MARYLAND INDEPENDENT FILM TAX CREDIT INFORMATION SESSION I
Debra Donaldson Dorsey, from the Baltimore Film Office and Catherine Batavick from the Maryland Film Office joined in a Zoom session sponsored by the Innovation Fund to discuss Maryland’s tax credits as they apply to small budget independent films. Over 70 participants joined in the session. A transcript and an audio recording of the session can be found below, along with a the Film Office presentation slides.
JOHNS HOPKINS EYES TV REBOOT TO CAPTURE THE WONDER OF SCIENCE
Inspired by a landmark Hopkins television show from the '40s and '50s, Director Annette Porter and a team from Johns Hopkins is using a Hopkins Discovery to reboot the science series. The group hopes that bringing science, and the scientists, up to date in a fresh, modern approach will help restore faith in the scientific process.
Monumental 3.1 Million Dollar Commitment to the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund
The Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation renews its commitment to diversity and excellence in filmmaking.
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.…
Congratulations to our new cohort of Fellows!
Emma Ayala & Thomas Ventimiglia: Corpse Flower
Evan Balkan: King of the Freaks
Kamesha Brinson: Blend
Lynn Cazabon: Losing Winter
Angela N. Carroll: Legacies: A Survey of Postwar & Contemporary African American Artists
Dameon Gibbs & Tonyette Hall: Jailed From the Inside
Gabriel Goodenough: Local Hero
Avery Griffin: Rough Ride
Nehemiah Hall & Babatunde Salaam: Ghettos by Design
Kyle Ham & Steve Timm: Traveler in the Wilderness
Ileana Doble Hernandez: I’m Migrant Mother
Marly Hernández Cortés & Stephen Schuyler: Like You Think You Know Me
Marnie Ellen Hertzler: Eternity One
Myron Higgins: Lead Checks
Nadia Hironka & Tanya Garcia: Las Runias Circulares (The Circular Ruins)
Kay Howell: Working Title: The Baltimore File
Chung-Wei Huang: Squeegee Boy
JaMar Jones: ACND
Rebecca Mlinke: All Manner of Thing
Meredith Moore: Margie Soudek’s Salt & Peppers
Elissa Blount-Moorhead & Ericka Blount-Danois: fiftyTWO
Lisa Moren: Stories Under the Bay
Scott Patterson: Cloud Nebula
Catherine Rentz: Open Secrets
Amy Scott: Into Light
Stephanie J. Williams: Hospes
Gillian Waldo: Diary
Annette Porter, Director of SZIF was a guest on Maryland Perspectives
Annette Porter was a guest speaker on Maryland Perspectives on 98 Rock.