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The Producers Club of Maryland, Inc.

The Producers Club of Maryland, Inc., the organizing entity of the Maryland Film Festival, was launched as a 501(c)(3) corporation in 1993 at a special pre-release screening of SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE attended by Nora Ephron and some of the film’s Maryland cast and crew. It has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to support the economic development work of the Maryland Film Office and Baltimore Division of Film, Video, and Television, and assists their work in numerous other ways.

The largest single activity of the Producers Club is the annual Maryland Film Festival, and the SNF Parkway Movie Club year-round screening events. Each year scores of filmmakers are brought to Baltimore and get to sample the community as a place for future production.

The Maryland Film Festival funds and administers the Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship each year in partnership with Sundance Labs. Awardees are selected by a panel of Maryland citizens who support the work of the Maryland Film Festival, but none of whom are associated with the film industry. Typically first money in, fellowship awards help with pre-production and come with no obligation other than the money be used to move toward production, acknowledge the Fellowship in end title credits, and screen the film in Maryland before it goes in to the marketplace.

2020 marked the expansion of the Fellowship award to include a marketing fund to help Fellowship filmmakers market their finished films. Fellowship funds offer crucial financial resources that are often a challenge for emerging filmmakers to find to push their projects forward into production and to get their finished films to market.

Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship Awardees:

(Titles with asterisks have been completed)

• 2022 Zandashé L’Orelia Brown for THE MATRIARCH
• 2021 Sontenish Myers for STAMPEDE
• 2020 Andrew Huang for TIGER GIRL Charlotte Wells for AFTERSUN*
• 2019 Kobi Libii for THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES*
• 2018 Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. for WILD INDIAN*
• 2017 Radha Blank for 40 YEAR OLD VERSION*
• 2016Frances Bodomo for AFRONAUTS and Eva Vives for NINA
• 2015 Olivia Newman for FIRST MATCH and Brent Green for OVER THE EAVES
• 2014Karrie Crouse and Will Joines for DUST and Jeremiah Zagar, Dan Kitrosser, and Jeremy Yaches for WE THE ANIMALS
• 2013 Ian Hendrie and Jyson McLean for MERCY ROAD
  Maryland Selection Committee: Vanessa Coe, Lynn Deering, Lynn Rauch
• 2012Marielle Heller for DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL *
  and Jody Lee Lipes for CONFEDERACY
  Maryland Selection Committee: Lynn Deering, Tad Glenn, Richard Konigsberg, Joanne Rosen, Katherine Vaughns
• 2011Sara Colangelo for LITTLE ACCIDENTS *
  Maryland Selection Committee: Caroline Lynch, Steven Schwartzman, Katherine Vaughns
• 2010Sydney Freeland for DRUNKTOWN’S FINEST *
  Maryland Selection Committee: Lynn Deering, Suzan Garabedian, Caroline Lynch
• 2009– Andrew Okpeaha MacLean for ON THE ICE *
  Maryland Selection Committee: Lynn Deering, Tad Glenn, Caroline Lynch, Andrew Schuleman, Steven Schwartzman, Katherine Vaughns
• 2008Liza Johnson for RETURN *
  Maryland Selection Committee: Sue Cohen, Lynn Deering, Jonna Lazarus, Caroline Lynch, Tad Glenn, Steven Schwartzman, Katherine Vaughns
• 2007John Morgan and Megan LeFauve for THE CAVANAUGHS
  Maryland Selection Committee: Lynn Deering, Jonna Lazarus, Caroline Lynch, Katherine Vaughns,
• 2006Tanya Hamilton for NIGHT CATCHES US (aka STRINGBEAN AND MARCUS) *
  and Victoria Mahoney for YELLING TO THE SKY *
  Maryland selection committee: Lynn Deering, Richard Konigsberg, Carolyn Lynch, Katherine Vaughns
• 2005Darci and Andrew Dosunmu for MOTHER OF GEORGE *
  Maryland selection committee: Lynn Deering, Richard Konigsberg, Carolyn Lynch, Paula Rome, Katherine Vaughns
• 2004Richard Press for VIRTUAL LOVE *
  Maryland selection committee: Jim Dale, Lynn Deering, Richard Konigsberg, Carolyn Lynch, Paula Rome, Katherine Vaughns
• 2003Caran Hartsfield for BURY ME STANDING
• 2002Doug Sadler for SWIMMERS *
• 2001Jacob and Josh Kornbluth for THE BEST THIEF IN THE WORLD *
  and Tatia Rosenthal and Etgar Keret for $9.99 *
• 2000Michael Burke for THE MUDGE BOY *
• 1999Rodrigo García for THINGS YOU CAN TELL JUST BY LOOKING AT HER *
• 1998Kirby Dick for BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
• 1997 DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter for LIFT *

