As awards season finally comes to a close and spring arrives in full swing, today we’re excited to celebrate and welcome our newest cohort of six incredible Fellows into the 2024 Film Independent Amplifier Fellowship, supported by founding sponsor Netflix and its Fund for Creative Equity. Now in its third year, the program provides direct support to emerging and mid-career Black or African American filmmakers.
Over the course of the twelve-month program, Amplifier Fellows will receive bespoke support to propel their careers and a selected project forward both creatively and strategically, as well as customized mentorship pairings including a Netflix executive as an industry advisor and also a board member from Film Independent.
Each Fellow will also receive professional coaching in partnership with Renee Freedman & Co, and financial and coaching in partnership with The Jill James. Each Fellow will also receive a $30,000 unrestricted grant (!) to provide sustainability and/or support their creative endeavors.
Over the course of the twelve-month program, Amplifier Fellows will receive bespoke support to propel their careers and a selected project forward both creatively and strategically, as well as customized mentorship pairings including a Netflix executive as an industry advisor and also a board member from Film Independent.
Each Fellow will also receive professional coaching in partnership with Renee Freedman & Co, and financial and coaching in partnership with The Jill James. Each Fellow will also receive a $30,000 unrestricted grant (!) to provide sustainability and/or support their creative endeavors.
- 3/13/2024
- by Film Independent
- Film Independent News & More
Exclusive: Film Independent has named the Fellows and projects selected for the 2024 edition of its Amplifier Fellowship, a program that provides direct support to emerging and mid-career Black or African American filmmakers. They are Zandashé Brown (The Matriarch), Moira Griffin (The Prince of 7th Ave: The Legend of WilliWear/Willi Smith), Crystal Kayiza (The Gardeners), Mobolaji Olambiwonnu (Chosen Fathers), Avril Speaks (Pure), and Monique Walton (Anita).
Over the course of the year-long program, supported by Netflix and its Fund for Creative Equity, Fellows will receive bespoke support to further both their career and current projects as well as customized mentorship pairings with a Netflix executive and board member from Film Independent. Each will also receive professional coaching in partnership with Renee Freedman & Co, financial and business advisement in partnership with The Jill James, and a $30,000 unrestricted grant, intended to support the sustainability of their creative endeavors.
“The Amplifier Fellowship provides...
Over the course of the year-long program, supported by Netflix and its Fund for Creative Equity, Fellows will receive bespoke support to further both their career and current projects as well as customized mentorship pairings with a Netflix executive and board member from Film Independent. Each will also receive professional coaching in partnership with Renee Freedman & Co, financial and business advisement in partnership with The Jill James, and a $30,000 unrestricted grant, intended to support the sustainability of their creative endeavors.
“The Amplifier Fellowship provides...
- 3/13/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
In a new developer diary for their upcoming dark fantasy RPG I, The Inquisitor, Kalypso Media and developer The Dust revealed more info on the team’s inspirations behind the title. Entitled “The Team Behind the Tale”, the video highlights members of the development team as they discuss their inspiration to work on the title, along with their choice moments in creating the world of I, The Inquisitor.
Featuring members of The Dust team — Game Designer Damian Pawlak, Writer Przemek Wróbel, and Head of Production Kuba Karolewski — the diary sees the trio answer questions such as what their roles are on the project, the games that inspired them, as well the aspects of the game which they have found to be the most interesting during their time developing I, The Inquisitor.
Based on the bestselling books by Jacek Piekara, the story for I, The Inquisitor takes place in an era of the 1500s,...
Featuring members of The Dust team — Game Designer Damian Pawlak, Writer Przemek Wróbel, and Head of Production Kuba Karolewski — the diary sees the trio answer questions such as what their roles are on the project, the games that inspired them, as well the aspects of the game which they have found to be the most interesting during their time developing I, The Inquisitor.
Based on the bestselling books by Jacek Piekara, the story for I, The Inquisitor takes place in an era of the 1500s,...
- 12/14/2023
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
When in the midst of an unfocused crowd struggling to be heard, it helps to have a bullhorn. That’s the idea behind amplification, right? A little extra help to shape and project your voice over an increasingly cacophonous din? And though it’s something philosophers may debate, our general feeling is that you just don’t hand a bullhorn to just anyone. And we have 30 years’ worth of Film Independent Artist Development success stories to support our assertion—including this year’s six new Amplifier Fellows.
