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Distribution Advocates to Launch a $200,000 Distribution Grant in August (EXCLUSIVE)


Producer/director Amy Hobby announced a new documentary $200,000 grant called The Marketing Innovations Fund at Hot Docs.

During a Distribution Advocates podcast recording at Hot Docs, producer/director Amy Hobby announced a new documentary $200,000 grant called The Marketing Innovations Fund, which will go to independent distributors. “Our goal is to inject much needed capital and resources into an anemic marketplace and ultimately to inspire the emergence of new models in the film-to-audience pipeline,” Hobby told Variety. The doc, which Compton co-directed with Reuben Hamlyn, tells the story of a college student’s search for answers and justice after she discovers deep fake pornography of herself circulating online.

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