Every year since 2009, the San Francisco Film Society (Sffs) selects multiple film projects to receive the biannual Sffs/Krf Filmmaking Grant that helps fund some of the best up-and-coming narrative features that support the Bay Area filmmaking industry.
The grant is presented in tangent with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and is the largest granting body for independent narrative feature films in the U.S. The winners of the grant will be announced in November, with one or more of the fifteen projects eligible to receive upwards of $250,000 for assistance in post-production, screenwriting, or packing.
The fall 2016 finalists are as follows:
Read More: San Francisco Film Society Announces Winners of 2016 Documentary Film Fund
“Buoyancy” – Rodd Rathjen, writer/director:
Chakra, a Cambodian teenager, leaves his family to seek a better life in Thailand, but is soon sold onto a Thai fishing trawler and enslaved at sea indefinitely, working 22 hours a day with little food.
The grant is presented in tangent with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and is the largest granting body for independent narrative feature films in the U.S. The winners of the grant will be announced in November, with one or more of the fifteen projects eligible to receive upwards of $250,000 for assistance in post-production, screenwriting, or packing.
The fall 2016 finalists are as follows:
Read More: San Francisco Film Society Announces Winners of 2016 Documentary Film Fund
“Buoyancy” – Rodd Rathjen, writer/director:
Chakra, a Cambodian teenager, leaves his family to seek a better life in Thailand, but is soon sold onto a Thai fishing trawler and enslaved at sea indefinitely, working 22 hours a day with little food.
- 10/25/2016
- by Mark Burger
- Indiewire
Four film-makers have been awarded the residencies starting in February 2014.
This programme, backed by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, supports narrative features by making office space available free of charge for six-or 12-month residencies to independent film-makers actively engaged in various stages of film production.
The FilmHouse Residents are: Elena Greenlee – six-month screenwriting residency for Birds Of Paradise; Liam Hughes – six-month development residency for The Lake; Matthew Riutta – six-month residency for Man Up Above; and Laura Wagner – six-month residency for Plumb Unstoppable.
This programme, backed by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, supports narrative features by making office space available free of charge for six-or 12-month residencies to independent film-makers actively engaged in various stages of film production.
The FilmHouse Residents are: Elena Greenlee – six-month screenwriting residency for Birds Of Paradise; Liam Hughes – six-month development residency for The Lake; Matthew Riutta – six-month residency for Man Up Above; and Laura Wagner – six-month residency for Plumb Unstoppable.
- 12/18/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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