Fran Zayas
The Tisch Graduate Film Program is pleased to announce that Fran Zayas is the recipient of the 2025 Jeff Lima Production Award with the short film "La sombra de los Montés."
Logline: In their rural Caribbean home, a young mother grapples with her infant son's future while living with the rest of her family, who are trapped between life and death.
Jeff Lima has expressed his sincere gratitude to all the filmmakers who have embraced the call to action for the advancement of Latinx representation in film, and he enthusiastically encourages this year’s applicants to submit a screenplay for consideration, for the subsequent award year.
The Jeff Lima Production Award was created by Jeff Lima to help support NYU Tisch Grad Film work that advances the Latinx presence on screen. You can read more about Jeff here, and more about the Award here.