Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett is teaming up with the Rotterdam film festival‘s Hubert Bals Fund to launch a new program to support filmmakers displaced by war and other catastrophes.
The Displacement Film Fund, which Blanchett, a global Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR, will launch at the Rotterdam festival this year, will provide funding for displaced filmmakers to work on short film projects.
The pilot program will offer grants of €100,000 ($104,000) each to five displaced filmmakers to make original short films.
Blanchett will head up the selection committee to pick the filmmakers, joined by Wicked star Cynthia Erivo, documentarians Jonas Poher Rasmussen (Flee) and Waad Al-Kateab (For Sama), director Agnieszka Holland (Green Border), Rotterdam festival director Vanja Kaludjercic, activist and refugee Aisha Khurram, and Amin Nawabi [alias], the LGBTQ+ asylum seeker who was Rasmussen’s inspiration for the Oscar-nominated…
