScreenplay Feature Screenwriting Competition, Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Competition and more with her portfolio of scripts. Tired of being typecast as the sassy Black best friend, she decided to use her strong work ethic and mix it with her childhood love of creative writing and poetry to transform into a producer. She has produced the digital series Shut the Front Door and the comedy nonfiction podcast Can We Just Be Kids Again? Jeanell graduated from NYU��s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in drama.

Gisella Bustillos

Gisella Bustillos is a Bolivian-Vietnamese filmmaker who likes writing authentic, messy, relationship-driven stories with a sci-fi twist. She comes from the non-fiction world where her first feature documentary A Brief History of Time Travel premiered at San Diego Comic-Con, won Best Documentary at the Dreamer of Dreams and Philip K. Dick Film Festival in 2020, and screened internationally. Gisella graduated from Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film/TV and was a quarterfinalist for the Tisch Sloan Foundation Feature Film Award. She currently lives in Seattle with her cat Yoda and actively hosts futurist events.

Eileen Cabiling

Eileen Cabiling is a Filipino-American filmmaker and grew up as the only Asian in her class in Richmond, Virginia, the historical Confederate capital. Her vision is to tell stories about the Filipino diaspora, exploring its complex colonial psychology. Her recent, directorial debut short film,”Basurero,” premiered in competition at Busan International Film Festival (2019), San Francisco International Film Fest (A Golden Gate Award Nominee 2019), and the LA Asian Pacific Film Fest (2020). Cabiling has worked in the ranks of the film and tv industry for over 15 years in production, story development, and screenwriting. Cabiling is a graduate of the American Film Institute, a recipient of AFI’s William J Fadiman Award for Best Screenplay in her graduating class, and a recipient of the ABC/Disney Talent Development Grant. Living as a digital nomad since 2018 (Philippines, Finland, Mexico, Argentina, Italy, and now Turkey), Cabiling works in development for producers-directors and writes creative content for technology and Web3 start-ups.

Isabel Custer

Born in Lima, Peru and raised in Miami, FL, Isabel Custer has been writing, directing and editing films since she was 16. Graduated from NYU Tisch & La Sorbonne, Isabel managed the production of Jay Martel��s feature film Terrorists and then left NYC to spend three months volunteering in Sri Lanka following the 2004 tsunami. Her writings from that time were published as Letters from Colombo by Editions L��Harmattan in 2007. Isabel has lived in Paris, London, NY, Beijing, Colombo, Lima and Santiago. An avid songwriter, Isabel has released an EP and a full length album Girl with No Country, mixing folk music with Latin and Polynesian rhythms. Apart from her short dark comedy Night of the Living Data, which was bought up by a French distributor, her music video for her original song Sau Sau, shot entirely on Easter Island, premiered at the Santa Fe International FF and was selected for numerous festivals, including Best Costume. Her first Spanish-language song, Conocerte (To Know You With My Mouth), won Best Latin Song at the Palm Beach International Music Awards 2021. In 2021, she completed her first feature documentary 1City Soul, about an after-school program in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, for 20 years. Based in Miami, Isabel is developing her first narrative feature, a comedy: Success en tu Life.

Kate Downey

Kate is a creative producer who specializes in audio and live smart entertainment. She is the producer of Celebrity Book Club with Chelsea Devantez, and produces Revisionist History Live. As Cofounder of Caveat NYC, Kate established the Caveat Original production slate and developed over 25 original infotainment properties, all presenting new live shows monthly She co-created Nevertheless She Existed, a live show and podcast, which was a finalist at the Yes, And Laughter Lab with Comedy Central. Kate co-created the Underground Science Festival at Caveat, as featured in the New York Times, where comedians and storytellers celebrated women, LGBTQ, and POC scientists from history whose achievements often go unrecognized. Kate has been a featured guest on Mysteries at the Museum, History Bitches, and Story Collider, and her opinions on New York City��s best butts have been published in the New York Post. Kate has consulted with many large brands and museums on audience engagement and events, including Nike, Club Med, The Georgia O��Keeffe Museum & Ghost Ranch, and the US Parks Department. While Creative Lead at Museum Hack, Kate wrote and led the best-selling Bad@ss B*tches of the Met tour, as featured in NewsWire. She also created over 50 customized tours for corporate and private clients. Previously, she was an Assistant Director at New York City Opera, and an Assistant Producer at The Public Theater.

Angela Harvey

Angela Harvey is a Social Worker, Motivational Speaker turned documentarian. Black Rainbow Love is this Cleveland native’s directorial debut. A 40-minute preview of the intended docuseries is currently on the film festival circuit and has already won two Best Short Documentary awards and been officially selected to be screen in four national known film festivals across the country. Although new to filmmaking she is experienced in storytelling, truth telling, and creating impactful work. Ms. Harvey hosted Conversations with Angie Harvey, an internet radio show (2011-2015); produced five DVDs of her most-requested workshops (2009), and directed an online talk show called Let’s TALK with Angie Harvey (2014). Ms. Harvey is best-known for the 20+ years of impactful work and advocacy in, for, and with the LGBTQ+ 51��. On her journey to becoming a storyteller and encouraging others to share their stories she has been privileged to hear some of the greatest romantic love, self love, familial love, platonic love, 51�� love, and spiritual love stories from individuals and couples from around the world. Angela is purposeful in all that she does and strongly believes that to reach the people she most wants to reach she had to grow places she never thought she would. Rainbow Love isn��t the first time Angela has created a platform for stories of the Black LGBTQ+ 51�� to be heard; however, it is her first time directing and producing a film that creatively shares them.

Nora Kaye

Nora Kaye is a Brooklyn-based writer, filmmaker, and performer passionate about telling comedic stories about the messiness of humanity. Nora is currently pitching her comedy series, Ruck, about an anarchist women��s rugby team, which has placed in competitions at Stage 32 and WeScreenplay. Her breakout independent pilot, Hysterical Women, a dark comedy about gender inequality in the workplace, co-created with Whitney Uland, was an official selection for Catalyst Content (formerly ITV Fest), Seriesfest, New York Independent Film Festival, the Cannes Short Film Corner, and won both Jury and Audience Award at Geena Davis’s Bentonville Film Festival. She has developed content for Hooked Media, was a contributing writer on The Hating Game starring Lucy Hale, and co-created a surrealist-sitcom micoseries called TUNA during the pandemic, available on YouTube. Nora just completed post-production on her first independent feature, The Cosmos Sisters, and her play, Baby Goes Down, co-written with Tessa Barlow-Oschorn, has been workshopped in New York (2019). She is also the co-host of The Big Pasta Podcast �� a podcast about all things pasta.

Crystal Kelley

Crystal Kelley grew up in the rich arts and culturally diverse city of Cleveland, Ohio. She was involved with local theatrical productions on stage and behind the scenes as a lighting technician. Crystal currently resides in Los Angeles, CA, and is working in the camera department in a variety of positions including as a Director of Photography for television, documentaries, and short and feature-length films. Her most notable accomplishments include shooting a feature film titled The Workout Room, and the documentary Mobilizing Mozambique. Crystal was also a camera operator for the BET Soul Train Music Awards and House Hunters Renovation. Many of her short films have been screened at film festivals around the country, including the live capture film Some Like it Bot which screened at Comic-Con. She studied Film Production and Media Arts at Chapman University earning her M.F.A. with an emphasis in Cinematography. Crystal is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild Local 600 and was recently honored by her alma mater Otterbein University with the Professional Achievement Award. She is a licensed remote pilot with the FAA and flies drones for aerial cinematography. Crystal��s upcoming directorial debut is a documentary called Locating Liberty that features several American expatriates moving to the developing country of Ghana.

Rebecca Louise Miller

Rebecca Louise Miller is a Brooklyn-based writer and performer who writes heartbroken comedies about interesting people in impossible situations. Her pilot Green-Wood, an animated comedy about the distinguished, deceased residents of Brooklyn��s Green-Wood Cemetery, won the Rooster Teeth Women in Animation Fellowship at the 2021 Austin Film Festival and the 2022 Stowe Story Labs/Maven Fellowship. Rebecca��s plays have been performed around the world, and film One Day Home, a comedy
based on a real-life mattress shopping misadventure, won the Audience Award at the Iron Mule Comedy Festival and has been watched over 300K times on Omeleto. Several years ago, Rebecca left a career in HR to work alongside a professional Dominatrix, teaching women about power and influence. This experience inspired her latest pilot, a dark dramedy called Catch and Release, which is currently in the top 10% for the 2022 Writer��s Lab.

Dafina Roberts

Dafina Roberts (she/ze/they) is a New York-based nonbinary writer/director/producer. Her dramedies are raunchy, self-conscious, and subversive. Her works explore themes of power, perception, identity, and absurdity in the postmodern world. Dafina is currently a Blackhouse Producing Fellow and has been a Ryan Murphy Half Initiative Directing Fellow and a Kickstarter Creator-In-Residence. Previously, she created the digital series Giving Me Life (In The Land Of The Deadass), which was released via Comcast��s Xfinity and UrbanOne (formerly RadioOne). Giving Me Life also won the AT&T Audience Award for Best Episodic at the Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival. Dafina worked as a Director of Development & Production at Nickelodeon, where she coordinated creative development and current series. She also co-produced the feature film Punching At The Sun (Sundance Film Festival; Sundance Institute’s Humanitas Prize nominee; Tribeca Film Festival), which is now available in the Criterion Collection.

Caralene Robinson

Caralene Robinson is a director/writer/producer. She has a diverse body of work in documentary, narrative, and brand. Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution won Best Documentary at the 2012 AAFCA Awards. Digital series King Ester won Best Audience Award at the New Orleans Film Festival, Best Web Series at Bronzelens, and was nominated for four 2020 Daytime Emmys. Reopening recently won the 2021 Richard and Ellen Sandor Best Short at the Black Harvest Film Festival. Caralene��s projects are available on a number of platforms including Prime Video, Issa Rae��s YouTube Channel, ALLBLK, , Aspire and BET. She��s also produced brand campaigns for clients such as AARP, Dove, Compass, and Shea Moisture. Caralene is currently a 2022 Blackhouse Fellow. She is the creator and showrunner for workplace digital series Ms/Manage, which recently screened at the 2022 Pan African Film Festival, and in pre-production for The Table, a digital series about a 10-year relationship glimpsed exclusively from the couple’s dining room table. Documentary project Black Agency, about the history of black advertising agencies in the US, has completed the first phase of interviews. Her marketing experience includes roles at Viacom and Global Citizen. Caralene is a graduate of Howard University and NYU.

Jax Weiner

During her decades-long career as an independent film editor in NYC, Jax cut everything from documentaries about the aftermath of the US war in Vietnam, to an experimental short about queerness and surveillance, to the karaoke video for Hanson��s MMMBop. In her free time she��s an amateur Bollywood dancer. For her first short film as a director, she turned to her 51�� of teachers and fellow dance students. Between Two Worlds premiered at and won the audience award at the Boston Asian American Film Festival in October 2021 and has gone on to receive multiple awards as the festival run continues. The dancers in Between Two Worlds, along with others, share their stories in Jax��s feature documentary Bollywood, NYC, now in post production.

Owning It Accountability Challenge Cohort Selected for March 2022

Gotham — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 17:20:45 +0000

As part of 51��’s Owning It program, the Pitch Deck Accountability Challenge connects 12 women and non-binary creators working on film, TV series, or audio/podcast pitch decks with an accountability partner and expert industry mentors to refine their current pitches.

Over the month of March, participants will participate in workshops and meet with their partners and mentors, to prepare to give a five-minute pitch and receive feedback from a panel of industry leaders during a culminating with Ayme Sinclair, CEO & Founder of Sinclair Social; Meghan Ross, Head of Creator Success at Seed&Spark; and Ashley Soto Paniagua, podcaster and writer for The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder.

This session is open to the public and will take place during the 2022 Owning It Summit on Thursday, March 31. In addition to sharing their pitches, participants will also speak about their experience in the Accountability Challenge and respond questions from attendees.

Congratulations to the creators and projects selected to participate in the Owning It Pitch Deck Accountability challenge, including:

Eva Midgley, Frida does Flamenco

Growing up in a village of just seven houses in the Netherlands, Eva Midgley��s passion for stories stems from a need to entertain herself. While writing, producing and directing her own projects, Midgley works worldwide as a successful commercials director. Her latest short, THE BIRTHDAY CUT, won Best Drama at the NY International Shorts Film Festival. Her feature script, FRIDA DOES FLAMENCO, placed Second Rounder in the Austin Film Festival 2021. She currently lives in New York.

Midgley looked forward to meeting with her accountability partners and mentor. Her submission encouraged her to focus on pitch decks in a way she hadn��t previously, turning an idea into a tangible, visible first form to discuss with others.

