Concordia Studio Selects New 2022 Fellowship Class; Fellowship Includes Sundance And Oscar-Nominated Filmmakers

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Concordia Studio, the award-winning executive producers of this year’s Academy Award-winning Summer Of Soul (…or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), has announced four new exceptional filmmakers selected as part of the studio’s 2022 class of fellows for their signature program, The Concordia Fellowship.The chosen recipients of the Fellowship are creators with the commitment to reshape the future of storytelling.

Within the bespoke artist development program, each fellow receives a plan tailored to meet their specific creative goals, financial backing to develop a new project of their choosing, focused guidance and tools to build a sustainable career, and access to professional resources, use of the studio’s state-of-the-art facilities, and mentorship from Concordia executives.Concordia fellows are the next generation of powerful storytellers and come from diverse racial, religious, and regional backgrounds.

This year’s selected fellows who are recognized for their excellence in documentary filmmaking are Giselle Bailey, Alice Gu, Shalini Kantayya, and Christine Turner.

Biographies for the full list of fellows can be found below.“Concordia Fellows are capable of redefining what is possible and our work is to make sure they do,” says Rahdi Taylor, Executive Vice President of The Concordia Fellowship. “We are excited to welcome these artists to The Concordia Fellowship because individually we make films, but collectively, we change culture.”Through The Concordia Fellowship, filmmakers have gone on to see critical and commercial success, often recognized for their groundbreaking projects at the industry’s most prestigious honors such as the Academy Awards and Emmy Awards, and at film festivals including Sundance.