Tribeca Film Institute announces Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund recipients
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on July 20, 2009 under Documentary, Film Festival | 
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The Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci have announced the recipients selected for the 2009 Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund which provides finishing finances to documentary filmmakers whose projects promote social change and illuminate issues in need of deeper coverage currently missing from mainstream media. In the second year of the fund, seven projects have been selected from 350 submissions from 41 countries to receive a total of $100,000, to be administered by the Tribeca Film Institute (TFI).
The projects were selected by a committee consisting of Dan Cogan, Abigail Disney, Philip Gourevitch, Julia Ormond and Sam Pollard who chose the recipients from finalists previously selected by TFI. The projects that will receive funding are: