Project Involve 2020 Announcement

Ruth is a 2020 Project Involve Directing Fellow! See below an excerpt from the official announcement:

Project Involve being, of course, one of Film Independent’s longest running, impactful and just generally very cool Artist Development programs. Each year, Project Involve selects 30 new filmmakers—including producers, writers, directors, cinematographers, editors and execs—hailing from underrepresented backgrounds to take part in intensive filmmaker workshops and mentorship sessions, culminating in group collaboration to create between five-seven shorts.

And today, we’re thrilled to announce the 30 new Fellows selected to 2020 edition of Project Involve—the program’s 27th year. “We look forward to shining a light on their unique stories that are so needed. As always, we’re extremely grateful to all of our supporters who are an integral part of making change,” says Senior Project Involve Manager Francisco Velasquez.

Previous Project Involve Fellows include Film Independent Spirit Award Best Feature winner Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Linda Yvette Chávez, Marvin Lemus and Aaliyah Williams (Netflix’s Gentefied), Effie T. Brown (Dear White People), Jon M. Chu (In the Heights) and Justin Simien (Dear White People) and many more. Past shorts produced in the program include Liberty (2019 SXSW Narrative Short Jury Award; 2019 Special Prize for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival’ 2019 AFI Special Jury Prize) and Emergency (2018 Sundance Special Jury Award; 2018 SXSW Narrative Short Jury Award.)

Past PI Mentors include Ava DuVernay, Catherine Hardwicke, Alma Har’el, Barry Jenkins, Mako Kamitsuna, Spike Jonze, Christopher Nolan, Charles D. King, Christine Vachon, Forest Whitaker, Bradford Young, ASC and many more.

FULL LINK HERE:

https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/2020-project-involve-fellows-announced-short-films-available-to-watch/