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Peabody nominees, radical acts of cinematography, festival news & more from Portrait
Happy Thursday, friends!
We love hearing your use cases for Portrait as our community grows. Recent favorites:
Messaged a trusted DP for DP candidates for their next project
Re-discovered industry contacts whose info they bemoaned losing
Found other festival attendees through posts and affiliations in common
How are you using Portrait? How do you wish you could use it? Send us a note — and we’ll keep on building. Nominate a friend and we’ll build for them too!
Onto the weekly update.
Jean Ellen and Kasia
Co-Founders, Portrait
Roll of Honor
Premieres, Press, Awards, and Standout Member Work This Week
Congrats to our Peabody Award Nominees!
“Aftershock.” Lauren Haber EP; Michael Crommett & Jenni Morello, DPs
“The Territory.” Portrait members Justin Lacob, XTR; Carlos Rojas, Editor; Will Miller, Producer
On Our Creative Radar…
Read. As a Writers’ Strike looms in Hollywood, read Olivia Heffernan’s “Letter to a New New Left (Or, How Unions Got Cool Again)” for Literary Hub.
Watch. Also check out Olivia and Mailee Osten Tan’s latest episode of “Extreme Lives” for the UN Development Programme.
Listen.
As you try to keep up with the court cases in national news, listen to “Repress It, Suppress It,” the latest from NPR’s Admissible: Shreds of Evidence. Danielle Elliot, story editor.
Or, if you’d rather be hanging from a cliff with a camera, Clair Popkin talks about such radical acts for “Free Solo” and other projects on The FilmUp Podcast.
Circling The Festival Circuit
Elyse Kelly’s “The Greatest Poem” is the opening night short at Florida Film Festival. In Orlando this weekend? Respond to Elyse’s note to meet up!
Geeta Gandbhir’s “How We Get Free” has its world premiere today at the Aspen Shortsfest. Check out this great review of the film.
Heading to SF Film this week? Say hi to Jean Ellen! And see these films from Portrait members: “La Bonga” (Gabriella Garcia Pardo); “Tuba Thieves” (Rachel Nederveld, Derek Howard); “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” (Lauren Haber); “Invisible Beauty” (Andrea Van Beuren, Mia Cioffi Henry); “Still: A Michael J Fox Movie” (Annetta Marion, Clair Popkin, Julia Liu) “Milisuthando” (Milisuthando Bongela, Marion Isaacs)
Window of Opportunity
Weekly Jobs, Grants, Labs, Intensives, Programming, Events, and More
Applications for the 2024 Pillars Artist Fellowship open May 1st, with information sessions April 25th and 26th. Reach out to Managing Director Arij Mikati and past fellow Nausheen Dadabhoy for more!
April Programming
April 14. Sundance Collab’s Master Class: How to Break a Story with Dara Resnik
April 19. The Gotham’s info session for U.S. Features in Post Submissions
April 20-23. The Gotham’s Next Generation Screening Series with Netflix and Venice Film Festival at The Paris Theater
April 21. Union Docs workshop with Derek Howard
April Deadlines
Original Voices Shorts Pitch (4/14 deadline)
Rideback Rise Fellowship (4/15 deadline)
NYFA Environmental Art Grant (4/18 deadline)
Austin Screenplay Competition (4/18 deadline + discount)
TFC Career Development Lab (4/23 deadline)
Native American Writers Seminar (4/24 deadline)
Points North Fellowship (4/24 final deadline)
Hollywood Climate Summit - Pitchfest for Film and TV (4/27 deadline)
SFFILM Rainin Grant (4/28 final deadline + discount)
Urbanworld Screenplay Competition (4/28 deadline + discount)
Roy W Dean Short Film Grant (4/29 deadline + waivers)
Jobs/Gigs Roundup
End Credits Scene of the Week
We loved seeing the stunning photography from Harsha Vadlamani on Portrait this week. Congratulations to Harsha on his award win at the Chennai Photo Biennale!
Until next week, friends,
JE + K