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Chantel Clark is an award-winning South African director and screenwriter living between Brooklyn and Cape Town. Her feature directorial debut, Wit Gesigte (Pale Faces) was selected for the Sundance Institute's 2019 January Screenwriters Lab, IFP's 41st IFP Week Project Forum, and was made a SFFILM Spring 2019 Rainin Grant Finalist. A recent MFA graduate of the Film Program at Columbia University, her thesis film Our Albertinia was awarded a 2018 National Board of Review Student Grant, as well as the first Columbia University/Big Sky Edit Visionary Award. She is also the recipient of a Katharina Otto-Bernstein Thesis Film Fund Grant and was selected for inclusion in the ASCAP Foundation's 2018 Film Scoring program in collaboration with Columbia University. In Summer 2020, Chantel will be an artist-in-residence at the Jacob Burns Film Center in New York.
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