Four indie filmmakers were bestowed with sizable cheques to help fund their next projects at Film Independent's Spirit Awards Nominees Brunch on Saturday
Four indie filmmakers were bestowed with sizable cheques to help fund their next projects at Film Independent's Spirit Awards Nominees Brunch on Saturday.
The annual gathering, which fetes the contenders for this year's Spirit Awards, recognized achievements made in the independent film space. , was named the recipient of the Bonnie Award, a $50,000 grant given to a mid-career female filmmaker. "I think [writer] Rachel Cusk said that being in these women awards groups, it always feels like sitting at the child's table, and I've felt that way too, but the table's gotten so much less lonely and the company's become so great," Reichardt said, shouting out director Marielle Heller, the other contenders for the award.
director Rashaad Ernesto Green was the winner of the $25,000 Someone to Watch award, which spotlights filmmakers that have not received the recognition their work deserves. Finalists in the category were The Last Black Man in San Francisco. The Truer Than Fiction award, a $25,000 unrestricted grant presented to an emerging non-fiction filmmaker, was given to Nadia Shihab, director of
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