Bay City News: Lights, camera, action!: Grants help Oakland filmmakers, others, with indie projects

That could well be what’s on the mind of director Benjamin MulHolland, the recent recipient of a lightning-bolt of cash for his feature, “The Lake Merritt Monster.”

The Oakland filmmaker is one of 15 East Bay independent directors served a generous slice of the $165,000 pie from the Berkeley FILM Foundation, a nonprofit that annually awards grants to creative cinematic thought-provokers from around Berkeley, Emeryville, Richmond, El Cerrito, Albany and Oakland. The foundation received 150 applicants this year, a record number since the group was founded in 2009, program director Isabella Miller notes.

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