United States of America
California, United States of America
San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Frameline Completion Fund provides grants to emerging and established filmmakers. This program seeks to provide a much-needed source of financial contributions to artists who often struggle to secure funding to complete their works. Grants up to $5,000 are available for the completion of films that represent and reflect LGBTQ+ life in all its complexity and richness. For over a quarter century, Frameline has provided more than 140 grants to help ensure that LGBTQ+ film\/video projects are completed and viewed by wider audiences. Projects finished with assistance from the Frameline Completion Fund include CALL HER GANDA, CHAVELA, PARIAH, APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR, CALL ME KUCHU, TO BE TAKEI, LAST CALL AT MAUD'S, THE NEW BLACK, BROTHER TO BROTHER, KUMU HINA, THE COCKETTES, VITO, FREEHELD, WE WERE HERE, and GUN HILL ROAD. Submissions are being accepted for documentary, narrative, experimental, animated or episodic projects about LGBTQ+ people and their communities. The Fund also seeks to bring new work to under-served audiences; with this in mind, we especially encourage applications by women, people of color, transgender people, intersex people, asexual people, non-binary people, disabled people, and other underrepresented people and communities.
Frameline. “Completion Fund,” October 29, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211029103938/https://www.frameline.org/year-round/filmmaker-support/completion-fund.Frameline’s mission is to change the world through the power of queer cinema. As a media arts nonprofit, Frameline’s programs connect filmmakers and audiences in the Bay Area and around the world. Founded in 1977, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival is the longest-running, largest, and most widely recognized LGBTQ+ film exhibition event in the world. As a community event with an annual attendance of 60,000+, the Festival is the most prominent and well-attended LGBTQ+ arts program in the Bay Area. Frameline also presents year-round exhibitions, including Frameline Encore, a free film series highlighting diverse, socially relevant works. Year-round programs also include members-only sneak previews and special events, as well as special screenings and events featuring directors, actors, and other queer media icons. Established in 1981, Frameline Distribution is the only nonprofit distributor that solely caters to LGBTQ+ film. Frameline’s collection has over 300 award-winning films that we distribute globally to universities, public libraries, film festivals, and community organizations. In 2008, we launched Youth in Motion, a program that provides free LGBTQ+ films and curriculum resources to middle and high schools in all 50 states. 2011 saw the creation of Frameline Voices, a digital showcase of free, streaming content highlighting diverse LGBTQ+ stories, with an emphasis on films by and about people of color, trans and gender-expansive persons, youth, and elders. Since 1990, more than 150 films and videos have been completed with assistance from the Frameline Completion Fund. Grants are awarded annually and provide much-needed support to filmmakers for their final editing and lab work. Once completed, these films often go on to receive international exposure. Submissions include documentary, educational, narrative, animation, and experimental projects about LGBTQ+ people and their communities.
Frameline. “About Frameline,” Accessed December 20, 2023. https://www.frameline.org/about/frameline.web series, 2016
The much anticipated sexy new-media series Her Story grapples forthrightly with the frictions and fissures of desire between trans and queer women, as they navigate sometimes paradoxical identities in Los Angeles. Showrunners Laura Zak (a mentee of Jill Soloway) and Jen Richards (as seen on E!’s I Am Cait) combine their creative forces with director Sydney Freeland’s (Drunktown’s Finest, Frameline38) to center the frame on the lives and loves of women of trans experience. Allie (Laura Zak), a budding journalist for Gay LA, notices Violet (Jen Richards), a super-cute server, while out with her old-school lesbian posse (including Fawzia Mirza, The Queen of My Dreams, Frameline36) and finds her curiosity piqued. Allie makes a bold inquiry, asking Violet if she is trans and if she can interview her for a story. Although hesitant, Violet accepts, sparking an excitingly unexpected relationship. Meanwhile, Paige (Angelica Ross), a fierce LAMBDA Legal attorney and Violet’s best friend, helms a challenging case against a transphobic women’s shelter, while coming out as trans to her gorgeous, grounded new boyfriend. Before long these women’s stories and communities intersect with consequences that force everyone to question preconceived, normative notions of who they are allowed to be and be with. With #realtalk realness and beautiful cinematography, Her Story exemplifies the storytelling power of new media when it is made by and for trans and queer women.
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