The Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund is Currently Accepting Applications for its 2021 Fellowship Program!

Founded in 2016, The Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund in Film and Media at Johns Hopkins University seeks to further the pioneering legacy of Mr. Zaentz by connecting the Baltimore creative storytelling community with prestigious artists, veteran executives and successful entrepreneurs in an incubator program designed to nurture project ideas that will advance the art and craft of audiovisual media.

The Innovation Fund, open to all greater Baltimore residents, is working to break barriers and to help underrepresented filmmakers in Baltimore enter and succeed in the film and XR industry through workshops, mentoring and grant funding. Applications for Fellowship this year will be open through July 8. Our new cohort of Fellows will be selected from this applicant pool and announced in September. Safety protocols permitting, the cohort will then all participate in StoryLab over the weekend of October 7-10, marking our return to in-person workshops, in partnership with top indie producers, directors and writers. Upon completing the lab, each Fellow will be teamed up with an industry mentor and will be eligible to apply for the next round of grant funding in early 2022. Visit https://zaentzfund.com/ and click APPLY.

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