Grants & Awards
Phantom Cowboys
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Nonfiction
Date Awarded: Summer 2009
Directors(s): Annie P. Waldman & Daniel Carbone
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Location: USA
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Film Status: In Production
About the Film:
Phantom Cowboys joins three American rituals for a sociological inspection of the fading identity of small-town America and the evolving myth of the American Dream. Focusing on three rural towns across America, this film depicts the “struggle” of becoming a “man” in contemporary society.
About the Filmmakers:
A New York-based filmmaker, Annie P. Waldman received her B.F.A. from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts in Film Production. She worked under several documentary filmmakers in the New York area, before directing and producing her short documentary, So The Wind Won’t Blow It All Away, about homeless high school students growing up on their own in New Orleans. Celebrated as a “lyrical, expressive mise-en-scene” by New York Magazine, it has been showcased at numerous festivals, such as The Sundance Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, San Francisco Doc Festival, and CMJ, as well as screening at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. The film premiered on PBS’s P.O.V. series in September 2009.
Annie is also a recipient of the Reach Film Fellowship through Cinereach. In 2009, she was a panelist at The Grassroots Media Conference as well as the official documentary judge for the Westport Youth Film Festival.
A native of San Francisco, most of her work deals with adolescence and the ebb and flow of American identity.
A graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts currently residing in Brooklyn NY, Daniel has written and directed a number of short films, both narrative and documentary, which have been showcased at various film and arts festivals internationally, including New Orleans, Marfa (TX), and Seoul (South Korea). His short, Being, was selected for the TrikFilms showcase at Lincoln Center and was honored with a screenwriting award at NYU’s First Run Film Festival in 2007. In 2008, he received the Warner Bros. Film Award as well as multiple First Run Film Festival awards for his most recent short Feral. In addition to his honors for directing and editing, Daniel was awarded the Wasserman/King Award for filmmaking and was selected to screen at the Haig P. Manoogian showcase at the Director’s Guild of America in Los Angeles. As a Director of Photography, Daniel’s work has been showcased on PBS, at the Sundance Film Festival, St. Louis Film Festival, San Francisco Doc Festival, and CMJ, as well as the HERE Arts Center and smArt galleries in NYC.
