LWC Studio introduced its
has awarded its three hundredth grant since its founding in 2021. Grant recipients have used funds to submit work to dozens of awards, together with: The Ambies, Webby Awards, Worldwide Ladies’s Podcast Awards, Tribeca Movie Competition, Radio Academy Audio & Radio Trade Awards (ARIAS), British Podcast Awards, Black Podcasting Awards, Australian Podcast Awards, and George Polk Award.
LWC Studios, the Fund’s professional bono operator, with AIR as its fiscal sponsor, covers submission charges for producers, editors, and others, as much as $200 per calendar 12 months per creator. It additionally reimburses as much as $500 yearly for coaching in digital audio manufacturing.
LWC Studios’ Podcasting, Severely Awards Fund awarded its three hundredth grant, and welcomed Sequel as new Fund companion.
LWC Studios additionally welcomed Sequel, a Canadian inventive company as a brand new The Podcasting Awards Fund companion. With Sequel’s assist, the Fund will proceed its dedication to supporting and early-career BIPOC, Queer, and Trans producers to submit their work to awards and competitions, and to obtain career-expanding coaching backed by the Fund.
Tori Allen, Co-founder of Sequel says, “All through my profession – from CBC Radio to worldwide reporting to branded storytelling — I’ve had mentors who make house for my voice as a lady of shade and Queer and Trans ally. That assist formed me, and it’s an enormous a part of why I needed to begin Sequel – to assist new voices break by and thrive, particularly in Canada. Partnering with the Podcasting, Severely Awards Fund is a significant technique to rejoice Sequel’s first 12 months and replicate that podcasting business we wish to construct: inclusive, and filled with risk.”
“Sequel is a perfect Fund companion, because it mirrors the values upon which the Fund was constructed: creativity and inclusion, and lifting as you climb,” says Juleyka Lantigua, Founder and CEO of LWC Studios.
The Fund accepts reimbursement functions year-round, and qualifying impartial producers should be based mostly in Canada, the UK, United States, or Australia.