LEF/CIFF Fellowship
This year is the seventh iteration of the LEF/CIFF Fellowship, LEF's partnership with Points North Institute to support five New England-based filmmaker teams to attend the festival and connect with other filmmakers and industry leaders through a series of mentor-led project development workshops, networking events, and curated 1:1 meetings.
The 2024 LEF/CIFF Fellows are:
COSMIC MOOSE AND GRIZZLY BEARS VILLE
Directed and Produced by Amber Bemak
Peter Valentine, living on disability in an apartment, fought MIT while they demolished his neighborhood to develop University Park, claiming he couldn’t leave because it was his electromagnetic laboratory. Eventually, MIT gifted him the entire building, moving it to another street. Peter was diagnosed schizophrenic and unmedicated all his life.
EJ LEE: ALL AMERICAN
Directed by Jason Rhee
Produced by Jason Rhee & Zoe Sua Cho
EJ Lee, a Louisiana legend nicknamed the “Korean Magic Johnson of NCAA women’s basketball,” has been overlooked her entire career. But finally, at the age of 60, EJ receives her first opportunity to become a college head coach and lead an underdog team of young women in west Texas.
LUCID DECAPITATION
Directed by Karthik Pandian
Produced by Nell Augustin
Lucid Decapitation imagines the afterlife of colonialism through the fall of a monument.
NOMADS
Directed by Vanessa Carr & Josh Gleason
Produced by Vanessa Carr, Josh Gleason, & Xan Parker
Two women—one on the cusp of adulthood, one entering her golden years—try to escape the affordability crisis by embracing a low-cost life as American nomads.
TEN SECONDS OF SUGAR
Directed by Martine Granby
Produced by Arielle Knight
Ten Seconds of Sugar is a personal essay documentary exploring filmmaker Martine Granby’s family history of caretaking, motherhood, and silence surrounding Black women’s mental health.
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