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LOS ANGELES – Film Independent announced the 10 projects selected for the 14th annual Fast Track film finance market. Held during the LA Film Festival, Fast Track is designed to help producer-director teams propel their projects forward through meetings with top industry executives–financiers, agents, managers, distributors, granting organizations, and production companies. During three days of intensive meetings, participants gain valuable exposure and build vital relationships as they fast track their films towards completion.

Fast Track is supported by Film Independent Artist Development lead funder Time Warner Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, NEA Art Works, EFILM | Company 3 and Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television

“We look forward to connecting this wonderful group of filmmakers with our participating industry executives at the 2016 LA Film Festival,” said Jennifer Kushner, Film Independent’s Director of Artist Development. “Fast Track provides an extraordinary opportunity for independent producers and directors to gain critical support for their feature films, and for high level executives to discover some of the outstanding and diverse talent that Film Independent curates and develops through our Artist Development programs.”

2016 Fast Track Dinner

At the annual Film Independent Fast Track Welcome Dinner, Film Independent presented the eighth annual Alfred P. Sloan Fast Track Grant, a $20,000 production grant to support a film that explores science and technology themes or that depicts scientists, engineers and mathematicians in engaging and innovative ways. The grant was awarded to writer/director/producer Mark Levinson for his fiction feature film in development, The Gold Bug Variations.

“We are delighted to continue our highly successful partnership with Film Independent in recognizing Mark Levinson’s beautiful, tangled DNA love story, The Gold Bug Variations, based on a Richard Powers novel depicting two couples thirty years apart and their search to decode the mysteries of life and love,” said Doron Weber, Vice President and Program Director at the Sloan Foundation. “This exciting collaboration, which has produced last year’s Experimenter, this year’s The Man Who Knew Infinity and the upcoming Basmati Blues, is at the forefront of contemporary efforts by leading filmmakers to portray science and technology—and scientists, engineers and mathematicians—in innovative, increasingly popular films.”

Please the Film Independent Website for more info on the Film Independent 2016 Fast Track program.