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Displacement Film Fund: Five Films on Exile and Belonging
Cate Blanchett’s Displacement Film Fund partnered with The New Yorker to release five short films by filmmakers with experience of displacement. Each received a €100,000 grant to tell a distinct story of exile and belonging; the films will roll out weekly online, with a New York screening bringing the filmmakers and Blanchett together.
Why it worked: It fused A-list endorsement with an exclusive media distribution cadence, turning a humanitarian stat into a weekly, journalist-ready editorial series.
The lesson: Consider pairing a credible figure with a marquee publisher for a time-boxed weekly drop anchored to one striking, quotable data point.
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How this story spread across the media
| Publication | Headline | Date |
|---|---|---|
| hollywoodreporter.com | A Syrian and a Somali-Austrian Director on Their Displacement Film Fund Shorts and Cinema as an Act of Survival: Rotterdam | Saturday 31st January, 2026 |
| deadline.com | Cate Blanchett Displacement Film Fund Unveils 2nd Cohort Of Recipients | Monday 18th May, 2026 |
| bfi.org.uk | Buy tickets for Displacement Film Fund | BFI London Film Festival 2026 | Friday 9th October, 2026 |
| variety.com | Cate Blanchett’s Displacement Film Fund Partners With the New Yorker to Release Five Short Films (EXCLUSIVE) | Friday 23rd October, 2026 |
| deadline.com | Cate Blanchett, Shahrbanoo Sadat & Mohammad Rasoulof Bring Displacement Film Fund To Tokyo With Help From ‘Godzilla’ Filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki | Friday 30th October, 2026 |
| reutersconnect.com | Reutersconnect | Friday 30th October, 2026 |