Genesis House and The Gotham Film & Media Institute announce the inaugural winners of their Shorts Fellowship program. Three emerging New York City-based filmmakers—Shanice Brette, Annie Ning, and April Wen—are selected as fellows. The program includes financial support described as a $10,000 stipend intended to help cover finishing funds for each filmmaker’s project as they move through a critical production stage. According to the announcements, mentors will guide the fellows during this phase of development and post-production. The mentor team includes Sean Wang, Raven Jackson, Josephine Decker, and Matthew Gross. The outlets report that the fellowship is positioned as a structured mentorship opportunity, pairing fellows with established filmmakers from the same shorts ecosystem. PR Newswire frames the announcement around the fellowship winners and the start of the mentorship period, while Variety adds details about the stipend amount and identifies mentor participation. Both sources agree on the three fellows’ names and the four mentors involved, and they describe the fellowship as launching with the inaugural class of selected filmmakers.