$110,000 distributed to 15 Texas projects
Members of this year’s grant selection panel included filmmakers Rashaad Ernesto Green and Andrew Ahn and Sundance short film programmer Lisa Ogdie. This year’s selected projects are all documentaries or narrative feature films in various phases of production.
Documentary in production – MPS Camera and Lighting Austin Grant Description: Walker is a verité portrait of Walker Estes – a deaf advocate and father from Baton Rouge, Louisiana – who is driven by his family’s experiences of incarceration and deafness to help others in his community affected by the prison system.Director: Benjamin Flaherty Description: Through the lens of his own recovery, a filmmaker offers an intimate look inside the billion-dollar addiction treatment industry where young people are bought and sold for their insurance policies and ushered into a system designed to keep them sick. What begins as an investigation of a street-level scam explodes to uncover systemic collusion at the highest levels of government.Narrative feature in production – North Texas Pioneer Film Grant Description: A tired painter is given no choice but to dive head first into the grime of the city and embark on a nightlong, grueling, surrealist journey full of peculiar characters in search of the damned mysterious man that stole not only his locket but also his dignity.Description: The quest to win the Super Bowl® of muscle contests is the backdrop for stories of three American female bodybuilders seeking to be loved and accepted for who they are while contending with the impossible standards set for women within the sport and by society at large.Description: After failing to win an art competition, a disillusioned Latino teams up with an aspiring writer country-boy to create a comic book.Description: 2002 Saigon summer, ten-year-old Thi begins to discover her own womanhood after a club waitress rents out her recently deceased Grandmother’s bedroom.Description: Leonard, a struggling actor, becomes the unofficial spokesman of a local car dealership, which brings him newfound attention and fame – until local ATF agents inform him that the dealership is a front for firearms trafficking and Leonard is forced to become their informant.Documentary in post-production Description: Following the death of her brother and mom, a transracial adoptee attempts to regain her sense of identity by exploring her origins and connecting with others like her.Description: Amidst a record surge of Texas anti-LGBTQ legislation and the demolition of nightlife venues,chronicles three queer performance artists in Austin as they create, protect, and reimagine queer futures alongside their chosen families. Glitter and despair collide in this candid love letter to queer resistance everywhere.
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