Exclusive: The American Film Institute on Tuesday announced the launch of a multifaceted partnership with the graphic design platform Canva, which will look to bolster rising filmmakers and improve access to the tools and skills necessary to realize their visions.
The flagship initiative under this partnership is The Canva Fellowship, which as of this year will begin providing annual scholarships to Fellows at the AFI Conservatory, based on merit and financial need. Additionally, Canva will provide Canva Pro subscriptions to 250 AFI Fellows and 1,000 AFI Conservatory Alumni, along with in-depth design training and workshops.
The recipients of the inaugural Canva Fellowship for 2023-2024 are AFI First Year Fellows Alex Bush (Directing), Hayoun Kim (Production Design), Dominika Podczaska (Cinematography), He “Shirley” Sui (Producing), Sydney Sullivan (Editing) and Darcy Wytko (Screenwriting), who will start the Mfa filmmaking program on AFI’s Los Angeles campus in August.
“The AFI and Canva collaboration embodies the...
The flagship initiative under this partnership is The Canva Fellowship, which as of this year will begin providing annual scholarships to Fellows at the AFI Conservatory, based on merit and financial need. Additionally, Canva will provide Canva Pro subscriptions to 250 AFI Fellows and 1,000 AFI Conservatory Alumni, along with in-depth design training and workshops.
The recipients of the inaugural Canva Fellowship for 2023-2024 are AFI First Year Fellows Alex Bush (Directing), Hayoun Kim (Production Design), Dominika Podczaska (Cinematography), He “Shirley” Sui (Producing), Sydney Sullivan (Editing) and Darcy Wytko (Screenwriting), who will start the Mfa filmmaking program on AFI’s Los Angeles campus in August.
“The AFI and Canva collaboration embodies the...
- 6/27/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Viewers won’t go wrong watching the two-hour entirety of “Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon” tonight on CBS. But if you have only about a 10-minute stretch to spare for televised non-holiday music in the days leading up to Christmas, maybe make it the closing act of this special — especially the generational handoff number that has one master, Rhiannon Giddens, movingly joining another. As Giddens and Simon perform “American Tune,” you may feel like you’ve gone off to find America, and actually kinda succeeded in that search, over the course of just one number.
Everything else about the telecast — which was filmed before a live audience at Hollywood’s Pantages back in April (see Variety‘s next-day coverage here) — feels immaculately chosen by producer Ken Ehrlich, if hardly marked by left-field surprises. There are no sops to the youth vote, except for the...
Everything else about the telecast — which was filmed before a live audience at Hollywood’s Pantages back in April (see Variety‘s next-day coverage here) — feels immaculately chosen by producer Ken Ehrlich, if hardly marked by left-field surprises. There are no sops to the youth vote, except for the...
- 12/22/2022
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
“Morning Joe” viewers on Tuesday couldn’t help wondering if actor Sean Penn thought his segment on the show was “audio only” after catching a glimpse of his unkempt, just-out-of-bed “homeless” appearance. While Penn’s background was tidy enough, his hair sprang at all angles out from his head and his shirt was wrinkled.
Cable news morning shows typically run from 6 a.m. Et to 9 a.m. Et and Penn was on MSNBC around 8:30 a.m. Et to discuss his nonprofit, Core, which is working to provide free Covid-19 tests around Los Angeles and elsewhere in the United States.
It might have been early for the star, but viewers cut him absolutely no slack, with one tweeting that his look was distracting from his message about the nonprofit’s charitable work.
“You are doing great work @SeanPenn,” quipped another viewer on Twitter, “just rolling out of bed for Morning Joe.
Cable news morning shows typically run from 6 a.m. Et to 9 a.m. Et and Penn was on MSNBC around 8:30 a.m. Et to discuss his nonprofit, Core, which is working to provide free Covid-19 tests around Los Angeles and elsewhere in the United States.
It might have been early for the star, but viewers cut him absolutely no slack, with one tweeting that his look was distracting from his message about the nonprofit’s charitable work.
“You are doing great work @SeanPenn,” quipped another viewer on Twitter, “just rolling out of bed for Morning Joe.
- 12/22/2020
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
At 6pm on June 1, the 21st Jeonju International Film Festival held an awards ceremony at Cgv Jeonjugosa 1 where the winners in each category were announced.
80 individuals including Chairman Kim Seung-su of the organising committee, Festival Director Lee Joondong, jury members and directors and actors with films in competition attended the ceremony. 16 winners from International Competition, Korean Competition, Korean Competition for Shorts, the Documentary Award supported by Jin Motors, and the Netpac (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) Award were announced.
