'Spotlight' Producer Launches $250,000 COVID-19 Relief Fund for Doc Freelancers
First Look Media's Field of Vision and Topic Studios, producer of the Oscar-winning film Spotlight, have launched a $250,000 relief fund offering emergency grants to freelancers in the documentary field severely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Recipients, including unemployed documentary directors and producers and even publicists and researchers, will receive $2,000 each to help pay for rent, healthcare, bills and groceries and other immediate needs, with the funds to be handed out in two separate tranches in April and May.