Los Angeles, CA——非营利圣丹斯协会今天公布188金宝搏bet下载ten US-based artists of color selected for the 2022 Uprise Grant Fund. The grant supports the livelihood and career sustainability of BIPOC emerging artists and was founded in 2021 to help storytellers disproportionately harmed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The group selected for the 2022 grant will receive$10,000 each as well as community building artist development activities such as peer mentorship through monthly fellow meetings.Participants will be supported year-round so they can sustain a creative practice, helping to amplify critical stories and intersectional voices during a time when they are most needed.

For the 2022 group, over half identify as Queer/LGBTQ+ with Northern California, Seattle, Hawai’i, Kentucky, New Mexico, Los Angeles and New York represented as areas of residence for the artists receiving grants. Grantees were chosen after a thorough review process by a panel of external reviewers. Nominations were intentionally collected from the Sundance Outreach & Inclusion Department’s outreach efforts, Sundance staff, allied organizations, and nonprofit partners. Writer-ActorHenry Alexander Kelly (2021 Uprise Grantee) will be acting as an artist development consultant for the cohort this year.

“The Institute has a responsibility and ongoing commitment to support artists of color and our Uprise Grant Fund has been one of the ways in which we’ve celebrated BIPOC artists while they are in their state of becoming and discovery,” saidAmber Espinosa-Jones, Manager, Outreach & Inclusion Department. “Providing funding for projects in development plays an important role in empowering these vibrant and inspiring storytellers to continue putting their work forward. It is so rewarding and a pleasure to uplift this incoming group.”

The Sundance Institute Outreach and Inclusion program is made possible by support from Emerson Collective, Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation, The Harnisch Foundation, NBCUniversal, Warner Bros. Discovery, Critical Minded, Arison Arts Foundation, Netflix, SAGindie, Easterseals Disability Services, Philip Fung—A3 Foundation, Zions Bank, and Open Society Foundations.

The Uprise Grants are supported by the Sundance Institute | Maja Kristin Granting Fund, which offers unrestricted grants to women and BIPOC filmmakers, producers and editors working in film, theater and emerging media. The nonrecoupable grants will focus on critical support for project advancement, career sustainability and living stipends. These grants are part of a continuum of support provided by our Feature Film, Documentary, Outreach & Inclusion and Interdisciplinary artist programs.

The fellows selected for the 2022 Uprise Grant Fund are:

Briana “Bree” Nieves(director/producer) withArise! My Beloved(U.S.A):On the sleepy shores of Carmel, CA a group of elderly cloistered Catholic sisters live, never leaving their homes for the sake of silence and prayer for their entire lives. Arise! My Beloved is a rare access (by way of the Vatican) verité driven film that opens the doors to a hidden—expansive, yet dying world.Documentary.

Briana “Bree”Nieves(b. Oklahoma) is an emerging documentary and fiction filmmakerand producer. Her work addresses motifs of gender, faith, the body and the asian andblack diaspora. Her short filmMalditas, a co-production with WORLD channel, AsianDocumentary Network and Center For Asian American Media, is available on the PBSApp.

Naveen Chaubal(director / cinematographer) withPinball(U.S.A):弹球是一个观察成熟的旅程that follows 19-year-old Yosef in suburban Louisville, Kentucky as he navigates adulthood in the shadow of a war that displaced his family from their Iraqi homeland.Documentary.

Naveen Chaubalis a Louisville based director, producer and cinematographer whose films focus on the profound stories of immigrant suburbia. His work has been supportedby ITVS, the Southern Documentary Fund, and New Orleans Film Society. He’s a fellowof Film Independent’s Project: Involve and BAVC’s MediaMaker programs.

Dillon Chitto(playwright) withPigeon(U.S.A): Pigeon is about the chosen family a group of queer Urban Natives have formed to survive the world of white heteronormativity and white queerness in the northside of Chicago. The family is shaken when a mysterious figure appears, causing them to question their role in the family and society.Play.

