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EXCLUSIVE: Macro and Andreessen Horowitz‘s (a16z) Cultural Leadership Fund person selected 7 filmmakers who will participate successful nan inaugural Epigraph Creator Fellowship. Per Macro and CLF, nan fellowship is built connected nan premise that “creators who person ever defined civilization should person nonstop entree to nan exertion devices helping to style really stories get told.”
In nan first-of-its-kind program, Fellows will beryllium provided pinch frontier AI devices from collaborators OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Gamma, Promise Studios, Descript, Coactive and Curious Refuge. The filmmakers will person nonstop entree to their platforms and tailored instruction connected integrating nan devices crossed nan imaginative process.
The inaugural people includes Bianca Lambert, Chazitear Martin, John Burr, Justice Whitaker, Nick Barili, Sulayman Tahir and Tedra Wilson. Their projects person been featured successful and recognized by respected showcases and platforms including Tribeca Film Festival, nan American Black Film Festival, Slamdance, Essence Film Festival, arsenic good arsenic connected streaming platforms specified arsenic Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Paramount+ and Netflix.
Over 8 weeks, nan Fellows will receive hands-on instruction and accumulation resources, culminating successful a nationalist showcase of original activity astatine Macro’s Summer House Creator Summit successful Los Angeles this summer.
“Storytellers have ever led nan way, mounting nan guidance and shaping nan culture,” said Stacey Walker King, Chief Brand Officer, Macro. “The Epigraph Creator Fellowship puts nan powerfulness of today’s exertion straight successful their hands truthful they tin grow and build nan worlds they envision connected their ain terms. Technology doesn’t lead creativity. Creators do and now they person nan devices to spell moreover further.”
“An epigraph frames meaning earlier nan communicative moreover begins. We built this fellowship because creators and technologists are shaping storytelling successful existent clip — but excessively often successful silos,” said Judene Small Jean-Louis, Partner, a16z Cultural Leadership Fund. “Epigraph brings them into nan aforesaid room, creating existent vulnerability connected some sides and shifting really exertion and civilization travel together.”
