Congratulations are so as: Rooster & Egg Footage has introduced greater than $650,000 in new grants to eight recipients of its 2023 Rooster & Egg Award. Created to “acknowledge the truth that only some ladies and non-binary nonfiction filmmakers within the U.S. and overseas are in a position to work full-time as unbiased storytellers,” the award presents chosen documentary filmmakers who’re at advanced-career levels with a $75,000 grant in addition to “a tailor-made year-long mentorship program that’s focused to the targets of every particular person grant recipient,”per a press launch asserting the awardees.
The 2023 recipients are Angela Tucker (“Stomach of the Beast”), Ilinca Calugareanu (“A Cops and Robbers Story”), Jeanie Finlay (“Sport Of Thrones: The Final Watch”), Lisa Jackson (“How a Individuals Stay”), Nico Opper (“The F Phrase”), Rea Tajiri (“Knowledge Gone Wild”), Sabaah Folayan (“Whose Streets?”), and Sonia Kennebeck (“United States vs. Actuality Winner”).
“The truth is that, even in 2023, it’s nonetheless extremely tough for girls and non-binary individuals to make careers as unbiased storytellers. The numbers inform the story: two-thirds of documentaries are helmed by males,” stated Jenni Wolfson, CEO of Rooster & Egg Footage. “This chasm in illustration signifies that males have an outsized position in telling the tales of who we’re, and what’s vital. Rooster & Egg Footage is thrilled to play a task in righting this mistaken, and to acknowledge the expertise and contributions of those unimaginable filmmakers.”
Two finalists, Farida Pacha and Salomé Jashi, will obtain a $15,000 Rooster & Egg Award Finalist Growth Grant for his or her tasks.
You’ll find extra details about the Rooster & Egg Award recipients beneath, courtesy of the press launch.
Angela Tucker (US)
Angela Tucker (she/her) is an Emmy® and Webby Award-winning filmmaker working in scripted and unscripted movie and tv, highlighting underrepresented communities in unconventional methods. Her latest work contains NYT Critic’s Decide Stomach of the Beast (dir. Erika Cohn) and A New Orleans Noel, a Lifetime vacation movie starring Patti LaBelle. Her documentaries in manufacturing are The Inquisitor, about political icon Barbara Jordan, and Steam (working title), about historic and different well being therapies spanning the globe.
Ilinca Calugareanu (Romania/UK)
Ilinca Calugareanu (she/her) is a UK-based Romanian filmmaker. Her directing titles embody characteristic documentaries Chuck Norris vs Communism (Sundance, 2015), A Cops and Robbers Story (Doc NYC, 2020); and brief documentaries VHS vs. Communism (Op-Docs- The New York Instances), Erica: Man Made (Guardian Documentaries) and The Joys and Sorrows of Younger Yuguo (Netflix, 2022). She is a Berlinale Abilities Alumna, Rooster & Egg Footage (Egg)celerator Lab Grantee, Sundance Institute’s Nationwide Geographic Fellow, and an SFFILM Rainin Screenwriting Grantee.
Jeanie Finlay (UK)
Jeanie Finlay (she/her) is one in every of Britain’s most distinctive documentary makers whose award-winning work for cinema and tv–made with metal and coronary heart–tells intimate tales for worldwide audiences.
Her credit embody movies for HBO and IFC, and 4 commissions for BBC Storyville, with works together with the (additional)abnormal being pregnant of a British trans man, and British Unbiased Movie Awards (BIFA)-nominated, Seahorse; Emmy®-nominated documentary concerning the world’s greatest present, Sport Of Thrones: The Final Watch; the story of the final document store in Teesside–SOUND IT OUT; the BIFA-nominated The Nice Hip Hop Hoax; Panto!; and the BIFA-winning Orion: The Man Who Would Be King. Jeanie is at the moment underway on her tenth characteristic documentary.
Lisa Jackson (Canada)
Lisa Jackson (she/her) is an Anishinaabe filmmaker whose work has garnered two Canadian Display Awards, a Webby Award nomination, and has screened at prime festivals together with Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, Berlinale, and Sizzling Docs. Recognized for cross-genre work that expands narrative boundaries and covers matters as various as catfishing, Indigenous languages, and lichen, she’s dedicated to Indigenous display sovereignty. In 2021, Lisa was acknowledged by the Documentary Group of Canada with their prestigious Vanguard Award.
