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Wavelength Sets 2022 WAVE Grant Recipients

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Wavelength, the production company behind such films as Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and Farewell Amor, has revealed the 2022 recipients of its WAVE Grant.

Ana Verde, Hannah Patterson, Amy Omar, Andrea and Sofia Riba, and Justine Chen each will receive $5,000 to create their first short film alongside production mentorship from Wavelength’s executive team.The WAVE Grant, which stands for “Women at the Very Edge,” aims to help a first-time female or non-binary filmmaker of color with the production of their first short documentary or narrative film (under 30 minutes).

In addition to the $5,000 grant, Wavelength will provide mentorship in the producing, development and post-production of the filmmaker’s story as well as fundraising and distribution strategy.Read the bio for the third annual WAVE grantees below.“We are honored to expand our WAVE Grant to include five recipients this year,” said Jenifer Westphal, founder, CEO and executive producer at Wavelength. “For the past three years we have been consistently blown away by the diversity, talent and resourcefulness the grant attracts and are honored to add more voices to our growing class of filmmakers.”Here is more about each of this year’s WAVE recipients, from Wavelength:Puerto Rican and Venezuelan writer and director, Ana Verde, is currently producing her first short film in Puerto Rico, ¡Me Ahogo! (I’m Drowning).

The film follows a seamstress whose daughter asks her to move from Puerto Rico to the United States to make more money, triggering recurring daydreams of drowning in the ocean, wearing the quinceañera dress she is making.Atlanta-based director, DP and filmmaker Hannah Patterson hopes to turn her proof-of-concept short, Late to the Party, into a television

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