The Grand Prize winner of International Competition, “Damp Season”
Firstly in International Comeption, directo Gao Ming was honoured with the Grand Prize for Damp Season. The film is the director’s first narrative feature and his second feature following his documentary, Pai Gu (2006). Gao has been working as a scriptwriter, director, and designer in China. Damp Season is about the frustrating and suffocating humidity-like relationships four young men and women who like in Shenzen,...
80 individuals including Chairman Kim Seung-su of the organising committee, Festival Director Lee Joondong, jury members and directors and actors with films in competition attended the ceremony. 16 winners from International Competition, Korean Competition, Korean Competition for Shorts, the Documentary Award supported by Jin Motors, and the Netpac (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) Award were announced.
The Grand Prize winner of International Competition, “Damp Season”
Firstly in International Comeption, directo Gao Ming was honoured with the Grand Prize for Damp Season. The film is the director’s first narrative feature and his second feature following his documentary, Pai Gu (2006). Gao has been working as a scriptwriter, director, and designer in China. Damp Season is about the frustrating and suffocating humidity-like relationships four young men and women who like in Shenzen,...
- 6/6/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Competition screenings were held with only jury members and limited domestic guests in attendance.
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival has awarded its Grand Prize to Chinese film Damp Season, directed by Gao Ming, in its first Covid-19 pandemic edition with closed-door and online screenings only.
The festival held its awards ceremony at Cgv Jeonjugosa yesterday (June 1) with 80 people in attendance, including organising committee chairman Kim Seung-su, festival director Lee Joondong, jury members and directors and actors with films in the Korean competition. Its opening ceremony was broadcast online May 28 with guests wearing masks.
With a mandatory two-week quarantine...
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival has awarded its Grand Prize to Chinese film Damp Season, directed by Gao Ming, in its first Covid-19 pandemic edition with closed-door and online screenings only.
The festival held its awards ceremony at Cgv Jeonjugosa yesterday (June 1) with 80 people in attendance, including organising committee chairman Kim Seung-su, festival director Lee Joondong, jury members and directors and actors with films in the Korean competition. Its opening ceremony was broadcast online May 28 with guests wearing masks.
With a mandatory two-week quarantine...
- 6/2/2020
- by 134¦Jean Noh¦516¦
- ScreenDaily
Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson (Photo: Fran Moore).
Screen Australia has announced $1.9 million in production funding for 10 documentaries through the Producer program and one through the Commissioned program.
The slate includes a feature documentary celebrating fashion designers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson; a three-part exploration of contemporary Indigenous art from Wildbear/Frame Up Films; and a new series from Northern Pictures for Sbs about domestic violence in Australia.
Head of documentary Bernadine Lim said: “We are thrilled to support these documentaries from around the country, with stories that celebrate iconic Australians including retailer Franco Cozzo, designers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson, and tennis champion Jelena Dokic.”
“This slate is set to shine a light on crucial and timely issues of family violence and the environment, and explore art and science through innovative storytelling technology.”
Producer Program projects:
Art of Australia and the Pacific (working title): A three-part series from...
Screen Australia has announced $1.9 million in production funding for 10 documentaries through the Producer program and one through the Commissioned program.
The slate includes a feature documentary celebrating fashion designers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson; a three-part exploration of contemporary Indigenous art from Wildbear/Frame Up Films; and a new series from Northern Pictures for Sbs about domestic violence in Australia.
Head of documentary Bernadine Lim said: “We are thrilled to support these documentaries from around the country, with stories that celebrate iconic Australians including retailer Franco Cozzo, designers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson, and tennis champion Jelena Dokic.”
“This slate is set to shine a light on crucial and timely issues of family violence and the environment, and explore art and science through innovative storytelling technology.”
Producer Program projects:
Art of Australia and the Pacific (working title): A three-part series from...
- 12/10/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Annecy – Brazil’s “Beyond the Legend,” Venezuela’s “Karetabla” and Chile’s “Witches’ Business” are among the thirteen animation projects selected to participate at the 5th Bridging the Gap (Btg), a Canary Island-based intensive animation workshop.
Since its first edition in 2015, Tenerife animation lab Bridging the Gap has promoted fifty international feature films and animation series. One of them, “Homeless,” competes at this week’s Annecy Festival in the new Contrechamp showcase. Produced by Lunes CineTV, and Juan de Dios Larraín at Fabula, the Chilean feature is directed by José Ignacio Navarro Cox, Jorge Campusano and Santiago O’Ryan.
