NewFilmmakers Los Angeles alongside Warner Bros. Discover announced their NewNarratives award winners for 2024. The program was started in 2021 with the goal of sporting independent filmmakers throughout a wide range of projects at any stage of production including short, feature, episodic series, documentaries, experimental works, and animation works.
The Rhulen Family Foundation provided a $20,000 cash grant in honor of the independent film producer Anthony Rhulen who worked on films like “The Butterfly Effect” among others. From this, each of the selected group of creators received a $5,000 grant. The initiative received a diverse range of applications upwards of 250 from over 30 countries, including Australia, Bolivia, China, Cuba, India, Italy, South Africa, Venezuela and more.
“It was incredible to witness such a strong commitment to the vision we and our previous recipients have crafted for this program. The overwhelming number of outstanding projects is a testament to the insightful and impactful portraits of the human experience that the artists we support this year will create,” stated NFMLA ’s Executive Director Larry Laboe and Programming Director Bojana Sandic in a joint statement. A full list of the 2024 NFMLA NewNarratives grant winners is available below.
Alex Nystrom – developing his narrative feature film “Spiral”. Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota Alex Nystrom is an enrolled member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indi.