Rhode Island Film

🚨 Last Call for the Roy W. Dean Summer Grant 2026 🚨

The submission deadline is June 30, and time is running out for independent filmmakers to apply.

Since 1992, the Roy W. Dean Grants have helped filmmakers bring meaningful stories to life through funding, donated production services, and professional guidance.

Filmmakers can apply for:
🎬 A $3,500 cash grant
🎬 Thousands in donated products and services
🎬 One of three Stories That Matter Awards, each with a $500 cash prize
🎬 A free 15-minute consultation simply for applying

Whether you're producing a documentary, narrative feature, short film, or web series, this could be the support that helps move your project forward.

⏳ Applications close June 30. Submit your project today.

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We’re happy to share our official 2026 poster! This year’s festival will be August 4-9 with our Opening Night taking place at Providence Performing Arts Center on the 4th.

Full program will be announced in July, but reserve your Opening Night Tickets and festival passes now at RIFilmFest.org!

BREAKING NEWS ! (via Deadline.com)

EMMY ROSSUM, MICHAEL IMPERIOLI, ROSEMARIE DEWITT & ARIANA GREENBLATT JOIN GRACE VAN PATTEN IN HANNA GRAY ORGANSCHI'S "RUBBER HUT"

Emmy Rossum, Michael Imperioli, Rosemarie DeWitt & Ariana Greenblatt Join Grace Van Patten In Hanna Gray Organschi’s ‘Rubber Hut’

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy Rossum (The Crowded Room), Michael Imperioli (Memory of a Killer), Rosemarie DeWitt (Untamed), and Ariana Greenblatt (Now You See Me: Now You Don’t) are among those set to star opposite Grace Van Patten in Rubber Huts, the debut feature of Hanna Gray Organschi, which we scooped in March.

Character details are being kept under wraps, with production underway in Rhode Island. Other new additions to the cast include Chris Bauer (His & Hers), Fina Strazza (John Proctor Is the Villain), Fisher Stevens (Succession), and Ricky Staffieri (The Bear).

Set in 1992 Rhode Island, Rubber Hut follows an entrepreneurial ex-Pan Am stewardess who opens a drive-thru condom kiosk in her Italian Catholic town. Overnight, Emanuella (Van Patten) becomes a lightning rod in the community, a hero to local teens and an unlikely threat to her tight-knit community.

Rubber Hut is produced by Elizabeth Woodward for Willa (The Voice of Hind Rajab, The Fence), Tara Sheffer for Stone Fruit Productions (A Lien), and Gray Organschi’s Unlikeable Woman Productions, in association with Desmar, The Godmother, Shortwave, and Madhouse Films. Exec producers are Anne Carey, Jason Michael Berman, Mari Nakachi, Ahmed Ezz, D.D. Wigley, Naomi Despres, Michèle Marshall, Charlie Traisman, Katherine Romans, Heather Feshbach, and Andrea Ajemian. Andrew Alexander, Mark Hollinger, Alexandra Kordas, Meryl Metni, Monika Parekh, Lisa and Matt Sonsini are co-EPs on the film cast by Matthew Glasner CSA.

Participating in all three Sundance Institute Labs — Screenwriters, Directors, and Producers — Rubber Hut was also selected for the Film Independent Fast Track, NYU Purple List, and Gotham Week Project Market, among other showcases.

A Golden Globe nominee best known for her nine-season run as Fiona Gallagher on Showtime’s Shameless, Rossum most recently appeared in Apple TV’s The Crowded Room and will next star in and exec produce the Hulu series Furious, written by Liz Meriwether. She is repped by WME, Mgmt Entertainment, and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.

Imperioli was recently seen starring alongside Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson in Song Sung Blue an can currently be seen in Fox’s series Memory of a Killer opposite Patrick Dempsey. Upcoming, he has Ben Shirinian’s The Housewife, where he stars opposite Naomie Watts and Tye Sheridan. He is repped by Gersh and Anonymous Content.

For DeWitt, recent projects include Netflix’s limited series Untamed, opposite Eric Bana, and the third and final season of the S*x and the City revival And Just Like That… She’ll next be seen starring alongside Andy Garcia in his latest directorial feature, Diamond, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. She is repped by CAA, Mgmt Entertainment, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.

Coming off the Lionsgate threequel Now You See Me: Now You Don’t — joining legacy cast Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and Isla Fisher — Greenblatt’s also known for her work in projects like Barbie, Fear Street: Prom Queen, and Borderlands. She is repped by CAA, Untitled, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

Bauer is repped by Buchwald, Framework Entertainment, and Schreck Rose Dapello; Strazza by Paradigm, Mara Entertainment, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Stevens by WME, Untitled, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer; and Staffieri by IAG, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

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