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’s Array Partners With Google to Create $500,000 Film Grant for Black Creatives
The award-winning are production company will provide funds to an up-and-coming filmmaker.
It can be said that Ava DuVernay is only doing what the Creator ordained her to do. After showing a sneak peek at her new CW show,
Naomi, and speaking out in support of Naomi Osaka DuVernay’s Array has announced a partnership with Google to create a new $500,000 feature film grant for rising creatives from historically underrepresented communities.
According to Variety, the endowment is referred to as The Array + Google Feature Film Grant, and will provide $500,000 as funds to allow the recipient to produce their first full-length feature. The initiative speaks to ongoing efforts in the Black community and Hollywood, with direct involvement from Array and Google, to help amplify marginalized voices and thereby build toward a more equitable and inclusive artistic community.
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3 Jun 2021
Trump bashing Hollywood director Ava DuVernay’s film focused advocacy group Array is teaming up with Google to create a $500,000 feature film grant for creatives who hail from what they call “underrepresented communities.”
The endowment, which is known as The Array + Google Feature Film Grant, will allocate funds so that the recipient will be able to produce his or her first full-length feature, according to a report by Deadline.
“Having started my filmmaking journey by self-funding projects, this is a full-circle moment,” DuVernay said. “I’m pleased to partner with Google and Array’s grant advisory committee to identify an emerging writer/director to bring their vision to the screen.”
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ARRAY & Google Offering Grant for Underrepresented Creatives
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ARRAY, Ava DuVernay’s film collective, has partnered with Google to offer emerging creatives from historically underrepresented communities the chance to apply for a $500,000 grant.
The ARRAY + Google Feature Film Grant will provide funds to produce the recipient’s first full-length feature film. It was launched as a way to help build a more equitable and inclusive artistic community of diverse storytellers.
The recipient of this mentorship and filmmaking opportunity will be selected by an advisory committee that includes Gabrielle Glore (Urbanworld, festival director and head of programming), Francis Cullado (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, executive director for visual communications media), Crystal Echo Hawk (IllumiNative, founder and executive director), María Rauqel Bozzi (senior director of education and international initiatives at Film Independent) and Smriti Kiran (art