Los Angeles nonprofit Jewish Story Partners announced $450,000 in new grants to fund 18 different documentary projects this week.
Founded in 2021 with support from Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg, the group seeks “to stimulate and support the highest caliber independent films that expand the Jewish story.” Since its inception, Jsp has awarded approximately $2.5 million in grants.
The new slate of recipients includes filmmakers like Anne Aghion, Dan Habib (“Intelligent Lives”), Mark Jonathan Harris, Rachel Leah Jones (“Advocate”), Jacob Kornbluth and Marlene McCurtis (“Women on Death Row”).
“At a time when nuance is sorely needed in public discourse, we’re proud to support films that elucidate complex realities and reflect a range of Jewish stories, perspectives and experiences,” said Jsp co-executive directors Caroline Libresco and Roberta Grossman.
Upon the grant awarding, Jsp leadership said that in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, “[We] renew our faith in film as an indispensable...
Founded in 2021 with support from Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg, the group seeks “to stimulate and support the highest caliber independent films that expand the Jewish story.” Since its inception, Jsp has awarded approximately $2.5 million in grants.
The new slate of recipients includes filmmakers like Anne Aghion, Dan Habib (“Intelligent Lives”), Mark Jonathan Harris, Rachel Leah Jones (“Advocate”), Jacob Kornbluth and Marlene McCurtis (“Women on Death Row”).
“At a time when nuance is sorely needed in public discourse, we’re proud to support films that elucidate complex realities and reflect a range of Jewish stories, perspectives and experiences,” said Jsp co-executive directors Caroline Libresco and Roberta Grossman.
Upon the grant awarding, Jsp leadership said that in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, “[We] renew our faith in film as an indispensable...
- 12/15/2023
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
William Okuwah Garrett, film editor on Hollywood Shuffle and director of music videos during the “Black Pack” era of the early ’90s, has died. He was 73. His wife, producer-director Marlene McCurtis, told Deadline that Garrett died December 9 of complications related to kidney disease.
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Hollywood Shuffle, the 1987 satire co-written, produced and directed by and starring Robert Townsend, was a comedic poke in the eye of Hollywood for its stereotyping of Black actors. With a budget of 100,000, the pic opened to critical acclaim and pulled in 5.2 million at the box office. It featured a series of vignettes and fantasies that Garrett wove into a film that inspired the Washington Post to write that it’s technical proficiency “should thoroughly embarrass those studios.”
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Related: Hollywood & Media Deaths 2022: A Photo Gallery
Hollywood Shuffle, the 1987 satire co-written, produced and directed by and starring Robert Townsend, was a comedic poke in the eye of Hollywood for its stereotyping of Black actors. With a budget of 100,000, the pic opened to critical acclaim and pulled in 5.2 million at the box office. It featured a series of vignettes and fantasies that Garrett wove into a film that inspired the Washington Post to write that it’s technical proficiency “should thoroughly embarrass those studios.”
Related Story Movies With Lowest Budgets To Earn 1 Million, From ‘Clerks’ And ‘The Blair Witch Project' To ‘Eraserhead’ & More – Photo Gallery...
- 12/15/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Congratulations are in order for Marlene McCurtis, Byron Hurt, Dawn Porter and Melissa Haizlip, all of whom have been selected as recipients of Firelight Media's Next Step Media Fund (who goals is to support and encourage diversity among emerging filmmakers) which will distribute $70,000 in funding to documentary film projects created by those 4 filmmakers - all participants in Firelight Media’s Producers’ Lab, a mentorship program for talented, independent producers of color. The 4 were selected by a jury that included: Tamir Muhammad (Tribeca Film Institute); Cynthia Lopez (Pov); Film programmer Chi-Wei Yang, Firelight’s Stanley Nelson (Co-Founder) and...
- 11/6/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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