In what seems like a movie within a movie, filmmaker Benjamin Zeitlin was on his way to his premiere screening at last week’s SXSW Film Festival in Austin, TX when he was rear-ended and suffered severe injuries in a car accident. His film, Glory at Sea, took home the SXSW Wholphin Award, though he wasn’t able to attend.

 I learned last week after talking with Dan Nuxoll of Rooftop Films, the excellent NYC summer screening series, that Rooftop gives grants to alumni filmmakers of their series. Zeitlin had received funding from Rooftop for Glory at Sea. It looks like both Rooftop and SXSW will be helping to put together benefit screenings for Zeitlin, who like most filmmakers is without insurance. More information on that when it becomes available.