(New York--October 5, 2009) Rooftop Films announces the recipients of the 2009 Filmmakers' Fund Feature Grants, created in partnership with Eastern Effects and Edgeworx Inc.
Rooftop Films is proud to support independent and emerging filmmakers in a variety of ways, including by helping to produce new films through the Rooftop Filmmakers' Fund. The goal of the fund is to help a diverse range of filmmakers create meaningful, personal, unique films. With funding coming from the community and support from local independent film companies, Rooftop Films grants help talented filmmakers with limited resources secure crucial production and post-production help from Eastern Effects and Edgeworx Inc. The generous contributions from these companies help worthy projects at crucial points in their production, ensuring that these vital films will be made and seen.
ROOFTOP FILMS & EASTERN EFFECTS EQUIPMENT GRANT:
Eastern Effects is a film production rental house based in Brooklyn. Since 1999, Eastern Effects has been providing lighting & grip equipment rentals for independent feature films, television productions, corporate & industrial videos, student filmmakers, and live broadcast. For this grant, Eastern Effects will award 30 days of lighting and grip equipment to one feature-length film. http://www.easterneffects.com
ROOFTOP FILMS & EDGEWORX POST-PRODUCTION GRANT:
Edgeworx Inc. is a post-production house based in Manhattan. With a fourteen year track record, Edgeworx provides full service production and post-production. Their areas of expertise include motion graphic design, animation, VFX, editorial and finishing. For this grant, Edgeworx will provide 1-2 weeks of post-production services to one feature-length film. http://www.edgeworx.com
The recipients of the 2009 Filmmakers' Fund Feature Grants are:
Rooftop Films & Edgeworx Post-Production Grant:
The City Dark (Ian Cheney | Brooklyn, NY)
The night filmmaker Ian Cheney moves into his apartment in New York, he pulls his grandfatherʼs old telescope onto a Brooklyn rooftop to survey the night sky. But bathed in its glow of orange streetlights, the City that Never Sleeps only has five stars to see. What begins as a disappointing autumn evening becomes a journey to answer a simple question: do we need the dark? From Mauna Kea to Death Valley to Paris, THE CITY DARK explores the world after dusk, capturing a planet increasingly shrouded in light. Featuring a lively soundtrack, engaging animations and a cast of quirky characters, THE CITY DARK is the definitive new film about light pollution and the disappearing dark. Rooftop Films and Edgeworx are proud to support the new film from the makers of King Corn (screened at Rooftop in 2007).
http://www.thecitydark.com
http://www.wickedelicate.com
http://www.edgeworx.com
Rooftop Films & Eastern Effects Equipment Grant:
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin | New Orleans, LA)
In this mythological epic inspired by the costal erosion crisis in Southern Louisiana, Hushpuppy, a 9-year old Bayou Don Quixote, lives in "The Bathtub," the hardest drinking, fastest sinking island on the planet. Nested in the crumbling swamps of the delta, our ferocious heroine lives with Wink, her beloved yet volatile and hostile father. Reality crashes down on Hushpuppy's world when her father comes down with a mysterious illness, and nature begins to spiral out of control. With spectacle, humor and a blitzkrieg pace BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD takes on the real life tragedy of land-loss on the Louisiana coast through the lens of little girl who is losing not just the place that made her, but the parent who made her as well. Operatic in its scope, bursting with fireworks, humor, and utter mayhem, from the makers of the award-winning (and Rooftop co-funded) Glory at Sea, BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD is an epic tale about the end of it all.
http://www.court13.com
http://www.easterneffects.com
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