KRISTIN FAIRWEATHER
KRISTIN FAIRWEATHER‘s feature documentary, AMERICAN MOTHER, was awarded The Ravenal Foundation Feature Film Grant by New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT).
The film exposes how the wealthiest nation in the world systemically fails its mothers, as women vanish from the workforce at devastating rates. Following women across America as they rise up, AMERICAN MOTHER ignites a cultural awakening that will finally force America to value its greatest untapped resource – the power of supported motherhood.
Visit the film’s website HERE and donate through AWD’s Fiscal Sponsorship program HERE.
ALEJANDRA LÓPEZ
ALEJANDRA LÓPEZ has been been named a Fellow for the Inaugural Sundance Institute Cultural Impact Residency with her feature, SALMON RUN. The six-month online residency program uplifts early-career underrepresented storytellers with a focus on creative, social, and cultural impact and galvanizes them with opportunities, hope, creative support, and inspiration.
SALMON RUN logline: A desperate Puerto Rican mother joins a salmon factory in remote Alaska, but when her best friend disappears under mysterious circumstances, she discovers something far more nefarious happening in the workplace that threatens her life and the lives of others.
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ANNETTA MARION
FIRST TO THE FINISH, a six-part nonfiction series, directed by ANNETTA MARION, premiered this month on Amazon Prime Video.
FIRST TO THE FINISH is an inside look at the thrilling 2024 Mazda MX-5 Cup racing season through the lens of the only female team owner and the only two female race car drivers that season.
Headshot photo by Maureen Bharoocha ; Poster by Mazda.
ALEXANDRA HSU
“POP!,” The short film written and directed by ALEXANDRA HSU, won Best Comedy and Best Actor at the Barbados International Film Festival.
“POP!” is a mother-daughter dramedy that follows the travails of an unemployed, thirtysomething Chinese American woman living at home with her mother, as she obsesses over ways to remedy or mask her adult acne in time for a family friend’s Chinese New Year banquet, where she hopes to reunite with an old high school crush.