Zenzele Ojore
STORM SEASON
Pre-production financial grant for camera equipment rental.
About the project: In the belly of the American South, a group of Black children venture into a dense forest, eager to uncover a secret hidden by the adults in their community, only to discover a truth beyond their imaginations.
About the filmmaker: Zenzele Ojore is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist born in Houston, Texas, raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia, with kin from Opelousas, Louisiana. She is a 2020 Sundance Ignite Fellow and 2019 Sundance Horizon Award Winner. Her award-winning short films have screened at film festivals and museums including SXSW, Sundance (Sundance Ignite), and MoMA. Her work has also streamed and aired on television through Showtime. Zenzele received her degree in 2018 from the Rhode Island School of Design. Presently she is a dean fellow in the graduate film program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she is developing her short film, The South is My Sister’s Skin, into a feature-length script.