Alliance of Women Directors

AWD's Rising Director Fellowship supports six women and gender-expansive directors from underrepresented communities as they make the critical, and often inaccessible, leap from short-form work to their first narrative feature. This grant will provide each Fellow with a $10,000 unrestricted award to fund their proof of concept short film and sustain momentum in an industry that too often shuts out marginalized voices at this pivotal career stage.