Dominique Nisperos, Comedian

Dominique Nisperos is a Brooklyn-based comedian who escaped the academy to write and perform comedy full time. A former doctoral candidate in sociology, Ford Fellow, and writer/performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, she now co-produces and hosts Banana Ketchup, a Fillipinx-centered comedy show fore-fronting diverse voices in comedy.

Nisperos looked forward to learning about the tools to create an excellent podcast. She also expressed interest in highlighting the ways Asian Femmes navigate and contribute to American art, culture, politics and more.

Lauren Ferebee, 155 Charles

Lauren Ferebree is a recent Los Angeles transplant after completing her MFA in playwriting at the University of Arkansas. She is a Kennedy Center awardee for her space trash sci-fi play, Goods, and her first feature script, Brilliance, was awarded a state arts fellowship in Arkansas. She writes extraordinary stories about women braving the wilds of the world, whether it’s in the future, the present, or, in the case of her current project 155 Charles, the past.

Ferebee hoped to learn more about the art of pitching and develop strong pitch decks. She was also excited by the opportunity to connect with other creators in her cohort and delve into the projects driving their passion.

Marlee Rodrigues, Writer/Director

Marlee Rodrigues is one-half of sister writing-directing duo, the Rodrigues Sisters, named 2021 Humanitas Prize drama fellowship finalists and 2020-2021 Women in Film mentees. Rodrigues is a graduate of New York University Tisch, where she made her first feature, Little Miss Perfect, streaming on Amazon Prime. She is currently the Associate Program Director and Advanced Directing Professor at the Los Angeles Film School and completing her masters at USC.

Rodrigues was excited to work with 51�� staff, mentors, and accountability partners. As an alum of a previous accountability challenge, she felt the program worked against mental barriers like procrastination and perfectionism. She is grateful for the feedback and support needed to polish her sophomore feature film pitch deck.

Masami Kawai, Valley of the Tall Grasses

Masami Kawai is a Los Angeles-born filmmaker who divides her time between Oregon and LA. Her work integrates issues of race, class, gender, and what it means to be an immigrant in the United States. Her work has screened at various venues, including the Rotterdam Film Festival, LACMA, LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, Portland International Film Festival, and Indie Memphis. She��s currently working on a feature film that follows an old TV/VCR combo set as it circulates through the lives of working-class characters of color in an Oregon town. The project has garnered support from institutions such as 51�� (previously IFP), Cine Qua Non screenwriting lab, Northwest Film Center, and University of Oregon.

Kawai believed the Challenge offered the structure to work on her project and meet new people.

Mel House, Writer/Creator, Actress & Producer

Mel House, an award-winning actress and comedian, recently played Judy in THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME and toured internationally in Rome, Cagliari, Belgrade, Dublin, and New York City with a new play about same-sex parenting. She is the writer and creator behind HOT ANGRY MOM��a dark comedy about female rage, which unpacks anger myths and invites audiences to consider the ways that healthy anger makes us more authentic and whole. House tells stories, makes jokes and takes on projects that excite, provoke and promote conversations around gender, power and sexuality.

House felt excited to come away with a revitalized sense of purpose, equipped with stronger materials to share her series�� story why it should be made, as well as the confidence to approach meetings with different types of industry partners.

Mia Jessup, Writer

Mia Jessup is an award-winning actor and writer based in Brooklyn. Her surreal, darkly comedic short films have screened at more than thirty film festivals, and her directorial debut premiered in a program highlighting comedic shorts at the IFP Center. As an actor, Jessup has appeared on Comedy Central’s The President Show, Billy on the Street and national commercials. You might also recognize her hands from numerous print ads. In 2021, Jessep��s original comedy pilot was a semifinalist for the Sundance Episodic Lab.

Jessep looked forward to perfecting the art of pitch deck and making new friends.

Nancy Burneo Salazar, Director and Producer

Nancy Burneo Salazar is a documentary filmmaker born in Ecuador, a country where she constantly moves from the Sierra to the Amazon. She is currently motivated by stories about the struggle for territory. She appreciates transiting within Ecuador as much as outside of it, and travels constantly between California and New York, where she has strong ties to stories related to migration and racial justice. Salazar has taught editing at Ecuador’s largest public university and designed the teaching methodology for 51�� filmmaking and participatory documentary workshops. She graduated from the Social Documentary Program at the School of Visual Arts of New York in 2016.

Salazar wanted to capitalize on a supportive network of female creators and entrepreneurs to share projects and offer feedback. She looked forward to testing her ability to communicate the stories she wants shared in front of an audience with different backgrounds and geographies.

Paula Belchior, A PERFECT FAMILY

Paula Belchior is a NY-based Brazilian former TV executive (HBO LatAm) who turned into a writer-producer, creative consultant (with jobs for Amazon and Floresta-Sony), and an invited juror at the International Emmy Awards. With an 18-year career and an M.A. in Cinema Studies from NYU, Paula focuses on creating complex characters in socially conscious narratives that show empathy and reflection through the power of storytelling.

As an immigrant, Belchior felt the Owning It Pitch Deck Accountability Challenge offered the unique opportunity to delve into the specificities of the U.S. industry and elevate her project through valuable mentorship, in addition to building a strong support network within her cohort.

Shawnee Gibbs

Shawnee Gibbs is a writer and producer who specializes in content for television, film, comics and graphic novels. She has written for HarperCollins, Warner Bros. Animation, Dreamworks, and Cartoon Networks.

Gibbs looked forward to becoming part of a supportive 51�� of like-minded filmmakers who work to launch new projects, as well as setting a hard deadline to meet her pitch deck goal.

Shawnelle Gibbs

Shawnelle Gibbs is a television writer and producer from Oakland, California currently based in Los Angeles. She has written for Warner Bros. Animation, Dreamworks, Cartoon Network, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing.

Gibbs felt excited to learn more pitch deck tips and form connections within the cohort.

Shireen Alihaji

Shireen Alihaji is a First Gen, Ecuadorian-Iranian, Muslim and Disabled filmmaker. Her intersections inspire her to create space through film technologies. Given how we remember is pivotal to healing, her films use memory as a central gaze to de-internalize surveillance, uncensor the imagination and mirror our infinite reflections.

51�� Stands in Solidarity with the Asian Community

51�� Staff — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 19:08:33 +0000

51�� stands in solidarity with the Asian 51��. Hate has no place today, tomorrow or ever. We share our support with the AAPI 51�� as we continue to shine a spotlight on your voices and stories.

If you are looking to help and support, we are sharing a list of resources below.

NOTE: This list is an ongoing work in progress. If you have additional organizations for us to add, please contact us at: membership@thegotham.org

DONATE

SUPPORT

MENTAL HEALTH

: 833-317-HOPE

ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES

DIVERSIFY YOUR FEED: AAPI Film & Media Organizations to Follow

Gotham Week Project Market

Gotham — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 21:20:31 +0000

SEE THE 2024 PROJECT MARKET SLATE HERE!

The 2024 Gotham Week Project Market is a meetings-driven forum connecting new fiction and documentary projects in development with key industry executives interested in identifying projects for development, financing, or distribution. The Project Market is the longest-running event of its kind in the United States.

In addition to opportunities for feedback and pitching, artists who participate in the Project Market often walk away with career-spanning relationships with distributors, financiers, production companies, festival programmers, sales and talent agents, collaborators, and others. These invaluable connections continue well beyond the confines of Gotham Week.

Past industry participants have included A24, HBO, IFC Films, Neon, Sony Pictures Classics, MUBI, Topic Studios, Sundance Institute, WME, SFFilm, SXSW, Tribeca, Hot Docs, and many more.

Recent Project Market alumni include Sean Wang’s D��di (�ܵ�) (Focus Features), Raven Jackson’s All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (A24), Tayarisha Poe’s Selah and the Spades (Amazon), Jessica Kingdon��s Ascension (MTV Documentary Films), Nikyatu Jusu��s Nanny (Amazon), Laurel Parmet��s The Starling Girl (Bleecker Street), Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw��s The Truffle Hunters (Sony Pictures Classics), and Rachel Lears�� Knock Down the House (Netflix).

Open Submission Sections

Submissions for the 2024 Project Market are now closed.

U.S. Features in Development

This section will select fiction feature films at the script stage to provide emerging and established filmmakers the opportunity to introduce new works in development to the Project Market��s attending industry professionals.

U.S. Shorts to Features

The all-new U.S. Shorts to Features section will provide filmmakers who have a proof-of-concept short film the opportunity to meet with industry to create a feature-length version of their project. To apply to this section, filmmakers will provide their short film and an accompanying feature-length screenplay.

Spotlight on Documentaries

Designed to support emerging and established documentarians, Spotlight on Documentaries connects work-in-progress non-fiction features and series with financiers, distributors, broadcasters, sales companies, and festival programmers.

INVITATION-ONLY Sections

This year’s Gotham Week Project Market will include three invitation-only sections

Branded Storytellers

The Branded Storytellers section of the Project Market will highlight film and media creators with unique vision, distinctive visual style, and previous experience working with brands for branded content, commercials, and/or branded storytelling. Made possible thanks to 51��s organizational partners, this section of the Project Market will provide opportunities to meet with brands for potential branded storytelling opportunities.

Series Creators to Watch

The Series Creators to Watch section of the Project Market will highlight rising voices that will shape the future of television and push the boundaries of serialized fiction storytelling. Made possible thanks to 51��s organizational partners, this section of the Project Market will provide access to industry and opportunities for representation for writers and creators who have innovative vision and bold, risk-taking new series in development.

51��s Global Producers Hub

The Global Producers Hub section of the Project Market will present a cohort of US and International producers from countries around the globe, made possible thanks to 51��’s International year-round partnerships and activations. This section of Gotham Week will present a slate of projects to the film and media industry while also providing an international peer-to-peer network for producers to make connections and share resources.

FAQ

When is Gotham Week 2024?
Gotham Week will take place Monday, September 30 through Friday, October 4, 2024.

When are you accepting applications?
We are accepting applications until Thursday, May 16 at 11:59pm Hawaii�CAleutian Time (HST). Those with Gotham memberships will have access to an extended deadline. The Extended Member Deadline is Monday, June 3 at 11:59pm HST.

I applied to the Project Market last year before it was canceled. Do I need to reapply this year?
Yes. Applications do not roll over from one year to the next. If you applied in 2023, we encourage you to apply again in 2024 if your project is still eligible.

When will applicants be notified about the status of their applications?
All applicants will be notified about the status of their applications by the end of July.

Do I need to be a Gotham member to apply?
No! New this year, projects no longer need to have a Gotham member attached to apply. You can apply either as a member or a non-member. However, members have access to an extended deadline and a lower application fee. They also receive year-round perks and programming. Learn more about Gotham membership here.

Can I get my application fee waived?
Unfortunately, we are unable to waive application fees this year.

Will this be a hybrid event?
Yes. The majority of meetings will be in-person, but we will also have virtual meetings for those unable to attend in New York.

Will there be other events at Gotham Week besides the Project Market?
Yes. In addition to the Project Market, Gotham Week will include the Gotham Week Expo, film screenings, social mixers, and more.

I am a non-US based director/producer interested in applying with a project, how can I apply?
Non-US based filmmakers with projects are included in the Global Producers Hub by invitation only.

I am a scripted narrative/fiction series writer/creator, how can I apply?
Scripted narrative/fiction series will be highlighted at Gotham Week in the new Series Creators to Watch section by invitation only.

I have questions about the specific sections, where can I learn more?
Follow the links here to read the FAQs for each of these specific sections: Spotlight on Documentaries, U.S. Features in Development, U.S. Shorts to Features.

30th Gotham Awards – Where to Watch the Audience Award Nominees

Gotham — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 20:06:43 +0000

76 Days

Playing at Film Forum��s Virtual Cinema:

The Assistant

Available to stream on and .

Available to rent/buy on most platforms (Amazon, Google Play, YouTube, Vudu…)

Bacurau

Available to rent on .

Available to stream on The Criterion Channel and Kanopy.

Available to rent/buy on most platforms (Amazon, Google Play, YouTube, Vudu…)

Beanpole

Available to rent on .

Available to stream on Kanopy and Mubi.

Available to rent/buy on most platforms (Amazon, Google Play, YouTube, Vudu…)

City Hall

Now playing theaters and virtual theaters:

On PBS on December 22, 2020.

Cuties

Available to stream on Netflix.

First Cow

Available to stream on Direct TV, Fubo TV and Showtime.

Available to rent/buy on most platforms (Amazon, Google Play, YouTube, Vudu…)

The Forty-Year-Old Version

Available to stream on Netflix.