Dillon Chittois an Indigenous playwright of Mississippi Choctaw, Laguna, and IsletaPueblo descent from New Mexico. There, he learned the importance of art, culture, andtraditions from his family. In his playwriting, he connects these ideas using storytellingtechniques learned throughout his life. He is currently in Chicago, Illinois.

Kyle Casey Chu(writer) withGo Back Home(U.S.A):In search of a new home, a newly-widowed Chinese-American mother moves with her son to the only San Francisco apartment she can afford, wherein a mysterious horror soon threatens their lives.

Kyle Casey Chu(Panda Dulce) is a San Franciscan Writer and Drag Queen. Her workhas appeared on NPR, MTV, Condé Nast, Paramount+, at Harvard & MIT’s BroadInstitute and more. She is the creator and star ofChosen Famweb series, featuring anall-Queer and Trans People of Color cast.

Kristine Gerolaga(writer/director) withLamok(U.S.A):A cursed Filipino woman begins to perform underground abortions to repent for the killing she commits as a fetus-eating creature known as the manananggal.Narrative.

Kristine Gerolagais a Filipina American filmmaker and actor. She’s currently workingwith six womxn directors on an anthology feature film calledThrough the Blinds. She’s featured on TIFFxInstagram Shorts Fest, The Future of Film is Female, THR, ATTN:,ALTER, Rappler, Amazon FireTV, NYX Horror Collective’s #13MinutesOfHorror,Shudder, and Vulture.

Osinachi Ibe(writer/director) withTales From Under the Sun(U.S.A):During their first summer apart, two childhood best friends discover they have fallen in love with each other and embark on a spiritual journey that changes them forever.Narrative.

Osinachi Ibeis a Nigerian-American filmmaker and artist based in the San FranciscoBay Area. She creates intimate, feminine portraits that meditate on the complexities ofthe spirit, heart, and the divine. Osinachi received her MFA in Film Directing fromChapman University. She is currently developing her first feature film.

Arielle Knight(director)withCounting Down(U.S.A): A family grapples with uncertainty when a loved one is arrested and held in the carceral system against the backdrop of an unfolding global pandemic.Documentary.

Arielle Knightis a New York-based documentary filmmaker and producer. Mining theabsurd, the mythological and the mundane, the work of her life and practice seeks tocenter and recover the multiplicity of Black experiences. Arielle aims to inundate theworld with the dreams, visions, and beauty of Black lives on screen.

J Mase III(director/producer) withThe Black Trans Prayer Book(U.S.A):The Black Trans Prayer Book: A Documentary, is an interfaith and beyond faith feature length documentary composed of performances, interviews, poems, rituals and theological storytelling by Black Trans/GNC spiritualists and faith practitioners.Narrative.

J Mase IIIis a Black/Trans author and filmmaker. He’s co-director of the forthcomingdocumentary,the Black Trans Prayer Bookand finishing his latest solo work,Is YourGod a Violent God? Finding a Theology for Survivors. He believes in dismantlingreligious violence, creating spaces to heal and reparations.

April Maxey(director/writer) withWork(U.S.A): A young artist sabotages her Park Slope engagement and returns to a gig as a lap dancer in a desperate search for control and self-love.Narrative.

April Maxeyis a queer mixed Chicana filmmaker from San Antonio, Texas. She is analumna of Berlinale Talents and the AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Her work oftencenters connection within the queer experience and characters who challengemainstream culture. Her short filmWorkpremiered at Sundance in 2022.

Phumi Morare(director/writer) withThere Is Salt In The Water(U.S.A): A Senegalese surfer living on the coast of South Africa, tries to start a surf school for Black children from the slums. His life is complicated when his former lover haunts him and his daughter develops a mysterious, spiritual illness connected to the ocean.Narrative.

Phumi Morareis a writer/director from South Africa. Her short filmLakutshon’ Ilanga(When The Sun Sets)was shortlisted for the 94th Academy Awards and won an NAACPImage Award. She participated in the Tribeca Chanel Through Her Lens Women’sFilmmaker Program and the 2022 Film Independent Screenwriting Lab.