Marília Feldhues’ feature debut “Beyond the Legend” will be the second animated feature directed by a woman in Brazil after Mariana Caltabiano’s “Brazil Animated” in 2011, and the first animation feature to be made in Brazil’s Pernambuco region. A 2D project about a sacred book gathering Brazilian folklore and legends,...
Since its first edition in 2015, Tenerife animation lab Bridging the Gap has promoted fifty international feature films and animation series. One of them, “Homeless,” competes at this week’s Annecy Festival in the new Contrechamp showcase. Produced by Lunes CineTV, and Juan de Dios Larraín at Fabula, the Chilean feature is directed by José Ignacio Navarro Cox, Jorge Campusano and Santiago O’Ryan.
Marília Feldhues’ feature debut “Beyond the Legend” will be the second animated feature directed by a woman in Brazil after Mariana Caltabiano’s “Brazil Animated” in 2011, and the first animation feature to be made in Brazil’s Pernambuco region. A 2D project about a sacred book gathering Brazilian folklore and legends,...
- 6/9/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes — Pablo and Juan de Díos Larraín’s Fabula, producers of Oscar-winning “A Fantastic Woman” and Toronto hit “Gloria Bell,” starring Julianne Moore, have driven into animation, teaming with Lunes to produce “Homeless.”
A Fabula-Lunes co-production, and Fabula’s first animated feature, “Homeless,” which will world premiere at France’s Annecy Festival next month, marks the latest expansive move at Fabula which, in the last 20 months, has set up a U.S. office, run by former Paramount exec Geoff Stier, moved into production on its first high-end international drama series, “La Jauria,” directed by Lucía Puenzo (“The German Doctor”) and starring “A Fantastic Woman’s” Daniela Vega; clinched a first-look production distribution deal with television powerhouse Fremantle; and appointed Rocío Jadue as its first head of Latin American film just before the Cannes Film Festival.
For Lunes, which is making a splash internationally with short “Waldo’s Dream,”Homeless,” a...
A Fabula-Lunes co-production, and Fabula’s first animated feature, “Homeless,” which will world premiere at France’s Annecy Festival next month, marks the latest expansive move at Fabula which, in the last 20 months, has set up a U.S. office, run by former Paramount exec Geoff Stier, moved into production on its first high-end international drama series, “La Jauria,” directed by Lucía Puenzo (“The German Doctor”) and starring “A Fantastic Woman’s” Daniela Vega; clinched a first-look production distribution deal with television powerhouse Fremantle; and appointed Rocío Jadue as its first head of Latin American film just before the Cannes Film Festival.
For Lunes, which is making a splash internationally with short “Waldo’s Dream,”Homeless,” a...
- 5/17/2019
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Chilean animation producers Lunes Animation Studio has released its highly-acclaimed animated short “Waldo’s Dream” on YouTube, where it can be accessed for free around the world.
The short was written and directed by the company’s trio of José Ignacio Navarro Cox, Jorge Campusano and Santiago O’Ryan, who have worked together since meeting in a master program for screenwriting.
“Waldo’s Dream” competed at 2018’s Annecy International Animated Film Festival in the short film category, where it impressed with its classic 2D animation style, colorful imagery and scathing, almost prophetic criticism of an unchecked growth of Disney the corporate entity, while paying homage to the art created there.
“We’ve actually met with people from Disney, and at first we were afraid they would want to hit us or something,” Navarro Cox told Variety in a conversation at Santiago’s Sanfic Festival. “But in the end they said they loved it,...
The short was written and directed by the company’s trio of José Ignacio Navarro Cox, Jorge Campusano and Santiago O’Ryan, who have worked together since meeting in a master program for screenwriting.
“Waldo’s Dream” competed at 2018’s Annecy International Animated Film Festival in the short film category, where it impressed with its classic 2D animation style, colorful imagery and scathing, almost prophetic criticism of an unchecked growth of Disney the corporate entity, while paying homage to the art created there.
“We’ve actually met with people from Disney, and at first we were afraid they would want to hit us or something,” Navarro Cox told Variety in a conversation at Santiago’s Sanfic Festival. “But in the end they said they loved it,...
- 5/8/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Spain’s Quirino Awards, Argentina’s Animation! and Mexico’s Pixelatl Festival, three key events in Ibero-American animation, will join forces to create La Liga (The League), as announced Wednesday at an Animation! round table hosted by the Quirino Awards, titled “Iberoamerican Alliance Models.”
