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Rooftop Filmmakers' Grants

By StudentFilmmakers.com
posted Mar 31, 2012, 18:18

Rooftop Films not only exhibits films from around the world, they also collaborate with the filmmakers whose work they screen to make new movies through the Rooftop Filmmakers' Fund and Production Collective. At their annual festival, one dollar of every ticket sold is set aside for the future productions of filmmakers whose work they've screened. They also grant production services and mentorship by working with local partners Edgeworx Studios, Eastern Effects, and The Adrienne Shelly Foundation.

So often, filmmakers spend so much of their resources making one film that it's hard for them to produce another. But unlike festivals which give away awards for filmmakers' past work, the Rooftop Filmmakers Fund is an opportunity to help deserving filmmakers make their next movie. With over 15 years of screening films, every filmmaker who has ever shown a film with Rooftop is eligible for their grants—now over 1,800 artists. Past grantees have included Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene, Ian Cheney's The City Dark, Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild and Glory at Sea, Johannes Nyholm's Las Palmas, Moon Molson's Crazy Beats Strong Every Time, Fabio Wuytack's Persona Non Grata, Lee Isaac Chung's Lucky Life, and dozens more. Rooftop Films has four grants available—two for feature-length films and two for short films.

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