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Monday, December 15 Cinereach is currently seeking a Grants Manager to be based in our New York City headquarters. Reporting directly to the Executive Director, the Grants Manager is responsible for managing all aspects of Cinereach’s grant-making program. To learn more about the position's specific responsibilities, please click here. |
Tuesday, December 9 |
Congratulations to Annie Waldman, one of last year’s Reach Film Fellows. Her film, So the Wind Won’t Blow it All Away, has been selected as part of the 2009 Sundance Festival’s Short Film Program. Annie’s doc, follows a group of students who return to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to finish high school with their friends despite their parents’ relocation and absence. To read more on Sundance's 2009 Short Film Program, click here. |
| Monday, December 1 A Nomad's Life Awarded Sundance Doc Fund Grant! |
| We are happy to announce that Cinereach grant recipients, Lynn True and Nelson Walker, were awarded a Sundance Documentary Fund Grant for their film, A Nomad's Life. The film takes place in the mountains of Tibet and follows Locho and Yama as they struggle to maintain their family and way of life, and to reconcile their nomadic traditions amidst rapid modernization. To learn more about the film, click here, or to read up on the other Sundance grant recipients, click here. |
Thursday, November 20 Cinereach Award recipient, The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) is at IFC! For showtimes and ticket information, please click here. The Cinereach Award is a $5,000 prize presented to a filmmaker who exemplifies masterful use of craft in conveying a vital message. To learn more about this film and read more press covereage click here. |
Wednesday, November 12 |
Cinereach has selected two projects to receive discretionary grants this month. From a pool of outstanding, invite-only projects, the Grants Committee was most inspired by the visual artistry of the selected films and by the profound connection apparent between the filmmakers and their subjects. October Country Every family has its ghosts. October Country is a beautifully filmed portrait of an American family struggling for stability while haunted by the ghosts of war, teen pregnancy, foster care and child abuse. With rarely seen intimacy, sensitivity and respect, this vibrant documentary examines the forces that unsettle the working poor and the violence that lurks beneath the surface of American life. More on October Country click here. Yachaywasi Films' Rainforest Project (Doc) This Yachaywasi documentary will provide a unique insight into modern day Amazonia and the struggle of its indigenous peoples as their lands are auctioned off to international oil giants. A story eloquently told through the eyes of Peruvian indigenous people and a local human rights lawyer, it will reveal how an entire way of life is being pushed to the brink of extinction in the pursuit of oil. More on Yachaywasi here. |
Thursday, November 13 |
| Grant recipient Yamin Segal's short film El Ladroncito will be screened at the ICARO Film Festival. The Festival recognizes Central American films. To learn more about the festival click here. |
Friday, November 7 Paola Mendoza and Gloria LaMorte's film Entre Nos, which was awarded a Cinereach post-production grant, was spotlighted in the Production Report on indieWire's website. Congratulations to the filmmakers! Click here for the full article, or here to learn more about the film. |
Monday, October 27 Cinereach would like to congratulate Rose Mapendo, from the Arts Engine film Rose & Nangabire. Rose was recently recognized by CNN as one of Susan Sarandon's heroes for her honorable work assisting African refugees in danger, resetttle in the United States. To read more about this amazing woman's story click here. |
The Sundance Channel Blogs about The Road Ahead! "Catch a great new documentary about a green movement in China. Led by the next generation of Chinese environmentalists, this movement is making the future of China brighter with each passing day." Please click here for full blog posting. |
Monday, November 3 The Road Ahead: The First Green Long March will screen at the Queens International Film Festival next Saturday, 11/8 at 11:00am. Purchase tickets and see details here. Queens has the largest Chinese population of any New York City borough and is a great place for our local debut. |
Monday, November 3 Cinereach Grant Recipient, Gabriel Mascaro, the filmmaker behind the documentary, High-Rise, was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the São Paulo International Film Festival for the film, The Beetle KFZ-1348 that he directed alongside Marcelo Pedroso. Through the stories of the Beetle car’s eight owners, the film paints a portrait of four decades of Brazilian history. For more information on The Beetle KFZ-1348, click here. His second film, High-Rise, presents an analysis of the dominant Brazilian classes through a dialogue with the inhabitants of penthouse apartments. It is a film about height, status and power and provides an opportunity to question and challenge the elite in a way that has never been done before in Brazilian cinema. |
Wednesday, October 1 |
Entre Nos (Narrative) Cinereach believes that filmmaker Karin Williams (PBS’ The Meaning of Food and Skin Stories) has the perspective, skill and experience to effectively revise popular perceptions of this largely male-dominated sport. The film was a featured documentary at Tribeca All Access 2008. Cinereach grant of $10,000 will assist Williams with early research and development for what promises to be an inspiring film. In addition to filmmaking, Williams writes the blog Hollywood Hula: Pacific Islander Film Hui about Pacific Islander films and filmmakers. |
Friday, September 12 Creative Director, Michael Raisler, was recently quoted in the UK’s movieScope Magazine! The article “Your Film Can Change the World,” discussed the influx of social issue documentaries and the attempts by filmmakers to use them to mobilize communities. For the full article please click here. Also spotlighted are Cinereach’s grant recipients, filmmakers Sandi DuBowski and Parvez Sharma, for their successful grassroots outreach campaigns for their films Trembling Before God and A Jihad for Love. |
Tuesday, September 2 Trouble the Water, which was honored at Cinereach's annual Celebration of Filmmakers for Human Rights dinner, is enjoying a great run at the IFC Center in New York and garnering great press. To view Time Magazine's article about the film, please click here. Congratulations to Tia Lessin and Carl Deal of Elsewhere Films! Congratulations to Nicholas Bruckman (2007 Reach Fellow, The Grey Movie) whose film La Americana won the jury award for Best Documentary at the New York International Latino Film Festival in July and continues on its festival run across the country this fall. |
Wednesday, June 25 |
| Cinereach recently hosted a screening and reception to honor the recipients of the inaugural Cinereach Award, filmmakers Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phravasath for their film “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)”. Following screening of the film, Co-Director Thavisouk Phravasath and Producer Flora Fernandez-Marengo participated in a Q & A moderated by The Hollywood Reporter’s Gregg Goldstein. Guests had the opportunity to hear Thavi's unique perspective on documenting his own family's challenging and emotional journey from Laos to the US in this extraordinary film which was 23 years in the making. Thank you to all who attended and supported Human Rights Watch International Film Festival and “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)”. |
Monday, June 16 |
| Cinereach celebrated a select group of filmmakers creating impactful and artful films with an exclusive dinner on June 16th in New York. The Celebration of Filmmakers for Human Rights dinner was held in conjunction with Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. This year's honorees are: Edet Belzberg, Julie Bridgham, Carl Deal, Lisa F. Jackson, Ellen Kuras, Tia Lessin, Afia Nathaniel, Thavisouk Phrasavath, Jennifer Venditti, and Tamar Yarom. Congratulations to the immensely talented 2008 honorees! You can check out indieWIRE's coverage of the event right here. |
Tuesday, March 20 |
| We are thrilled to be receiving such great coverage of the Reach Film Fellowship and Reach Out in publications such as Filmmaker Magazine, The Huffington Post, NYMag.com, indieWIRE, and Hollywood Reporter. Cinereach is very proud of our 2007 Reach Fellows and we are happy to see them gaining the recognition they deserve for their efforts. |

