The Taswell Movie Fund, which offers $75,000 in grants to South Asian filmmakers in North America, has been renewed for a fifth consecutive yr.
The fund, which is supported by the Netflix Artistic Fairness Fund and aligns with the Taswell Movie Market scheme, requires candidates to have greater than three years of business expertise and have produced not less than three brief movies.
It invitations narrative brief scripts that discover themes reminiscent of diaspora or immigrant tales, LGBTQIA+ and South Asian narratives. 9 brief movies can be shortlisted and the highest three will every obtain $25,000 to work on their subsequent brief movie. The deadline for submissions is August 30.
The Taswell Movie Market (together with TFF and Taswell Movie Pageant) can be held in Seattle from October 15-20, 2024. The pageant’s Finest Quick Movie winner is routinely eligible for an Academy Award.
“Because the Taswell Movie Fund enters its fifth yr, we’re delighted to proceed the creation of the Fund, a robust initiative that has been designed from the outset to find and nurture groundbreaking South Asian initiatives. We’re dedicated to supporting An modern voice that goals to have a profound and lasting impression on the movie business and drive illustration ahead,” stated Rita Meher, Govt Director of Tasveer.
{The marketplace} goals to advertise illustration and filmmaking of the South Asian diaspora globally. It is going to characteristic a co-production market, a producer lab, business teams and a work-in-progress lab. The Co-Manufacturing Market will invite groups of administrators and producers to pitch characteristic and short-form initiatives, together with scripted and unscripted options, shorts and sequence, to financiers, traders and studio executives.
The market’s content material advisory board contains producers Apoorva Bakshi (Delhi Crime), Mohammed Ali Naqvi (Among the many Believers), Neeraj Churi (Sheer Qorma) and Samudrika Arora (Afghan Dreamers).