Identifying Features

Screening virtually at New Directors/New Films:

Martin Eden

Available to rent on Kino Marquee (support your local arthouse cinema):

Miss Juneteenth

Available to stream on Direct TV, Fubo TV and Kanopy.

Available to rent/buy on most platforms (Amazon, Google Play, YouTube, Vudu…)

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Available to stream on Direct TV and HBO Max.

Available to rent/buy on most platforms (Amazon, Google Play, YouTube, Vudu…)

Nomadland

Official release: February 19, 2021

[Passed] Film at Lincoln Center (Dec. 4-10 only):

Our Time Machine

Now playing in virtual cinemas:

Relic

Available to stream with Spectrum.

Available to rent/buy on most platforms (Amazon, Google Play, YouTube, Vudu…)

Saint Frances

Available to stream on Direct TV and Starz.

Available to rent/buy on most platforms (Google Play, YouTube, Vudu…)

Swallow

Available to stream on Direct TV, Fubo TV and Showtime.

Available to rent/buy on most platforms (Google Play, YouTube, Vudu…)

A Thousand Cuts

Now playing virtual cinemas:

Time

Available to stream on Amazon Prime.

The Vast of Night

Available to stream on Amazon Prime.

Wolfwalkers

Available to stream on Apple TV+.

Program Curriculum

Gotham — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 19:28:31 +0000

The Fiction Feature Lab consists of three modules:

Completion Module – June 2021

The first module of the Filmmaker Labs gathers all Lab Fellows for an intensive five-day program focusing on the nuts-and-bolts of finishing your film. Led by a variety of industry experts, the workshops in the Completion Lab cover topics such as editing, color correction, sound design, deliverables, and more.

2020 Lab Leaders: Mia Bruno (Fourth Act Film; marketing strategist & distribution consultant) and Gabrielle Nadig (producer, Little Woods)

2020 Editing Mentors: Sabine Hoffman; Brian A Kates; Joseph Krings; Jane Rizzo; Kathryn A Schubert; Michael Taylor

Other 2020 Completion Lab module speakers: Julie La’Bassiere & RJ Millard (Obscured Pictures); Mandy Hoffman (composer, Hala); Annie Pearlman (music supervisor, Selah and the Spades); Ruy Garc��a (sound designer, Midsommar); Kara Durett (producer, Save Yourselves!); Robert Machoian (director, The Killing of Two Lovers); Diana Peralta (director, De Lo Mio); Summer Shelton (producer, Keep the Change); Neil Creque Williams (producer, Miss Juneteenth) and more.

Gotham Week Project Market – September 2021

Films selected to the Lab are automatically granted participation in Project Market, where projects take meetings with relevant distributors, sales agents, funders, and festival programmers as part of the Project Forum.

Distribution Module – December 2021

In the final module of the Filmmaker Labs, Fellows are asked to present their plans for the marketing and distribution of their films. Each presentation is led by an industry expert who provides specific feedback on each presentation.

Ongoing

In addition, 51�� Programming Staff provides year-round support as needed, advising fellows and advocating on their behalf. 51�� also promotes Lab alumni films to its members and constituency during their film festival run and as they become available to audiences through traditional and non-traditional platforms.

Nominations Announced for the 28th Annual IFP Gotham Awards

Gotham — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:18:40 +0000

New York, NY (October 18, 2018) �C The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation��s premier member organization of independent storytellers, announced today the nominees for the 28^th Annual IFP Gotham Awards. Ten competitive awards will be presented to independent features and series. In addition to the competitive awards, Gotham Tributes will be given to actors Rachel Weisz and Willem Dafoe, director Paul Greengrass, and the Gotham Industry Tribute to Jon Kamen.

51�� Awards is one of the leading awards for independent film and signals the kick-off to the film awards season. As the first major awards ceremony of the film season, the IFP Gotham Awards provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting award recipients prominently into national awards season attention.

��There has been a rich abundance of great films, television, and performances in 2018, and we congratulate those being recognized in the nominations this year,�� said Joana Vicente, Executive Director of IFP and the Made in NY Media Center.

Thirty-five films and series received nominations this year. In addition, the nominating committee for the Best Actress category voted to award a Special Jury Award jointly to Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz for their ensemble performance in The Favourite.

Nominees are selected by committees of film critics, journalists, festival programmers, and film curators. Separate juries of writers, directors, actors, producers, editors and others directly involved in making films will determine the final Gotham Award recipients.

51�� Audience Award nominees are comprised of the 15 films nominated for Best Feature, Best Documentary, and the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award. The winners will be selected by online voting of IFP members. Voting for that award begins November 17^th. In addition this year, the winner of the Breakthrough Series – Short Form (all available on the web) will be selected by online IFP member voting.

51�� Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, November 26th at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

The 2018 IFP Gotham Award nominations are:

Best Feature

The Favourite

Yorgos Lanthimos, director; Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Yorgos Lanthimos, producers (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

First Reformed

Paul Schrader, director; Jack Binder, Greg Clark, Victoria Hill, Gary Hamilton, Deepak Sikka, Christine Vachon, David Hinojosa, Frank Murray, producers (A24)

If Beale Street Could Talk

Barry Jenkins, director; Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy, Barry Jenkins, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Megan Ellison, producers (Annapurna Pictures)

Madeline��s Madeline

Josephine Decker, director; Krista Parris, Elizabeth Rao, producers (Oscilloscope Laboratories)

The Rider

Chlo�� Zhao, director; Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche, Mollye Asher, Chlo�� Zhao, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Documentary

Bisbee ��17

Robert Greene, director; Douglas Tirola, Susan Bedusa, Bennett Elliott, producers (4th Row Films)

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

RaMell Ross, director; RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Su Kim, producers (The Cinema Guild)

Minding the Gap

Bing Liu, director; Diane Quon, Bing Liu, producers (Hulu & Magnolia Pictures)

Shirkers

Sandi Tan, director; Sandi Tan, Jessica Levin, Maya Rudolph, producers (Netflix)

Won��t You Be My Neighbor?

Morgan Neville, director; Morgan Neville, Caryn Capotosto, Nicholas Ma, producers (Focus Features)

Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award

Ari Aster for Hereditary (A24)

Bo Burnham for Eighth Grade (A24)

Jennifer Fox for The Tale (HBO)

Crystal Moselle for Skate Kitchen (Magnolia Pictures)

Boots Riley for Sorry to Bother You (Annapurna Pictures)

Best Screenplay

The Favourite, Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

First Reformed, Paul Schrader (A24)

Private Life, Tamara Jenkins (Netflix)

Support the Girls, Andrew Bujalski (Magnolia Pictures)

Thoroughbreds, Cory Finley (Focus Features)

Best Actor

Adam Driver in BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features)

Ben Foster in Leave No Trace (Bleecker Street)

Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Ethan Hawke in First Reformed (A24)

Lakeith Stanfield in Sorry to Bother You (Annapurna Pictures)

Best Actress*

Glenn Close in The Wife (Sony Pictures Classics)

Toni Collette in Hereditary (A24)

Kathryn Hahn in Private Life (Netflix)

Regina Hall in Support the Girls (Magnolia Pictures)

Michelle Pfeiffer in Where is Kyra? (Paladin and Great Point Media)

*The 2018 Best Actress nominating committee also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award to Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz for their ensemble performance in The Favourite. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Breakthrough Actor

Yalitza Aparicio in Roma (Netflix)

Elsie Fisher in Eighth Grade (A24)

Helena Howard in Madeline��s Madeline (Oscilloscope Laboratories)

KiKi Layne in If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna Pictures)

Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie in Leave No Trace (Bleecker Street)

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form

Alias Grace, Sarah Polley, Mary Harron, Noreen Halpern, executive producers (Netflix)

Big Mouth, Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin, creators; Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin & Jennifer Flackett, executive producers (Netflix)

The End of the F***ing World, Andy Baker, Murray Ferguson, Petra Fried, Ed MacDonald, Dominic Buchanan, Jonathan Entwistle, executive producers (Netflix)

Killing Eve, Sally Woodward Gentle, Lee Morris, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, executive producers (BBC America)

Pose, Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Steven Canals, creators; Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall, Sherry Marsh, executive producers (FX Networks)

Sharp Objects, Marti Noxon, creator; Marti Noxon, Jason Blum, Gillian Flynn, Amy Adams, Jean-Marc Vall��e, Nathan Ross, Gregg Fienberg, Charles Layton, Marci Wiseman, Jessica Rhoades, executive producers (HBO)

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form

195 Lewis, Rae Leone Allen and?Yaani?Supreme, creators; Chanelle Aponte Pearson, EP

Cleaner Daze, Tess Sweet and Daniel Gambelin, creators

Distance, Alex Dobrenko, creator

The F Word, Nicole Opper, creator

She’s the Ticket, Mary Robertson and Anneka Jones, EPs; Nadia?Hallgren, director (Topic)

Twenty-seven writers, critics and programmers participated in the nomination process. The

Nominating Committees for the 2018 IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards were:

Nominating Committee for Best Feature, Best Screenplay, and Breakthrough Director:

Justin Chang, Film Critic, Los Angeles Times

Bilge Ebiri, Film Critic & Writer, New York Magazine/Vulture

Eric Kohn, Executive Editor & Chief Critic, IndieWire

Christy Lemire, Film Critic,?RogerEbert.com; Co-host of What the Flick?! podcast

Alison Willmore, Critic & Culture Writer, BuzzFeed News

Nominating Committee for Best Documentary:

Tom Hall, Executive Director, Montclair Film

Rachel Rosen, Director of Programming, SFFILM

Sky Sitney, Co-creator & Co-director, Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival

Basil Tsiokos, Director of Programming: DOC NYC & Nantucket Film Festival, Documentary Programming Associate, Sundance Film Festival

David Wilson, Co-Conspirator, True/False Film Fest

Nominating Committee for Best Actor and Best Actress:

David Fear, Senior Editor/Critic, Rolling Stone

Mark Harris, Columnist, New York Magazine/Vulture

Ann Hornaday, Chief Film Critic, The Washington Post

Brian Tallerico, Editor, RogerEbert.com

Alissa Wilkinson, Film Critic, Vox

Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Actor:

K. Austin Collins, Film Critic, Vanity Fair

David Ehrlich, Senior Film Critic, Indiewire

Jon Frosch, Reviews Editor, The Hollywood Reporter

Katie Walsh, Film Critic, Tribune Content Agency, Los Angeles Times

Emily Yoshida, Film Critic, New York Magazine/Vulture

Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Series �C Long Form:

Sophie Gilbert, Staff Writer, Culture, The Atlantic

Tim Goodman, Chief Television Critic, The Hollywood Reporter

Liz Shannon Miller, TV Editor, Indiewire

Sonia Saraiya, TV Critic, Vanity Fair

Alan Sepinwall, Chief TV Critic, Rolling Stone

Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Series �C Short Form:

Jude Dry, Staff Writer, IndieWire

Randi Kleiner, Founder & CEO, SeriesFest

Gotham Audience Award

IFP members will determine the Gotham Audience Award with nominees comprised of the?15?nominated films in the Best Feature, Best Documentary, and Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award categories. All IFP current, active members will be eligible to vote. Voting will?take place online?from?November 19^th?at 12:01 AM EST and conclude on November 24^th?at 5:00 PM EST.?In addition, IFP will be scheduling screenings of the nominated films for IFP members in the theater at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP in Brooklyn.?These screenings will take place from November 9-19.?The winner of the Breakthrough Series �C Short Form (all available on the web) will also be selected by online IFP member voting.

Sponsors

The Premier Sponsor of the 2018 IFP Gotham Awards is The New York Times, and the Platinum Sponsor is GreenSlate.?The Official Water Partner is FIJI Water, the Official Chocolate Partner is Lindt Chocolate and the Official Wine Partner is Robert Hall Winery. The Official After-Party Sponsor is Allbirds. Additionally, the awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times in November 2018.

2018 IFP Gotham Awards �C Alphabetical List of Nominated Films & Series

195 Lewis

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form

Alias Grace

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form

Bisbee ��17

Best Documentary

Big Mouth

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form

BlacKkKlansman

Best Actor

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Actor

Cleaner Daze

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form

Distance

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form

Eighth Grade

Breakthrough Director

Breakthrough Actor

The End of the F***ing World

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form

The F Word

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form

The Favourite

Best Feature

Best Screenplay

Jury Award Ensemble Performance

First Reformed

Best Feature

Best Screenplay

Best Actor

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Best Documentary

Hereditary

Best Actress

Breakthrough Director

If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Feature

Breakthrough Actor

Killing Eve

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form

Leave No Trace

Best Actor

Breakthrough Actor

Madeline��s Madeline

Best Feature

Breakthrough Actor

Minding the Gap

Best Documentary

Pose

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form

Private Life

Best Actress

Best Screenplay

The Rider

Best Feature

Roma

Breakthrough Actor

Sharp Objects

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form

She’s the Ticket

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form

Shirkers

Best Documentary

Skate Kitchen

Breakthrough Director

Sorry to Bother You

Best Actor

Breakthrough Director

Support the Girls

Best Actress

Best Screenplay

The Tale

Breakthrough Director

Thoroughbreds

Best Screenplay

Where is Kyra?

