Four filmmakers to receive first Fetzer Foundation grants

Four up-and-coming filmmakers have been named as recipients of the 2015 Davey Foundation Short Film Grants, given by the David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists.

The foundation, created in 2013 after the death of Utah filmmaker David Fetzer, aims to provide opportunities for emerging filmmakers and playwrights to create works on Utah stages and screens and beyond.

Two filmmakers will receive grants of $5,000 each.

Lauren Wolkstein, who has had three shorts play at the Sundance Film Festival, and whose short “Beemus: It’ll End in Tears” is part of a series, “Collective: Unconscious,” where five filmmakers adapt each other’s dreams into films.

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