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Amazon Sponsors Cherokee Film Institute’s Inaugural Class With Full Scholarships
Amazon has partnered with Cherokee Film Institute to cover tuition for the school's inaugural class of 25 students with full-ride scholarships.
The pact between the global ecommerce giant and the newly established film institute was unveiled Tuesday at a news conference that featured Cherokee Nation and Amazon officials. CFI is the first tribally operated film education program designed to help aspiring filmmakers develop skills in below-the-line production in hopes of bolstering the entertainment workforce within the Cherokee Nation and across its home state of Oklahoma. Those four prongs have been designed by Cherokee Nation to pursue “a shared goal of innovating narrative sovereignty while creating economic development within the tribe’s reservation.”
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