Best Actress

The Wife

Best Actress

Won��t You Be My Neighbor?

Best Documentary

About IFP

About the IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards

The IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking 51��, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.

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IFP And SeriesFest Launch Development Initiative For Independent Creators

April Bethea — Thu, 03 May 2018 17:03:45 +0000

Denver, CO (May 3, 2018) �� The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) and SeriesFest are proudly partnering to launch the ��Forward Impact Project,�� a year-round initiative designed to help finance, produce, release, scale, and build an audience for 15 select independent series deemed ready for development and production. These projects will be selected in collaboration by SeriesFest and IFP and will include long-form, digital and international projects.

The Forward Impact Project will take place during IFP Week in NYC, beginning on September 20, 2018, and will give the selected creators the opportunity to pitch to and receive feedback from a curated group of key industry players, including financiers, network executives, distributors and producers. The creators will then take one-on-one with meetings with the professionals in the room to help advance their projects.

In addition, each creator will be paired with a Forward Impact Ambassador, a successful IFP or SeriesFest alumni or industry professional that will serve as their mentor throughout the program. They will also be invited to participate in special VIP events at both IFP Week (September 15-20, 2018) and SeriesFest: Season Four (June 22-27, 2018).

IFP Executive Director Joana Vicente commented, ��IFP prides itself on opening doors for independent storytellers, and this initiative speaks to the core of our mission. It is a fitting program to include in our 40th Anniversary year.�� SeriesFest founder and CEO Randi Kleiner agreed, ��We are thrilled to be able to offer this one-of-a-kind opportunity to emerging voices in the industry that so often go unheard.��

ABOUT SERIESFEST

The award-winning international television festival SeriesFest (www.seriesfest.com) has become a must-attend destination event for entertainment industry leaders and fans alike since its launch in 2014. Season four of the Denver, Colorado-based festival returns June 22-27, 2018. A celebration of compelling and creative content, SeriesFest is a global marketplace and 51�� for creators, industry professionals and audiences. At a time when television is expanding and evolving like never before, the festival provides an opportunity to showcase a diverse range of original programming. This year��s festival will celebrate ��The Year of Impact�� with a musical performance and network premiere at the unique Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and six full days of in-competition screenings (categories include ��Independent Pilot,�� Digital Short Series,�� and ��Late Night��), panels, workshops, as well as never-before-seen sneak peeks and television premieres. The full schedule will be announced in May; passes are available now.

ABOUT IFP

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) champions the future of storytelling by connecting artists with essential resources at all stages of development and distribution. The organization fosters a vibrant and sustainable independent storytelling 51�� through its year-round programs for film, television, digital, audio and new media, which include IFP Week, IFP Labs, Filmmaker Magazine, IFP Gotham Awards and the Made in NY Media Center by IFP, a new incubator space developed with the Mayor��s Office of Media and Entertainment. IFP represents an ever-growing network of 10,000+ storytellers around the world and plays a key role in developing 350 new feature and documentary works each year. During its 40-year history, IFP has supported over 12,000 projects and offered resources to more than 20,000+ creatives.
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IFP Expands Its Support Programs to Include Audio Storytelling

Erik Luers — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:32:50 +0000

February 23, 2018 (New York, NY) �CToday, IFP (Independent Filmmaker Project) announced its expansion into audio storytelling at the IFP Audio Thought Leader Summit at the Made in NY Media Center. Now in its 40^th year, the organization dedicated to supporting ?the art and business of storytelling in all forms is expanding to include audio storytelling as one of the key pillars of its artist programs, educational initiatives and member offerings going forward.

In addition, the IFP Audio Story Labs will launch in April 2018 focusing on storytellers working in the audio space who are pushing storytelling forward. The Audio Story Labs will run alongside the eight-week Made in NY Podcast Certificate Program, a job training lab teaching participants how to develop, produce, and market a podcast will be open to public applicants, with the second edition to be held in April and underwritten by the Mayor��s Office of Media and Entertainment at no cost to participants. A full-time Podcast Suite, as well as additional podcast/audio workshops and classes are also now available at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP.

��IFP continues to support all forms of storytelling-regardless of platform- by breaking down barriers and creating a more vibrant and inclusive 51�� of creators,��said Joana Vicente, Executive Director.”With the growing interest and expanding possibilities in the audio space, podcasting and audio storytelling was an obvious choice to include in our programming focus.��

IFP Audio Thought Leader Summit

Kicking off IFP��s new, year-round focus on audio storytelling, the IFP Audio Thought Leader Summit is an event is designed to launch discussions among not only industry trailblazers, but also aspiring creators in podcasting and audio-based storytelling.

Throughout the day, presenters and panelists will discuss avenues for collaboration and innovation, industry trends, and identify emerging technology to explore paths forward in shaping the audio landscape. Speakers and panelists to include:

Eric Nuzum, Senior Vice President of Original Content Development at Audible
Will Hall, Executive Creative Director of RAIN Agency
Mark Websetr, CEO at Sayspring
John Srydenm Director of Scripted Content at Panoply Media
Susse Sonderby, Senior Product Designer at Sayspring
Leital Molad, Executive Producer, Podcasts at First Look Media
Chris Papaleo, Executive Director of Emerging Technology at Hearst
Gayle Troberman, Chief Marketing Officer at iHeart Media
Sophie Kleber, Executive Creative Director of Global Product and Innovation at Huge

Modeled on the meetings helmed at IFP��s 40 year-old signature co-production market, IFP Week, the day will also host over 120 ��speed dating�� meetings with its twenty inaugural Podcast Certificate Program graduates and other curated producers to discuss their skills and projects with industry leaders.

The IFP Audio Thought Leadership Summit is held in partnership with the Mayor��s Office of Media and Entertainment and the EDC.

About the IFP Audio Story Labs

Building on its existing IFP Lab programs, the IFP Audio Story Lab focuses on storytellers working in the serialized audio space who are focused on pushing storytelling forward.? Inspired by the IFP Film Labs, the invitation-only Labs for 2018 will feature select projects from IFP��s Podcast Pitch Night and work with fellows on developing story, structure and audiences for serialized, audio-based content. In addition, the program Lab Fellows will be paired with Audio Mentors, experienced producers and creators in the field, to provide developmental and strategic feedback. All fellows will also take part in IFP Week 2018, which includes curated meetings with select industry members as well as participation in a pitch session to industry professionals and experienced audio producers. Fellows will also be granted a six-month residency at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP, with access to the newly developed Podcast Suite and ongoing programs dedicated to audio storytelling.

IFP has played a vital role in launching the early work of now-established creatives working across multiple platforms including Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), Laura Poitras (Citizenfour), Dee Rees (Mudbound), Denis Villeneuve (Arrival), Roger Ross Williams (Life, Animated), and Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild). IFP via Filmmaker Magazine-produced ��25 New Faces of Independent Film�� were early champions of a litany of creative visionaries who have gone on to make their mark in the creative 51�� and popular culture including Ryan Coogler?(Black Panther) Lena Dunham (Girls), Cary Fukunaga (True Detective), Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman), and Casey Neistat.

About the Made in NY Podcast Certificate Program

This eight-week-long, tuition-free program focuses on job placement: teaching up-and-coming podcasters the editorial and technical skills to kick-start a career in podcasting. Coursework provides a comprehensive overview and hands-on experience of all elements of podcast-making, including development, production, post-production, distribution and monetization.

The next cohort of the Made in NY Podcast Certificate Program will be produced in continued partnership with the Mayor��s Office of Media and Entertainment, with the support of Voxnest and under the mentorship of an outstanding Advisory Board. The Advisory Board consists of Samantha Henig (New York Times); Erik Diehn (Midroll); Jenna Weiss-Berman and Eleanor Kagan (Pineapple Street Media), Jody Avirgan (ESPN), Francesco Baschieri (Spreaker), Brittany Luse, Chris Giliberti, Jorge Just, and Alex Blumberg (Gimlet); June Thomas (Slate); Dean Cappello (WNYC); and Andy Bowers (Panoply). Our special thanks to course instructor Kerry Donahue (Director of Training at PRX and former Director of Radio Programs at Columbia University��s Graduate School of Journalism).

ABOUT IFP

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) champions the future of storytelling by connecting artists with essential resources at all stages of development and distribution. The organization fosters a vibrant and sustainable independent storytelling 51�� through its year-round programs, which include IFP Week, IFP Labs, Filmmaker Magazine,? IFP Gotham Awards and the Made in NY Media Center by IFP, a new incubator space developed with the Mayor��s Office of Media and Entertainment. IFP represents an ever-growing network of 10,000+ storytellers around the world, and plays a key role in developing 350 new feature and documentary works each year. During its 39-year history, IFP has supported over 12,000 projects and offered resources to more than 20,000+ filmmakers. More info at www.ifp.org.

Nominations Announced for 27th Annual IFP Gotham Awards

Erik Luers — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:23:44 +0000

?New York, NY (October 19, 2017) �C The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation��s premier member organization of independent storytellers, announced today the nominees for the 27th?Annual IFP Gotham Awards. For 2017, ten competitive awards will be presented to independent features and series. In addition to the competitive awards, Gotham Award Tributes will be given to actors Nicole Kidman and Dustin Hoffman, director Sofia Coppola, producer Jason Blum, cinematographer Ed Lachman, and a Gotham Humanitarian Tribute to Al Gore.??

?51�� Awards is one of the leading awards for independent film and signals the kick-off to the film awards season. As the first major awards ceremony of the film season, the IFP Awards provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting award recipients prominently into national awards season attention.??

��This year offered a bountiful array of diverse, creative?work?that represents?the very?best?from this 51��.?We��re thrilled to celebrate these achievements,��?said Joana Vicente, Executive Director of IFP and the Made in NY Media Center.??

Thirty-four films and series received nominations this year. In addition, the nominating committee for the Best Actor and Best Actress categories voted to award a Special Jury Award to the ensemble cast of?Mudbound.??

51�� Audience Award nominees are comprised of the 14 films nominated for Best Feature, Best Documentary, and the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award. The winners will be selected by online voting of IFP members. Voting for that award begins November 17th.? In?addition?this year,?the winner of the Breakthrough Series – Short Form (all available on the web) will be selected by online IFP member voting.????

51�� Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, November 27th at Cipriani Wall Street.?

The 2017?? IFP Gotham Independent Film Award nominations are:?

Best Feature??

Call Me by Your Name?

Luca?Guadagnino, director; Peter Spears, Luca?Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco?Morabito, James Ivory, Howard?Rosenman, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)?

The Florida Project?

Sean Baker,?director; Sean Baker, Chris?Bergoch, Kevin?Chinoy, Andrew Duncan, Alex Saks, Francesca?Silvestri, Shih-Ching?Tsou, producers (A24)?

Get Out?

Jordan Peele, director; Sean?McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm, Jr., Jordan Peele, producers (Universal Pictures)?

Good Time?

Josh?and?Benny?Safdie, directors; Paris?Kasidokostas-Latsis, Terry?Dougas, Sebastian Bear-McClard, Oscar?Boyson, producers (A24)?

I, Tonya?

Craig Gillespie, director;?Bryan?Unkeless, Steven Rogers, Margot Robbie, Tom?Ackerley, producers (NEON)?

Best Documentary?

Ex?Libris?– The New York Public Library??

Frederick Wiseman, director and producer (Zipporah Films)?

Rat Film?

Theo Anthony, director; Riel?Roch-Decter, Sebastian Pardo, producers (MEMORY and Cinema Guild)?

Strong Island?

Yance?Ford, director;?Yance?Ford, Joslyn Barnes, producers (Netflix)?

Whose Streets??

Sabaah?Folayan, Damon Davis, directors;?Sabaah?Folayan, Damon Davis, Jennifer MacArthur, Flannery Miller, producers (Magnolia Pictures)?

The Work?

Jairus?McLeary,?director; Gethin Aldous, co-director; ?Alice?Henty, Eon?McLeary,?Jairus?McLeary, Miles?McLeary, producers (The Orchard and First Look Media)?

Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award?

Maggie Betts for?Novitiate?(Sony Pictures Classics)?

Greta?Gerwig?for?Lady Bird?(A24)?

Kogonada?for?Columbus?(Superlative Films/Depth of Field)?

Jordan Peele for?Get Out?(Universal Pictures)?

Joshua Z Weinstein for?Menashe?(A24)?

Best Screenplay?

