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Leading job site Indeed, Emmy winner Lena Waithe (Master of None, Twenties) and her company Hillman Grad Productions have today named Cara Lawson, Gbenga Komolafe, Georgia Fu, Jalmer Caceres, Justin Floyd, Leon Cheo, Shanrica Evans, Tara Motamedi, Travis Wood and Urvashi Pathania as the 10 filmmakers selected for the…

Back in 2020, writer-director Gabriela Ortega found herself meditating on the ways in which people have reframed their “relationship to grief and to loss” amid the Covid-19 pandemic, channeling this exploration into the script for the short film, Huella. While Ortega shelved a project for a while, feeling that it was…

Leading job site Indeed announced today that it is extending its partnership with Emmy winner Lena Waithe (Master of None, Twenties) and her company Hillman Grad productions to further invest in BIPOC filmmakers via the Rising Voices initiative. Heading into the second cycle of the program established in February, it…