Founder and Executive Director John S. Johnson served on the first ever jury panel for the 2011 inaugural Tribeca Film Institute ‘New Media Fund.’ The fund’s aim is to support non-fiction, social-issue film projects that integrate multiple media platforms, including social networks and mobile applications.
Six grant recipients were announced October 4, each receiving up to $100,000 to bolster their projects. Among this year’s grantees are 18 Days in Egypt, a “crowd-sourced interactive documentary” on the Egyptian revolution, and The Interrupters, a documentary and web campaign on Chicago’s “violence interrupters … who protect their communities from the violence they themselves once employed.”
For a full list of the 2011 recipients, click here.