Acura ‘House of Energy’ Advances Acura Presence at 2024 Sundance Film Festival

Acura will bring new “energy” to its commitment to lift up independent artists and underrepresented voices in film with the Acura House of Energy as the Sundance Film Festival celebrates its 40th Edition and the Acura brand returns to Park City for the 14th year. As the Official Vehicle and one of the festival's longest running partners as a Presenting Sponsor, Acura is showcasing its dedication to highlighting like-minded nonprofit organizations and causes at Sundance Film Festival 2024, such as GLAAD, Women in Film and Gold House by providing a platform for creative partners to shine a light on important initiatives.

Acura Festival Programming Highlights
Acura’s efforts will be brought to life through engaging programming and the independent spirit of Sundance Film Festival’s filmmakers whose innovative thinking and power of imaginative storytelling will be on full display.

For 2024, Acura’s newly redesigned and fully integrated Sundance Film Festival venue offers day-to-night engaging entertainment programming. The Acura House of Energy opens Jan. 19, where the performance brand will host interviews, panels, mixers and premiere parties with A-list actors, writers and directors, offer daily refreshments and feature live music from their house DJ.

Acura has partnered with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) for the 26th Annual Sundance ASCAP Music Café. This year’s Café will feature exclusive sets from some of today’s most exciting songwriters, plus insightful conversations with the composers and filmmakers of some of this year’s most anticipated films.

Acura will once again host The IMDb Studio at the Acura House of Energy where IMDb will capture exclusive content with leading actors, writers and directors that will serve as the cornerstone of Sundance Film Festival coverage on IMDb.

Acura House of Energy at Sundance Film Festival
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Visitors at Acura’s House of Energy will explore an immersive footprint that is divided into unique areas that each amplify a key discipline of Acura’s ethos and are featured in the newly-debuted Unlock the Energy 2024 ZDX marketing campaign. The new Acura launch campaign is led by a cinematic-style short film, set in the Acura House of Energy, that celebrates the new ZDX and Acura performance as the brand embarks on an all-electric future.

As Presenting Sponsor of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, the 2024 MDX and MDX Type S performance SUVs will serve as Official Vehicle of the Festival. More than 100 Acura SUVs will transport filmmakers, talent, festival jurors and Sundance Institute staff around the Festival. In addition, Acura’s lineup of performance sport-utility vehicles will be on display throughout Park City, including the 2024 MDX Type S Advance and MDX A-Spec, 2024 RDX A-Spec Advance and the all-new, all-electric 2024 Acura ZDX Type S.

The Acura House of Energy is located at 550 Swede Alley. Public hours: Friday, January 19 through Monday, January 22 from 12 to 6pm (subject to change).

2024 Schedule of Acura Sundance Film Festival Programming

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19TH

• 12:00pm - 1:00pm MT - IMDbPro and Prime Video Panel: Intentionally Intersectional
  • A discussion between community leaders about authentic and inclusive representation in the entertainment industry and the growing emphasis on showcasing characters with intersectional identities. The panelists are Nic Novicki, founder and director of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge; Alex Schmider, producer and director of transgender representation at GLAAD; Lipica Shah, actor and co-founder of 1497; and Andria Wilson Mirza, director of ReFrame. Moderated by Latasha Gillespie, global head of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility for Amazon MGM Studios, Prime Video, and Freevee, with an introduction from Col Needham, founder and CEO of IMDb.
  • 2:00pm - 3:30pm MT - “Queer Film Is Activism” Panel
    • Hear from filmmakers, activists, festival organizers, and advocates on what it means to create space for authentic representation and gather audiences together to celebrate and amplify our stories. Featuring panelists Alok Vaid-Menon (Author, Poet, Comedian & Public Speaker), filmmaker Alex Hedison (director, ALOK), Allegra Madsen (Director of Programming at Frameline), David Hatkoff (Executive Director at NewFest), DaShawn Usher (Director of Communities of Color at GLAAD), and Natalie Jasmine Harris (director, GRACE), moderated by Anthony Allen Ramos (Vice President of Communications and Talent at GLAAD). This event is co-hosted by IMDbPro.
    • Acura will host the Official Premiere Party for The Outrun, the new film from Nora Fingscheidt starring Saoirse Ronan and Paapa Essiedu. After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. She returns to the wild beauty of Scotland’s Orkney Islands — where she grew up — hoping to heal. Adapted from the bestselling memoir by Amy Liptrot.

