RISD Alum Awarded Sundance Institute Grant
Friday, July 18, 2014
RaMell Ross, RISD grad and local filmmaker, has received a Production/Post Production Grant from the Sundance Institute to complete his film “Hale County”.
The grant is part of this week’s Sundance Documentary Film Program’s (DFP) Spring 2014 grants announcement, which awarded $975,000 to 44 films.
Hale County
The documentary follows "two African American youth on the cusp of adulthood in Historic Hale County Alabama, as they struggle to defy their demographic expectations."
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Ross has been working on the film and a portfolio of corresponding photographs while pursuing his graduate degree at RISD. Ross earned his MFA Photography in May 2014. Three years before coming to RISD, Ross moved from Washington, DC to Greensboro, Alabama to manage and at-risk youth program and it was there that he met Quincy Bryant and Daniel Collins, the subjects of his film.
Sundance Documentary Film Program Grants
The Sundance Documentary Film Program Grants are among the most highly competitive film grants in the world. This year filmmakers from Ukraine, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Columbia, Turkey, People’s Republic of China, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Sierra Leone, Canada, Taiwan, and the US were among the 44 recipients.
According to the Sundance Institute, “New projects selected for support include both passionate treatments of human rights issues and contemporary social relevance globally, as well as artful or cinematic documentary films that are compelling, creative, and meaningful for the culture at large.”
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