Supported by Founding Sponsor Netflix, the second annual Amplifier Fellowship is a nine-month program designed to propel a marquee project from each Fellow forward both creatively and strategically, as well as provide Fellows with a customized mentorship pairings with both a Netflix Executive Industry Advisor as well as a Film Independent Board Member.
“This year’s Amplifier Fellows bring an incredible passion to...
Supported by Founding Sponsor Netflix, the second annual Amplifier Fellowship is a nine-month program designed to propel a marquee project from each Fellow forward both creatively and strategically, as well as provide Fellows with a customized mentorship pairings with both a Netflix Executive Industry Advisor as well as a Film Independent Board Member.
“This year’s Amplifier Fellows bring an incredible passion to...
- 3/28/2023
- by Film Independent
- Film Independent News & More
In the black comedy thriller “Next Door,” the directorial debut of actor Daniel Brühl, the main character, Daniel, is a successful actor living in an old quarter of Berlin. His day is about to be ruined, and his life too. Variety spoke to Brühl – whose upcoming acting credits include “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” and Matthew Vaughn’s “The King’s Man” – about the film, which plays in competition this week at the Berlin Film Festival.
Daniel, played by Brühl, seems to be remarkably similar to Brühl in real life – he is of German-Spanish heritage, the hit that launched his career was a “Stasi comedy,” and since then he has acted in Hollywood movies and series. But this is not Brühl, but a “heightened” version of him, the actor-director says.
The film starts with Daniel sitting in his beautiful Berlin apartment, preparing to fly to London to audition for a Hollywood super-hero movie.
Daniel, played by Brühl, seems to be remarkably similar to Brühl in real life – he is of German-Spanish heritage, the hit that launched his career was a “Stasi comedy,” and since then he has acted in Hollywood movies and series. But this is not Brühl, but a “heightened” version of him, the actor-director says.
The film starts with Daniel sitting in his beautiful Berlin apartment, preparing to fly to London to audition for a Hollywood super-hero movie.
- 3/2/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Released twenty years ago, Under Suspicion saw big names like Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman and Monica Bellucci take to the big screen in this gripping American-French thriller. Set in the town of San Juan in Puerto Rico and directed by Stephen Hopkins, the film is based on the 1981 French production Garde à Vue and the 1970s British novel Brainwash by John Wainwright.
Hackman plays Henry Hearst, a tax lawyer who seems to have it all – the perfect young wife, the big house on the corner, the success of his career as a lawyer and the respect and admiration from members of the public. Freeman is Victor Benezet, a police captain who isn’t quite as fortuitous as Henry. His wife has custody of his two daughters who live back in the Us whilst he lives alone in a cheap back-alley apartment.
At the start of the film we see Victor...
Hackman plays Henry Hearst, a tax lawyer who seems to have it all – the perfect young wife, the big house on the corner, the success of his career as a lawyer and the respect and admiration from members of the public. Freeman is Victor Benezet, a police captain who isn’t quite as fortuitous as Henry. His wife has custody of his two daughters who live back in the Us whilst he lives alone in a cheap back-alley apartment.
At the start of the film we see Victor...
- 7/6/2020
- by Alex Clement
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Eôs Films
We French pride ourselves at being great at many things: Cooking elaborate meals, cultivating ridiculously expensive wine, making love while speaking with a thick accent English-speakers find inexplicably sexy, for example. But if there’s one aspect of French culture that’s particularly brag-worthy, it’s our films.
From the invention of the cinematograph by the Lumière Brothers to the New Wave, French cinema has established itself as one of the most revered in the world, perhaps second only to Hollywood in its influence over the rest of the world. Most filmgoers have seen or at least heard of such landmark works as Breathless, The 400 Blows, Grand Illusion or La Femme Nikita. As such, this list will focus on French films that, due to lack of media coverage, poor international distribution or their own unconventional nature, are not as well-known as the aforementioned ones but are just...
We French pride ourselves at being great at many things: Cooking elaborate meals, cultivating ridiculously expensive wine, making love while speaking with a thick accent English-speakers find inexplicably sexy, for example. But if there’s one aspect of French culture that’s particularly brag-worthy, it’s our films.
From the invention of the cinematograph by the Lumière Brothers to the New Wave, French cinema has established itself as one of the most revered in the world, perhaps second only to Hollywood in its influence over the rest of the world. Most filmgoers have seen or at least heard of such landmark works as Breathless, The 400 Blows, Grand Illusion or La Femme Nikita. As such, this list will focus on French films that, due to lack of media coverage, poor international distribution or their own unconventional nature, are not as well-known as the aforementioned ones but are just...
