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Sydney Mills
Sydney Mills is a Los Angeles based animator, visual artist and storyteller. Originally from Texas, Mills attended the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated with a BFA in Film/Animation/Video. She has worked in production on animated shows such as Futurama and Disenchanted, and additionally has produced visual media for concert events including Lollapalooza Music Festival. Her stop-motion short film Chickenhas been featured in a handful of festivals; the documentation of its progress ea...
Olivia Valdez
Olivia Valdez is a stop-motion animator and filmmaker from Florida. After achieving her Bachelor’s at New York University, Olivia attended BAU, Barcelona School of Design for her Master’s in stop-motion. While there she and two others made their first short film, The Weight of It (2021). In December 2022, Olivia completed her solo directorial debut in her stop-motion short, The Test. She and her team fabricated and animated the film out of her parent’s garage. Olivia hopes one day her name wi...
Kim Cohen
Kim Cohen is a Los Angeles based cinematographer. Originally from the Chicagoland Area, she is an ambitious storyteller who has shot numerous short films, music videos for Grammy Nominated songwriters, commercials, documentaries and branded content pieces. In 2022, she shot two short films, Skip To The End and Happy4U, both of which have been recognized as official selections in local film festivals. She aims to support her community by sharing her passion for filmmaking and remaining curious...
Wenting Fisher
Wenting Fisher is a visual storyteller specializing in cinematography and directing. She earned her MFA from the Ohio University School of Film and has spent years training in painting and calligraphy. This multi-discipline upbringing shapes her lighting and composition philosophy in cinematography. Finding and developing an effective and impactful cinema language is her passion and forte when working with directors. Her MFA thesis film as director and writer, Empty Skies, was a Student Acade...
Lakmé Iyengar
Originally from Australia, Lakmé Iyengar is a cinematographer based in Los Angeles. She completed her MFA in Cinematography at the American Film Institute, where she further refined her visual storytelling and collaborative skills. Her films have screened at Los Angeles International Film Festival, AFI Fest and London Lift-Off Film Festival. She also entered the world of stop-motion cinematography with Warner Bros.’ web series Black Adam Toy Box Adventures. She is passionate about working wit...
Omer Ben-Shachar
Omer Ben-Shachar, an LA based writer/director born and raised in Israel, won a 2019 Student Academy Award for his film Tree #3. The film also won top prizes at UrbanWorld, Palm Springs and HollyShorts, among others. An AFI Conservatory alum, Ben-Shachar participated in the 2020 Warner Bros. Directors’ Workshop, the 2020 ViacomCBS Directors Program and the 2022 BAFTA Newcomers Program. Ben-Shachar directed music videos, which have featured in Rolling Stone, Billboard and Nowness; nominated for...
Ragini Bhasin
Ragini Bhasin is a filmmaker from India, currently residing in Los Angeles. A graduate of Chapman University, her films Ghazaal and Las Escondidashave played various Oscar-qualifying festivals, featured in the Wrap’s Short Film Festival, and been distributed by the German ARTE channel in Europe, ShortsTV, Argo Channel and PBS. She is also the recipient of the Meredith Macrae Memorial Award by WIF, the Maya Deren Short Film Innovation Prize by Femme Filmmakers, BAFTA Newcomers Program, Starlig...
Adriane McCray
Adriane McCray is a filmmaker, wandering native Texan and University of Pennsylvania graduate. After supporting various writers, filmmakers and video artists, Adriane began writing and directing films of her own. Her latest, Child Runaways, premiered at SXSW in 2022 and debuted virtually on “Short of the Week.” She’s currently developing feature film, State Champs Eat Free, a 2021 AFF Drama Semifinalist and 2022 AFS Grant Awardee. As a television staff writer, she’s contributing to an upcomin...
Randi Atkins
Randi Atkins discovered her passion for storytelling through editing in high school and has been committed to the craft ever since. The ability to influence how an audience feels, to provide escapism or to inform through editing continues to inspire her. As an editor, her work has shown at festivals such as Newport Beach, Saint Louis International Film Festival, LA Shorts International Fest, Holly Shorts and more. She was awarded Best Editing at the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase for her work...
Tiffany Lin
Tiffany Lin is a Taiwanese-American editor and filmmaker from the Bay Area. A 2020 USC graduate with a BFA in film production and Minor in animation, she has worked across live action, animation and virtual reality. Festivals including the Student Academy Awards, the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival and more have recognized her work. She was also a SXSW 2022 featured speaker. Lin is a member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild and an assistant editor on Royal Crackers, a new Adult Swim show at...
Sarah Smith
Sarah Smith is an award-winning filmmaker and television producer. She’s edited three narrative feature films, including Armless, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and two feature length documentaries, including Prophets of Change, following Israeli and Palestinian musicians as they wage war for peace. In addition, she’s edited numerous short-form projects including documentary, scripted, music video and sizzle reels. As a director (and editor) her short film, Black Hat, was an o...
Jesus Garcia
Jesus Garcia grew up in the San Fernando Valley, with a knack for projects about grief, body horror and anti-coming-of-age characters. He currently works for Epic Magazine, a subsidiary of Vox Media, where he gets to reverse engineer IP for creatives and elevate distinct voices for Film & TV adaptation. Most recently, he helped find up-and-coming writers and directors for Little Americaon Apple TV+, and is excited to help shape the next wave of thought-provoking filmmakers.