    SATURDAY, JANUARY 20TH

    • 11:00am - 12:00pm MT - INVITE ONLY - WIF Brunch Celebrating Women, Nonbinary and Trans Filmmakers
    • 1:00pm - 2:00pm MT - IMDbPro Panel: Filmmaking in Focus
      • A discussion between independent filmmakers about their creative process, career journeys, and how IMDbPro empowers them to advance their careers. The panelists are Nico Casavecchia (Border Hopper), Alex Stapleton (God Save Texas: The Price of Oil), and Sean Wang (Dìdi (弟弟)), and Lana Wilson (Look Into My Eyes). Moderated by Tre Wesley, video producer for IMDb, with an introduction from Nikki Santoro, chief operating officer of IMDb.
      • 2:00pm - 2:45pm MT: The New World Cinema: Exploring Gender Equity in Film through a Global Lens
        • Join WIF for a conversation with the filmmakers behind some of the year's most talked-about international feature films, representing the broad diversity of perspectives and experiences that illuminate the state of independent storytelling around the globe. Panelists include 2024 Sundance Film Festival filmmakers: Amrou Al-Kadhi (director, Layla), Klaudia Reynicke (director, Reinas), Shuchi Talati (director, Girls Will Be Girls) and Raha Amirfazli (co-director, In the Land of Brothers), moderated by Andria Wilson Mirza (Director of Sundance Institute and WIF's ReFrame Project).
        • Recent years have seen women directors and producers with breakout independent film hits make the jump to big budgets and big studios. Learn about how they are bringing their progressive and inclusive approaches, cultivated in the independent film world, into Hollywood in this intimate conversation moderated by CEO of WIF, Kirsten Schaffer. Panelists include: Sydney Freeland (Sundance Alum and Executive Producer/Director of Marvel's Echo), Lana Wilson (Director of Miss Americana; Brooke Shields:Pretty Baby; 2024 Sundance Selection Look Into My Eyes), Fawzia Mirza (Director, The Queen of My Dreams), and Ally Pankiw (Director, Netflix’s Black Mirror, Hulu’s The Great), and more to be announced.
        • 7:00pm - 9:00pm MT: DJ Cardi
        • 9:15pm - 10:45pm MT: Coco & Breezy

        SUNDAY, JANUARY 21ST

        • 12:00pm - 1:00pm MT - IMDbPro Panel
          • A discussion with The American Society of Magical Negroes writer and director Kobi Libii and lead actors Justice Smith and David Alan Grier about their film’s journey from script to the Sundance Film Festival. The film is a fresh, satirical comedy about a young man, Aren, who is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white people’s lives easier. Moderated by Tre Wesley, video producer for IMDb, with an introduction from Nikki Santoro, chief operating officer of IMDb.
          • The Sundance ASCAP Music Café kicks off with ASCAP Screen Time, its interview series about the craft and business of music for screens. The first exclusive conversation features Bronx rap artist and As We Speak film subject Kemba, who will join the film’s producer/director J.M. Harper in discussion and perform an a capella song featured in the film.
          • A second ASCAP Screen Time conversation takes place with composer Nathan Halpern and producer/director Josh Greenbaum, who will discuss their highly anticipated documentary Will & Harper, an intimate portrayal of friendship, transition, and America that follows Will Ferrell and his best buddy of thirty years on a cross-country road trip.
          • The Sundance ASCAP Music Café continues with performances by independent singer-songwriter Evan Bartels, Americana supergroup Fantastic Cat, and Nigerian-American singer-songwriter Ogi.
          • Acura will host a celebration for Alessandra Lacorazza’s drama In The Summers, starring René Pérez Joglar (Residente), Sasha Calle, Lío Mehiel, Leslie Grace, Emma Ramos, and Sharlene Cruz. On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

