Grants
Cove Pictures
Project Title
As a one-time grant for the film project, The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
22 months
Description
Cove Pictures is a television company currently working on a number of titles for television for the United States, the United Kingdom, and other international. With Corporation support, Cove Pictures will produce a film, The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu, which will recount the 10-month period when a small band of scholars smuggle 400,000 books and manuscripts of immense, historical, literary and cultural significance out from under the noses of their jailers and transported them to safety across 500 miles of war-torn Sahara desert.