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‘Spotlight’ Producer Teams With Journalism Outfit To Offer $250,000 Relief Fund For Documentary Freelancers During Coronavirus Crisis

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By Tom Grater International Film Reporter EXCLUSIVE: Spotlight production co Topic Studios is teaming with journalism outfit Field of Vision to offer $250,000 in emergency financial help for struggling documentary freelancers during the coronavirus lockdown.

The two companies are divisions of First Look Media, the org set up by eBay founder and philanthropist Pierre Omidyar with doc heavyweights Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Laura Poitras.

Industry freelancers have been particularly hard hit by the economic aspects of the crisis, with film and TV production halted around the world.

As such, the fund is aiming to support the most vulnerable by providing life assistance grants, such as for rent, healthcare, bills, groceries, for

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