On the morning of August 13th, Afghan-American actress and filmmaker Fereshta Kazemi was in her production office in Kabul, working on the trailer for her upcoming film, when she saw “Kandahar” trending on Twitter. The Taliban had just taken Afghanistan’s second-largest city, she learned; two more cities would fall later that day. Suddenly, the future Kazemi had imagined only moments before — “planning a screening, planning who’s going to come, which embassies” — began to dissolve, replaced with fear and uncertainty.
The news of the Taliban’s advance was devastating to millions of Afghans,...
The news of the Taliban’s advance was devastating to millions of Afghans,...
- 8/31/2021
- by Alex Morris
- Rollingstone.com
Projects include pop-up museum, Vr doc and Vr sci-fi.
Tribeca Film Institute (Tfi) top brass said on Tuesday they had selected nine creators for the Tfi New Media Fund and the Tribeca All Access Interactive Prototype Fund.
The Tfi New Media Fund provides funds and support to non-fiction, social issue-driven media projects that integrate film with content across media platforms.
The fund is supported by Ford Foundation’s JustFilms Initiative and recipients get $50,000 and peer-to-peer support to develop their projects and build audience engagement.
The recipients are: Vr documentary Blackout, co-created and directed by Alexander Porter, and co-directed by Yasmin Elayat; and pop-up museum Micro, co-directed by Charles Philipp and Amanda Schochet.
The Taa Interactive Prototype Fund aims to connect technology and filmmaking and encourage the development of novel ideas.
The fiction portion of the Taa Interactive Prototype Fund is supported by the Time Warner Foundation, and the non-fiction element by the John D. and Catherine...
Tribeca Film Institute (Tfi) top brass said on Tuesday they had selected nine creators for the Tfi New Media Fund and the Tribeca All Access Interactive Prototype Fund.
The Tfi New Media Fund provides funds and support to non-fiction, social issue-driven media projects that integrate film with content across media platforms.
The fund is supported by Ford Foundation’s JustFilms Initiative and recipients get $50,000 and peer-to-peer support to develop their projects and build audience engagement.
The recipients are: Vr documentary Blackout, co-created and directed by Alexander Porter, and co-directed by Yasmin Elayat; and pop-up museum Micro, co-directed by Charles Philipp and Amanda Schochet.
The Taa Interactive Prototype Fund aims to connect technology and filmmaking and encourage the development of novel ideas.
The fiction portion of the Taa Interactive Prototype Fund is supported by the Time Warner Foundation, and the non-fiction element by the John D. and Catherine...
- 4/11/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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