The fourth annual amplifier’s scholarship from Film independent has revealed six fellows who receive $ 180,000 in cash contributions for independence film And TV series.
Indieview exclusively announces all sex, and among them, “all dirt roads are taste of salt” writer/director Raven Jackson For the fiction series “Scar Tissue.” Jackson made her Narrative regional debut With the 2023 Sundance function “All gravel roads taste of salt”; The film was nominated for one Film independent Spirit Award (for best first feature) and a Gotham Award (for Breakthrough Director) with distribution from A24.
“Booking dogs” author/actor Chad Charlie; “Victim/suspect” and “The Fire That Taked Her” producer Tracy Jarrett; and JM Harperedited the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentations “Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy”, is also among the recipients of amplifier Fellowship Grant. The Berlinale film creator Skinner Myers (“Before you fade away in nothing”) and Doc NYC “40 under 40” participant Jameka Autry also received a grant.
Per movie Independent receives every creative colleague an unlimited contribution of $ 30,000 to support his efforts. The fellows will also receive creative support from custom mentoring couples with industry advisors and a film independent board member, plus professional coaching in collaboration with Renee Freedman & Co and financial and business advice in collaboration with Jill James. The scholarship is a 12-month program.
“This year’s amplifier scholarships are an exceptionally implemented group whose voices and artistry have already made a cultural impact on television, feature films and documentaries” Angela C. Lee, head of artist development on film Independent, said in a press release. “We are so pleased to provide tailor -made mentoring and crucial granting to help every colleague take their career as an artists and entrepreneur to the next level.”
Earlier amplifier scholarships include Contessa Gayles, whose supported project “Songs from the Hole” won 2025 Cinema Eye Honors Honors Award, and David Fortune, whose support for the supported project “Colorbook” debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated to a 2025 NACP.
2025 Film Independent Amplifier Fellowship is supported by Founding Sponsor Netflix and its Creative Equity Fund.
2025 amplifiers and their projects are:
Jameka Autry, producer
Jameka Autry is an award -winning filmmaker and investigative storyteller. Her work is devoted to centering documentary story about themes of underrepresentation and invisibility through non-fiction features, shorts and series. Jameka is a 2025 movie Independent Amplifier Fellow and a students from Sundance Catalyst Fellowship, Women at Sundance | Adobe Fellowship, Sundance Creative Production Fellowship, Impact Partners Documentary Producers Fellowship, Ford Foundation, Justfilms/Rockwood Fellowship, and selected for Inaugural Doc NYC “40 under 40”. The latest films include “through the night”, “Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops”, “Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing”, “In my father’s house”, “We the Animals” and “Love Gilda.”
Project: “The PlayBook” (Nonfiction feature)
Logline: When a small Christian college goes down to Tennessee, local parents and politicians reveal a right right plot to eliminate public education across the country.
Chad Charlie, author/director
Chad Charlie is an Afro-Inhemsan filmmaker, writer and comedian from Ahousaht First Nation. He began his career in stand-up comedy and spoke words poetry before expanding to film and television. As a writer and actor at FX’s Emmy-nominated “reservation dogs”, he has contributed to groundbreaking domestic story. His short films, “Firecracker Bullets” and “UU? UU ~ TAH,” explores themes for identity, resilience and cultural conservation. Chad is the author of Amazon’s Elle and a movie Independent Amplifier Fellow. He has also been selected for Sundance Episodic Lab and Imagineative Director Lab, dedicated to raising domestic and black stories.
Project: “White Center Jing” (Fiction series)
Logline: An ex-criminal turned juice bar owner navigating in his daily life as a single father in society that awakened him.
JM Harper, director
JM Harpers’s director’s debut, “As We Talk” (Paramount+), a functional documentary that creatively explores the criminalization of rape texts, premiere in the US documentary competition on Sundance 2024. Named for DOC NYC’s “40 under 40” list in 2024, has also discharged, including four critic supplementary supplementary supplementary additions and serials. Jeuh-yuh: en Keye Til, har också redigerat fyra kritiskt tilläggsfunktioner och serier, inklusive Emmy-nominerade Jeuh-yuh: en Keye Til, har också redigerat fyra kritiskt acklaymerade funktioner och serier, inklusive Emmy-nominerade Jeuh-yuh-yuh-yuh-yuh-yuh. (Netflix, Sundance 2022), “A child from Coney Island” (Netflix), who chronicles the life of Stephon Mary and “Down a Dark Stairwell” (PBS, Criterion Channel). As a commercial manager with Park Pictures, Harper has received awards on Cannes Lions, Clios, UKVMAS and Adweek.
Project: “The Soul Patrol” (Nonfiction function)
Logline: After 50 years of silence, Vietnam’s first black special operation team is reunited to share their journey from soldiers to important witnesses about the human costs of the war.
Raven Jackson, author/director
Raven Jackson is an award -winning filmmaker, poet and photographer from Tennessee. Her work often examines undefined experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection and the body’s relationship with nature. Nominated for a movie Independent Spirit Award for the best first feature and a Gotham award for Breakthrough Director, Raven’s debut Narrative Film, “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt”, World Issuance in the US Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and appointed one of the best film festival, and you were appointed one. Rogerebert.com. She has served as a storyteller for HBO’s adaptation of “Sula”, based on Toni Morrison’s novel and wrote a section of Apple TV+ series, “Surface.” A 2024 Sundance Momentum Fellow and Rideback Rise resident, her short films “Nettles” and “A Guide to Breathing Underwater” are currently flowing at Criterion Channel.
Project: “Scar Tissue” (Fiction Series)
Logline: When Monique’s sister disappears, she draws threads linked to her disappearance, confronting mysteries around her and within the deepest parts of herself.
Tracy Jarrett, director/producer
Tracy Jarrett (director/producer) is a Peabody and Emmy award-winning filmmaker who synthesizes a strict journalistic investigation with a hearty documentary story. She was most recently a producer on the feature film “Victim/Susict” (2023, Sundance, Netflix, Outstanding Research in a Documentary Emmy), the feature film “The fire that took her” (2022, MTV studios, outstanding crime and justice. President, President, President, President, President, President, President, Omama, Nemetflix). Her work with “Charlottesville: Race and Terror” (2017, HBO) received 4 Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award and was Time Magazine’s TV episode of the year. Tracy directs its first functional documentary with support from Sandbox Films, Catapult and Sundance, and is a 2023 director through Concordia Studio Fellowship.
Project: “Untitled PMSR Film” (Nonfiction function)
Logline: Before the loss of her husband, Christina asks to retrieve sperm from her dead body and start a journey with herself and scientific discovery.
Skinner Myers, author/director
Skinner Myers is an award -winning filmmaker whose debut feature, “The Sleeping Negro”, premiered at Slamdance 2022 and was acquired by Art Mattan Films, Mubi and Universciné. It won the FPRIPERCI Award at IFFMH 2022. His second film, “Before You Fade Away in Nothing”, had its world premiere at Berlinale Critics’ Week 2025, and further established its distinct cinematic voice. Myers is currently in production on its third feature, “Moodswing whiskey.” With each project he continues to drive boundaries and challenge stories, create films that reason at both personal and social levels.
Project: “Jim Crow” (Fiction Series)
Logline: A colored minister forms an unthinkable partnership with a white alternate to take down the 1930s KKK.
