In partnership with Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland, SeriesFest has awarded its 2022 Women Directing Mentorship to Gia-Rayne B. Harris.
The program first launched in 2018 and pairs rising female directors with established episodic directors on Shondaland-produced series. Previous winners include Jennifer Morris (2021), who recently finished shadowing on ABC’s “Station 19,” and Tamika Miller (2020), who has since directed two “Station 19” episodes.
Harris, a writer-director from Mississippi, is a graduate of the AFI directing program and has directed 12 short films, premiering several at Outfest, the American Black Film Festival (ABFF), NewFest, AFI Fest and the Pan African Film Festival. She was named a finalist for the HBO Short Film Award at ABFF, and her short film “Pens and Pencils” will debut on HBO in spring 2023. Additionally, she has been set to make her TV directing debut on “Chicago Pd” in 2023 after joining the NBCULaunch Female Forward Program.
Harris is repped by Heroes and Villains Entertainment.
The program first launched in 2018 and pairs rising female directors with established episodic directors on Shondaland-produced series. Previous winners include Jennifer Morris (2021), who recently finished shadowing on ABC’s “Station 19,” and Tamika Miller (2020), who has since directed two “Station 19” episodes.
Harris, a writer-director from Mississippi, is a graduate of the AFI directing program and has directed 12 short films, premiering several at Outfest, the American Black Film Festival (ABFF), NewFest, AFI Fest and the Pan African Film Festival. She was named a finalist for the HBO Short Film Award at ABFF, and her short film “Pens and Pencils” will debut on HBO in spring 2023. Additionally, she has been set to make her TV directing debut on “Chicago Pd” in 2023 after joining the NBCULaunch Female Forward Program.
Harris is repped by Heroes and Villains Entertainment.
- 12/8/2022
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Patrick Stewart receives an honor, Nick Pillegi is working on a “Sex and the Shield” script, “Driveways” finds a home and the DGA honors student filmmakers.
Stewart Honored
Patrick Stewart will receive this year’s distinguished artisan award at the 7th Annual Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards.
The event is set for The Novo at L.A. Live on Jan. 11. The announcement was made by Julie Socash, President of Iatse Local 706.
“Sir Patrick Stewart is a legendary actor whose myriad of characters live in our hearts forever,” she said. “He is so deserving of this special recognition spotlighting his award-winning stage and screen performances, and we celebrate his great collaboration with our talented artists.”
Presenting the distinguished artisan award to Stewart will be Brent Spiner, star of “Star Trek: Picard” and “Star Trek: Next Generation”; James MacKinnon, makeup and prosthetic artist for “Star Trek: Picard”; and Michael Westmore,...
Stewart Honored
Patrick Stewart will receive this year’s distinguished artisan award at the 7th Annual Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards.
The event is set for The Novo at L.A. Live on Jan. 11. The announcement was made by Julie Socash, President of Iatse Local 706.
“Sir Patrick Stewart is a legendary actor whose myriad of characters live in our hearts forever,” she said. “He is so deserving of this special recognition spotlighting his award-winning stage and screen performances, and we celebrate his great collaboration with our talented artists.”
Presenting the distinguished artisan award to Stewart will be Brent Spiner, star of “Star Trek: Picard” and “Star Trek: Next Generation”; James MacKinnon, makeup and prosthetic artist for “Star Trek: Picard”; and Michael Westmore,...
- 12/4/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
AFI student filmmakers led the way with four wins at the DGA’s 25th annual Student Film Awards honoring African-American, Latino, Asian-American and female directors. USC students, who took home the most honors over the last two years, received three awards this year – tied with students from New York University. Columbia University, with two wins, was the only other school with multiple winners.
“We are honored to recognize the next generation of filmmaking talent as we celebrate the 25th Annual DGA Student Film Awards,” said DGA president Thomas Schlamme. “These awards are part of our ongoing efforts to encourage inclusion in the filmmaking community, and we’re proud that a number of our past winners have found success in film and television. We congratulate all of our awardees, and look forward to seeing more of their work in the future.”
The 2019 winners, selected by blue ribbon DGA member panels, are:...
“We are honored to recognize the next generation of filmmaking talent as we celebrate the 25th Annual DGA Student Film Awards,” said DGA president Thomas Schlamme. “These awards are part of our ongoing efforts to encourage inclusion in the filmmaking community, and we’re proud that a number of our past winners have found success in film and television. We congratulate all of our awardees, and look forward to seeing more of their work in the future.”
The 2019 winners, selected by blue ribbon DGA member panels, are:...
- 12/3/2019
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
The fifth annual Horizon Award for up-and-coming female directors has been presented to Caroline Friend and Zenzele Niambi Ojore. The two were honored at a ceremony held during the Sundance Film Festival by award co-founders Cassian Elwes, Lynette Howell Taylor, and Christine Vachon.
The winners received an all-expenses-paid trip to Sundance and meetings with producers, filmmakers, festival programmers and others in the film industry. Both winners had submitted three times previously before finally breaking through to the winner’s circle.
This year’s judges included Minhal Baig, Maria Bello, Catherine Hardwicke, Anne Hathaway, Hannah Minghella, Dee Rees, and Tanya Wexler. Working from this list, the final two filmmakers were decided by the Horizon Award co-founders and Sundance feature film director Michelle Satter.
