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2007 Recipients

Our first round of awards have been presented. Meet our first recipients:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

 
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.

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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2008 Recipients

Andy Ostroy and Marissa O'Guinn. Marissa is the recipient of The Adrienne Shelly Foundation Scholarship at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television

Madeleine Olnek (l), writer/director of "Countertransference," and winner of the 2008 Adrienne Shelly Foundation Award for Best Female Director at Columbia University's graduate film program, along with Annette Insdorf (r), Director of Undergraduate Film Studies

Dia Sokol, winner of the IFP Adrienne Shelly Foundation Director's Grant and Andy Ostroy. Dia received this award for her relationship comedy Sorry Thanks.

Andy Ostroy with NYU/Tisch School of the Arts sophomore Verna Jean Antonelli, winner of the Adrienne Shelly Foundation Scholarship.

Nanette Burstein, recipient of the Adrienne Shelly Foundation Excellence in Filmmaking Award, presented at the Nantucket Film Festival in June, for her gripping documentary American Teen.

Emily Abt, winner of the Adrienne Shelly Foundation Grant from the Women in Film Finishing Fund, for her riveting H.I.V documentary All of Us.

2009 Recipients

Andy Ostroy with Lauren Wolkstein, director of Cigarette Candy, and winner of the Adrienne Shelly Award for Best Female Director at Columbia University's graduate film program.

Emily Deschanel, former Tribeca Film Institute CEO Brian Newman, Ana Lily Amirpour and Andy Ostroy at the TFI Awards Ceremony in May. Ana Lily is the recipient of the Inaugural Adrienne Shelly Foundation Screenwriting Fellowship for her project, The Stones.

Nantucket Film Festival Artistic Director Mystelle Brabbee, Chairman Jill Burkhart, Cherien Dabis, Andy Ostroy and Cheryl Hines. Cherien is the recipient of the Adrienne Shelly Foundation Excellence in Filmmaking Award for her debut film Amreeka, which opened in theatres in September.

Dee Rees, winner of the Adrienne Shelly Foundation Women Filmmakers Grant at the Sundance Institute for her project Pariah.

Andy Ostroy, Christina Beck and Cherly Hines at the December 3rd premiere of Serious Moonlight, presenting Christina with the 2009 IFP/Adrienne Shelly Foundation Directors Grant for her film Perfection.

Rebecca Richman Cohen, director and producer of WAR DON DON, and recipient of the ASF/Women in Film Finishing Fund grant

Susan Xu, recipient of the 2009 Adrienne Shelly Foundation Scholarship at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts

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2010 Recipients

Valerie Bischoff, recipient of the Adrienne Shelly Award for Best Female Director for her film VETERANS, presented through Columbia University's graduate film program.

Jennifer Arnold, recipient of the Adrienne Shelly Foundation Excellence in Filmmaking Award, presented at the Nantucket Film Festival, for her critically acclaimed documentary A Small Act.
 

Ondi Timoner, recipient of the ASF/Sundance Institute Women Filmmaker's Grant for MAPPLETHORPE.

 

Lucy Mulloy, winner of the ASF/IFP Director's Grant for her film UNA NOCHE

 

Lisa Gossels, recipient of the 2010 Adrienne Shelly Foundation Grant from the Women in Film Finishing Fund for her film MY SO-CALLED ENEMY

 

2011 Recipients

Lisa Robertson, recipient of the 2011 ASF Production Grant through AFI's Directing Workshop for Women.

 

Natalia Almada, recipient of the 2011 ASF Filmmaker's Grant through the Tribeca Film Institute All Access, for her film EL VELADOR.

 

Isold Uggadottir, winner of the 2011 ASF Best Female Director Award at Columbia University's graduate film program, for her film REVOLUTION REYKJAVIK. Pictured with Annette Insdorf, Director of Undergraduate Film Studies

 

Sara Blecher, winner of the 2011 Adrienne Shelly Director's Grant at IFP for her film OTELO BURNING

Sara Colangelo, winner of 2011's Adrienne Shelly Foundation Sundance Fellowship for her screenplay LITTLE ACCIDENTS

Sarah Daggar Nickson, winner of the 2011 ASF/Rooftop Films Short Film Grant
 

News
March 30th, 2010
Congrat's to '09 ASF/Columbia University Best Director grantee Lauren Wolkstein
March 30th, 2010
It was a fun time today for Annabelle DeSisto, whose successful bidding in our 2009 eBay auction won her an exciting lunch with actor Paul Rudd in NYC.
March 22nd, 2010
Congrat's to Rebecca Richman Cohen, director of the brilliant WAR DON DON, who just won the 2009 Adrienne Shelly Foundation/Women in Film Finishing Fund grant
March 8th, 2010
Congrat's to Kathryn Bigelow on her ground-breaking Best Director win for THE HURT LOCKER.
March 8th, 2010
Excellent article on women in Hollywood, and the scarcity of female actors and directors.
March 4th, 2010
2008 ASF/NYU scholarship winner Marissa O’Guinn's film MAKE IT STOP is a finalist in the Tisch School of the Arts Fusion Film Festival
March 1st, 2010
Congrat's to 2008 ASF/Women in Film Finishing Fund recipient Emily Abt, whose first feature film, TOE TO TOE, received a fantastic review February 26th in The New York Times
February 22nd, 2010
2007 AFI/Adrienne Shelly Foundation Production Grant recipient Pam Johnson won 2nd place in a Scriptapalooza TV competition for her Office Spec script.
January 30th, 2010
2008 ASF/NYU Scholorship winner Marissa O'Guinn's color sync film "MAKE IT STOP!" has been selected as an undergraduate finalist in NYU's Fusion Film Festival 2010
January 23rd, 2010
2008 ASF/NYU scholarship winner Marissa O'Guinn finished post production on her short Color Sync Workshop film MAKE IT STOP