Katrin Cartlidge Foundation
Our friends at the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation are raising money to award new creative voices in film and cultural initiatives around the world.
The Foundation was established to honour the memory of actress and original Mnemonic company member Katrin Cartlidge, a unique actress who died suddenly in September 2002 at the age of 41.
Since then, each year friends and colleagues including Simon McBurney, Stellan Skarsgård, Mike Leigh, Emily Watson, Charlotte Rampling, Danny Glover, Jeremy Irons, Danis Tanovic, Danny Huston and Ken Loach have awarded bursaries, on behalf of the Foundation, to new emerging voices in film from Senegal, Haiti, Ireland, Syria, China, US, Bosnia, Egypt, Scotland and Palestine.
Culture, in all its forms, can provoke ripples of understanding, and inspiration. Culture can hold a mirror to our challenged, damaged world, and the spaces we keep for it have never been more important.
The Foundation was put on hold during the pandemic but is now restarting, raising money to continue to award new creative voices in film and cultural initiatives around the world. Working again with its long-time collaborator, the Sarajevo Film Festival which was born towards the end of the four-year siege of the city with the aim of overcoming the obstacles of war by promoting the diversity of cultures through art.
If you would like to support the Foundation and contribute to the annual cash prize, you can do so below.