The One Club for Creativity has announced the four winners and 13 finalists for COLORFUL: A Prelude to Young Guns, a special grant program to help up and coming BIPOC creatives around the world advance their careers.
This year’s grant winners, who receive a cash prize towards a professional dream project of their choosing and free entry to the Young Guns 20 competition, are as follows:
- First place: Danica Tan Lijun, animation director, Los Angeles, $3,000.
- Second place: Sebastian Hill-Esbrand, filmmaker, Kiddo Films, Vancouver, $2,000.
- Third place: Andrew Kung, photographer, Andrew Kung Photography, Brooklyn, and Pau Tiu, creative director, Pau Tiu Creative Studio, Cainta (Philippines), $1,000. each
In addition, the following COLORFUL finalists qualify for free entry in YG20:
- Mayara Lista Alcantara, illustrator, comic book artist, Rio de Janeiro
- Carlos Bocai, graphic designer, Base, New York
- Maya Umemoto Gorman, photographer, Los Angeles
- Katty Huertas, illustrator, Washington DC
- Jessy Kikabou, art director, Sid Lee, Paris
- Eddy Lee, designer, Wolff-Olins, New York
- Xinmei Liu, illustrator, New Jersey
- Marte, graphic designer, illustrator, letterer, Buenos Aires
- Shivani Parasnis, designer, Baltimore
- João Vítor Porto, designer, 180 Amsterdam
- Tamara Sangdow, director, creative director, Conde Nast Entertainment, Brooklyn
- Leonardo Santamaria, illustrator, South Pasadena (US)
- Jen Yoon, illustrator, Seoul
The COLORFUL grant program, which has no application fee, is open globally to BIPOC creatives who qualify for the club’s prestigious Young Guns competition: age 30 years and under with at least two years of professional creative experience, and never having won Young Guns in the past.
Candidates submitted links to six projects in their portfolio, as well as a short essay and a 60-second video (phone or webcam acceptable) to introduce themselves and describe their dream project. Submissions were reviewed by a BIPOC jury of past Young Guns winners.
Funding for this year’s COLORFUL is provided by Russell’s Reserve Bourbon and Rich Tu, group creative director at Jones Knowles Ritchie New York and YG8 winner who co-created the grant program last year.
“Congratulations to our second year COLORFUL winners Danica, Sebastian, Andrew, Pau, and all of the finalists who had absolutely fantastic entries,” said Tu. “YG20 is going to be a heated competition if this group is any indication. With such phenomenal and diverse talent, the future is in good hands, and I can’t wait to see how they continue to shape the creative industry moving forward.”
The online entry system for Young Guns 20 is open; the regular deadline has passed but the final deadline is July 28, 2022. The competitions regularly attract entries from upwards of 45 countries, with more than half coming from outside the US. Winners, to be announced this fall, will be selected by a jury made up of past Young Guns winners and other creative leaders.
Branding for this year’s COLORFUL program was created by YG18 winner Lebassis, the talented art director and lettering artist.
“Scandal” cast will reunite for online script reading for hurricane relief in western North Carolina
The cast of ABC's hit political drama "Scandal" may need to brush up on their snappy, speedy delivery known as "Scandal-pace," because they're reuniting for a good cause. Its stars including Kerry Washington, Tony Goldwyn and Bellamy Young will take part in a live virtual script reading on Nov. 17 to raise money for hurricane relief in western North Carolina.
Beginning Friday, fans can go online and donate to reserve a spot for the online reading. Proceeds will benefit United Way of North Carolina. Everyone who donates will be able to take part in a virtual pre-event with the cast and Shonda Rhimes will give an introduction.
Additional guest stars will also be announced. The online fundraising platform Prizeo is also holding a contest where one person who donates online via their site will be selected to read a role from the script with the actors. The winner should not worry about the "Scandal"-pace, assured Young over Zoom.
"Whomever the lucky reader is can read at whatever pace they want," she said.
Young, who played Mellie Young, the first lady and later Republican presidential nominee on "Scandal," was born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. She came up with the idea for the effort with a friend and took it to her fellow "Scandal" actors, who all jumped on board. Young said this is the first script reading the cast has all done together since the show ended after seven seasons in 2018.
Which episode they will be reading has not been announced yet.
Young said it's "been devastating" to see so many parts of her hometown badly damaged by Hurricane Helene, which ravaged western North Carolina one month ago.
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