The Horizon
Award, established to benefit young female directors, will launch its second
annual Indiegogo campaign on Thursday.
The Horizon
Award’s mission is to confront the disparity in female to male directors by
rewarding female student talent with mentorship, access and an opportunity to
showcase their work to influential producers, agents, and festival and industry
executives at Sundance, the highest-profile American indie film festival.
Additionally, the Horizon Award seeks to engage, encourage and heighten the
profile of young female filmmakers. Elwes, Howell and Vachon are partnering
with The Black List, Indiegogo, Sundance Institute, Twitter, Vimeo and Women in
Film in this effort.
The Horizon
Award was launched in 2014 in response to two Women in Film studies: The first
showed that only 9 percent of the 250 top-grossing films in 2012 were directed
by women.
Earlier this year, Women in Film published a follow-up study that
revealed that of the top 100 domestic grossing movies in 2014, only 1.9 percent
had a female director.
The
inaugural Horizon Award was presented to Syracuse University student Verónica
Ortiz-Calderón for her film Y Ya No Te Gustas (And You Don’t Like Yourself
Anymore) at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Ortiz-Calderón’s winning short was
selected from more than 400 submissions and premiered at the festival.
Since
winning the Horizon Award, Ortiz-Calderón has produced her second short film,
attended the Cannes Film Festival, won the Louise Schiavoni Award for
Outstanding Junior Woman in Communications at the S.I. Newhouse School of
Public Communications and has several projects in development.
The
application process for the award calls for candidates to submit a
self-directed film that is two minutes or less to the Horizon Award’s website.
Submissions begin immediately and will close Dec. 14.
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