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AFI & AGBO Tap Marina Kato For Conservatory Development Grant

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Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmThe American Film Institute in partnership with AGBO selected Marina Kato as this year’s recipient of the AGBO/AFI Conservatory Development Grant.

The second year program awards $25,000 to a recent AFI Conservatory graduate to develop at least one project with a year-long mentorship from AGBO.

Matriculating in screenwriting in the AFI Class of 2019, Kato will receive the grant for her script Dia de las Carpas, a fairy tale about a little girl who escapes deportation by becoming a mermaid.“Marina spotlights injustice and inequality through a remarkable lens that brings both beauty and joy to her examinations of the struggles immigrants face,” said Angela Russo-Otstot, President of Creative at AGBO. “We.

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