Speakers included Quirino Awards promoter José Luis Farias, Mexico’s Pixelatl director José Iñesta, Gonzalo Azpiri at Argentina’s Animar Cluster, Milton Guerrero from Animation Peru, José Navarro from Chile’s national lobby Animach) and Liliana Rincón, of Colombia’s Gema animation trade assn.
The Liga’s logo (pictured) was designed by renowned Argentine animation auteur Juan Pablo Zaramella (“The Tiniest Man in the World”).
La Liga all see one of the selected projects at this year’s Animation! pitching sessions awarded a prize consisting of an invitation to attend Tenerife’s Quirino Awards and Cuernavaca’s Pixelatl, plus travel expenses, lodging and full accreditation to both.
Speakers included Quirino Awards promoter José Luis Farias, Mexico’s Pixelatl director José Iñesta, Gonzalo Azpiri at Argentina’s Animar Cluster, Milton Guerrero from Animation Peru, José Navarro from Chile’s national lobby Animach) and Liliana Rincón, of Colombia’s Gema animation trade assn.
The Liga’s logo (pictured) was designed by renowned Argentine animation auteur Juan Pablo Zaramella (“The Tiniest Man in the World”).
La Liga all see one of the selected projects at this year’s Animation! pitching sessions awarded a prize consisting of an invitation to attend Tenerife’s Quirino Awards and Cuernavaca’s Pixelatl, plus travel expenses, lodging and full accreditation to both.
- 12/12/2018
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams follow-up The County to screen footage out of competition.
The 10th edition of the Les Arcs Film Festival has selected its crop of work in progress projects.
The festival unveiled its co-production project selection and inaugural Talent Village last week.
Completing this year’s Industry Village are 15 projects, all of which are in post-production and do not yet have sales agents attached.
They include new projects from director Babis Makridis, whose Pity premiered at Sundance this year, Damjan Kozole, whose Nightlife won best director at Karlovy Vary in 2016, and Levan Akin whose The Circle was a 2015 Berlinale selection.
The 10th edition of the Les Arcs Film Festival has selected its crop of work in progress projects.
The festival unveiled its co-production project selection and inaugural Talent Village last week.
Completing this year’s Industry Village are 15 projects, all of which are in post-production and do not yet have sales agents attached.
They include new projects from director Babis Makridis, whose Pity premiered at Sundance this year, Damjan Kozole, whose Nightlife won best director at Karlovy Vary in 2016, and Levan Akin whose The Circle was a 2015 Berlinale selection.
- 11/29/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Director Clay Riley Hassler’s “Homeless” won the the Grand Jury Award at this year’s Dances With Films, festival organizers announced at Sunday’s closing night gala. The film follows an 18-year-old boy who navigates his way through life in a shelter after the passing of his grandmother. The Los Angeles-based festival, founded in 1998, bestowed the Audience Award on director Benjamin Meyer’s “Fools,” about the complexity of modern relationships. Also Read: Dances With Films Festival to Open With Michael Clarke Duncan's Last Movie 'The Challenger' (Exclusive) “‘Fools’ captivated audiences from the first frame, so it...
- 6/8/2015
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
David Gordon Green returns to his alma mater to present Manglehorn; local newcomers impress with Homeless feature.Scroll down for full list of winners
RiverRun International Film Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, wrapped last night with Shawkat Amin Korki’s Memories on Stone winning best narrative feature and Hao Zhou’s The Chinese Mayor winning best documentary feature.
In the audience awards, best of the fest went to honoree Stanley Nelson’s The Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution; best narrative feature went to Anywhere Else by Ester Amrami; best documentary feature went to Marc Silver’s 3 ½ Minutes and best indie was Proud Citizen by Thomas Southerland.
The festival presented 165 films in total in its 17th annual edition; more filmmakers than ever before attended the event.
“Films showcased at our festival this year reflected diverse stories from around the world, immense talent from directors, many trained in Winston-Salem, and a host of passionate projects that are jewels...
RiverRun International Film Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, wrapped last night with Shawkat Amin Korki’s Memories on Stone winning best narrative feature and Hao Zhou’s The Chinese Mayor winning best documentary feature.
In the audience awards, best of the fest went to honoree Stanley Nelson’s The Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution; best narrative feature went to Anywhere Else by Ester Amrami; best documentary feature went to Marc Silver’s 3 ½ Minutes and best indie was Proud Citizen by Thomas Southerland.
The festival presented 165 films in total in its 17th annual edition; more filmmakers than ever before attended the event.
“Films showcased at our festival this year reflected diverse stories from around the world, immense talent from directors, many trained in Winston-Salem, and a host of passionate projects that are jewels...
- 4/27/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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