CREEP’s Mark Duplass Launches Found Footage Fund For Trans Filmmakers
He may play a Creep but Mark Duplass is famously a stand-up guy, made further evident by today's news that Duplass Brothers Productions (founded by Mark and brother Jay Duplass) has teamed up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Feature Fund, a $25,000 production grant for trans filmmakers developing independent feature films.
Per Variety, the Found Footage Feature Fund is designed as “a fully financed greenlight for a micro-budget production”:
The selected winner will be expected to complete their film within a year of receiving funds, without additional development deals. The initiative will accept applications cross all genres, as long as they use found footage, archival, collage or other economical approaches.
Creep series director Patrick Brice is also onboard, as the full $25,000 grant (provided by Duplass Brothers Productions) includes private consultation sessions from Duplass and Brice, as well as two script consultations from Kevin Nicklays, partner at Sandstone Artists and the former SVP of development for The Wolper Group, fifteen days of post-production services from Aesthetica Post, a marketing and deck strategy session, and ongoing support via email.
Plus, the Transgender Film Center will provide submission waivers to certain festivals, including Fantastic Fest, where the good news was first unveiled earlier this week (see video below!)
Here's what Duplass had to say in a new official statement:
“Sav Rodgers and I became friendly over the past few years, and once I discovered the incredible work he’s been doing with the Transgender Film Center, I just knew that Duplass Brothers had to find a way to support and get involved […] I’m so thrilled to bring our micro-budget found footage experience, and some of my The Morning Show cash, to the table and see what we can do together.”
Sav Rodgers, executive director of the Transgender Film Center, adds:
“The Found Footage Feature Fund is about meeting the moment with clarity and action […] We’re thrilled to partner with Mark and the Duplass Brothers team to support independent storytellers who are ready to do the work, leverage their resources, and get their films made. This is about empowering trans filmmakers to make something bold and real without waiting for permission.”
Duplass more than has the chops to advise new and upcoming filmmakers on low-budget productions; his role as the eccentric, weirdly adorable serial killer Peachfuzz in Brice's Creep (2014) and Creep 2 (2017) is a cult hit among horror fans, with the pair's Shudder series, The Creep Tapes, returning for a second season this November.
Applications for the grant will open on October 23, with submissionn closing on November 7 and a grantee selected in December.
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