For 30 years, Project Involve has been nurturing the careers and creative voices of emerging filmmakers hailing from underrepresent communities, as well as producing a wide array award-winning short films. Applications for Project Involve 2024 are now open. The regular deadline is July 10, while Film Independent Members have until July 24.
In this special guest post, 2021 Project Involve Fellow Charmaine Cleveland talks about her experience of the program, which resulted in the production of Dear Mama, based on her original script. Directed by Winter Dunn, the film screened at SXSW and won the NAACP Image Award for Best Short Film, among other honors.
Writing is often considered a lonely and solitary craft. Couple that with the fact that 2020 brought with it an even bigger wave of loneliness, amid the Covid-19 pandemic and curfews from mass protests. Isolation had quickly become an overarching theme for the year. In the months following lockdown, I was...
In this special guest post, 2021 Project Involve Fellow Charmaine Cleveland talks about her experience of the program, which resulted in the production of Dear Mama, based on her original script. Directed by Winter Dunn, the film screened at SXSW and won the NAACP Image Award for Best Short Film, among other honors.
Writing is often considered a lonely and solitary craft. Couple that with the fact that 2020 brought with it an even bigger wave of loneliness, amid the Covid-19 pandemic and curfews from mass protests. Isolation had quickly become an overarching theme for the year. In the months following lockdown, I was...
- 6/9/2023
- by Charmaine Cleveland
- Film Independent News & More
Film Independent has selected 30 filmmakers for Project Involve 2021.
This year marks the 28th iteration of Project Involve. The free nine-month program is for writers, directors, producers, editors, cinematographers, animators, programmers and entertainment executives from diverse backgrounds. During the program, participants meet one-on-one with film industry mentors, create short films, attend master workshops taught by top film professionals and industry networking events.
“Having triumphantly navigated this past year, the Project Involve team is prepared, very pleased and extremely excited to welcome the 2021 Project Involve Fellows into the Film Independent family” said Francisco Velasquez, Associate Director, Project Involve.
Project Involve alumni include Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Linda Yvette Chávez, Marvin Lemus and Aaliyah Williams (Gentefied), Effie T. Brown (Dear White People), Jon M. Chu (In the Heights) and Justin Simien (Dear White People).
Past Project Involve Mentors include Janicza Bravo, Ava DuVernay, Catherine Hardwicke, Alma Har’el, Barry Jenkins, Mako Kamitsuna, Spike Jonze,...
This year marks the 28th iteration of Project Involve. The free nine-month program is for writers, directors, producers, editors, cinematographers, animators, programmers and entertainment executives from diverse backgrounds. During the program, participants meet one-on-one with film industry mentors, create short films, attend master workshops taught by top film professionals and industry networking events.
“Having triumphantly navigated this past year, the Project Involve team is prepared, very pleased and extremely excited to welcome the 2021 Project Involve Fellows into the Film Independent family” said Francisco Velasquez, Associate Director, Project Involve.
Project Involve alumni include Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Linda Yvette Chávez, Marvin Lemus and Aaliyah Williams (Gentefied), Effie T. Brown (Dear White People), Jon M. Chu (In the Heights) and Justin Simien (Dear White People).
Past Project Involve Mentors include Janicza Bravo, Ava DuVernay, Catherine Hardwicke, Alma Har’el, Barry Jenkins, Mako Kamitsuna, Spike Jonze,...
- 2/23/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
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