Exclusive: The 2024 Inside Out 2Slgbtq+ Film Festival has revealed the award winners for the 34th edition of the festival, with $22,500 in prizes handed out to various 2Slgbtq+ filmmakers. Laurie Townshend’s A Mother Apart, received three awards including Best First Feature and Best Canadian Feature juried awards as well as Audience Award for Best Documentary. Susie Yankou’s Sisters received the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature, and Simon Gualtieri’s Friend of a Friend (Ami d’ami) won the Best Canadian Short Film.
The festival also announced Andrew Chappelle’s upcoming project, I’m Gonna Kill You, which won the annual “Pitch, Please!” contest. The “Pitch, Please!” competition took place in person on June 1 with competitors from across the globe presenting a short, two-minute pitch to a jury and audience. Prizes awarded to the winner include a cash production grant of $5,000 sponsored by Netflix.
The 34th edition of Inside...
The festival also announced Andrew Chappelle’s upcoming project, I’m Gonna Kill You, which won the annual “Pitch, Please!” contest. The “Pitch, Please!” competition took place in person on June 1 with competitors from across the globe presenting a short, two-minute pitch to a jury and audience. Prizes awarded to the winner include a cash production grant of $5,000 sponsored by Netflix.
The 34th edition of Inside...
- 6/3/2024
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Inside Out Toronto has announced eight new recipients for its annual Re:Focus Fund, now in its fourth year of supporting women, non-binary, and/or trans filmmakers.
The Fund was initially launched in 2018 to address industry inequities through providing direct financial support to filmmakers telling 2Slgbtq+ stories. The announcement was made today by Inside Out’s Director of Festival Programming, Jenna Dufton. This year’s selections includes feature, episodic and short projects from five countries including Canada, USA, United Kingdom, Malta and Chile. Since its inception, the fund has been designed to respond to the immediate needs of filmmakers, and works to eliminate barriers to career advancement.
The fund started as a travel grant program recognizing that trans, non-binary and women filmmakers were underrepresented in international festival attendance. The fund has distributed more than 200,000 in festival travel grants and professional development programs for filmmakers since its creation.
“Since the beginning, the...
The Fund was initially launched in 2018 to address industry inequities through providing direct financial support to filmmakers telling 2Slgbtq+ stories. The announcement was made today by Inside Out’s Director of Festival Programming, Jenna Dufton. This year’s selections includes feature, episodic and short projects from five countries including Canada, USA, United Kingdom, Malta and Chile. Since its inception, the fund has been designed to respond to the immediate needs of filmmakers, and works to eliminate barriers to career advancement.
The fund started as a travel grant program recognizing that trans, non-binary and women filmmakers were underrepresented in international festival attendance. The fund has distributed more than 200,000 in festival travel grants and professional development programs for filmmakers since its creation.
“Since the beginning, the...
- 11/8/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
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