LaTajh Weaver
BUDGET PARADISE
Post-production financial grant for film processing and scanning.
About the project: Seeking a spot to post up and make their art, Chester finds themself tossed from every corner of a city hell-bent on displacing anyone unwilling to fall in line with its profit-driven agenda.
About the filmmaker: LaTajh Weaver is a writer and director from Oakland, CA. In their work, they are dedicated to reclaiming and telling the overlooked stories of Black and Queer intersectionality and exploring ways these communities learn to cope with everyday injustices. In 2022, Weaver was awarded the SFFILM FilmHouse Residency. In that time, Weaver wrote and directed Companion, a short film which screened at Mill Valley Film Festival, BlackStar, and IndieMemphis. Also, in 2023 they were selected as a Chicken & Egg/ POV Inaugural grantee to develop the short film, Hold Me Close which they are co-directing with Aurora Brachman. Currently, Weaver is developing their first feature No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds: A Queer Inclusive Memoir, a dark comedy challenging identity politics amidst the ever-gentrifying Bay Area.