French-Canadian director-screenwriter Rafaël Beauchamp is among 10 emerging filmmakers selected by Sundance Institute for its 2023 Sundance Ignite x Adobe fellowship.

The year-round program provides artistic and professional development support to fiction and documentary filmmakers ages 18 to 25. The 2023 fellows were chosen from a global pool of more than 1,000 entrants to the annual Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship Application, according to a news release.

The 10 fellows will work with Sundance Institute’s alumni mentors, have the opportunity to develop relationships within the Ignite community through workshops and events, and attend the Sundance Film Festival. They will also receive an artist grant supported by Adobe and Arison Arts Foundation and a one-year complimentary membership to Adobe Creative Cloud, added the release.

Montreal-based Beauchamp is described in the release as a “filmmaker interested in enhancing modern societal issues through the lens of genre cinema.” His films include Les battues (The Fading), which screened at South by Southwest in the Narrative Shorts Competition, and the short Au-delà du vide (Beyond the Void), which screened at the Inside Out Ottawa 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival, among other titles. His films have also screened at other festivals such as the Palm Springs International Film Festival and Leiden Shorts.

The fellowship starts with a lab that runs for a week through June 30 and is being held for the first time at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams.

The other fellows selected for the program hail from various countries and include: Omi Zola Gupta, Dylan Habil, Xiaoxuan Jiang, Alvina Joshi, Milla Lewis, Andrés Lira, Dallin Mello, Leonardo Pirondi and Chloe Xtina.

Toby Brooks, assistant director, Sundance Ignite, said in a statement that the “2023 Sundance Ignite x Adobe fellows reflect the rising voices that are crucial to inspiring independent storytelling.”

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