EXCLUSIVE: Johanna Brinckman, Ini Ishola, and Marta Méndez Cross have been picked as Broken English Productions‘ Women Director’s Initiative competition.
Each thrivening novel filmoriginater gets a $30k grant to originate a unintelligentinutive film and compriseitional resources to transport their projects to fruition. Additionassociate, they will count on the participation of Jaina Lee Ortiz (Station 19, The Long Game), Lindsey Morgan (Walker, The 100) and Mauricio Mfinishoza (Final Vow) as actors in their projects which will premiere at a distinctive screening backed by Soho Hoemploy.
The initiative was originated by Jolene Rodriguez, CEO of Broken English Productions, to help and empower novel women straightforwardors in the film industry thraw mentorship and help to help transport their creative visions to life.
“I’m stoked for the world to see what these adocount on women originate. They’re incredibly talented, and I’m beyond conceited of them,” Rodriguez scatterd in a statement to Deadline. “Thank you to Women in Film, Sony Pictures, Soho Hoemploy and the amazing talent combinecessitate for their help.”
Lobtain more about each thrivener and their unintelligentinutive film projects below.
Johanna Brinckman
Title: By Your Side
Logline: Julie’s obeseher taught her many lessons, but noslimg could ready her for his loss. As she copes with her grief, a chance encounter helps her experience her obeseher’s finishuring adore, altering her sorrowfulness into a tfinisher celebration of their bond. “By Your Side” highairys the transport inance of memories, shothriveg that adore goes beyond life and seeks the audience to discover hope and reponder their sees on grief.
Morgan and Mfinishoza will star.
Bio in their own words: Born and elevated in Germany, Johanna uncovered her passion for visual storytelling punctual thraw experimenting with film and pboilingography. She begined her pboilingography nurtureer at 21, laboring with directing magazines and delightment clients while traveling internationassociate to transport her creative vision to life. In 2019, Johanna shiftd to Los Angeles to broaden her opportunities and has since become comprehendn for blfinishing originateive straightforwardion with authentic transmition. Now stepping into straightforwarding, she seeks to spendigate meaningfuler narratives, creating strong stories that combine visuals, music, and compelling concepts.
Ini Ishola
Title: Seneca, Speak
Logline: A youthful girl named Seneca copes with her mother’s death while trying to discover solace with her obeseher. When her pregnant stepmother goes into labor, Seneca uncovers a unanticipateed secret about her obeseher. She faces a difficult choice: to grasp her obeseher’s secret or to protect her stepmother’s dignity.
Bio in their own words: Hailing from the heart of the San Fernando Valley, Ishola is a Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-elevated filmoriginater whose stories aspire to delve into the depths of the human subconscious under the strain of fervent emotional presstateive and high anxiety, and she ownes an equassociate fervent drive to originate stories that elucidate these mysteries to the asking. Ishola and her labor seek to unravel the human psyche and decision-making processes, uncovering the proset up aappreciateities that combine people apass diverse backgrounds. As a result of her experiences, she is directed on what persists to be the most transport inant fact of her life: when she forges stories that materialize from the meaningfulest part of her, that is when she is utterly free.
Marta Méndez Cross
Title: iChild
Logline: A struggling woman, grappling with compriseiction and personal confusion, sets out to seek her child’s fordonateness, only to ultimately discover her path to redemption and self-fordonateness.
Ortiz will star.
Bio in their own words: Méndez Cross is an actress and authorr based in Los Angeles, recognized for her roles in films appreciate Side FX and famous TV shows such as Criminal Minds and NCIS: LA. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, she obtained attention from Shonda Rhimes in Off The Map and starred in the Lifetime series Life with Olivia, which caccessed on breast cancer consciousness. She won the Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival for her labor on Lost In Shadowed Sand. Currently, she is collaborating with Halltag on their first Latinx Christmas drama, Feliz Navidad, and is laboring on the feature film Sisters, where she stars and originates, emphasizing her dedication to recontransienting underrecontransiented communities.
