Exclusive: the Austin Film Association Appointed a veteran product Elizabeth Lodge Swop As director of the first new program Texas Film Financing Initiative.
In this role, STEPP will help build a 30 -year -long record of independent films financing through the AFS grant, forming a new financing program and film financing in the region, and linking film and project makers in Texas to grants and investment financing in stocks.
STEPP brings a mixture of experience in producing movies and financing for the role in AFS. As an independent producer, in its previous roles in the production company in Terins Malek and then as a co -founder of the Ministry of Management of the Production Company, she worked with artists on both fiction and documentary advantages, after her career began as investment banks.
“Through its rare mixture of its experience in producing independent films and investment banking services – and its close relationship with the film -making community in Texas – Elizabeth is the perfect person to help AFS to launch the new film financing initiative,” said Rebecca Campbell, CEO of AFS. “We believe that there is a great opportunity for financiers to deepen their support for Texas’s sounds and we look forward to forming the program with the vision of Elizabeth.”
The latest documentary in STEPP, carryIt provides a lens for accreditation from an indescribable perspective for its central characters: the mothers of birth. The project is currently in the post -production stage. Her previous movie, UsersIt was first shown at the Sandans Film Festival 2021, where he won the Direct Award: US Documentary Film. The steps were also dedicated to the documentary film program at the Sandans Institute with Users Sandans feature films produced a colleague with Monsters and menWhich won the SUNDANCE Prize for the jury for the first distinguished feature in 2018. Other credits include production Stone and gloryIt was called one of the 5 best documentaries for the year 2017 by the National Review Council; Kerry Walsh Jennings: Gold insideWhich was first shown on NBC in 2016; And the production of Malik films Western knight and Song.
“After launching my career in filmmaking as a graduate of the AFS internal training program (now called AFS), I am honored to return to the Austin Film Society,” said STEPP. “This new film financing initiative is a bold step towards expanding the scope of access to the capital of film makers in Texas – those that recognize the enormous talent in our region and the need for new models of support. I look forward to building a program not only investing in telling insight stories but also helps in making Texas a true home for independent cinema.”
The Austin Film Film Film Initiative aims to provide opportunities for job progress and communicate with independent and diversified filmmakers, which strengthens Texas as a regional center for the production of Indy. The STEPP appointment news comes at a time when the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, allowed the draft law to become a law that increases the state’s aid from $ 200 to $ 300 million every two years. Support for film maker programs in Austin Film and develop a new film financing structure, partly, with a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