The Big Sick, Emily V. Gordon and?Kumail?Nanjiani?(Amazon Studios)?

Brad��s Status, Mike White (Amazon Studios)?

Call Me by Your Name, James Ivory (Sony Pictures Classics)?

Columbus,?Kogonada?(Superlative Films/Depth of Field)?

Get Out, Jordan Peele (Universal Pictures)?

Lady Bird,?Greta?Gerwig?(A24)??

Best Actor*?

Willem Dafoe in?The Florida Project?(A24)?

James Franco in?The Disaster Artist?(A24)?

Daniel?Kaluuya?in?Get Out?(Universal Pictures)?

Robert Pattinson in?Good Time?(A24)?

Adam Sandler in?The?Meyerowitz?Stories (New and Selected)?(Netflix)?

Harry Dean Stanton in?Lucky?(Magnolia Pictures)?

Best Actress*?

Melanie?Lynskey?in?I Don��t Feel at Home in This World Anymore?(Netflix)?

Haley Lu Richardson in?Columbus?(Superlative Films/Depth of Field)?

Margot Robbie in?I, Tonya?(NEON)?

Saoirse?Ronan in?Lady Bird?(A24)?

Lois Smith in?Marjorie Prime?(FilmRise)?

Breakthrough Actor??

Mary J. Blige in?Mudbound?(Netflix)?

�վ��ǳٳ󨦱�?��󲹱��?��?Call Me by Your Name?(Sony Pictures?Classics)?

Harris Dickinson in?Beach Rats?(NEON)?

Kelvin Harrison, Jr. in?It Comes at Night?(A24)?

Brooklynn Prince in?The Florida Project?(A24)?

* The 2017 Best Actor/Best Actress nominating?committee?also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award for ensemble performance to?Mudbound,?The?award will go to actors Carey Mulligan, Garrett?Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blige, Rob Morgan, and Jonathan Banks.?

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form?

Atlanta, Donald Glover, creator; Donald Glover, Dianne?McGunigle, Paul Simms, executive producers (FX Networks)?

Better Things, Pamela?Adlon, Louis C.K., creators; Dave Becky, M. Blair?Breard, Louis C.K., Pamela?Adlon, executive producers (FX Networks)?

Dear White People, Justin?Simien, creator; Yvette Lee Bowser, Justin?Simien, Stephanie?Allain, Julia?Lebedev, executive producers (Netflix)?

Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator; Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Harry Williams, Jack Williams, executive producers (Amazon)?

Search Party, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, Michael Showalter, creators; Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, Michael Showalter, Tony Hernandez, Lilly?Burns,? executive?producers (TBS)?

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form?

555,?Kate?Berlant, Andrew?DeYoung?and John Early, creators (Vimeo)?

Inconceivable, Joel Ashton McCarthy, creator (YouTube)?

Junior, Zoe?Cassavetes, creator (Blackpills?and VICE)?

Let Me Die a Nun, Sarah?Salovaara, creator (Vimeo)?

The Strange Eyes of Dr.?Myes, Nancy Andrews, creator (YouTube)?

(Additional credits to be determined.)?

Twenty-eight writers, critics and programmers participated in the nomination process. The??

Nominating Committees?for the 2017?IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards were:?

Nominating Committee for Best Feature, Best Screenplay, and Breakthrough Director:?

Justin Chang, Film Critic,?Los Angeles Times?

Peter?Debruge,?Chief Film Critic,?Variety?

Christy?Lemire,?Film Critic,?RogerEbert.com; Co-host of What the Flick?!??

David Rooney, Chief Theater Critic,?The Hollywood Reporter??

Joshua?Rothkopf,?Global Deputy Film Editor,?Time Out New York?

Nominating Committee for Best Documentary:?

Ben?Fowlie,?Executive Director,?Points North?Institute; Founder,?Camden International Film Festival?

Cynthia Fuchs,?Film & TV Reviews,?PopMatters; Director of Film & Media Studies, George Mason University?

Eric Kohn, Deputy Editor & Chief Critic,?Indiewire?

Mike Maggiore,?Programmer, Film Forum?

Alissa Wilkinson, Film Critic,?Vox?

Nominating Committee for Best Actor and Best Actress:?

A.A. Dowd, Film Editor,?The A.V. Club?

David Ehrlich, Senior Film Critic,?Indiewire?

Tim Grierson, Senior U.S. Critic,?Screen International; Chief Film Critic,?Paste?

Sheila O��Malley, Writer/Film Critic,?RogerEbert.com, The Sheila Variations?

Alison Willmore,?Film?Critic,?BuzzFeed?News; Co-host?Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit?

Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Actor:?

Bilge?Ebiri, Film Critic,?Village Voice?

David Sims, Senior Associate Editor,?The Atlantic?

Brian?Tallerico, Film Editor,?RogerEbert.com?

Katie Walsh, Film Critic, Tribune Content Agency,?Los Angeles Times?

Emily Yoshida, Film Critic,?New York Magazine/Vulture.com?

Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Series �C Long Form:?

Sophie Gilbert,?Staff Writer, Culture,?The Atlantic?

Tim Goodman, Chief Television Critic,?The Hollywood Reporter?

Liz Shannon Miller, TV Editor,?Indiewire?

Sonia?Saraiya, TV Critic,?Variety?

Matt?Zoller?Seitz, Editor-in-Chief,?RogerEbert.com; TV Critic,?New York Magazine/Vulture.com?

Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Series �C Short Form:?

Jude Dry,?Reporter,?Critic,?Indiewire?

Randi?Kleiner, Founder & CEO,?SeriesFest?

Paula Mejia,?Associate Editor,?Atlas?Obscura; Author,?Jesus and Mary Chain��s?Psychocandy?

Gotham Independent Film Audience Award?

IFP members will determine the Gotham Independent Film Audience Award with nominees comprised of the?14?nominated films in the Best Feature, Best Documentary, and Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award categories.??

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form?

IFP members will determine the winner from among the five nominees for this award by viewing and voting for them online.?

All IFP current, active members at the Individual Level and above will be eligible to vote?for these audience-determined categories.?Voting will?take place online?from?November 17th?at?12:01 AM EST and conclude on November 25th?at 5:00 PM EST.?In addition, IFP will be scheduling screenings of the nominated films for IFP members in the theater at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP in Brooklyn.?These screenings will take place?from November?10-21.???

Sponsors?

The Premier Sponsor of the 2017 IFP Gotham Awards is The New York Times, and the Platinum Sponsors are Underground Lauderdale/Film, Music, Fashion & Create and?Greenslate.?Additionally, the awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times in November 2017.?

2017 IFP Gotham Awards �C Alphabetical List of Nominated Films & Series?

555?

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form?

Atlanta?

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form?

Beach Rats?

Breakthrough Actor?

Better Things?

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form?

The Big Sick?

Best Screenplay?

Brad��s Status?

Best Screenplay?

Call Me by Your Name?

Best Feature?

Best Screenplay?

Breakthrough Actor?

Columbus?

Breakthrough Director?

Best Screenplay?

Best Actress?

Dear White People?

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form?

The Disaster Artist?

Best Actor?

Ex?Libris?– The New York Public Library?

Best Documentary?

Fleabag?

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form?

The Florida Project?

Best Feature?

Best Actor?

Breakthrough Actor?

Get Out?

Best Feature?

Breakthrough Director?

Best Screenplay?

Best Actor?

Good Time?

Best Feature?

Best Actor?

I Don��t Feel at Home in This World Anymore?

Best Actress?

I, Tonya?

Best Feature?

Best Actress?

Inconceivable?

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form?

It Comes at Night?

Breakthrough Actor?

Junior?

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form?

Lady Bird?

Breakthrough Director?

Best Screenplay?

Best Actress?

Let Me Die a Nun?

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form?

Lucky?

Best Actor?

Marjorie Prime?

Best Actress?

Menashe?

Breakthrough Director?

The?Meyerowitz?Stories (New and Selected)?

Best Actor?

Mudbound?

Jury Award Ensemble Performance??

Breakthrough Actor?

Novitiate?

Breakthrough Director?

Rat Film?

Best Documentary?

Search Party?

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form?

The Strange Eyes of Dr.?Myes?

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form?

Strong Island?

Best Documentary?

Whose Streets??

Best Documentary?

The Work?

Best Documentary?

About IFP??

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) champions the future of storytelling by connecting artists with essential resources at all stages of development and distribution. The organization fosters a vibrant and sustainable independent storytelling 51�� through its year-round programs, which include IFP Week, IFP Labs, Filmmaker?Magazine,? IFP?Gotham Awards and the Made in NY Media Center by IFP, a new incubator space developed with the Mayor��s Office of Media and Entertainment. IFP represents an ever-growing network of 10,000+ storytellers around the world, and plays a key role in developing 350 new feature and documentary works each year. During its 39-year history, IFP has supported over 12,000 projects and offered resources to more than 20,000+ filmmakers. More info at www.ifp.org?

About the IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards?

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Nominees Announced for 26th Annual IFP Gotham Awards

Erik Luers — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 13:54:09 +0000

?New York, NY (October 20, 2016) �C The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation��s premier member organization of independent storytellers, announced today the nominees for the 26^th Annual IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards. For 2016, ten competitive awards will be presented to independent features and series. In addition to the competitive awards, Gotham Award Tributes will be given to actors Amy Adams and Ethan Hawke, director Oliver Stone, and Industry Tribute recipient, producer Arnon Milchan.

51�� Awards is one of the leading awards for independent film and signals the kick-off to the film awards season. As the first major awards ceremony of the film season, the IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting award recipients prominently into national awards season attention.

��We wish to offer our hearty congratulations to the 2016 Gotham Awards nominees, all of whose unique and exciting artistic achievements represent the very best in independent storytelling,�� said Joana Vicente, Executive Director of IFP and the Made in NY Media Center.

Thirty-two films and series received nominations this year. In addition, the nominating committees for the Best Actor and Best Actress categories and the Breakthrough Actor category jointly voted to award a Special Jury Award to the ensemble cast of Moonlight ��in which actors at all levels of experience give outstanding performances that speak eloquently to one another both within and across each chapter of the story.��

?Nominees are selected by committees of film critics, journalists, festival programmers, and film curators. Separate juries of writers, directors, actors, producers, editors and others directly involved in making films will determine the final Gotham Award recipients.

51�� Audience Award nominees are comprised of the 15 films nominated for Best Feature, Best Documentary, and the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award. The winner will be selected by online voting of IFP members. Voting for that award begins November 16^th?at 12:01 AM EST.

51�� Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, November 28th at Cipriani Wall Street.

The 2016 IFP Gotham Independent Film Award nominations are:

Best Feature

Certain Women

Kelly Reichardt, director; Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani, producers (IFC Films)

Everybody Wants Some!!

Richard Linklater, director; Megan Ellison, Ginger Sledge, Richard Linklater, producers (Paramount Pictures)

Manchester by the Sea

Kenneth Lonergan, director; Kimberly Steward, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, Kevin J. Walsh, producers (Amazon Studios)

Moonlight

Barry Jenkins, director; Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, producers (A24)

Paterson

Jim Jarmusch, director; Joshua Astrachan, Carter Logan, producers (Amazon Studios)

Best Documentary

Cameraperson

Kirsten Johnson, director; Marilyn Ness, producer (Janus Films)

I Am Not Your Negro

Raoul Peck, director; R��mi Grellety, Raoul Peck, H��bert Peck, producers (Magnolia Pictures, Independent Lens)

O.J.: Made in America

Ezra Edelman, director; Caroline Waterlow, Ezra Edelman, Tamara Rosenberg, Nina Krstic, Deirdre Fenton, Erin Leyden, producers (ESPN Films)

Tower

Keith Maitland, director; Keith Maitland, Megan Gilbride, Susan Thomson, producers (Kino Lorber, Independent Lens)

Weiner

Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, directors and producers (Sundance Selects and Showtime Documentary Films)

Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award

Robert Eggers for The Witch (A24)

Anna Rose Holmer for The Fits (Oscilloscope Laboratories)

Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert for Swiss Army Man (A24)

Trey Edward Shults for Krisha (A24)

Richard Tanne for Southside with You (Roadside Attractions and Miramax)

Best Screenplay

Hell or High Water, Taylor Sheridan (CBS Films)

Love & Friendship, Whit Stillman (Amazon Studios)

Manchester by the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan (Amazon Studios)

Moonlight, Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney; Screenplay by Barry Jenkins (A24)

Paterson, Jim Jarmusch (Amazon Studios)

Best Actor*

Casey Affleck in Manchester by the Sea (Amazon Studios)

Jeff Bridges in Hell or High Water (CBS Films)

Adam Driver in Paterson (Amazon Studios)

Joel Edgerton in Loving (Focus Features)

Craig Robinson in Morris from America (A24)

Best Actress*

Kate Beckinsale in Love & Friendship (Amazon Studios)

Annette Bening in 20^th Century Women (A24)

Isabelle Huppert in Elle (Sony Pictures Classics)

Ruth Negga in Loving (Focus Features)

Natalie Portman in Jackie (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Breakthrough Actor*

Lily Gladstone in Certain Women (IFC Films)

Lucas Hedges in Manchester by the Sea (Amazon Studios)

Royalty Hightower in The Fits (Oscilloscope Laboratories)

Sasha Lane in American Honey (A24)

Anya Taylor-Joy in The Witch (A24)

* The 2016 Best Actor/Best Actress and Breakthrough Actor nominating panels also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award for ensemble performance to Moonlight, ��in which actors at all levels of experience give outstanding performances that speak eloquently to one another both within and across each chapter of the story.�� The awards will go to actors Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Alex Hibbert, Andr�� Holland, Jharrel Jerome, Janelle Mon��e, Jaden Piner, Trevante Rhodes, and Ashton Sanders.