Joyce Liu-Countryman
Joyce’s producing slate centers intersectional and underrepresented identities. Her award-winning films have screened at festivals worldwide, including the Los Angeles Film Festival, Outfest, Bentonville, NALIP Media Summit, Skinsfest and Los Angeles Asian Pacific American, and stream on Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. Her original videos for Disney and Pixar’s diversity and inclusion initiatives have garnered over 22 million unique views and she will next co-executive produce the AAPI adult...
Jasmine Rivas
Born to Belizean parents, Jasmine was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. As a child, television was her introduction to the world and love for storytelling. Jasmine graduated with a degree in Biology but knew she always wanted to be in the entertainment industry. The opportunities she thought were arbitrary and would hold her back would only foster a unique set of abilities in which people seemed to find value. Currently, Jasmine is a Creative Assistant at Netflix on the Documentar...
Karine Benaria
Karine Benzaria is an American producer whose production experience includes Apple TV’s Hello Tomorrow, Amazon’s Emmy-nominated Jack Ryan and Netflix’s The OA. Influenced by her French-Colombian upbringing in the suburbs, she is drawn to characters that defy their traditional environments. In that vein, she most recently produced the 2022 SXSW-nominated film Clare and 2023 SXSW-nominated Breaking Fast with a Coca-Cola. Alongside Julia Kennelly and Daisy Zhou, she co-founded production company...
Pinar Binay
Pinar Binay, originally from a small town in Western Turkey, is a creative producer based in Los Angeles. A recent graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts with triple Minors in producing, business and art history, she produced 25+ short films and worked with acclaimed independent producers in New York City, such as Oscar Boyson and Trudie Styler, and industry-leading managers of Entertainment 360 right after graduation. As a producer, she advocates for genre stories with a twist and diverse...
K.D. Chalk
K.D. Chalk is a North Carolina born, LA-based, multi-hyphenate committed to advocating for Womxn and Black people through the cinematic lens. Chalk’s producing credits include: FabulousnessNess (Finalist – Funny or Die Make’em LAFF), Sealed (Best Experimental Short Film- LA Reel Film Festival), The Openers (Best Short Film- Broad Humor Festival), and Farewell (Best First Feature- Bentonville Film Festival). She is a 2022 Mentee with Women in Film. The ABFF Star Project winner can also be seen...
Imani Davis
Imani Davis is a writer, producer and a film programmer at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles. A recent LA transplant from Chicago, she is passionate about building community and believes that film has the power to educate and engage the masses. Davis earned her Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies at The Ohio State University and a Master’s of Leadership in Creative Enterprises at Northwestern University. She has produced short films, web series and indie feature films, as well as programm...
A. Cooper
Cooper is a screenwriter based in Los Angeles. She recently graduated with an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. She writes character- and female-driven stories across genre and medium, with the intention of participating in the conversation around identity and the human condition. In 2021 she created an animated short, as well as created and ran the room for an animated series. In 2022, she was a Staff Writer on Netflix’s Family Reunion.
Terrance Daye
Terrance Daye is an award-winning poet and filmmaker from Long Island, New York. His creative work reimagines everyday Black life as a complex and nuanced spectacle. Daye received his Bachelor’s degree from Morehouse College and his Master’s in Fine Arts in filmmaking at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. His film—Ship: A Visual Poem was awarded a Short Film Jury Award for U.S. Fiction at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. His highly anticipated animated short film, Pritty, is in development. Daye i...
Nate Gualtieri
Nate Gualtieri (he/they) is a transmasculine writer raised in the suburbs of Boston and now based in Los Angeles. A graduate of the USC screenwriting program, he most recently worked as a staff writer on the upcoming Berlanti/CW series Gotham Knights. They are also credited with writing Desire Lines, a semi-scripted documentary feature currently in production. His original feature script, All-American Boy, was a semifinalist for the 2021 Outfest Screenwriting Lab, while their latest short fil...
- Film Independent Spirit Awards Filmmaker Grants. Each year, Film Independent recognizes exceptional emerging film talent with three Spirit Awards Filmmaker Grants that carry unrestricted cash prizes of $25,000.
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grants. Since 2007, Film Independent and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have joined forces to encourage filmmakers to create more realistic and accurate stories about science and technology and to challenge existing stereotypes about scientists and engineers in the popular imagination.
- Fellowships. Through donor-named fellowships, we are able to support our Fellows with cash grants. Amplifier Fellowship. The Amplifier Fellowship, supported by founding sponsor Netflix, provides a $30,000 unrestricted grant to six Black artists, plus additional year-round support.
- Project Involve Fellowships. The following Fellowships are available to select Fellows who participate in our signature program, Project Involve, which offers career opportunities to filmmakers from communities typically underrepresented in film & entertainment.
In film, Amazon Studios produces and acquires original movies for theatrical release and exclusively for Amazon Prime Video. In 2017, Amazon Studios became the first streaming service to win Oscars for Manchester by the Sea and The Salesman.
Nov 17, 2021 · Amazon Studios Awards Project Involve Fellow Winter Dunn $10K Grant for Visionary Filmmaking — BlackFilmandTV.com. Nov 17. Written By Wilson Morales. Project Involve fellow Winter Dunn was chosen out of 30 fellows as the 2021 Amazon Studios Film Fellowship for her directorial work on the upcoming short film, Dear Mama..
Jan 30, 2024 · Audrey Rosenberg will receive a two-step Guild minimum open script deal with Amazon MGM Studios as part of their two-year feature film script writing collaboration with the Black List.
The sponsorship also includes the inaugural YCP Fellowship Initiative, which will provide 15 college bound students with resources to make a high-quality short film to strengthen their film school applications and scholarship opportunities. The film will then screen at The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival in 2023.
