GLOBAL FILM INITIATIVE ANNOUCES SPRING GRANT RECIPIENTS
The Global Film Initiative, the New York-based not-for-profit distributor specializing in independent films from the developing world, has announced the nine films that will receive finishing-fund grants this spring. The projects are:
99% Murdered, Esteban Schroeder, Chile/Uruguay
Asleep In The Sun, Alejandro Chomski, Argentina
Dark Legend, Zhang Ming, China
The Gaze, Sepideh Farsi, Iran
To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die, Djamshed Usmonov, Tajikistan
I Am From Titov Veles, Teona Mitevska, Macedonia
Nasreen, Sabine El Gemayel, Lebanon
The Sacred Lake, Zeka Laplaine, Congo/Senegal
Waiting, Rashid Masharawi, Palestine
The Global Film Initiative granting program is a semi-annual event with grants given out in the spring and the fall. The next submission deadline is September 15, 2005. This year three films from The Global Film Initiative grants roster were screened at the Cannes Film Festival, including Cinema, Aspirin and Vultures (Marcelo Gomes, Brazil).
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