Focus Areas
Movement Media
Policing and Community Safety
Community-Centered Journalism
Community-Owned Internet

The film program supports local film projects and film organizations led by, or created with, storytellers from marginalized groups. Through capacity building workshops, networking opportunities, and paid mentoring opportunities, the program invests in emerging and seasoned filmmakers as creatives.

The goal of the film program is for filmmakers and film organizations to substantially benefit from support for shared infrastructure or hubs that provide training, services, and other resources toward financial stability, creative freedom, and achieving their artistic and media goals.

What We Support

    Projects

    $25,000 - Awarded November 2022

    Focus areas
    Immigrant Voices
    Youth
    Representation in Media
    Description

    Samara is an impatient, bold Vietnamese-Cambodian-American girl who is determined to show her independence and drive as a college-dropout. On her quest for validation she has to sort out her new lifestyle, and relationships, and prove to her immigrant mother she has what it takes to succeed. Pressure makes diamonds. Or crushes them.

    $9,500 - Awarded March 2023

    Focus areas
    Immigrant Voices
    Representation in Media
    Description

    For the production of a short documentary of the first in-person Palestinian literature festival in North America, to be held in Philadelphia. 

    $25,000 - Awarded December 2021

    Focus areas
    Representation in Media
    Description

    The 2021 film grant will support "Dear Sofia," a documentary about a 37-year-old filmmaker's journey as mother and advocate of her daughter Sofia—a five-year-old girl diagnosed with autism in 2019. After over a year of being together everyday, without much contact with other people due to the pandemic, while working full time in her career and as a mother, Melanie must now prepare her daughter, and herself, for the next chapter in Sofia's life: entering kindergarten.

    $25,000 - Awarded December 2021

    Focus areas
    Representation in Media
    Description

    The 2021 film grant will support "The Difference Between Us." This short film is about an undocumented Bangladeshi immigrant in Philadelphia starts to fall for a roommate she's never met—forming a connection that will test the limits of her romantic imagination.

    $25,000 - Awarded December 2021

    Focus areas
    Immigrant Voices
    Youth
    Description

    The 2021 film grant will support "This Too Is Liberia," an immersive documentary that follows Liberian surfer Melvin Kabakole Jr. and his friends as they heal their traumatized communities in Liberia through surf therapy.

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