          MONDAY, JANUARY 22ND

          • 12:00pm - 1:00pm MT - Gold House Panel: Investing in Independent Storytelling
            • This panel explores how multicultural filmmakers creatively navigate the business side of independent filmmaking, including the unique challenges and opportunities filmmakers face in obtaining financing and securing distribution deals. We will bring prominent business leaders and creatives together in a discussion of how we can ensure that diverse and independent stories can continue to push culture forward. Panelists include: Nina Yang Bongiovi (Producer & Founder, Significant Productions), Carlos Lopez Estrada, (Producer & Founder, Antigravity Academy), Kyle Bowser (SVP, NAACP Hollywood Bureau) and Abraham Bengio (Agent, WME Independent). Moderated by: Christine Yi, GM of Gold House Creative Equity Fund.
            • The Sundance ASCAP Music Café continues with an exclusive ASCAP Screen Time conversation featuring composer Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe and Union co-directors Brett Story and Stephen Maing on scoring their documentary about the formation of the Amazon Labor Union.
            • Evan Bartels and Ogi return to the Sundance ASCAP Music Café stage. Later, the Café closes with a performance by the DIG! XX Dandy Jonestown Revue, featuring members of the Dandy Warhols and Brian Jonestown Massacre, the dueling rock bands featured in the 20th anniversary edition of the film, DIG! XX, which premieres at this year’s festival. (DIG! won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Award for a documentary in 2004.)

            About Acura
            Acura is a leading automotive brand committed to delivering expressive styling, innovative engineering and high-performance, all built on the brand’s Precision Crafted Performance DNA. The Acura lineup consists of two sport sedans, the Integra and TLX, and three sport-utility vehicles, the RDX, MDX and all-electric ZDX. A line of high-performance Type S variants further demonstrate the virtues of Acura Precision Crafted Performance. All Acura vehicles sold in America are made in the U.S., using domestic and globally sourced parts.

            MdFF Announces Kobi Libii as Recipient of the 2019 Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship

            The Maryland Film Festival (MdFF) announced today that filmmaker and actor Kobi Libii has been awarded the 2019 Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship award for his project titled “The American Society of Magical Negroes.” MdFF funds and administers the Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship each year in partnership with Sundance Labs. Winners are selected by a panel of Maryland citizens who support the work of the Maryland Film Festival, but none of whom are associated with the film industry. Typically first money in, grants are given to help with pre-production and come with no obligation other than the money be used to move toward production, acknowledge the Fellowship in end title credits, and screen the film in Maryland before it goes into the marketplace.

            “We take great pride in helping important films from emerging filmmakers make it to the market through this critical fellowship program,” said Sandra Gibson, Executive Director of the Maryland Film Festival and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Parkway. “With the partnership of Sundance Labs and resources from MdFF, we are extremely excited to present Kobi’s film when it is finished.”

            “Since the beginning we have picked screenplays that interested ordinary people in Maryland. We’ve had no knowledge of finished screenplays or any other elements at the time we choose and the careers that have been launched are extraordinary. It’s a great privilege to have helped so many artists grow and develop. Seventeen of these first time filmmakers’ first project have been completed and marketed, a remarkable record,” said Jed Dietz, founder of MdFF and Fellowship Administrator.

            “What makes this fellowship special is how diverse the selection committee is. It’s nice to be honored by industry tastemakers but it’s so much more meaningful to know that my script resonated with a broad cross section of my community,” said Kobi Libii, actor, filmmaker and producer of “The American Society of Magical Negroes.”

            Kobi Libii is a multitalented actor, writer, filmmaker and teacher. He has played in many regional and New York productions including the documentary play Boiling Pot, which he co-created with Evan Joiner. The play premiered at New York City’s Cherry Lane Theatre in 2007. He was a cast member on The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, a news satire television series that aired on Comedy Central. He is widely known for his role in Alpha House and has been seen in Doubt, Transparent, and Madam Secretary. Libii graduated from Yale University where he studied theater and also studied improvisation at the Second City in Chicago.

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