New grant honors late Seattle director Lynn Shelton by helping female filmmakers launch their career

A new grant from the Northwest Film Forum (NWFF) is honoring late Seattle director Lynn Shelton by helping other female directors get their film off the ground. Shelton died in May of an undiagnosed blood disorder at the age of 54. The "Of A Certain Age" grant will be awarded to a female or non-binary filmmaker age 39 or older to help them direct their first feature film. Shelton herself did not make her first film, "We Go Way Back," until the age of 39.

Her last work, the Hulu TV show "Little Fires Everywhere," starred Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington and has received buzz about a possible posthumous Emmy nomination for Shelton.