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Cate Blanchett & IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund Unveil ‘Displacement Film Fund’
Cate Blanchett, alongside the UN Refugee Agency and IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund today unveiled a new short film grant scheme named the Displacement Film Fund.
The selection committee for the Displacement Film Fund will be chaired by Cate Blanchett and also includes journalist and documentarian Waad Al Kateab ( We Dare to Dream, For Sama), actor, producer and musician Cynthia Erivo ( Wicked, Drift), director and screenwriter Agnieszka Holland ( Green Border), IFFR Festival Director Vanja Kaludjercic, educator, activist and refugee Aisha Khurram, filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen ( Flee), and Amin Nawabi, an LGBTQ+ asylum seeker who is Rasmussen’s inspiration for the story of Flee. The fund is backed by a coalition of film industry experts, creators, business leaders and philanthropists and will be formally launched at IFFR’s upcoming 54th edition where Blanchett will appear on a panel on February 1 to discuss the scheme’s origins, aims and the urgency of its focus. I’m grateful to the Hubert Bals Fund and the coalition of supremely talented individuals we’ve gathered around this collective effort to step into that gap,” added Blanchett.
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