- 3/27/2014
- by Thomas Ricard
- Obsessed with Film
Claude Miller
Thérèse Desqueyroux by Claude Miller will be screened at the closing ceremony of the 65th Festival de Cannes on 27 May.
The film features Audrey Tautou in the title role with Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier.
Claude Miller’s final film is an adaptation of François Mauriac’s novel “Thérèse Desqueyroux”.
Miller died on April 4, 2012 in Paris at the age of 70 shortly after finishing this film. It is the final piece in his immense body of work, to which the Festival de Cannes will pay tribute.
“What thrills me in the filmmaking process is to focus on the interplay of appearances, gestures, looks, behaviour and to use them to try to intimate the inner lives of people, their secret garden, even though we only see them from the outside,” said Miller.
Claude Miller’s formative years were in Nouvelle Vague cinema, working as an assistant to François Truffaut. He...
Thérèse Desqueyroux by Claude Miller will be screened at the closing ceremony of the 65th Festival de Cannes on 27 May.
The film features Audrey Tautou in the title role with Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier.
Claude Miller’s final film is an adaptation of François Mauriac’s novel “Thérèse Desqueyroux”.
Miller died on April 4, 2012 in Paris at the age of 70 shortly after finishing this film. It is the final piece in his immense body of work, to which the Festival de Cannes will pay tribute.
“What thrills me in the filmmaking process is to focus on the interplay of appearances, gestures, looks, behaviour and to use them to try to intimate the inner lives of people, their secret garden, even though we only see them from the outside,” said Miller.
Claude Miller’s formative years were in Nouvelle Vague cinema, working as an assistant to François Truffaut. He...
- 4/19/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Audrey Tautou, Thérèse Desqueyroux Claude Miller's Thérèse Desqueyroux (formerly known as Thérèse D.), starring Audrey Tautou, will close the 2012 edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The 70-year-old Miller died in Paris last April 4. Based on the 1927 novel by Nobel Prize winner François Mauriac, Thérèse Desqueyroux tells the story of Thérèse Desqueyroux (Tautou), an unhappily married woman who struggles to break free from her drab provincial existence in 1920s France. Gilles Lellouche co-stars. In 1962, Georges Franju directed Thérèse Desqueyroux / Therese, starring Hiroshima, Mon Amour's Emmanuelle Riva as Thérèse and Cinema Paradiso's Philippe Noiret as her husband. Thérèse Desqueyroux is scheduled to open in France and Belgium in November. The information below on director Claude Miller is from the Cannes Film Festival press release: Claude Miller’s formative years were in Nouvelle Vague cinema, working as an assistant to François Truffaut, “the filmmaker of the intimate.” Through the evolution of his work,...
- 4/18/2012
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
French film director and close associate of François Truffaut
The film director Claude Miller, who has died aged 70 after a long illness, was continually dogged by comparisons to his friend and mentor François Truffaut. Hardly a review of his films failed to mention Truffaut in some way or another. This came about for various reasons. Miller was Truffaut's production manager on several occasions and made subtle references to the older director's work in many of his own films, almost always mentioning him in interviews. He had a small role in Truffaut's L'Enfant Sauvage (The Wild Child, 1970) and adapted La Petite Voleuse (The Little Thief, 1988) from a 30-page screenplay that Truffaut had written a few years before his death.
When Truffaut was once asked whether he had started a school of directors, he denied it. "These people are more influenced by other directors than myself. If Claude Miller has points in common with me,...
The film director Claude Miller, who has died aged 70 after a long illness, was continually dogged by comparisons to his friend and mentor François Truffaut. Hardly a review of his films failed to mention Truffaut in some way or another. This came about for various reasons. Miller was Truffaut's production manager on several occasions and made subtle references to the older director's work in many of his own films, almost always mentioning him in interviews. He had a small role in Truffaut's L'Enfant Sauvage (The Wild Child, 1970) and adapted La Petite Voleuse (The Little Thief, 1988) from a 30-page screenplay that Truffaut had written a few years before his death.
When Truffaut was once asked whether he had started a school of directors, he denied it. "These people are more influenced by other directors than myself. If Claude Miller has points in common with me,...
