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Black Public Media Gifts $610K To Film And Immersive Media Projects At PitchBLACK Awards; Sam Pollard Gets BPM’s Trailblazer Award
Black Public Media (BPM) awarded a total of $610,000 to film and immersive projects and creatives at its seventh PitchBLACK Forum.
Sponsored by Netflix and PBS, the event — held at The Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center — was hosted by Baltimore-based comedian Sir Alex and included the presentation of the BPM Trailblazer Award to Emmy-winning filmmaker Sam Pollard. The evening featured a Filmmaker Chat between NPR host Brittany Luse and Pollard, who spoke about his celebrated career, which includes acclaimed films and series like Eyes on the Prize, MLK/FBI,Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power and Mr. The rising star has already received the Magnum Foundation 2022 Counter Histories Grant-Program for her project Image Frequency Modulation, which competed in PitchBLACK, and also was recently selected by the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2023 DocLab Forum.
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