Film Independent Grants Go to ‘The Fits,’ ‘Hooligan Sparrow’ Directors

Jordana Mollick, Anna Rose Holmer and Nanfu Wang were each awarded $25,000 grants Saturday at Film Independent’s Spirit Awards brunch.

The event, held at Boa restaurant in West Hollywood, takes place a month and a half before the Spirit Awards ceremonies on Feb. 25 in a tent on Santa Monica Beach.

Mollick, a producer on “Hello, My Name is Doris,” won the Piaget Producers award, which goes to a producer who demonstrates “creativity, tenacity and vision” on a limited budget. Finalists for the award were Lisa Kjerulff, Melody C. Roscher and Craig Shilowich.

Holmer, director of “The Fits,” received the Kiehl’s Someone to Watch award, which recognizes talented filmmakers of singular vision who have not yet received appropriate recognition. Finalists for the award were Andrew Ahn, director of “Spa Night”; Claire Carre, director of “Embers”; and Ingrid Jungermann, director of “Women Who Kill.”….

Read full article here – http://variety.com/2017/film/news/film-independent-the-fits-hooligan-sparrow-directors-1201954915/