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Will be awarded to Sofia Garza-Barba, 2021 Short Film Alumni (SOY UN VAMPIRO) at the 2022 festival.
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The mentorship includes a $20,000 grant, plus the opportunity to work with the M&M’S® team on a project for the iconic brand, focused on championing fun to help everyone feel included. The grant is part of a movement M&M’S to remind people everywhere that despite our differences, we all belong to a community of humans that have one simple and powerful thing in common: fun. With this grant and mentorship, Mars Wrigley – with one of our largest global brands – M&M’S is working to help diverse content creators overcome barriers with funding and hands-on experience to create a world where the next generation of fans and creators feels they belong. Through a multi-year partnership with Bentonville Film Festival, Mars Wrigley is dedicated to creating more inclusive entertainment and better moments by helping support a wide range of underrepresented storytellers, including BIPOC, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQIA+ communities. Mars Wrigley has announced a mentorship opportunity through the Bentonville Film Festival (BFF) to support up-and-coming, underrepresented diverse filmmakers and content creators. Read the presentation for this year’s fest below. We are truly ecstatic to have such leaders join our community.” “Each Award recipient is striving to influence the entertainment industry, in their own ways. It is my honor to welcome these leaders to our festival who are making impactful change in the industry,” said Wendy Guerrero, President of Bentonville Film Festival and Foundation.
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“At the heart of BFF is the belief in coming together to recognize and award exceptional talent. “We are so excited to bring our incredible community together again to participate in the bold and vital work that makes BFF unique – elevating the voices of very diverse and intersectional storytellers, all with a true festival spirit,” said Davis, Bentonville Film Festival Chair.
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In addition, the BFFoundation unveiled this year’s special presentations lineup, including awards, panels and events for the 8th annual Bentonville Film Festival.Īlongside other fan favorites, Bentonville Film Festival will return with Geena & Friends, where Geena Davis and renowned guests re-cast memorable male-dominated movie scenes with characters who are women or gender non-conforming.īFF also will host a special presentation of Where the Crawdads Sing, directly followed by a conversation with the film’s director Olivia Newman, 3000 Pictures’ President Elizabeth Gabler and novel author Delia Owens, as well as a 10th Anniversary screening of Hunger Games, proceeded by a conversation with Geena Davis and Hunger Games producer, Nina Jacobson. The Rising Star Award honors an artist – on or off screen – who has shown truly outstanding talent and has captured the attention of both the public and entertainment and media industry. The Rising to the Challenge Award honors an artist who has shown true impact and success supporting indie film projects, both on and off screen. Staying true to her commitment to bring inclusive content, Gamechanger will expand its funding to create stories by and about people of color, the LGBTQ+ community and people with disabilities.The Bentonville Film Festival is set to honor shake-up-the-status-quo producer Effie Brown ( Dear White People, Real Women Have Curves) with the Rising to the Challenge Award and Queer as Folk star Fin Argus with the Rising Star Award. To top that off, she was also a part of HBO’s controversial Greenlight Project pressing for inclusive filmmaking.Įarlier this year, she was named the CEO of Gamechanger, the first film financing fund by and for women.
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As an award-winning film and television producer, she has championed inclusion and diversity with the content she has created.Īs president and founder of Duly Noted Inc., she produced critically acclaimed films such as: Dear White People, which won the 2014 “Special Jury Prize” at Sundance and “Best Picture” at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Stranger Inside, Real Women Have Curves, Everyday People and Rocket Science.Įffie has also produced content over several different platforms including: 130 episodes of the award-winning, original content channel, WIGs, Season 1 of the Fox hit series Star, and Disney Channel’s original movie Zombies. Effie Brown is an LMU alumna, class of 1993 and an I AM LMU honoree.