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Jess X. Snow
"Yellow Pearl" tells the story of Helen, a timid Chinese American PhD student, who encounters the ghost of a vengeful immigrant woman from the Chinese Exclusion Era, and is drawn into a sexual and political awakening that forces her to choose between old loyalties and burgeoning queer desire.
April 2026
$25,000
Focus Areas
$25,000
Mugo Muna
"The Price of Freedom" shares Shalanda’s trying experience of being shot, mistakenly arrested, and her subsequent trials with rushed medical treatment, navigating the criminal justice system, quarantine, and incarceration, all due to her financial situation.
April 2026
$10,000
Focus Areas
$10,000
Raishad Momar
Set in a tiny African-American town in Georgia, "Woodland" is an experimental documentary that tells the story of a grandmother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s and how it mirrors the quiet unraveling of her once-thriving Black community.
April 2026
$20,000
Focus Areas
$20,000
Rea Tajiri

In "Non-Alien," Vince Tajiri, an unemployed Nikkei photographer, wanders the streets of 1945 Chicago, searching for community through his camera's viewfinder. At the beach, he stumbles into a bardo outside of time; he encounters Paul Robeson, Hisaye Yamamoto, and Sun Ra, fellow artists dreaming of passage into alternative futures, as well as his three children, apparitions from worlds yet-to-be.

April 2026
$30,000
Focus Areas
$30,000
Shuja Moore
"Common Ground" is a documentary about a formerly incarcerated filmmaker who works to revive a deteriorating playground and sustain a community garden in West Philadelphia while the neighborhood gentrifies around him.
April 2026
$20,000
Focus Areas
$20,000
Xenia Matthews

In "MAMABABY," a Florida girl’s herbal abortion opens a portal, sinking her and her mama into a still-water spirit swamp where they wade through memories and future visions, allowing them to love each other more honestly on the surface.

April 2026
$25,000
Focus Areas
$25,000
Zainab Sultan

The documentary "Mic Check Democracy" follows Delaware State Representative Madinah Wilson-Anton as she navigates fierce opposition while challenging political norms in a deeply divided America.

April 2026
$30,000
Focus Areas
$30,000
Alex K
"War DoctoRyan: Ukraine" gives viewers access to Unit 25, a hospital in Kharkiv, Ukraine, for soldiers evacuated from the war frontlines. The film follows doctors Maksym, Lyosha, and Eugene as they fight to save lives while undermanned, under-resourced, and under enemy attack.
April 2026
$25,000
Focus Areas
$25,000
Bettina Escauriza
"Achegety Yvy / Earth Alphabet" is an experimental film where an artist weaves ancestral knowledge and words from the Guaraní language to create a landscape of ideas to explore her relationship to her homeland and culture despite the distance created by childhood immigration.
April 2026
$30,000
Focus Areas
$30,000
Chisom Chieke
In "Food for the Soul," a first-generation Nigerian-American and her Black-American partner must decide between being true to themselves or trying to live up to their families’ expectations.
April 2026
$20,000
Focus Areas
$20,000

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