As I devoted more time and energy to the Filmmaker newsletter throughout the last decade-plus, I'd often find myself in some form of dialogue with producer, strategist and consultant Brian Newman. His invaluable Sub-genre newsletter arrives on Thursdays (now, biweekly), mine on Fridays, and, like me, he'll often comment on the production and distribution challenges facing independent filmmakers in an increasingly commercialized, politically cautious and algorithmically-driven media landscape.
SFFILM has awarded $543,000 in grants to film filmmakers from around the world. The funding, announced today, will support over 30 projects ranging from short films to full-length documentaries. While the artistic development grants support filmmakers as far away as Haiti, Honduras, Ghana and Guatemala, a handful of recipients have Bay Area ties - and are telling Bay Area stories.
