Industry Relations Newsstand

12/20/2024

Our holiday-themed programming continues on our USC student YouTube channel. Please like and subscribe to our channel at https://www.youtube.com/

12/17/2024

"True Stories" a new collection of 18 USC student films has just premiered on Kanopy today. Check it out here:
https://www.kanopy.com/en/usclib/video/14682379

12/09/2024

Our month-long celebration of holiday-themed short films continues with "Takanakuy" on our USC Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9c_QOH_VLQ

12/05/2024

Megan Seely's film My Loyal Audience kicks off a whole month of holiday-themed films on our USC YouTube channel "Reality Ends Here".

A sheltered teenage girl begins to suspect that her most personal, embarrassing thoughts may not be as private as she had hoped.🎬 Subscribe for more shorts ...

12/03/2024

Tune in tonight to Aspire TV's "Urban Indie Film Block" to see our USC student films featured on their cable TV channel. https://aspire.tv/

11/15/2024

L.A. Grown: A Showcase of Short Thesis Films

Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival
Saturday Nov. 23rd, 2024 (1-3pm)

Santa Monica Public Library
601 Santa Monica Boulevard Santa Monica, CA 90401

Join the Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival for an afternoon of cinematic creativity! Witness the culmination of hard work and passion as emerging filmmakers who grew up in LA and/or attended film school in LA showcase their recent short thesis films. Live action and animation - all ages welcome! Get ready to be entertained, moved, and inspired by these up-and-coming talents. Panel discussion with the filmmakers on the thesis film process, from story to production to sharing the film with the world. Special panel guest is Maija Burnett, faculty member and Head of the Character Animation Program at CalArts, who will speak on thesis projects from a faculty and adviser perspective. An opportunity for young future filmmakers in the audience to learn, and to support the next generation of filmmakers. Films announced so far: "Hymns of A Tiny World: The Birds of New Zealand" (Izabella Anguiano Jacobs; CalArts), "Purple and Green" (Charlotte Oxley; UCLA), "Desert Eyes" (Jordan LeBlanc and Rika Mizoguchi; USC), "Land Lover" (Courtney Chapman; UCLA), and the Los Angeles premiere of "La Bibliotheque" (Dana Koops; LA native/Paris College of Art/Emerson College). See you there!

11/12/2024

Aspiring filmmakers: the upcoming 2025 AT&T Presents: Untold Stories program is now open for submissions until February 3, 2025 offering you the chance to pitch your project to win the next $1 million dollar grant, unparalleled mentorship, and an official premiere at the 2026 Tribeca Festival.

This collaboration between AT&T and Tribeca has already made a significant impact on inclusivity in film, supporting over 35 films and having awarded a collective $7 million dollars to winning projects like Nigerian Prince, Lucky Grandma, Marvelous and the Black Hole, Land of Gold, Smoking Tigers, Color Book, and the forthcoming Honeyjoon our partnership showcases an ongoing commitment to uplifting emerging storytellers.

Below are the topline details of the program:
$1 Million production prize awarded to one scripted feature each year, chosen through a live/video pitch at the Tribeca Festival in June
Eligible directors should have made at least one short piece of work, but no more than one feature
At least one producer must be attached
Must be able to be made for $1 Million and complete within one year
Guaranteed premiere at Tribeca Festival, along with pitch, creative development, production and distribution support.

At the 2023 Tribeca Festival, 5 new talented and diverse filmmaking teams will pitch their original feature scripted film projects to an esteemed Greenlight Committee of industry professionals to decide who will be the next $1 million dollar prize recipient. The winning film will be guaranteed a pre...

11/12/2024

Stowe Story Labs application season for their 2025 Producers’ Lab is now open. The Producers’ Lab is a 4-day, in-person professional development program designed to help emerging producers looking to produce their first or second micro-to-low budget ($100,000 - $1,750,000) 💵 feature film. Participants will leave the Lab with a project advancement plan and concrete action items to push the work forward. Limited number of Full and Partial Scholarships available.

The deadline to apply ❗ is December 2, 2024 at 11:59 PM PT. Learn more and apply here: https://bit.ly/3AlayEZ

11/10/2024

"Driven" continues our month long series of short documentaries on our YouTube channel for USC student films.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKKAe5xkNuI

11/07/2024

"Alive to Possibility" kicks off a series of documentaries this month on our YouTube Channel "Reality Ends Here"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gm0JOVt1iU

10/31/2024

5 new student films premiering today on our Youtube channel Happy Halloween! Check them out at https://www.youtube.com/

10/21/2024

We at 271 Films are thrilled to continue our partnership with Indeed and Hillman Grad for the 5th Season of Rising Voices!
Rising Voices is an initiative that funds and supports 10 BIPOC filmmakers as they create short films centered around the theme of work.
The theme for Season 5 is “The Future of Work."

Since its founding, this initiative has enabled us to support 42 directors and hundreds of emerging filmmakers in various above-the-line and below-the-line positions. We’ve built teams with diverse ranges of experience and developed and produced 40 short films that have premiered at the Tribeca Festival.

After their debut screenings, these films have gone on to be featured at top festivals worldwide. Alumni of the program have since directed critically acclaimed films, including David Fortune’s Color Book, which won the Audience Award at the Deauville American Film Festival in 2024, and So Young Shelly Yo's Smoking Tigers, both of which received the Tribeca ATT Untold Stories award.

Rising Voices invests over $100K per film and provides creative mentorship, production support, and guidance with the goal of supporting filmmakers on their career journeys by bringing their scripts to life.
Rising Voices has created over 2,000 jobs to date and counting.

Applications are open through October 27, 2024.

Consider applying and encourage anyone you think would be a great fit for this experiential mentorship to do the same.

10/18/2024

ONE WORLD: SUBMIT YOUR FILM!

ONE WORLD INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL, 27th EDITION

March 12 – 20, 2025 in Prague and in more than 50 towns around the Czech Republic and in Brussels.

We would like to invite you to submit your film to the 27th edition of the festival. One World has grown over the years to become the largest human rights film festival in the world. It is one of the leading cultural events in Prague and the Czech Republic.

We are looking for:

Feature or mid-length creative documentaries finished in last 2 years (2023 - 2025) - minimum length is 40 minutes
Projects for virtual reality (interactive projects, AR, XR and 360° films)
Docs for kids - short documentaries and animated films for children (no experimental films)
Creative documentaries on human rights, social, political, environmental, and media issues will be selected based on the quality of the filmmaking and the power of their stories.

Selected film are screened in four competitive categories: International Competition for creative documentaries, Right To Know Competition for documentaries making an exceptional contribution to protecting human rights, Czech Competition for local documentaries; One World Interactive Competition for human rights oriented virtual reality projects focused on social impactand several non-competitive thematic categories; and several non - competitive thematic categories.

For competitive categories, we prefer World and International premieres – in case you plan to premiere your film at One World Festival, please contact us for more information at [email protected].

A submission fee will be charged to cover administrative costs:

Feature and mid-lengthdocumentaries: 30 EUR

Docs for Kids:20 EUR

The fee will be waived for selected countries of production (more information in the submission form). https://my.oneworld.cz/film-submission/
DEADLINE NOv. 1st, 2024