Doan: Rising Voices 'gives' $100,000 to ten directors
Doan said the Rising Voices fellowship 'gives' $100,000 to ten directors to make films loosely inspired by the future of work.
Doan on the Rising Voices prompt
Julian Doan says he developed Long’s Long Lost & Mini Mart in response to a call to the Rising Voices fellowship. In an on-record interview he described submitting to the programme and used its brief as a creative constraint for the short.
"10 directors are given $100,000 to make a film loosely inspired by 'the future of work'"
The quoted line above is Doan's own wording from the interview; it frames how he turned a personal idea about grief into a story set in a Little Saigon convenience store. Doan said the fellowship’s premise helped him lock the film’s tonal mix of the mundane and the surreal without committing to a commercialised explanation of loss.
No primary source was found that lists Doan as a recipient; this piece therefore reports Doan’s statement about the programme and its prize rather than claiming he was funded by it.
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