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Cate Blanchett launches fund for refugee film-makers
Actor to head scheme to award grants of up to €100,000 to five directors with experience of displacement
The initiative will launch as a pilot scheme but is planned to evolve into a long-term project, headed by Blanchett, a two-time Oscar winner and a goodwill ambassador for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). A longlist will be drawn up in the coming months, with the final recipients chosen by a selection committee chaired by Blanchett, which includes the British actor Cynthia Erivo, Syrian journalist Waad al-Kateab, and Afghan activist Aisha Khurram. He arrived in the UK in 2016, in the back of a refrigerated van, and the next year won a competition to produce a music video for Elton John’s song Rocket Man.
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