Nico Opper (US)
Nico Opper (they/them) is an Emmy®-nominated filmmaker based mostly in Oakland, California. They directed The F Phrase (2018), which was nominated for a Gotham Award and an IDA Award; Customer’s Day (2016); and Off and Operating (2010). Additionally they produced Strive More durable! (2021), which premiered at Sundance Movie Pageant and was nominated for an Unbiased Spirit Award. Nico has been featured in Filmmaker Journal’s annual “25 New Faces of Unbiased Movie” and DOC NYC’s “40 Underneath 40.”
Rea Tajiri (US)
Rea Tajiri (she/her) is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist and educator who creates installations, documentaries, and experimental movies. Her work situates itself in poetic, non-traditional storytelling varieties to encourage dialog and reflection round buried histories.
Tajiri’s work has obtained assist from JustFilms/Ford Basis, the Pew Fellowship within the Arts, and the Leeway Transformation Award. Moreover, she obtained a Rockefeller Media Fellowship and two New York Basis for the Arts Fellowships. Her newest documentary Knowledge Gone Wild, screened within the Worldwide Competitors at IDFA, and within the American Lives part at DOC NYC. It gained the Viewers Award for Greatest Function Documentary and Jury Award Honorable Point out for Greatest Function Documentary on the 2022 Blackstar Movie Pageant, the Grand Jury Prize from the San Diego Asian Movie Pageant because the Centerpiece Movie, the Viewers Award and Greatest Documentary Award on the Philadelphia Asian American Movie Pageant. Tajiri is an Affiliate Professor within the Movie Media Arts Division at Temple College the place she teaches Documentary Movie manufacturing.
Sabaah Folayan (US)
By way of screenwriting, filmmaking, and public talking, Sabaah Folayan (she/they) ranges an optimistic but unflinching gaze on the pressing questions of our time.
Sabaah made her directorial debut on the 2017 Sundance Movie Pageant, with the feature-length documentary Whose Streets? Nominated for a Peabody Award, Critics Selection Award, Gotham Award, and NAACP Award, the movie chronicles the experiences of activists dwelling in Ferguson, Missouri when Michael Brown Jr. was killed. Whose Streets? was distributed theatrically by Magnolia Footage, broadcast for tv by POV, and is now streaming on Netflix.
In 2021, Sabaah wrote the collection finale of HBO’s Betty, a critically acclaimed comedy collection a couple of crew of younger feminine skate boarders in New York Metropolis. Her second documentary characteristic LOOK AT ME: XXXTENTACION premiered at SXSW 2022 and is now streaming on Hulu.
Sonia Kennebeck (Malaysia/Germany/US)
Sonia Kennebeck (she/her) is an award-winning director, producer, and investigative journalist. Her directing credit embody critically-acclaimed characteristic movies United States vs. Actuality Winner (SXSW 2021), Enemies of the State (TIFF 2020), and Nationwide Chicken (Berlinale 2016). Kennebeck obtained the Adrienne Shelly Excellence in Filmmaking Award, a Ridenhour Documentary Movie Prize, and an Emmy® nomination. She was acknowledged as one in every of Overseas Coverage Journal’s 100 Main International Thinkers and Filmmaker Journal’s 25 New Faces of Unbiased Movie.
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Farida Pacha (India)
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Farida Pacha (she/her) studied Anthropology and Sociology in Mumbai earlier than acquiring her MFA in filmmaking at Southern Illinois College. Her debut characteristic documentary, My Identify is Salt (2013), has gained 35 worldwide awards together with the principle prizes at movie festivals in Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Madrid, and Mumbai, in addition to the distinguished German Digicam Prize. Her newest documentary Watch Over Me (2021) obtained the Grand Jury Documentary Award on the Motion pictures that Matter Pageant at The Hague and was nominated for The Robert and Frances Flaherty Award on the Yamagata Worldwide Movie Pageant.
In 2018, she obtained the IDFA Bertha Fund Europe and the Jan Vrijman Fund in 2008 and 2010.
Salomé Jashi (Georgia)
Salomé Jashi studied documentary filmmaking at Royal Holloway, College of London. Her movie Taming the Backyard (2021) premiered at Sundance Movie Pageant and Berlinale Discussion board and was nominated for the European Movie Awards. Her movie The Dazzling Gentle of Sundown (2016) was awarded the Principal Prize at Visions du Réel’s Regard Neuf Competitors and different festivals. Her earlier work Bakhmaro (2011) was nominated for the Asia Pacific Display Awards. Her producing work How the Room Felt (2021) premiered at IDFA’s principal competitors.
Salomé was a fellow of Nipkow Scholarship in 2017 and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2020. She is a member of European Movie Academy and a co-founder of DOCA Documentary Affiliation Georgia.
