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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated Baby Reindeer breakout Nava Mau has teamed pinch Level Ground, shaper and independent supplier of nan Emmy-nominated and Oscar-shortlisted characteristic doc Union, to motorboat a fellowship supporting a cohort of trans and queer filmmakers and filmmakers of colour successful creating their adjacent short films.
Through a bid of movie salons, 1:1 mentorship, a stipend, and fiscal sponsorship, nan fellowship explores caller models of making and sharing activity pinch emerging filmmakers motivated by invention and imaginative risk.
17 fellows were selected done information by a sheet of advisors to participate successful nan inaugural movie fellowship. They are Andy James Garcia, April Maxey, Avrielle Gallagher, Cedric Tai, Chica Barbosa, Emory Chao Johnson, Evelyn Angelica Martinez, Gerardo Maravilla, Hansen Bursic, Helen Peña, J.D. Shields, Nicole Mairose Dizon, Paolo Riveros, Rraine Hanson, Sion-Raize, Taegen Meyer, and Yemi Seyi.
Level Ground Co-Director Samantha Curley told us, “Producing and distributing UNION taught maine truthful overmuch astir really nan manufacture useful down nan scenes. We designed this fellowship pinch Nava to specifically reside nan gatekeeping and barriers to manufacture entree that galore underrepresented filmmakers face, particularly early successful their careers. We are proud to beryllium building a robust ecosystem that will let artists to thrive and activity much equitably, and successful community.”
Previously collaborating pinch Level Ground connected nan projects all nan words but nan one, which she wrote, directed, and starred in, and characteristic doc Survivor Made, Mau said, “Time and clip again, I americium faced pinch nan reality that nan movie and tv manufacture tin beryllium a tract of isolation and systemic disempowerment for artists of color, queer and trans creatives, and anyone who doesn’t fresh a very circumstantial mold wished by nan ascendant class. This fellowship is an exploration and an research to spot what happens erstwhile we works seeds extracurricular nan workplace strategy and beyond nan mainstream.”
Mau & Level Ground’s fellowship is supported by Shane King Zackery and launches this month. Films supported by nan programme will beryllium portion of a showcase presented to nan nationalist successful 2027.
