The Producers Club of Maryland, Inc., the organizing entity of the Maryland Film Festival, was launched as a 501(c)(3) corporation in 1993 at a special pre-release screening of SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE attended by Nora Ephron and some of the film’s Maryland cast and crew. It has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to support the economic development work of the Maryland Film Office and Baltimore Division of Film, Video, and Television, and assists their work in numerous other ways.

The Producers Club owns the Maryland Regional Production Guide (www.mdrpg.com), the only comprehensive "yellow pages" for film, television and commercial production in the region. In addition to the website, the Guide is distributed throughout the year by the Maryland Film Office.

The largest single activity of the Producers Club is the annual Maryland Film Festival, and the Friends of the Festival year-round screening events. Each year scores of filmmakers are brought to Baltimore and get to sample the community as a place for future production.

The Producers Club funds and administers the Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship each year in partnership with Sundance Labs. Winners are selected by a panel of Maryland citizens who support the work of the Producers Club and the Maryland Film Festival, but none of whom are associated with the film industry. Typically first money in, grants are given to help with pre-production and come with no obligation other than the money be used to move toward production, acknowledge the Fellowship in end title credits, and screen the film in Maryland before it goes in to the marketplace.

2006- Tanya Hamilton for Stringbean And Marcus, and Victoria Mahoney for Yelling To The Sky Maryland selection committee: Lynn Deering, Richard Konigsberg, Carolyn Lynch, Katherine Vaughns

2005- Darci and Andrew Dosunmu for Mother of George Maryland selection committee: Lynn Deering, Richard Konigsberg, Carolyn Lynch, Paula Rome, Katherine Vaughns

2004- Richard Press for Virtual Love Maryland selection committee: Jim Dale, Lynn Deering, Richard Konigsberg, Carolyn Lynch, Paula Rome, Katherine Vaughns

2003- Caran Hartsfield for Bury Me Standing
2002 - Doug Sadler for Swimmers
2001 - Jacob and Josh Kornbluth for The Best Thief in the World and Tatia Rosenthal and Etgar Keret for $9.99
2000 - Michael Burke for The Mudge Boy
1999 - Rodrigo Garcia for Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
1998 - Kirby Dick for Beyond the Pleasure Principle
1997 - DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter for Lift

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