Filmmakers Making A Social Impact

Our Director, Annette Porter, was interviewed for Medium’s “Filmmakers Making A Social Impact” series. She discusses SZIF’s mission to bring diverse stories to the big screen.

Encouraging films by women about women

Annette Porter, Director of the Saul Zaentz Innovation Film Fund, was published in The Baltimore Sun and advocates for greater diversity in the film industry

Catherine Rentz on her documentary Open Secrets

Check out this great interview with Fellow Catherine Rentz. Catherine was interviewed by Amelia at 98 Rock. Catherine talks about the SZIF Story Lab, her experience with SZIF, and updates us on how Open Secrets is progressing.

We are so proud of our amazing 2020 grant award recipients for SZIF.

Check out this article to an update on their projects, and how they are changing things due to Covid-19.

Congrats to our 2020 Production & Development Grant Award Recipients

Dark City Beneath the Beat

Covid-19 and the current pandemic has had a profound impact on the arts scene and SZ Fellows have also been affected. TT the Artist was supposed to premiere Dark City: Beneath the Beat at SXSW. She's had a couple of interviews about the film and disappointment of the festival being canceled.

Interview with Allison Stewart:

https://www.wnyc.org/story/sxsoho-dark-city-beneath-beat

SZ Fellow TT the Artist has a Super Bowl Ad

SZ Fellow TT the Artist from the 2017 Documentary Lab had a song featured in the Turbo Tax Ad for the Super Bowl. TT received funding for her documentary Dark City Beneath the Beat in 2017. Along with being a documentarian, TT is also a singer, producer, writer, and composer. She wears many many hats.…

Annette Porter, Director of SZIF was a guest on Maryland Perspectives

Annette Porter was a guest speaker on Maryland Perspectives on 98 Rock.