it’s dedicated to the spectacled man at the poster’s center, the late, great Steve Tatsukawa (1949-1984), the founding VC executive director who died tragically almost exactly 40 years ago.
This week, ARRAY announced a partnership with Google to offer emerging creatives from historically underrepresented communities with the opportunity to apply for a career-changing $500,000 feature film grant. ARRAY is a grassroots distribution, arts and advocacy collective focused on amplifying work by people of color and women, founded by acclaimed director Ava DuVernay. The ARRAY + Google Feature Film Grant, which will provide funds to produce the recipient’s first full-length feature film, was instituted as a way to help build a more equitable and inclusive artistic community of diverse storytellers.
Ava DuVernay hopes to smooth the path for the next woman or person of color with a $500,000 filmmaking grant offered in partnership with GoogleGOOG. The grant is designed to finance the recipient’s first feature-length film, and, in the process, help foster a diverse community of storytellers.