The Producer Award
The Producer Award, part of the Cinereach Producers Initiative, entails a $50,000 grant that recognizes producers who demonstrate vision and integrity, contribute to the film community as mentors and leaders, and enrich the culture through their films. The nominating committee for the award includes a cross-section of independent film professionals and former award recipients.
Meet our Latest Awardees
Click on Effie, Scott and Anish to read their bios.
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Effie Brown
Duly Noted Inc.
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Effie Brown
Duly Noted Inc.
At Duly Noted Inc., Effie Brown’s feature film productions included critically acclaimed HBO Films and award-winning projects such as Stranger Inside, In the Cut, Real Women Have Curves, Everyday People and Rocket Science. In 2014, she Produced Dear White People, which won numerous awards including the Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Talent. Brown joined Lee Daniels Entertainment in 2016 to Executive Produce Season 1 of Star on FOX. She is Executive Producer of Disney Channel’s forthcoming Zombies, and is currently raising a content fund for genre films for and by people of color, women and LGBTQ individuals.
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Scott Macaulay
Forensic Films
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Scott Macaulay
Forensic Films
Scott Macaulay’s recent films include Kitty Green’s Casting JonBenet and Elisabeth Subrin’s A Woman, A Part. At Forensic Films, with co-founder and partner Robin O’Hara, he produced award-winning features including Peter Sollett’s Raising Victor Vargas, Harmony Korine’s julien donkey-boy, James Ponsoldt’s Off the Black, Jesse Peretz’s The Chateau, and Tom Noonan’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, What Happened Was… Forthcoming projects include a new film by Green, and Alix Lambert’s Goodbye, Fat Larry. He is executive producing Jazmin Lopez’s The Survival of the Fireflies.
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Anish Savjani
Film Science
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Anish Savjani
Film Science
At filmscience Anish Savjani has produced films by Kelly Reichardt, Jeremy Saulnier, Joe Swanberg, Steve Collins, Macon Blair, Brian Savelson and others. His films have been nominated for six Spirit Awards and screened at festivals including Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, and Venice. Forthcoming projects include Saulnier’s Hold the Dark and Ritesh Batra’s Photograph.
Past Recipients
2016
Joslyn Barnes (Hale County This Morning, This Evening, Strong Island, Black Power Mixtape)
Heather Rae (Frozen River, The Dry Land, Tallulah)
Shrihari Sathe (Beach Rats, Dukhtar, It Felt Like Love)
2015
Karin Chien (Motel, Circumstance, The Exploding Girl)
Julie Goldman (Life Animated, Buck, God Loves Uganda)
Jay Van Hoy (American Honey, The Witch, Keep the Lights On)
Lars Knudsen (American Honey, The Witch, Keep the Lights On)