Congrats to 2007 ASF/Nantucket Film Festival grant winners Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern, whose Burma Soldier airs tonight on HBO. Read Time Magazine piece here...http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2071006,00.html
2008 ASF/NY Women in Film grant winner Emily Abt lectured at Princeton this Spring. Read the full story here...http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S30/52/35A71/index.xml?section=featured
Annie Sundberg's interview this week with WNYC's Leonard Lopate. Listen here...http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/blogs/lodown/2011/may/16/update-burma-soldier/
2010 auction winner Lisa Hayward enjoyed her at her studio visit at MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show. Rachel was very gracious and chatted with Lisa for a bit after the show.
Click here to purchase 2007 ASF/IFP grant recipient Eunhee Cho's first feature film "Inner Circle Line" http://innercircleline.com/dvdsales.html
Check out ASF grantee Lauren Wolkstein's video interview/Q&A footage about her film "The Strange Ones" at SXSW http://tinyurl.com/6kywjas
A great time was had today at NYC's Da Silvano, where Chicago native Jon Harris experienced his ASF eBay auction lunch with "Mad Men" co-star John Slattery. Jon's a great guy, and brough a few pals along from NBC: Al Roker, Brian Wiliiams and Today Show exec producer Jim Bell. We thank both Jon and John for their generosity in supporting ASF, and thank Al, Brian and Jim for contributing to the fun.
Congratulations to Maryam Keshevarz for winning the audience award for her film "Circumstance" at the recent Sundance Film Festival. The film has been picked up for U.S. release by Participant Media. Maryam is a 2008 ASF grant winner for the "Circumstance" script.
Read USA Today about the making of 2008 ASF grantee Maryam Keshevarz's "Circumstance." http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2011-02-05-circumstance_N.htm
Congrat's to 2009 ASF grantee Dee Rees, whose film "Pariah" was bought by Focus Features following its premiere at last month's Sundance Film Festival. http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/sundance-focus-features-acquires-pariah-buys-filmmakers-next-project/