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THROUGH HER LENS: THE TRIBECA CHANEL WOMEN'S FILMMAKER PROGRAM RETURNS FOR SEVENTH YEAR
Providing Mentorship and Grants to Emerging Women Filmmakers
The Leadership Committee Includes: Amy Schumer, Gayle King, Marlee Matlin, Paula Weinstein, Ali Adler, Melissa Barrera, Kay Cannon, Jacqueline Durran, Misha Green, Soo Hugh, Zoe Lister-Jones, Laura Karpman, Leslie Mann, Tina Mabry, Adepero Oduye, Frida Torresblanco, DeWanda Wise, and Maria Zuckerman
NEW YORK, NY- October 12, 2019 - Tribeca and CHANEL affirm their commitment to creating new opportunities for women filmmakers for the seventh annual THROUGH HER LENS: The Tribeca CHANEL Women's Filmmaker Program, taking place October 12 through 14, 2021. The celebrated program will welcome program finalists and jurors for in-person events while gathering esteemed industry leaders from around the globe for a virtual program of workshops, classes, and peer-to-peer sessions for the filmmaker finalists.
Founded in 2015 by Tribeca and CHANEL and in collaboration with Pulse Films, the mentorship program provides industry support, artistic development, and funding to emerging U.S.-based self-identifying women and non-binary writers and directors. In a world that has seen so much change the need for THROUGH HER LENS is more vital than ever, with the program providing a crucial and continuing platform for stories that tell the triumphs and struggles of intrepid women.
THROUGH HER LENS has proven to be an important vehicle for women filmmakers, said Tribeca Enterprises and Tribeca Film Festival Co-Founder and CEO Jane Rosenthal. In a world that is in constant upheaval, its paramount to provide a reliable place where the ever-changing journey of women can continue to be told.
The three-day immersive program will feature a hybrid of virtual and in-person one-on-one mentorship, intimate participant masterclasses focused on script-to-screen development, music composition, costume design, producing, and directing. Participants will work with mentors to shape and refine their projects and pitches, and at the conclusion of the program, each pair will pitch their projects to a jury of industry experts. One team will receive full financing to produce their short film with support from Tribeca Studios. The four other projects will be awarded grant funds to support their films' development.
To date, past fully supported projects have achieved noteworthy successes including: A.V. Rockwells Feathers (2016), which was acquired by Fox Searchlight after it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival; Nikyatu Jusu's Suicide by Sunlight (2017), which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festiva; and 2018s ROSA, by Suha Araj, which premiered at BlackStar Film Festival in August 2020 and is now screening on HBOMax. Upcoming projects include 2019's CHAMP by Hannah Peterson and 2020's REST STOP by Crystal Kayiza.
Tribeca and CHANEL have convened a diverse range of leading women creators to share their experiences with, and provide curated guidance to, five teams of women filmmakers that have been selected to receive project support for their upcoming short narrative films. The 2021 Leadership Committee includes:
MASTERCLASS ADVISORS: actor/producer Marlee Matlin (CODA, Children of a Lesser God), music composer Laura Karpman ( Lovecraft Country , What If ), producer Maria Zuckerman (Spencer, 100 Foot Wave ), actor/filmmaker Adepero Oduye (12 Years a Slave, Pariah), casting Alexa L. Fogel (The Prom and Judas and The Black Messiah), and costume designer Jacqueline Durran (Little Women, Pride and Prejudice)
JURORS: actor Melissa Barrera (In the Heights, Vida ), Co-Host, CBS Mornings and Editor at Large, Oprah Daily Gayle King, producer Paula Weinstein ( Grace & Frankie , Blood Diamond), actor Leslie Mann (The Other Woman, This Is 40),
MENTORS: Producer Frida Torresblanco (Pans Labyrinth, Disobedience), writer / director / producer Maryam Keshavarz (Viper Club, Circumstance) writer/producer Soo Hugh (Pachinko, The Terror), storyteller/advocate DeWanda Wise ( She's Gotta Have It', Fatherhood) writer/producer Ali Adler (Supergirl, The New Normal )
WRITING MENTORS: actor Zoe Lister-Jones (How It Ends, BAND AID), writer/ producer Tina Mabry (Mississippi Damned, Pose ), writer/director/producer Misha Green ( Lovecraft Country , The Mother), writer/producer Amy Schumer (Trainwreck, Inside Amy Schumer ), director/writer/producer Kay Cannon (Blockers, Cinderella).
The 2021 Selected Projects and Filmmakers:
ANYTHING VALUABLE
A stoic widow and an eager polymath must traverse post-apocalyptic upstate New York to retrieve invaluable data from a mysterious motel. Along the way, they are forced to choose what from their pasts to keep carrying, and what to leave behind.
Annalise Lockhart (Director)
Annalise Lockhart is a writer/director, born and raised in NYC. Her work is influenced by her Afro-Futurist beliefs, and the genre's power for change. Her first short film as writer and director, INHERITANCE, won Best US Short at the Palm Springs Shortfest, the Lionsgate/Starz Award for Best Speculative Fiction at BlackStar Film Festival, and Best Actress in a Short at Fantasia Film Festival. She has worked extensively as a 1st Assistant Director on projects such as Random Acts of Flyness (HBO), The Assistant, and The Fits. She is currently developing her first feature. She received her B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing while at Stanford University.
Mary Glen Fredrick (Writer/Producer)
Mary Glen Fredrick is a writer, actor, and video editor, mostly from Kansas City. A writer for both theatre and film, she loves bending form and incor
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