8 Calgarians just won $20,000 grants to create a web series
Eight Calgarians have been given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create a pilot for their very own web series thanks to a grant from Telus Storyhive; a program dedicated to supporting and providing mentorship to young Canadian filmmakers.
Telus Storyhive has actually been awarding grants since 2014 and has helped fund hundreds of projects since. The local winners of this year’s wild $20,000 prize are Brandon Wilson, Ximena Rios, Simon Chan, Eunice Chan, Meghan Stephan, Sean Smith, Ivy Miller, and Linda Kee. Congrats, guys!
Projects like Wilson’s After Life, an aptly named drama about life after death; Creative Canvas, a documentary by Ximena Rios about a group of unconventional artists living and creating in Calgary; and Simon Chan’s animated anthology, Bunny Phantom: The Greatest Superhero to Ever live, will now have the funding necessary to get their stories further off the ground, and hopefully on to more screens country-wide.
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The organization only selected 40 pitches from over 300 applications submitted in B.C. and Alberta this year… Wowza. If you would like to watch all the grant-winning Telus Storyhive projects from the 2019 competition, you can check out their website here!
Who knows, maybe the world’s next Kubrick or Spielberg is among this year’s winners.
