Ghetto Film School (Gfs) and Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) have announced the six finalists selected for the SNF 25th anniversary Humanity Inspires Tech filmmaking challenge, with the winners receiving a $3,000 production award to enhance their projects.
Each fellow was asked to tell stories about the connection between technology and humanity in two minutes, through their choice of short-form medium. In addition to receiving production money, the finalists will also be put through a 10-week mentorship program under the guidance of top industry veterans.
John Legend, Emily Mortimer, Camila Cormanni, Nikolas Aronis and Jacob Moe were among the notable jurists who selected the finalists and their films.
The winners and films include Netpich Udompanich’s “Taste of Tech,” Paola Camacho’s “1804,” Odysseas Spyropoulos’s “Me, Myself and The Internet,” Stephen Cullina’s “Mementos,” Gabriel Oh’s “Jolene” and Konstantino Kotsias’ “The impact of technology in our time.’
“All of us at...
Each fellow was asked to tell stories about the connection between technology and humanity in two minutes, through their choice of short-form medium. In addition to receiving production money, the finalists will also be put through a 10-week mentorship program under the guidance of top industry veterans.
John Legend, Emily Mortimer, Camila Cormanni, Nikolas Aronis and Jacob Moe were among the notable jurists who selected the finalists and their films.
The winners and films include Netpich Udompanich’s “Taste of Tech,” Paola Camacho’s “1804,” Odysseas Spyropoulos’s “Me, Myself and The Internet,” Stephen Cullina’s “Mementos,” Gabriel Oh’s “Jolene” and Konstantino Kotsias’ “The impact of technology in our time.’
“All of us at...
- 1/11/2022
- by Jennifer Yuma
- Variety Film + TV
Ghetto Film School, a nonprofit that for 20 years has been devoted to educating aspiring filmmakers from underrepresented communities, has announced the three winning films in its Film Credits short film competition, a collaboration with AT&T and WarnerMedia in which young filmmakers made three-minute shorts about their experience trying to connect with others during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The winning films are “A Series of Substitutes,” a short made up largely of still images by Elliot Wright, a 19-year-old filmmaker from Brooklyn, New York; “Time Is of the Essence,” a blend of live-action and animation by Samiksha Thakur, 16, of North Bergen, New Jersey; and “Sprout,” a meditation on loneliness and healing by Jahna Lathan, 15, of Los Angeles.
The three winners can be viewed at the bottom of this story.
AT&T and WarnerMedia sponsored the summer-long competition, which asked young creators between the ages of 14 and 21 to use any form of media to deal with the subject,...
The winning films are “A Series of Substitutes,” a short made up largely of still images by Elliot Wright, a 19-year-old filmmaker from Brooklyn, New York; “Time Is of the Essence,” a blend of live-action and animation by Samiksha Thakur, 16, of North Bergen, New Jersey; and “Sprout,” a meditation on loneliness and healing by Jahna Lathan, 15, of Los Angeles.
The three winners can be viewed at the bottom of this story.
AT&T and WarnerMedia sponsored the summer-long competition, which asked young creators between the ages of 14 and 21 to use any form of media to deal with the subject,...
- 10/8/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
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