Rooftop Films folks have announced the grant recipients for the large swath of filmmakers’ funds and in the narrative feature categories we have the likes of Carlos López Estrada, Andrew Thomas Huang, Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli grabbing some coin. Estrada who has directed Sundance selected Blindspotting and Summertime has Kill Yr Idols in the works. Tandem of Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli who gave us the TIFF-Sundance preemed Violation will next be working on Honey Bunch. A lab fellow at Sundance, Andrew Thomas Huang continues to piece together his directorial debut in Tiger Girl. Here is the complete list of 2023 Rooftop Filmmakers Fund short and feature film grant recipients:
Water Tower Feature Film Cash Grants (Feature Film)
Carlos López Estrada – “Kill Yr Idols”
Jodie Mack – “Early Mourning, Tarpon Springs/Lindsey’s Color Service”
Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli – “Honey Bunch”
Reid Davenport – “Life After”
Eastern Effects Equipment Grant (Feature Film)
Alex Ross Perry – “Pavements”
NYCEDC Brooklyn Army Terminal Production Office Grant (Feature Film)
Cheryl Furjanic – “Adventures in Miscarriage”
Sierra Pettengill – “Steel” (Working Title)
Edgeworx Post Production Effects Grant (Feature Film)
James P. Gannon & Matt Ferrin – “Hardpan”
Irving Harvey Color Correction Grant (Feature Film)
Elizabeth Lo – “Untitled Mistress Dispeller Project”
Parabolic Sound Mix Grant (Feature Film)
Andrew Thomas Huang – “Tiger Girl”
Adrienne Shelley Foundation Grant for Women (Short Film)
Ash Brandon – “PAT! PAT! PAT!”
DCTV Grants (Short Film)
Julia Mendoza Friedman – “Jason, Champion”
Sister Sylvester (director, co-producer) & Laudiceia Calixto (co-producer) – “The Maids’ The Maids”
Untouchable Scoring Grant (Short Film)
Julia Mendoza Friedman – “Jason, Champion”
Elkind Lighting & Camera Grant (Short Film)
Sister Sylvester (director, co-producer) & Laudiceia Calixto (co-producer) – “The Maids’ The Maids”
Rooftop Films Kayla Thomas Filmmaker Grants (Short Film)
Stephen Neary – “Living with a Visionary”
Sean Pecknold – “Thank You, My Friend”
Rooftop Filmmakers Fund Short Film Grants
Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan – “Antropicalia: The Modern Prometheus “
Kate E. Hinshaw – “Teflon Body Rot”
Kati Skelton – “The Arbiter”
Ryan Weibush – “The Prairie Cuts”
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).
