Baumbach’s initiative seeks to bring together an international group of scholars and artists for a two-day symposium investigating the relationship between the technological environment and processes of subjectivization in the 21st century. It is one of four projects to receive the grant. 

Plotnick is the president and co-founder of the New York City and Bahia-based nonprofit media arts organization, which aims to increase the presence of Brazilian cinema in the US and beyond.

Launched in 2018, the ten-year festival series is devoted to the legacy of film noir. Each year, festival organizers select a distinct theme in order to revisit the noir canon from a unique perspective. This year’s selection of films focus on the US-Mexico border in film noir.