Focus Areas
Movement Media
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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
    Immigrant Voices
    Description

    The 2021 film grant will support "Bravo, Burkina." A Burkinabé boy flees his village and lends his weaving talents to an old craftsman in Bologna, Italy. Despite his escape, he is unable to forget the warmth of Burkina Faso. Pursued by memories, he travels through time in hopes of regaining all he has lost.

    $25,000 - Awarded December 2021

    Focus areas
    Representation in Media
    Description

    The 2021 film grant will support "Talking Walls," an audio-visual oral history project centering the narratives of queer and Black elders. With record interviews and documentation of subjects who have resided in one location for 15 years or longer, The project will culminate into an experimental documentary film where queer elders discuss perspectives on home and personal sanctuaries.

    $75,000 - Awarded December 2021

    Focus areas
    Representation in Media
    Description

    The 2021 film grant will support "With My Own Hands" which centers the theme of memory. When a young girl suddenly becomes ill at a family party, she must retrace her memories to uncover the true cause of her mysterious sickness.

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