Attendees at the awards included presenters David Oyelowo, Cheryl Hines, and Cameron Bailey, as well as Jennifer Salke; Graham Taylor; Cassian Elwes; Michelle Satter; Cathy Schulman; Joana Vicente; Cameron Bailey; Kirsten Schaffer; Alison Emilio; Shivani Rawat: Monica Levinson; Justine Bateman; Maria Bello; and Franklin Leonard (The Black List founder)
Horizon Award organizers reached out to 275 schools worldwide, resulting in over 400 submissions from a broad range of schools, including leading film schools, including New York University, USC, UCLA, Yale, Columbia, Emerson, Brown, Boston University, Australian Film Television and Radio School, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia State, Florida State, Lebanese University (Lebanon), London Film School, Los Angeles Community College, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Polish National Film School in Lodz Poland, Tel Aviv University, and Columbia College Chicago
Female Filmmaker Awards:
Zenzele Niambi Ojore
Official Title: The South is My Sister’s Skin
School: Rhode Island School of Design – Class of 2018
Bio: Zenzele Ojore is a writer/director and interdisciplinary artist. While studying photography and film at the Rhode Island School of Design, she traveled to Chile with Adobe to capture a story on the melting glaciers of Patagonia, and received a fellowship to work on a photo series in the Southwest section of Uganda titled “The Buhoma Side of Bwindi”. Zenzele screened her first short film at the 2013 SXSW film festival in Austin; raised in Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia her work is inspired by the eccentric spirit of the American South.
Caroline Friend
Official Title: Under Darkness
School: USC – Class of 2016
Bio: Caroline is a filmmaker with a passion for bringing the past to life through writing and directing. She is a recent graduate from the University of Southern California where she majored in Film & TV Production, as well as History. While at USC, she was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant to write and direct Under Darkness, a short film about a female World War II photographer and soldier. Caroline has directed other projects in collaboration with the USC History Department and Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation, and her work has been screened at film festivals internationally. She currently lives in Los Angeles and continues to seek meaningful historical content to bring to the screen.
Also Awarded:
Michelle Satter, Founding Director, Sundance Feature Film Program; Co-Founder, Horizon Award – Founders Award
Alison Emilio, Director, ReFrame and Co-Founder, Horizon Award – Contribution to Female Film Makers Award...
The winners received an all-expenses-paid trip to Sundance and meetings with producers, filmmakers, festival programmers and others in the film industry. Both winners had submitted three times previously before finally breaking through to the winner’s circle.
This year’s judges included Minhal Baig, Maria Bello, Catherine Hardwicke, Anne Hathaway, Hannah Minghella, Dee Rees, and Tanya Wexler. Working from this list, the final two filmmakers were decided by the Horizon Award co-founders and Sundance feature film director Michelle Satter.
Attendees at the awards included presenters David Oyelowo, Cheryl Hines, and Cameron Bailey, as well as Jennifer Salke; Graham Taylor; Cassian Elwes; Michelle Satter; Cathy Schulman; Joana Vicente; Cameron Bailey; Kirsten Schaffer; Alison Emilio; Shivani Rawat: Monica Levinson; Justine Bateman; Maria Bello; and Franklin Leonard (The Black List founder)
Horizon Award organizers reached out to 275 schools worldwide, resulting in over 400 submissions from a broad range of schools, including leading film schools, including New York University, USC, UCLA, Yale, Columbia, Emerson, Brown, Boston University, Australian Film Television and Radio School, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia State, Florida State, Lebanese University (Lebanon), London Film School, Los Angeles Community College, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Polish National Film School in Lodz Poland, Tel Aviv University, and Columbia College Chicago
Female Filmmaker Awards:
Zenzele Niambi Ojore
Official Title: The South is My Sister’s Skin
School: Rhode Island School of Design – Class of 2018
Bio: Zenzele Ojore is a writer/director and interdisciplinary artist. While studying photography and film at the Rhode Island School of Design, she traveled to Chile with Adobe to capture a story on the melting glaciers of Patagonia, and received a fellowship to work on a photo series in the Southwest section of Uganda titled “The Buhoma Side of Bwindi”. Zenzele screened her first short film at the 2013 SXSW film festival in Austin; raised in Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia her work is inspired by the eccentric spirit of the American South.
Caroline Friend
Official Title: Under Darkness
School: USC – Class of 2016
Bio: Caroline is a filmmaker with a passion for bringing the past to life through writing and directing. She is a recent graduate from the University of Southern California where she majored in Film & TV Production, as well as History. While at USC, she was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant to write and direct Under Darkness, a short film about a female World War II photographer and soldier. Caroline has directed other projects in collaboration with the USC History Department and Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation, and her work has been screened at film festivals internationally. She currently lives in Los Angeles and continues to seek meaningful historical content to bring to the screen.
Also Awarded:
Michelle Satter, Founding Director, Sundance Feature Film Program; Co-Founder, Horizon Award – Founders Award
Alison Emilio, Director, ReFrame and Co-Founder, Horizon Award – Contribution to Female Film Makers Award...
- 1/27/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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