stepped down in 2013<\/a>, at which era Welsh turned President.<\/p>\n\n\tPrior to changing into President, Welsh was accountable for the general design, strategic planning and implementation of Film Independent\u2019s Artist Development packages for over a decade. Those included the Filmmaker Labs for administrators, screenwriters, producers and documentarians, Fast Track, and the Grants Program, and 4 years administering Film Independent\u2019s signature range program, Project Involve. Welsh designed the curriculum for the entire Labs and has oversaw the number of all Film Independent Fellows. In addition, he was Film Independent\u2019s year-round business liaison for filmmakers within the Artist Development packages. Welsh additionally managed the Grants Program, which incorporates Donor Named Fellowships, Sloan Producers Grants and in-kind grants. In 2009-2010, he oversaw the Netflix FIND Your Voice competitors and is at present administering the number of writers and designing the curriculum for the Fox Writer\u2019s Intensive with Fox Studios.<\/p>\n
\n\tPrior to engaged on the Filmmaker Labs, Welsh was in Film Independent\u2019s Programming Department the place he helped choose movies for the Festival Buzz, Documentary Buzz and New Visions Screening Series. He labored with the Spirit Award Nominating Committees in addition to the blue-ribbon committees that decide winners of money grants on the Spirit Awards.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHe was additionally the lead singer within the alt-country band Meatyard, which just lately accomplished an album to be launched later this 12 months.<\/p>\n
\n\tWelsh is survived by his spouse Bonnie Gavel and daughter Isla.<\/p>\n
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[ad_1] Film Independent President Josh Welsh handed away on December 31 after a five-year battle with colon most cancers, the group introduced this night. Welsh handed peacefully at house together with his spouse and daughter at his facet. \u201cWe are devastated by the loss of Josh Welsh,\u201d mentioned Film Independent\u2019s Board Chair Brenda Robinson. \u201cJosh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7838,1544,263,5578,3742,1813],"class_list":{"0":"post-136328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-battled","9":"tag-cancer","10":"tag-film","11":"tag-independent","12":"tag-longtime","13":"tag-president"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}