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Art With Impact is seeking proposals for their $5K production grants. Pitches must focus on one or both of their underrepresented mental health categories: mental health issues specific to Black people, and mental health issues specific to immigration experiences.

Five filmmakers will be selected in each of the two content areas (10 filmmakers total), and awarded $5K each to create an original short film (five minutes or less).

In June 2021, there will be a live, online premiere featuring the 10 new films, as well as a week-long festival of ideas with educational workshops related to the two subject areas.

Proposals are due at 11:59 p.m. PST on October 23, 2020. See full submission details.

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This coming Sunday (October 4) BIPOC Film & TV will host a panel discussion on new CBC show Trickster with guests Michelle Latimer (NSI Drama Prize) and Jennifer Kawaja. Jennifer Podemski (NSI Global Marketing) will moderate.

Trickster, from showrunner/co-creator Michelle and executive producer Jennifer Kawaja, is adapted from the Son of a Trickster trilogy of books by award-winning author Eden Robinson. The series, which premieres on October 7, is a darkly humorous coming-of-age story, a mash-up of dysfunctional family drama and supernatural thriller.

Ahead of the premiere, join the show’s creators for the free panel discussion beginning at 8 p.m. ET this Sunday.

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