- 4/6/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Film-maker best known for film starring a young Charlotte Gainsbourg as a teenage serial thief has died
The French film director Claude Miller, best known for L'Effrontée and La Petite Voleuse, both featuring a young Charlotte Gainsbourg, has died aged 70.
Before becoming a director himself, Miller worked for a number of noted new wave directors: he acted as assistant director on Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar, Jacques Demy's Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, and Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend, before becoming production manager for a string of films by François Truffaut, including Bed and Board, Day for Night and The Story of Adele H.
With Truffaut's encouragement, Miller moved into a higher profile role, making his directorial debut in 1976 with The Best Way to Walk. His first significant success, however, was the multi-award-winning police procedural thriller Garde à Vue, with Lino Ventura and Michel Serrault.
In the mid-80s, Miller...
The French film director Claude Miller, best known for L'Effrontée and La Petite Voleuse, both featuring a young Charlotte Gainsbourg, has died aged 70.
Before becoming a director himself, Miller worked for a number of noted new wave directors: he acted as assistant director on Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar, Jacques Demy's Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, and Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend, before becoming production manager for a string of films by François Truffaut, including Bed and Board, Day for Night and The Story of Adele H.
With Truffaut's encouragement, Miller moved into a higher profile role, making his directorial debut in 1976 with The Best Way to Walk. His first significant success, however, was the multi-award-winning police procedural thriller Garde à Vue, with Lino Ventura and Michel Serrault.
In the mid-80s, Miller...
- 4/5/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Strand Releasing
One of Claude Miller's most personal films to date, A Secret also is among the strongest in a 40-year career that yielded the memorable 1981 crime drama Under Suspicion.
Adapted by Miller and Natalie Carter from the Philippe Grimbert autobiographical novel, this stirring period portrait of a French family harboring a dark past takes familiar subject matter and casts it in a provocative setting.
It also has in leads Cecile De France, Ludivine Sagnier and Julie Depardieu three of the today's top French actresses -- Depardieu won a Caesar Award for her supporting performance -- making it a smart U.S. acquisition for Strand Releasing. Secret recently screened at the City of Lights, City of Angels festival.
Set primarily during the 1950s, the film is seen through the eyes of Francois Grimbert, a gawky, introverted 14-year-old who has always felt like a disappointment to his gregarious, athletic father (Patrick Bruel) and beautiful, former swim champ mother (De France).
There turns out to be justification for his deep-seated feelings of inadequacy, as Francois uncovers uncomfortable truths about his parents' lives as a young Jewish couple living in France during the Occupation.
To reveal anything more wouldn't be fair to this intriguing study in guilt and forgiveness, and the personal choices made that would reverberate throughout subsequent generations.
Incorporating a beautifully shot, clever color schematic, Miller, himself a child of the Holocaust, shifts effortlessly between three distinct time periods, while the exceptionally cast performers (also including "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly's" Mathieu Amalric as the adult Francois) imbue their generously written roles with both a palpable passion and a heartbreaking vulnerability.
One of Claude Miller's most personal films to date, A Secret also is among the strongest in a 40-year career that yielded the memorable 1981 crime drama Under Suspicion.
Adapted by Miller and Natalie Carter from the Philippe Grimbert autobiographical novel, this stirring period portrait of a French family harboring a dark past takes familiar subject matter and casts it in a provocative setting.
It also has in leads Cecile De France, Ludivine Sagnier and Julie Depardieu three of the today's top French actresses -- Depardieu won a Caesar Award for her supporting performance -- making it a smart U.S. acquisition for Strand Releasing. Secret recently screened at the City of Lights, City of Angels festival.
Set primarily during the 1950s, the film is seen through the eyes of Francois Grimbert, a gawky, introverted 14-year-old who has always felt like a disappointment to his gregarious, athletic father (Patrick Bruel) and beautiful, former swim champ mother (De France).
There turns out to be justification for his deep-seated feelings of inadequacy, as Francois uncovers uncomfortable truths about his parents' lives as a young Jewish couple living in France during the Occupation.
To reveal anything more wouldn't be fair to this intriguing study in guilt and forgiveness, and the personal choices made that would reverberate throughout subsequent generations.
Incorporating a beautifully shot, clever color schematic, Miller, himself a child of the Holocaust, shifts effortlessly between three distinct time periods, while the exceptionally cast performers (also including "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly's" Mathieu Amalric as the adult Francois) imbue their generously written roles with both a palpable passion and a heartbreaking vulnerability.
- 4/22/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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