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rachel Bloom & Aline Brosh McKenna, creators; Marc Webb, Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna, Erin Ehrlich, executive producers (The CW)

The Girlfriend Experience, Lodge Kerrigan, Amy Seimetz, creators; Steven Soderbergh, Philip Fleischman, Amy Seimetz, Lodge Kerrigan, Jeff Cuban, Gary Marcus, executive producers (Starz)

Horace and Pete, Louis C.K., creator; M. Blair Breard, Dave Becky, Vernon Chatman, Dino Stamatopoulos, executive producers (louisck.net)

Marvel��s Jessica Jones, Melissa Rosenberg, creator; Melissa Rosenberg, Liz Friedman, Alan Fine, Stan Lee, Joe Quesada, Dan Buckley, Jim Chory, Jeph Loeb, Howard Klein, executive producers (Netflix)

Master of None, Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang, creators; Michael Schur, David Miner, Dave Becky, executive producers (Netflix)

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form

The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo, Brian Jordan Alvarez, creator (YouTube)

Her Story, Jen Richards and Laura Zak, creators (herstoryshow.com)

The Movement, Darnell Moore, Host (Mic.com)

Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People, Dylan Marron, creator (Seriously.TV)

Surviving, Reagan Gomez, creator (YouTube)

Twenty-nine writers, critics and programmers participated in the nomination process. The

Nominating Committees for the 2016 IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards were:

Nominating Committee for Best Feature, Best Screenplay, and Breakthrough Director:

Justin Chang, Film Critic, Los Angeles Times

Ann Hornaday, Chief Film Critic, The Washington Post

Eric Kohn, Deputy Editor & Chief Film Critic, Indiewire

Dana Stevens, Movie Critic, Slate

Stephanie Zacharek, Film Critic, TIME

Nominating Committee for Best Documentary:

Joanne Feinberg, Producer, Consultant, and Curator, FeinFilm

Ben Fowlie, Executive Director of the Points North Institute; Founder of the Camden International Film Festival

Cynthia Fuchs, Film-TV Editor, PopMatters; Director of Film & Media Studies, George Mason University

Tom Hall, Executive Director, The Montclair Film Festival

Sky Sitney, Professor, Film and Media Studies, Georgetown University; Co-Director, Double Exposure Festival

Nominating Committee for Best Actor and Best Actress:

A.A. Dowd, Film Editor, The A.V. Club

Mark Harris, Columnist, Vulture

Jessica Kiang, Features Editor & Festival Critic, The Playlist; Film Critic, Variety

David Rooney, Chief Theater Critic, The Hollywood Reporter

Alison Willmore, Critic, BuzzFeed

Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Actor:

Bilge Ebiri, Film Critic, Village Voice

David Ehrlich, Senior Film Critic, Indiewire

Tim Grierson, Senior U.S. Critic, Screen International; Chief Film Critic, Paste

Sheila O��Malley, Writer/Film Critic, RogerEbert.com, The Sheila Variations

Katie Walsh, Film Critic, Tribune Content Agency, Los Angeles Times

Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Series �C Long Form:

Matthew Gilbert, TV Critic,?The?Boston Globe

Liz Shannon Miller, TV Editor, Indiewire

Sonia Saraiya, TV Critic, Variety

David Sims, Senior Associate Editor, The Atlantic

Tim Goodman, Chief Television Critic, The Hollywood Reporter

Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Series �C Short Form:

Rich Goldstein, Producer,?The Daily Beast

Randi Kleiner, Founder & CEO, SeriesFest

Paula Mejia, Reporter & Culture Writer,?Newsweek

Aymar Jean Christian, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University

deep euphoria Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers ��Live the Dream�� Grant

For the sixth consecutive year, euphoria Calvin Klein is proud to present the Spotlight on Women Filmmakers ��Live the Dream�� grant, a $25,000 cash award for an alumna of IFP��s Independent Filmmaker Labs or IFP’s Screen Forward Lab. This grant aims to further the careers of emerging women directors by supporting the completion, distribution and audience engagement strategies of their first feature film or episodic series. The nominees are:

Shaz Bennett, director, Alaska is a Drag

Katie Orr, director, Poor Jane

Roxy Toporowych, director, Julia Blue

Gotham Independent Film Audience Award

IFP members will determine the Gotham Independent Film Audience Award with nominees comprised of the?15?nominated films in the Best Feature, Best Documentary, and Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award categories. All IFP current, active members at the Individual Level and above will be eligible to vote. ?Voting will?take place online?from?November 16^th?at 12:01 AM EST and conclude on November 23^rd?at 5:00 PM EST.?In addition, IFP will be scheduling screenings of the nominated films for IFP members in the theater at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP in Brooklyn.?These screenings will take place from November 9-15.?The winner of the Audience Award will be announced at the Gotham Awards Ceremony on November 28, 2016.

Sponsors

The Premier Sponsor of the 2016 Gotham Awards is The New York Times, and the Platinum Sponsors are deep euphoria Calvin Klein?and Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Office of Film, Music and Entertainment.

2016 IFP Gotham Awards �C Alphabetical List of Nominated Films & Series

20^th Century Women

Best Actress

American Honey

Breakthrough Actor

Cameraperson

Best Documentary

Certain Women

Best Feature

Breakthrough Actor

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form

Elle

Best Actress

Everybody Wants Some!!

Best Feature

The Fits

Breakthrough Director

Breakthrough Actor

The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form

The Girlfriend Experience

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form

Hell or High Water

Best Screenplay

Best Actor

Her Story

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form

Horace and Pete

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form

I Am Not Your Negro

Best Documentary

Jackie

Best Actress

Krisha

Breakthrough Director

Love & Friendship

Best Screenplay

Best Actress

Loving

Best Actor

Best Actress

Manchester by the Sea

Best Feature

Best Screenplay

Best Actor

Breakthrough Actor

Marvel��s Jessica Jones

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form

Master of None

Breakthrough Series �C Long Form

Moonlight

Best Feature

Best Screenplay

Special Jury Award �C Ensemble Performance

Morris from America

Best Actor

The Movement

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form

O.J.: Made in America

Best Documentary

Paterson

Best Feature

Best Screenplay

Best Actor

Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form

Southside with You

Breakthrough Director

Surviving

Breakthrough Series �C Short Form

Swiss Army Man

Breakthrough Director

Tower

Best Documentary

Weiner

Best Documentary

The Witch

Breakthrough Director

Breakthrough Actor

About IFP

IFP represents a growing network of storytellers around the world, and plays a key role in developing 350 new feature and documentary works each year. During its 37-year history, IFP has supported over 10,000+ projects and offered resources to more than 20,000+ filmmakers, including Debra Granik, Miranda July, Michael Moore, Dee Rees, and Benh Zeitlin. More info at?www.ifp.org.

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Film Markets, Film Festivals, and the Difference Between Them

Mark Litwak — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:55:18 +0000

Markets and festivals are not the same. Some filmmakers may find the difference confusing because the Berlin and Cannes Film Festivals operate concurrently with an adjoining film market. Sundance is a festival but an informal market of sorts has grown up around the festival with distributors bidding to acquire rights to some films.

Markets are generally only open to the trade, and the fee to attend limits attendance to industry professionals. A member of the public usually cannot buy a ticket to see a film at a market or participate in it. At markets, films are screened for buyers. Actually, it would be more accurate to call these buyers “licensees” since they usually do not buy ownership of a film, but license distribution rights for a term of years in their country. A buyer might be a German broadcaster interested in acquiring films to distribute on his cable television service. Another buyer might be a theatre-chain owner who wants to exhibit films in Turkey. Some buyers want all media rights (including theatrical, television, digital, and home video) in a territory, and may sub-license some of those rights to other distributors.

Markets are an opportunity for buyers worldwide to interact with those who license film rights. These licensors are usually sales agents acting on behalf of producers. In the course of a market, a buyer can talk to many sales agents and view multiple films. Deals may be signed during the market or afterwards. The market is also an opportunity for sellers and buyers to socialize, and to build relationships with people with whom they often transact business by email or phone.

Festivals, on the other hand, are open to the public. Anyone can buy a ticket to a screening, although at the most popular festivals, there may not be enough tickets to go around. Festivals can provide a test of a film’s audience appeal. A festival screening may be the first opportunity for the filmmaker to see how typical moviegoers react to the film. ?Of course, festivalgoers tend to be better educated and wealthier than the average moviegoer. Nevertheless, a festival screening does provide some good feedback.

Festivals serve several important functions. First, they expose films to distributors. Acceptance at a top festival will induce many acquisition executives to take a look at a film, either at the festival or by asking to screen the film outside the festival. Winning a top festival may make a film highly desirable in the eyes of distributors and may lead to a bidding war.

Festivals can also generate publicity for a film and draw the public’s attention to it. Thus, once distribution has been secured, the distributor may want to screen the film in festivals to build awareness and perhaps generate good reviews. If the timing of the festival is near the release date?of?the film, participation in the festival may help publicize the picture. Alternatively, if the film is not going to be released for another six months, publicity now may not be helpful; it can even be harmful. When the film is released, the prior coverage will have been forgotten by the public, and the news media will consider the film old news. The media may not review the film again or write articles about it.

A Father’s Tale: Angus MacLachlan on “Goodbye to All That”

Erik Luers — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 23:57:15 +0000

Although father may not always know best, Goodbye to All That’s heartfelt and humorous look at a middle-age dad who, after an unpleasant divorce, is quickly thrown into a world of new opportunities (of the female variety) and struggles (concerns for his kin), proves that he most certainly tries. Director Angus MacLachlan, known in the film world for writing the Academy Award-nominated Junebug and Robert De Niro starrer Stone, makes his directorial debut here, proving that he has quite an assured approach to getting the best out of his actors; he guides them to strong performances that are equally realistic and morosely funny (his lead, Paul Schneider, won the 2014 Best Actor Award at the Tribeca Film Festival). As the film gets set to open, I spoke with MacLachlan about what lead him to the directing chair and just how much of a collaborative effort goes into the filmmaking process. The film is currently playing at the and is available .

�� Erik Luers

IFP: What lead you to?Goodbye to All That, your directorial debut? As a screenwriter, had you often been on set for your previous films??Is that how you “caught the bug?”

MacLachlan: I’ve been on the set of all the films I’ve written. I was first educated as an actor, and then was a playwright and screenwriter for a number of years (I also directed for the stage a lot). It was something that I always wanted to do, and my directorial debut came about when I offered my screenplay to Phil Morrison, the director of Junebug. He said “Angus, the central emotional component of your film is the father-daughter relationship, and I don’t have children, but you do. I think you should direct it.” I then gave it to another friend, who is also a director, and?he said the same thing. Eventually, I spoke to my producers?and they?asked who I wanted to direct the film. I said that I wanted someone as good as Phil [Morrison], but if we couldn’t get him, then I was interested in doing it myself. They thought about it, came back, and said “well, let’s see if we can try and do that.”

Having now directed a feature, do you see filmmaking as more of a collaborative process? While you also wrote the screenplay for the film, this is your first time working with a cinematographer, editor, etc.? Do you?find yourself thinking more about how to do things like a scene transition, when to employ a dissolve, when to fade to black, etc.?

MacLachlan: Oh yeah. You know, as a screenwriter, that’s one of the frustrating things. Not only did I have aspirations to direct, but as an actor and a Visual Arts major in school, I had a real idea of how I think things should be played in a scene. I had a great editor on this project, Jennifer Lilly, who I sat beside everyday and we’d say “let’s try this, let’s try that, let’s move this around…” I loved that collaboration. That was a fantastic aspect of directing and was one of the things I enjoyed the most, considering directing was the scariest thing I’d ever done! I was so scared. [laughs]

How important is casting then? Do you direct and edit to the strength of the performance?

