Resisting Narratives of Erasure
We Can Help Each Other Be Brave, Jon Copes, 2020.
About
Resisting Narratives of Erasure is an innovative fellowship program investing in early career filmmakers of color residing in the Southeast, encouraging and supporting the development of short films that disrupt dominant narratives and illuminate strategies for justice. Themes such as queering abolition, reimagining public safety as community care, and the beauty and transformational force of interdependence have informed previous instructional content as well as film projects created by fellows.
Details
Resisting Narratives of Erasure (RNE) fellows receive $2500 and engage in two days of online professional learning from notable artists, curated by Visionary Justice StoryLab. New and experimental approaches to filmmaking are shared alongside strategies for story development. Visionary Justice StoryLab’s facilitation and approach centers an intersectional framework of racial, gender, and disability justice. Mentorship and project consultation with industry professionals are also available to participating fellows.
InSpace, Kemari Bryant, 2020.
Coming Home to Myself, Ella Figueiredo, 2020.
Criteria
The 2024 RNE Fellowship is open to women and gender non conforming filmmakers of Black/African descent with an emphasis on LGBTQIA+ storytellers. Six filmmakers in or from the Southeast US* will be selected to create short films (under 20 minutes) on topics grounded in queer, Black, feminist perspectives. (*Arkansas, Alabama, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia)
Class of 2020 Fellows
The 2020 Resisting Narratives of Erasure short film series combats the on-going marginalization of BIPOC communities who are both underrepresented in the film and media industries and over represented in the loss of life, health and financial security caused by the crisis of violent policing in the United States and compounded by negligent governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although produced from this shared context, each of the nine films offers a distinct response.
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