Calling all Seattle filmmakers: Want your own Crosscut series?

Since then, we’ve been working with native filmmaker Thanh Tan on a short-form video sequence that attracts parallels between the shared experiences of Vietnamese and Afghan refugees. We are going to launch this inaugural season of Crosscut Origins on March 3, however it was the collaboration with Thanh that we wish to replicate shifting ahead, yr after yr.

For future seasons of Crosscut Origins, we’re searching for tales that replicate the make-up of our area advised from an insider’s perspective: tales grounded in ancestry, connection, tradition, affect and rootedness. Tales that replicate our place, values and folks. Yearly, via an internet submission course of, the Crosscut crew will choose a venture and award $40,000 towards producing a five-part short-form docuseries. Simply as Thanh is rooted within the Vietnamese neighborhood welcoming Afghan refugees to the world, filmmakers who apply should be a part of the neighborhood they’re documenting (i.e., Indigenous tales advised by Indigenous filmmakers, Latinx tales advised by Latinx filmmakers, and many others.).

Submissions are actually open for the following season of Crosscut Origins, and filmmakers have till April 17 to use. At that time, a five-person panel will overview the functions and choose the winner. The committee will include representatives from Cascade Public Media, the Seattle Worldwide Movie Competition, and leaders from the Pacific Northwest movie communities. We are going to announce the successful venture in early Could, and manufacturing can start.

Whether or not that is the filmmaker’s third documentary venture or their thirtieth, all expertise ranges are inspired to use. Over seven months, the Crosscut video crew will commonly meet with the filmmaker to make sure the venture is on observe. We are going to provide suggestions and assist, however in the end we’re backing the filmmaker’s imaginative and prescient. The filmmaker is answerable for how the grant cash is spent, however they’ll replace the Crosscut crew on their funds. They are going to assemble the crew wanted to inform the story from manufacturing via post-production. The Crosscut crew can be there each step of the best way, making certain the filmmaker stays on the right track to ship a compelling, well-packaged, five-part docuseries by the top of 2023.