The Athena Movie Competition (AFF) is becoming a member of forces with Disney Studios Content material to broaden its Inventive Growth Program, which awards over $50,000 yearly to underrepresented filmmakers. A press launch has introduced that the Disney Athena Record Growth Grant will launch in time for the fest’s subsequent version, to be held March 2-5 at Barnard School in New York Metropolis.
The brand new grant will likely be given to an underrepresented author/director of an Athena Record winner or finalist. Now accepting submissions, the Record is an annual script competitors that selects distinctive scripts with girls leaders on the coronary heart of their tales. Its aim is is to boost the profile of the scripts and the writers throughout the trade, with the aim of getting these motion pictures made and elevating careers to the following degree.
As a way to be eligible for the Disney Athena Record Growth Grant, “the author/director have to be an rising characteristic filmmaker who identifies as a girl or as non-binary and is from a historically underrepresented neighborhood in movie,” the press launch particulars. “Examples of underrepresented communities embody however aren’t restricted to individuals of shade, the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood, individuals with disabilities, older girls filmmakers, filmmakers of their second or third profession, and others.”
“That is an thrilling new addition to AFF’s present growth grants, which embody the Breakthrough Award sponsored by Netflix, the Chinonye Chukwu Rising Author Award sponsored by Christine A. Schantz, and the Alfred P. Sloan Athena Record Growth Grant,” mentioned AFF co-founder and Inventive Director and Girls and Hollywood founder Melissa Silverstein. “We’re thrilled to proceed awarding funds to filmmakers who’ve historically been excluded from trade alternatives and who’re engaged on initiatives centering girls’s management.”
“For Disney Studios Content material, this grant builds on our dedication to bolstering illustration in entrance of and behind the digital camera,” added Mahin Ibrahim, Director of Illustration & Inclusion, Inventive Expertise Pathways. “We’re excited to work with AFF to amplify storytelling from girls and non-binary author/administrators.”
You’ll be able to be taught extra concerning the Athena Record on its web site and submit your script through FilmFreeway.
Supply: Women And Hollywood