A filmmaker grant is looking to help independent female filmmakers shoot their projects on celluloid.
Women Behind the Camera, which is founded by filmmaker and actress Armida López (Boss Level, El Chicano), is behind the grant along with production company 33 & Change Films, MasterBuilt Lenses and ASCF, a nonprofit founded by Thom Kuo and managed by Jessi Spickard that is dedicated to teaching and preserving the art of celluloid filmmaking.
The grantees, which were chosen from a pool of 500 applicants, will receive a full lens package from MasterBuilt Lenses and an additional camera package from ASCF. For the selected winners who will choose to shoot on film, 1,200 feet of free scanning will be provided. A complimentary one-year free membership with the Alliance of Women Directors will also be offered to the grantees.
Grant recipients are filmmakers Anna Remus and LaTajh Simmons-Weaver, and the filmmaking team Mack Breeden and Riley Scott.
Remus has led visual storytelling projects for major brands such as Planet Fitness and Pfizer, and was recently selected for the 2027 cohort of AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women. Her project is titled Eternal.
