EXCLUSIVE: Frameline, the humanities nonprofit that hosts the San Francisco Worldwide LGBTQ+ Movie Pageant, joined the Colin Higgins Basis in asserting the recipients of the 2024 Colin Higgins Youth Basis Grant. The 2024 winners are New York-based filmmakers Farah Jabir (Kasbi) and Leaf Lieber (Burrow).
The partnership, which started in 2023, facilities on offering younger LGBTQ+ filmmakers with monetary help to proceed their work. Eligible candidates should self-identify as LGBTQ+ filmmakers, be beneath the age of 25, and presently reside within the U.S.
“We’re deeply honored to proceed our partnership with the Colin Higgins Basis and honor Colin’s enduring legacy by empowering LGBTQ+ youth filmmakers,” mentioned Allegra Madsen, Govt Director of Frameline. “This yr’s Pageant is centered on the facility movie has to create change and form our cultural second. Youth filmmakers, like Farah Jabir and Leaf Lieber, will not be solely important members of the queer movie neighborhood, however their work speaks volumes concerning the significance of championing rising voices in an ever-shifting political and creative panorama.”
This yr, two LGBTQ+ youth filmmakers have been chosen because the recipients of the Colin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Grant, and can every obtain $15,000 to help their future movie initiatives. Along with awarding a complete of $30,000 to those rising filmmakers, Frameline will display screen the grant recipients’ movies on the forty eighth San Francisco Worldwide LGBTQ+ Movie Pageant (Frameline48), which takes place June 19–29.
Along with being in attendance for his or her respective screenings, Jabir and Lieber will likely be hosted by Frameline48 for the Pageant’s run. “I’m humbled by Frameline and the Colin Higgins Basis for selecting me for a continuation grant,” Jabir mentioned. “As an rising filmmaker, I’m extremely grateful for his or her help and perception in me and my work.”
The Colin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Grant is known as after the late Colin Higgins, an acclaimed screenwriter and director answerable for such basic movies as Harold and Maude, 9 to five, and The Greatest Little Whorehouse in Texas, amongst others. After being identified with HIV in 1985, he based the Colin Higgins Basis as a way of supporting LGBTQ+ youth in underserved communities by serving to to fund applications and organizations that foster and construct their management abilities and empowerment. Since 1988, the Basis has awarded over 660 grants totaling over $5.8 million to additional the humanitarian imaginative and prescient of its founder.
“I’m honored, shocked, and endlessly grateful. It’s past me to have my work acknowledged on this means,” mentioned Lieber. “It’s particularly significant to obtain the Colin Higgins Youth Grant as a result of my late mom’s favourite movie was Harold and Maude. I can’t assist however consider her throughout this time.”
