Points North Institute and CNN Films on Tuesday announced the recipients of a round of $50,000 in grants for five teams of documentary filmmakers. The money, which covers urgent production or post-production during the pandemic, is part of the inaugural American Stories Documentary Fund, which replaces the annual Camden/Tribeca Film Institute Filmmaker Retreat. The teams are each getting a $10,000 grant and also worked with additional funders, distributors, and creative partners during Points North Institute’s Camden International Film Festival in Maine, which wrapped October 12.
It’s the latest shift in the changing documentary and independent filmmaking world, in addition to being the next chapter in the collaboration between CNN Films and Points North Institute, which in 2015 established an annual Filmmaker Retreat with Tribeca Film Institute. Tfi earlier this year indefinitely “paused” its operations. Another former Tfi program, If/Then Shorts, recently moved to Field of Vision as Tfi wound down.
It’s the latest shift in the changing documentary and independent filmmaking world, in addition to being the next chapter in the collaboration between CNN Films and Points North Institute, which in 2015 established an annual Filmmaker Retreat with Tribeca Film Institute. Tfi earlier this year indefinitely “paused” its operations. Another former Tfi program, If/Then Shorts, recently moved to Field of Vision as Tfi wound down.
- 10/13/2020
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
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