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konsonant/ Sounding Together Initiative (STi) Fellowship Winners

August 24, 2011 BY admin

Earlier this year, we posted an opportunity for the konsonant/ Sounding Together Initiative (STi) Fellowship. The fellowship gives free music licenses to independent filmmakers working on socially conscious films. The recipients were announced last month and we are excited to hear that two of the winning filmmakers found out about this opportunity from Working Films! Check out the video below to see the selected film projects.

 

The 2011 konsonant Fellowship Winners
1st Prize: Singers in the Band by David Goodman
2nd Prize: Unlikely Friends by Leslie Neale
3rd Prize: La Toma by Paola Mendoza
4th Prize: Internal Exposure by Fivel Rothberg
5th Prize: My Brooklyn by Kelly Anderson

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