Meet the 2020 Tribeca All Access Grantees

In the midst of these challenging times, we have some good news to share — we're announcing the 2020 Tribeca All Access grantees. Fourteen teams, all working on scripted or documentary feature films in various stages (from development through post-production), will receive $10,000 grants to go towards key needs of their projects. Each team will attend Tribeca Film Institute’s TFI Network, the organization’s filmmaker/industry market. TFI Network usually occurs during the Tribeca Film Festival but has been postponed to ensure the safety of filmmakers and industry, who travel from around the world in order to make valuable connections during this event.

Here are the fourteen project teams that are receiving Tribeca All Access grants and attending TFI Network:

Scripted Grantees

BURNING WELL
Screenwriter/Director: Mary Evangelista
Producers: Karishma Dev Dube and Cecilia Mejia
Director based in US
Will be filmed in US
Logline: Fran’s life in New York City as a successful genderqueer model and influencer is upturned when their father gets into a serious car accident. Returning home for the first time in years, Fran must reckon with the people they left behind in order to be who they are now -- including an unrequited high school love.

DESIRE
Screenwriter/Director:Tyler Rabinowitz
Producer:Jeremy Truong
Director based in US
Will be filmed in US
Logline: Aaron, an aspiring musical theater performer, gets a survival job as an instructor at a high-end spin studio in Hell’s Kitchen. As his magnetic and demanding boss pulls him deep into the worlds of cult fitness and gay nightlife, he struggles with his own self-worth and loses sight of his Broadway dreams.

DOS ESTACIONES
Co-screenwriter/Director:Juan Pablo González
Co-screenwriter/Producer:Ilana Coleman
Producers:Makena Buchanan and Jamie Gonçalves
Director based in Mexico
Will be filmed in Mexico
Logline: In the bucolic hills of the Jalisco Highlands, iron-willed businesswoman María García fights the impending collapse of her family’s tequila factory. As she fights to keep her family’s legacy alive, her understanding of the world is shattered by forces out of her control.

LA HIJA DE TODOS LAS RABIAS
Screenwriter/Director:Laura Baumeister
Producers:Rossana Baumeister and Bruna Haddad
Director based in Nicaragua
Will be filmed in Nicaragua
Logline: Nine-year-old María is left at a recycling factory in Nicaragua by her struggling mother, joining a workforce of other children. Torn between anger and hope, María resorts to her vivid imagination in order to come to terms with her motherʼs absence and make sense of a chaotic world.

MOTHERHOOD
Screenwriter/Director:Meryam Joobeur
Producers:Nadim Cheikhrouha, Sarra Ben Hassen and Maria Gracia Turgoen
Director based in Canada
Will be filmed in Tunisia
Logline: Salha, a mother gifted with prophetic dreams and visions, lives in an isolated village in Tunisia. When her eldest son’s sudden return from Syria coincides with a series of strange disappearances in their community, Salha’s maternal love is tested and the family faces how guilt can haunt the human spirit.

PEACHES
Director:Jenny Suen
Producers:Coco Francini, Jonah Greenberg, Stephan Holl, and Leonard Tee
Director based in Hong Kong
Will be filmed in Hong Kong
Logline: Fanfan scams “sugar daddies” for a living while her best friend Bingbing holds out for true love. Together, they’re forced to confront their differences and existential plights as their “boyfriends” and crimes catch up with them.

STAMPEDE
Screenwriter/Director:Sontenish Myers
Producer:Camille Gatin
Director based in US
Will be filmed in US
Logline: On a southern plantation in the 1800s, Lena is an eleven-year-old slave with telekinetic abilities she cannot control. Lena must keep her powers under wraps when she is separated from her mother to be a house girl, in close quarters with the volatile Master's wife: Elizabeth.

Documentary Grantees

ANHELL69
Director:Theo Montoya
Producer:Juan Pablo Castrillón
Executive Producer:Bianca Oana
Director based in Colombia
Filmed in Colombia
Logline: After members of the queer scene in Medellin Colombia are cast for a vampire movie, the film’s protagonist - Camilo Najar - dies of a heroin overdose at age 21. As the youth in Colombia grapple with a disarmingly high rate of suicide and drug overdoses, the neo-noir documentary ANHELL69 uses a punk rock aesthetic to explore this generation’s “no future” mindset.

CUSP
Directors:Isabel Bethencourt and Parker Hill
Producer:Zachary Luke Kislevitz
Directors based in US
Filmed in US
Logline: In a Texas military town, three teenage girls confront the dark corners of adolescence at the end of a fever dream summer.

DRIVER
Director/Producer: Nesa Azimi
Producer: Kellen Quinn
Director based in US
Filmed in US
Logline: DRIVER follows a dynamic community of women long-haul truck drivers. Threatened by routine sexual violence and bound by a system in which multibillion-dollar megacarriers conspire to make individual drivers anonymous and disposable, one woman brings together an unlikely group of drivers to find strength, solidarity, and self-determination on the road.

EN UNA ESQUINA DE MEXICO
Director:Leonor Maldonado García
Producer:Tatiana Graullera
Director based in Mexico
Filmed in Mexico
Logline: Every Friday night, Rigo leaves his family in Brownsville, Texas and crosses the US-Mexico border to return to his hometown of Matamoros where he teaches forty men a choreographed routine. In an environment heavily impacted by drug trafficking, The Dance of the Ejido 20 of Matamoros is a platform where the performers can mourn and release their fears through sweat and physical pain.

INSPIRARE
Director/Producer: Yuqi Kang
Producers:Dana Kalmey and Cao Xi
Director based in Canada
Filmed in China and Hawaii
Logline: INSPIRARE is an intimate and unyielding journey exploring female freediving champion Jessea Lu, as she faces her biggest fear: attempting to dive beyond 90 meters deep in one single breath.

ON THE MOVE
Director/Producer:Milton Guillén
Co-producer:Natalia Hernández
Screenwriter:Noelia Espinoza
Director based in US
Filmed in Denmark, Turkey, Nicaragua and US
Logline: ON THE MOVE follows three visual artists in exile from Syria, Sudan and Nicaragua as they strive to remain emotionally connected to their turbulent home countries. As the film progresses, a kaleidoscopic view of displacement emerges, drawing similarities and contrasts in the emotional burdens of these artists through the eyes of the movement itself.

Q
Director/Producer:Jude Chehab
Director based in Lebanon and US
Filmed in Lebanon
Logline: Born from Syria’s Islamic revivalist movement, the Qubaysiat is a regime-loving Sufi community turned cult fifty years in the making. Q dives deep into the hidden world of the largest Muslim women’s organization through filmmaker Jude Chehab, her mother, and her grandmother’s connections to the mysterious group.