MacLachlan: We had a great casting director, Mark Bennett, and I loved the cast we came up with. But it really did show to me, being in the editing room, how vulnerable performances on film are. You can really, really create a performance in the editing room. You can make someone look much worse than they normally are or much better than they normally are. You can really create moments that work well, in the act of playing, by how long you cut back-and-forth between two actors. That was amazing to me. Film actors have to really throw themselves into the dark and have to trust their director that something good will come from it. It’s why a lot of times people go, “I don’t understand. That actor was so good in that movie and yet so terrible in this other one!” That happens a lot, and as an actor, you’re really at the mercy of the elements chosen by the director.?

You had mentioned that you are a father yourself, so I’d like to ask how Goodbye to All That came to be. It feels inspired by the films of Robert Benton, with situations at times reminiscent of Benton’s?Kramer VS Kramer. It’s rare to see a father’s side of this story.

MacLachlan:?Well, I’m not divorced, but I do have one daughter (like Otto does in the film). It came about because a lot of my friends had gone through breakups like this, and I started to takes notes about their experiences. They would tell me stories that were harrowing and funny and neurotic and exciting and really sad, and all the while, I kept taking notes. And you’re right, this is sort of a slightly funnier version of?Kramer VS Kramer. Another inspiration was ?An Unmarried Woman?from 1978, a film that?focuses on a mother learning how to stand on her own two feet. I wanted to see if you could tell that story from a man’s perspective. It’s not that Otto is immature, but rather that he’s unconscious and has to have his consciousness raised. When?An Unmarried Woman?came out, it was about the feminist movement and about raising the female consciousness to say that “if a man can do it, then I can do it too.” I think there are a lot of men who don’t know what’s going on, don’t pay attention, and need to have their consciousness raised.

Why did you choose to set the film in North Carolina? I know your lead actor, Paul Schneider, is from there, but do you share any?history with the state?

MacLachlan: That’s where I’m from and I?still live there. The film is shot in my hometown, and there’s actually a lot of North Carolinans in the film. Amy Sedaris is from Raleigh and Heather Lawless, who plays Lara, is from Cherokee. And Anna Camp is from South Carolina, so there’s a lot of connections.

The film encompasses a very distinct, classical piano score throughout the film. It feels perfectly right for the setting. Could you speak about working with a composer?

MacLachlan: All of the music is actually heightened piano concertos. Early on, when I was first imagining directing the film, I knew I wanted music and I knew that I didn’t want pop music. I really couldn’t afford that and I think it’s a real cliche now. There’s something about heightened piano concertos that really felt like the character of Otto. There’s a certain out of control element to them, like silent comedians, and I feel like Otto is somewhat out of control at certain points in his life. The music is also in the public domain. I had to fight for them a lot. A lot of people said that it wasn’t going to work and that we need other music in there, and yet there’s something interesting about the formality of the classical music that we used and this story.

The film begins with Otto competing in a track competition, and subsequently throughout the film we are exposed to a tracking shot of him running and having to deal with an injury he had sustained earlier in the film. Was it important to create a physical distinction for the character? It’s such a recurring motif to keep going back to that injury as Otto’s personal experiences get tougher.

MacLachlan: Absolutely. It was one of my intentions to make Otto an athlete and particularly a runner, because runners are trained not to pay attention to pain. They are supposed to run through their pain, sometimes to the detriment of their bodies and thus hurting themselves more. That’s who Otto is. He doesn’t pay attention to his pain. I mean, something has been wrong in his marriage for quite a while that he had not paying attention to. I wanted him to have an injury, his Achilles Heel, that he keeps trying to run past and yet it’s still there. He loses to a woman ��?an older woman, at that ��?in the last scene of him running (whereas he won the first race we see him in). There’s a real key there that was intentional for me, to physicalize it. He’s going to have this injury and this scar forever, and it’s very much like divorce. You’re going to live with it forever and you can never get away from it, especially if you’re a parent.

The film really captures the joy of being single again and being able to flirt with someone privately online, whether it be thru dating websites or on Facebook. It also documents the pain of finding out (via social media) that your wife has been doing much more than just flirting. Much of the excitement and pain apparent is derived simply from the camera’s attention to Schneider’s face. How do you shoot a compelling scene involving an actor, one-on-one, without another physical presence there??

MacLachlan: The scenes that you’re talking about, where Otto finds out that his wife is cheating on him, were interesting because it’s all very clearly written out in the script. It’s written that he has trouble remembering his wife’s Facebook password, finally remembers it, discovers her secret, and then gets upset. But when we shot it, it got very interesting. I would say his character’s thoughts while he was performing them. It’s something that we both came up with. I would say “oh, what’s her password again? God, I thought I remembered it…..oh yeah, that’s it! Wait, what is that? Oh fuck!” I was standing beside the camera saying Otto’s thoughts, which was something that Paul really wanted. And in regard to the phone conversations featured in the film, we shot them separately. Some actors like to have an actual person, or the other actor, feeding him the lines when we’re just shooting one side. Paul didn’t want that. In the big scene where he and the character of Lara are talking on the phone, we didn’t have our actress, Heather Lawless, read the lines, but rather our script supervisor in another room, doing the dialogue with him. When we shot Heather’s side of that conversation, Paul volunteered to hide behind the couch she’s sitting on and run the scene with her. It was a very nice thing to do, as it was his day off and he came in to do that for her.

Speaking of finding ways to shoot those telephone conversations, did you ever struggle with how to keep them lively? A phone call is not something inherently cinematic, but you make them very entertaining. A few examples include Otto talking to his friend on the phone about his marriage,?as you cut to his friend on the other line, a nonchalant grade school principal with students sluggishly sitting in his office. I’m also reminded of the last phone call in the film, between Otto and his daughter, which is unique because we’re only shown Otto….

MacLachlan: You know, that?was something I didn’t even realize until we were shooting. Whenever Otto talks to his daughter, you don’t hear her. It wasn’t a conscious decision. Most of the other phone conversations in the film feature both people on the phone. That’s again a testament to Paul’s acting. That last conversation in the film was done completely on his own. There’s one other conversation in the film, where he calls up Lara and asks her to come over, that Paul did completely?by himself. It is a curious thing, to keep a phone conversation alive in a movie. The big conversation between Lara and Paul features the two characters in separate rooms. Sometimes when you see movies with people on the phone, you think “this is boring! I want to see the two people together,” but I don’t feel that it’s boring here, because of the performances and the length of the scene.

The film also has some fun with the very religious (one character is hypersexualized and yet has to consult her Bible afterward because she feels guilty about her urges). And yet, by having Otto’s daughter interested in church as well, perhaps it’s not all antagonistic.

MacLachlan: Religion is a funny thing to present sincerely. I don’t know if it’s particularly regional, but we had a lot of religion in?Junebug?too and a lot of people noticed it. I’m not religious, but it’s something that’s in a lot of people’s lives (and a lot of people I know’s lives). Children of Otto’s daughter’s age start to ask about God, and if they don’t go to church, they’re wondering why they’re not. The daughter sees her father getting hurt all the time and wonders what kind of God would do that. Because of this, she wants to talk to the female minister. And in regard to Debbie Spangler [the hypersexualized character previously mentioned], I don’t think her problem is that she’s religious, but that she’s a little bit bipolar. That’s the problem. She has overpowering feelings that get away from her every once in a while.

When you’re directing a scene, do you think about?genre at all? I’m thinking of the scene with the therapist, where she explains to Otto, in front of his wife, that his marriage is over. It’s very funny due to the awkward humility of the situation, but it’s also somewhat sad and tragic.?

MacLachlan: I don’t really think in that way. I’ve heard this film described in so many different ways, whether by calling it a dramedy, or a comedy, or a drama, or a romantic comedy. I just think that life is funny and sad at the same time. It can be horrifying too. I think it has all of these mixtures and I enjoy?films that are like that and have those elements.

The Filmmaker��s Scrappy Bag O��Tricks For Shooting On The Cheap

BFD PRODUCTIONS — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:52:13 +0000

In Season 1, we introduced ��,�� a deluded, name-dropping, inappropriate, social-climbing couple of New York City, to the interwebs on LogoTV.com. In Season 2, that premiered on?Feb. 18th, we wanted to up the ante without upping the ultra-low budget. So, when the show��s creators and writers, Damon Cardasis and Shannon Walker, dreamed up a car chase scene through New York City, we paused for a moment, then said, ��we��ll figure it out!��? Two months later it was 2am in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and we��re shooting a latex clad transexual, behind the wheel of a rented Mustang convertible with Canon 5D Mark III��s mounted on every corner of the car. The ante had indeed been raised. It was truly a ��DIY�� project for our production company. But, if we really are going to use that wonderful buzzword, ��DIY,�� then how did we ��do it ourselves��?

Let us introduce ourselves. We��re the Director/Producer team Roxy Hunt and Tony Castle, at . ?Since ��Vicky & Lysander�� is a passion project for us, the budget had to come from our own pockets, and keeping cost and time down was essential.?With two seasons under our belt, we wanted to pass on a few tips to fellow filmmakers on how to increase the production value of your work, without going broke. Here is what worked, what didn��t work, and an explanation as to why our office is filled with Barbie dolls.

Here’s our 6 Tips:

1. ?Practice everything you can:

It��s no surprise that thorough pre-production will save you time on set and make everything run a whole lot smoother. Rehearsing with actors is always very useful, but it��s equally important to make detailed shot lists and storyboards. Even rehearsing camera moves and set-ups will enable you to have a set with almost 0% downtime.

One shoot day comes to mind when we probably should have followed our own advice. It was a simple jib shot above a bed that started on a close-up of our leading lady Vicky as she recalls the pain staking memory of the time her thoroughbred horse Vanessa, was murdered. All we needed to do was jib up from a close-up to a wide shot above the bed, but it was the crews first time using this particular jib, and something was just off every time we tried the move.

The night was getting late, the set was getting weary, morale was dropping, but we were determined to get it right. Time and time again we tried different tricks to keep it steady, balance it more precisely, but all of this was eating up time on our shoot and making people anxious. In the end, we finally got the move down (and it made for a great shot), but had we devoted time before the shoot day to practicing and perfecting the move with the crew, we surely would have had an earlier wrap time.

Rehearsals aside – shot lists, storyboards, and detailed overheads were always essential for our shoots. The idea was to avoid anyone asking, ��Ok, what��s next?�� We always kept our vision for each scene handy in order to keep the momentum going.

Quick Tip: If you are, like us, not great storyboard artists, buy a few Barbies for use as ��stand-ins�� in your storyboards. Simply set them up under the approximate lighting you are aiming for, snap a few pics on your iPhone, and voila!? Storyboards in under 5 minutes. Easy and fun!

2. Location, Location, Location:

Set design and location can obviously influence the production value of your work but often times you��re far from being able to afford a sound stage, build sets, or pay for location rental fees. Without much cash to spend on locations, we specifically searched for places that were already dressed fairly close to what we wanted to save cost. Additionally, Shannon and Damon kept in mind early on in the writing process locations we might have access to, and that wouldn��t require very much effort in production design.

in the Financial District of NY, ?which Shannon had been attending for years seemed like an ideal option, so much so, that it was written specifically into the script for a scene in which the characters Lysander and Jenny work up a sweat as they talk through their relationship problems. The space was filled with boxing memorabilia, punching bags, weights, and a large boxing ring in the center, all of which made that scene a lot more realistic and allowed the viewer to become more immersed in the narrative. In lieu of paying a rental fee, the gym agreed to let us shoot after closing time as long as we kept it under 3 hours, paid their front desk employee her hourly wage to stay overtime, and featured the gym��s signage in the episode. Make as many deals like this as you can!

Quick Tip: Instead of opting to pay a location rental fee, offer things you do have. It could be free publicity for the space, featuring their logos in the film, or mentioning them in social media.

3. ?Don��t skimp on the sound design:

Even though you may not have a ton of resources to devote to post-production, always remember that sound is an important tool to make your work much more cohesive and sophisticated. Films like Catfish, or Blair Witch Project, that did not rely on high-end cameras or lighting, have a lower-budget look, but because their sound design was crucial in telling their stories they kept their audience invested in the narrative. For us, adding over the top, emotionally charged ��trailer music�� and sound FX to our season 2 trailer, helped pull the piece together, keep the pace moving, and also communicate the humor and style of the show to our viewers.

Quick Tip:? Using resources like , , and Videoblocks.com?are cost-effective, easy ways to add great sounds and music.

Hear the sounds of Season 2 by .

4. Every dollar you spend should be seen onscreen:

A small jib, a portable dolly, springing for nicer lenses, a cheap fog machine and a nice wig (if the scene calls for a jet-black wig wearing super hero kicking down a door, see V&L Season 2 Trailer and ep. 209��), can easily up the production value of your work.

