Almada Receives Support from Prada Foundation Film Fund
The projects that made the Prada foundation cut – out of a massive more than 1,200 submissions – hail from 26 countries across 5 continents.
“The quality and experimentation of the selected projects demonstrate the dynamic nature and variety that characterize contemporary independent cinema,” said in a statement Miuccia Prada, who is owner of the Prada Italian luxury group and head of the Prada foundation, the cultural institution she established alongside her husband Patrizio Bertelli in 1993.
Echoing Miuccia Prada’s words, Moretti underlined that the Prada foundation fund “stems from the realization that contemporary independent cinema is experiencing a period of great artistic vibrancy alongside significant structural fragility.”
One of the first projects selected by Fondazione Prada Film Fund has been Captions Will Be Needed by Natalia Almada (Mexico, United States) which is currently in the production phase. Captions Will Be Needed is Almada’s cinematic response to living with a rare cancer; a magic realism, science fiction documentary about embracing uncertainty during an era that believes in technology’s omnipotent power to answer all questions. Almada has also received funding from Sundance/Sandbox, the International Documentary Association (IDA), the Ford Foundation, and the Catapult Film Fund.
