Description of the Award:
For three years, Panavision will provide a camera rental package valued at up to $60,000 for a filmmaker from an underrepresented community in the United States chosen by the Legacy Fund. In addition, Panavision will offer dedicated educational resources to help the award recipient grow their skill set and knowledge base. Any camera or lens rental item in Panavision’s inventory, excluding anamorphics or equipment already booked on selected shoot dates, will be eligible.
The first year’s award was given to writer/director Ramzi Bashour with his first feature Tomahawk Springs. The film explores the darkly comic and the deeply moving in a new kind of American road movie. It’s in English, it’s in Arabic. It explores concepts of dislocation, language, immigration and home. It’s a film set against the backdrop of some of the most iconic landscapes in American cinema, inhabited by two characters we’ve never seen in these settings before.
