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Our first round of awards have been presented.
Meet our first recipients:
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IFP's
Amy Dotson, Eunhee Cho
- the recipient of the
inaugural Adrienne Shelly
Director's grant for
her new film Inner
Cirlce Line - and
IFP Executive Director
Michelle Byrd. |
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Maryam
Keshavarz (l), winner of
the inaugural Adrienne
Shelly Foundation Women
Filmmakers Grant at The
Sundance Institute, along
with Michelle Satter, Founding
Director, Sundance Feature
Film Program. Maryam participated
in both the 2007 January
Screenwriting Lab and the
2007 June Directing and
Screenwriting Labs with
her project Circumstance. |
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Andy
Ostroy with Pamela Johnson. Pamela
is the winner
of the Adrienne
Shelly Foundation Production
Grant at the American Film
Institute's 2007 Directing
Workshop for Women.
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Andy
Ostroy
and Enrica Perez. Erica
is the writer/director
of Taxista and
winner of the Adrienne
Shelly Award for Best
Female Director at Columbia
University's 2007 graduate
film program.
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Cynthia
Wade, Director/Camera, Freeheld,
and winner of the 2007 Adrienne
Shelly Foundation
Grant from the Women
in Film Finishing Fund.
We congratulate Cynthia
for her February 2008 Academy
Award for Best Documentary
Short Subject. Additionally,
it won a Special Jury Prize
at the 2007 Sundance Film
Festival, and will soon
be seen on Cinemax and
released on DVD. Cynthia
is a NYC-based documentary
filmmaker, and has worked
for HBO, PBS, Cinemax,
Discovery, MTV, A&E,
Oxygen, TNT, AMC, and The
History Channel, as well
as many nonprofit
and corporate clients.
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The
Nantucket Film Festival's
Artistic Director Mystelle
Brabbee (left), and Festival
Director Jill Burkhart
reading Foundation executive
director Andy Ostroy's
statement at the Adrienne
Shelly Award Reception
at The Pearl on June 15,
2007.
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Actor
Joe Pantoliano and NFF's
Mystelle Brabbee present
writer/director Ricki
Stern (left) and writer/director
Annie Sundberg (second
from left) with the Adrienne
Shelly Excellence in
Filmmaking Award for
their full-length documentary
The
Devil Came on Horseback;
a searing indictment of
the genocide taking place
in the Darfur region
of Sudan.
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