The Tribeca Film Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have announced the three Tfi Sloan Filmmaker Fund 2019 grantees, awarding them a total of $150,000.
The creators behind “Asia A,” “Bolichicos,” and “Wiring Utopia” have been chosen as the new grant winners.
“The 2019 slate of Tfi Sloan grantee teams represents our most international year yet,” said Tfi executive director Amy Hobby. “Each project deeply impacted the jury with fresh points of view, sense of timeliness, accessibility to wide audiences, and of course, their incorporation of compelling science, economics, and technology.”
From filmmaker Andrew Reid, “Asia A” portrays a college basketball player who suffers from a spinal cord injury, and must either accept his life as a paraplegic or hold out hope for a recovery. Venezuelan writer-director Juan Avella and Mexican producer Diego Nájera created “Bolichicos,” a film inspired by the true story of a 20-year-old in Venezuela who carries out a million-dollar currency exchange scam.
The creators behind “Asia A,” “Bolichicos,” and “Wiring Utopia” have been chosen as the new grant winners.
“The 2019 slate of Tfi Sloan grantee teams represents our most international year yet,” said Tfi executive director Amy Hobby. “Each project deeply impacted the jury with fresh points of view, sense of timeliness, accessibility to wide audiences, and of course, their incorporation of compelling science, economics, and technology.”
From filmmaker Andrew Reid, “Asia A” portrays a college basketball player who suffers from a spinal cord injury, and must either accept his life as a paraplegic or hold out hope for a recovery. Venezuelan writer-director Juan Avella and Mexican producer Diego Nájera created “Bolichicos,” a film inspired by the true story of a 20-year-old in Venezuela who carries out a million-dollar currency exchange scam.
- 4/4/2019
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
The production company behind Bondi Rescue is claiming that the show is the first in the world to connect with its fans using Google+ Hangouts.
People can now ‘hang out’ with the cast of Bondi Rescue on Google+, with the likes of Chief Lifeguard Hoppo, and Bondi favourites Reidy, Deano, Maxi, Jesse and Kerrbox and Whippet in attendance.
The first Bondi Rescue Google+ Hangout took place on April 30, and future events will take place at 8.30pm although no dates have been given.
Kristin Burgham, head of sales at Cordell Jigsaw, which makes the show, said: “We are strengthening the audience of Bondi Rescue worldwide – targeting non-traditional television viewers, who we believe will tune in to engage more fully with the show and the network screening it – wherever in the world they live.”
Cordell Jigsaw’s ‘world first’ claims appear to be hasty, with the likes of NBC and ABC News...
People can now ‘hang out’ with the cast of Bondi Rescue on Google+, with the likes of Chief Lifeguard Hoppo, and Bondi favourites Reidy, Deano, Maxi, Jesse and Kerrbox and Whippet in attendance.
The first Bondi Rescue Google+ Hangout took place on April 30, and future events will take place at 8.30pm although no dates have been given.
Kristin Burgham, head of sales at Cordell Jigsaw, which makes the show, said: “We are strengthening the audience of Bondi Rescue worldwide – targeting non-traditional television viewers, who we believe will tune in to engage more fully with the show and the network screening it – wherever in the world they live.”
Cordell Jigsaw’s ‘world first’ claims appear to be hasty, with the likes of NBC and ABC News...
- 5/6/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
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