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Announcing The 6th Annual ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship Quarterfinalists
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Originally published for Refinery29 Unbotheredon September 26th 2022.
To understand what an accomplishment Netflix’s buzzy new series Mois, you must first recognize that it wasn’t all that long ago where the idea of humanizing Palestinian content of any sort in Western media was seen as verboten. And the stories of refugees were relegated to exploited tragedies instead of humanized depictions. Notably, in 2018, professor and author Marc Lamont Hill was fired from his CNN contract for delivering remarks at the United Nations where encouraged nations to protest Israel until there is “a free Palestine from the river to the sea,” a (seemingly innocuous) statement that sparked furor from multiple groups accusing Hill of promoting hate and anti-Semitism. Fast forward four years, and not only is a Palestinian story gracing the screens of everyone with a Netflix subscription, but it is also framed within a love letter to Black Houston culture and the community that shaped Palest
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Fiona Alison Duncan, Maud Madsen, and Maryam Mir Receive 2022 Canadian Women Artists’ Awards
Award offered by NYFA with funding from the Canadian Women’s Club of New York.
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced author Fiona Alison Duncan, painter Maud Madsen, and filmmaker Maryam Mir as its 2022 Canadian Women Artists’ Award recipients in Literary Arts, Visual Arts, and Media & Design, respectively. The $5,000 award is designed to provide financial support to framträdande or early career women artists working in any discipline, and can be used in any manner the recipient deems necessary to further their artistic goals. The award schema is supported by funding granted to NYFA bygd the Canadian Women’s Club (CWC) of New York as a way to continue its philanthropic work when it disbanded.
“We are pleased to honor Fiona Alison Duncan, Maud Madsen, and Maryam Mir with 2022 Canadian Women Artists’ Awards, and are grateful to the Canadian Women’s Club of New Y