Clockwise from top: Yvonne Michelle Shirley, Haley Elizabeth Anderson & Laura Moss
Rooftop Films announced alumna Yvonne Michelle Shirley will receive a $15,000 grant to support the production of Point 5, a film inspired by the edicts of the Black Panthers that will explore radical liberation and the function of systemic oppression.
Fellow alumni Laura Moss and Haley Elizabeth Anderson are also feature film grant recipients. Moss will receive funding for birth/rebirth while Anderson’s grant will go towards a currently untitled project
“This year’s grantees are bold storytellers who are pushing the boundaries of film and serial forms and changing the relationship between maker and audience as they create new art in response to the important issues of the day,” Laurence W. Levine Foundation board member James Levine said.
Read more at Variety.