[Gamasutra editor-at-large Chris Morris catches up with the Tribeca Film Institute’s director Beth Janson as the prestigious film-making body launches its TFI New Media Fund — for projects that wed traditional film-making with interactive projects like video games.]

One of the film world’s most prestigious festivals is taking an interest in the video game space.

The Tribeca Film Institute (a nonprofit group affiliated with the Tribeca Film Festival) and the Ford Foundations’s JustFilms initiative have announced the creation of a new annual grant — the TFI New Media Fund — for projects that wed traditional filmmaking and new media.

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