Quick Tip: Great resources for cheaper equipment that we��ve used are (where now you can even rent the ), , and even renting from a friend can be a great resource as well.

5. Think on your feet:

This might seem like an obvious point, but it��s worth remembering. Even if you��ve tried your hardest to prepare for a shoot, you��ve also got to be prepared for things to change. Even though we were very committed to the vision of what we wanted the show to be, sometimes our vision had to be adapted. For example, one scene in episode three, called for 30 businessmen around a large conference table as Lysander pitches his ground-breaking new fragrance. It was the night before the shoot, and our Craigslist ad only yielded three responses for these businessmen extras. We were stressed. The next morning, two out of the three had dropped out, and we were left with one very committed middle-aged man named Larry. Suddenly, it all made sense. The joke of Lysander embarrassing himself by pitching his ridiculous idea to 30 powerful investors, became an overly confident Lysander conducting what he thinks is a life-changing meeting with one docile man in an over-sized conference room, fit for 30.

6. Just say, “Yes!”:

So, there we are speeding down the quiet streets of Sunset Park in a rented convertible for our epic car chase climax. We called on a fellow filmmaker friend, ?, who provided the expertise for the car mounts. We lit the inside of the car with handheld LED lights bought from a hardware store, and we loaded up on sandwiches from a local deli. Of course, we got a flat tire before the night was over, but it was 4am by that time anyways, and we had what we needed. There were definitely times when we had no clue what we were doing, and of course we were barely awake by the end of it, but because we just said ��yes�� to the idea, Season 2 features (among many ridiculous premises) a convertible speeding uptown in the cover of night, racing to cross 14^th street, in order to escape the evil free thinking artists of downtown Manhattan.

The first three episodes of Season 2 of ��Vicky & Lysander�� premiered on February 18th on YouTube. Visit to watch new episodes every Tuesday, and?catch up on all of Season 1.

Visit vickyandlysander.com and follow Vicky & Lysander on ,,, and Twitter (@realRealVicky, @TheRealLysander)

Follow Roxy and Tony at BFD Productions on and Twitter (). Visit bfdnyc.com for more info on us!

IFP Announces Filmmaker Conference Programming for 35th Annual Independent Film Week

Website Update — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:28:47 +0000

September 15-19

Highlights Include Keynotes from Film and Media Luminaries,

Explorations of the Hottest Issues in Narrative and Documentary Filmmaking,

Case Studies, Pitch Workshops, and More

Featuring New Sundance Institute #ArtistServices NYC Workshop and Partnership with Upright Citizens Brigade

August 22, 2013 (Brooklyn, NY) �C The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) announced today the program for its annual Filmmaker Conference, taking place during Independent Film Week September 15-19, 2013 at the New York Public Library��s Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center. ?IFP��s Independent Film Week champions the future of storytelling in the digital age by fostering a vibrant and sustainable independent filmmaking 51��.? The Filmmaker Conference, like the concurrent Project Forum �C and soon to open ��Made in NY�� Media Center by IFP �C showcases how great projects and creatives can connect with collaborators and audiences to make work that stands out in a crowded marketplace across multiple platforms and mediums.

��Independent Film Week is the culmination of all we do at IFP and is the destination for storytellers in all mediums to connect with industry and peers to further advance their projects in an environment that promotes 51��, growth, and career sustainability,�� said Joana Vicente, IFP Executive Director.? ��We hope filmmakers, content creators, innovators, and audiences will come out in force to experience first-hand the expanded opportunities IFP has been working to provide the international film and media 51��.��

Each day of the conference guides filmmakers in the art, technology and business of independent filmmaking. Sunday 9/15 Future Forward is targeted to the next generation of filmmakers; Monday 9/16 The Truth About Non-Fiction focuses on hottest issues in documentary; Tuesday 9/17 Crafting a Career programming provides A-Z on career sustainability; Wednesday 9/18 presents two concurrent programs connecting participants with leaders and industry trends through Meet the Decision Makers & #ArtistServices NYC presented by Sundance Institute; Thursday 9/19 Re:Invent is focused on new technologies and alternative storytelling platforms.

This year��s Filmmaker Conference program highlights include Keynotes from Oscar-nominated producer Jon Kilik (Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Hunger Games), filmmaker Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Leviathan), and multimedia musician DJ Spooky, plus case studies of Fruitvale Station, Our Nixon, Sound City, and web-based doc Hollow �C with more to come.

Among the panels touching on the hottest issues in filmmaking is ��Documentaries that Disturb the Power Structure,�� a conversation with Oscar nominees Tia Lessin & Carl Deal, directors of Citizen Koch; Mette Hoffman Meyer, executive producer of Alex Gibney��s Park Avenue; and Claire Aguilar of ITVS. Centerpiece panels include ��New Black Voices,�� presented with the Time Warner Foundation, exploring the state of the industry and featuring Nekisa Cooper (producer, Pariah), Shaka King (Newlyweeds), and Yoruba Richen (The New Black) as well as ��Making your Film(s): Video Content Strategies for Building Buzz��, presented with Vimeo. There will also be conversations on understanding investors�� motivations, documentary director-subject relationships, the power of Social Capital, filmmaking outside of NY & LA, and latest trends in web comedies.

In an effort to ensure interactivity, idea expansion and 51�� collaborations at the Conference, new additions to this year��s Conference include:

*IFP and Sundance Institute present the first-ever #ArtistServices NYC workshop on Wednesday, September 18, revolving around the latest technology and trends including a crash course on DCP, creative financing, guerrilla marketing, and independent digital distribution.

*Blitz Presentations from those telling stories across many platforms such as street photographer Jamel Shabazz, animator Dash Shaw, composer Peter Nashel, big data pioneers at the Harmony Institute, game designer Nick Fortugno, distribution advisor Peter Broderick, and the Walker Art Center��s #CatVidFest.

*IFP partners with comedy incubator Upright Citizens Brigade to produce daily ��Creativity Games,�� an opportunity for participants to play and create on the fly, sparking ideas for future projects.

*Pitch Workshops, presented in partnership with Filmmaker Magazine, will also give participants the chance to describe projects to a panel of experts and get real-time feedback to hone their skills and success rates. Applications open now for screenplays, documentaries, and web-native content at /conferences/filmmaker-conference

*Launched last year, the expanded Meet the Decision Makers sessions provides small group meetings with top distributors, agents, and grantors including: Bond360, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Cinedigm, Cinereach, Creative Capital, Energy Entertainment, Fandor, Film Collaborative, Firelight Media Producers�� Lab, Nantucket Screenwriters Colony, Oscilloscope, Sony Pictures Classics, Sundance Documentary Fund, Tribeca Film Institute, VHX, Vimeo Pro, WGAE and more.

IFP��s assists filmmakers to cultivate and build audiences for their work in development, post, and in the marketplace.? Opportunities for film lovers and media industry to discover tomorrow��s great storytellers today during Film Week include:

*New Voices! Screenplay Reading Series, presented by SAGIndie, attendees will hear excerpts from four screenplays participating in ��䡯�� Emerging Storytellers program at Independent Film Week performed live by actors cast by Zoe E. Rotter (casting associate, X-Men: First Class, Kick Ass). The Tuesday, September 17 event features excerpts from J. Todd Walker��s The Highway Kind, Jac Schaeffer��s I Like You Like You, Christina Choe��s Nancy, and Jeremiah Zagar and Dan Kitrosser��s We the Animals.

*IFP��s annual free and open to the public party and screening, the Independent Filmmaker Labs ��Sneak Preview�� Showcase, presented with Rooftop Films, convenes again September 16. The Labs Showcase gives audiences a first-look at exciting new films, before their festival premieres. This outdoor screening features excerpts from the 20 new films from the emerging talent of the 2013 IFP Labs, the nation��s only program that supports diverse feature filmmakers when they need it most: through the completion, marketing and distribution of their first features. IFP��s Labs are presented in partnership with the Time Warner Foundation. Past films first showcased here include Dee Rees�� Pariah (Focus Features), David Lowery��s (Ain��t Them Bodies Saints) first feature St. Nick, Alexandre Moors�� Blue Caprice (Sundance Selects, opens 9/13), Lucy Mulloy��s Una Noche (IFC, opens 8/23), Stacie Passion‘s Concussion (Radius TWC, opens 10/4), Michael Collins‘ Give Up Tomorrow (P.O.V), and Penny Lane‘s Our Nixon (CNN Films/Cinedigm, opens 8/30).

For the latest Conference schedule and to purchase tickets: /conferences/filmmakerconference

About IFP

The Independent?Filmmaker Project (IFP) is the premier advocacy organization for independent filmmakers, championing the future of storytelling in the digital age by fostering a vibrant and sustainable independent filmmaking 51��.

IFP has supported over 7,000 films and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers over its 34-year history, developing 350 new feature and documentary films each year.? IFP represents a growing network of 10,000 filmmakers and artists in New York City and around the?world.

IFP guides filmmakers in the art, technology and business of independent filmmaking through its year-round programming and now the state of the art Made In New York Media Center by IFP, a new incubator space developed with the Mayor��s Office for Media and Entertainment, where storytellers from multiple disciplines, industries and platforms create, collaborate and connect.

In addition to its workshops, seminars, conferences,?mentorships, and Filmmaker Magazine, IFP��s year-round programs include Independent Film Week, Envision, The Cross-Media Forum, 51�� Independent Film Awards, and the Independent Filmmaker Labs.

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Welcome to the Expo

Schedule

Soho Works

How Do We Support our Creator Community: Expanding Communities Listening Session – Wednesday, Oct 4, 3pm

Owning It

About Owning It

Accountability Challenges

Owning It Summit

More with Owning It

Owning It Supporters

Contact

Film and Media Career Development Program

About

Eligibility Criteria

Program Components

Scholarship Opportunities

51���� Film and Media Institute Announces Student Filmmakers And Entrepreneurs Selected For 2023 Gotham EDU Film And Media?Career Development Program

Fifth Cycle of the Gotham EDU Program Includes New Scholarships in Support of Students from Underrepresented Backgrounds

Owning It Alumnus Kate Downey on the Accountability Challenge

Announcing the Owning It Accountability Challenge Cohort for August 2022

Jeanell Allen

Gisella Bustillos

Eileen Cabiling

Isabel Custer

Kate Downey

Angela Harvey

Nora Kaye

Crystal Kelley

Rebecca Louise Miller

Dafina Roberts

Caralene Robinson

Jax Weiner

Owning It Accountability Challenge Cohort Selected for March 2022

Eva Midgley, Frida does Flamenco

Dominique Nisperos, Comedian

Lauren Ferebee, 155 Charles

Marlee Rodrigues, Writer/Director

Masami Kawai, Valley of the Tall Grasses

Mel House, Writer/Creator, Actress & Producer

Mia Jessup, Writer

Nancy Burneo Salazar, Director and Producer

Paula Belchior, A PERFECT FAMILY

Shawnee Gibbs

Shawnelle Gibbs

Shireen Alihaji

51���� Stands in Solidarity with the Asian Community

Gotham Week Project Market

SEE THE 2024 PROJECT MARKET SLATE HERE!

Open Submission Sections

INVITATION-ONLY Sections

FAQ

30th Gotham Awards – Where to Watch the Audience Award Nominees

Program Curriculum

The Fiction Feature Lab consists of three modules:

Completion Module – June 2021

Gotham Week Project Market – September 2021

Distribution Module – December 2021

Ongoing

Nominations Announced for the 28th Annual IFP Gotham Awards

IFP And SeriesFest Launch Development Initiative For Independent Creators

IFP Expands Its Support Programs to Include Audio Storytelling

IFP Audio Thought Leader Summit

About the IFP Audio Story Labs

About the Made in NY Podcast Certificate Program

Nominations Announced for 27th Annual IFP Gotham Awards

Nominees Announced for 26th Annual IFP Gotham Awards

Film Markets, Film Festivals, and the Difference Between Them

A Father’s Tale: Angus MacLachlan on “Goodbye to All That”

The Filmmaker��s Scrappy Bag O��Tricks For Shooting On The Cheap

1. ?Practice everything you can:

2. Location, Location, Location:

3. ?Don��t skimp on the sound design:

4. Every dollar you spend should be seen onscreen:

5. Think on your feet:

6. Just say, “Yes!”:

IFP Announces Filmmaker Conference Programming for 35th Annual Independent Film Week

September 15-19

Highlights Include Keynotes from Film and Media Luminaries,

Explorations of the Hottest Issues in Narrative and Documentary Filmmaking,

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51�� Film and Media Institute Announces Student Filmmakers And Entrepreneurs Selected For 2023 Gotham EDU Film And Media?Career Development Program

51�� Stands in Solidarity with the Asian Community