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Eric César Morales + Neil M. Wilson
In "A Blatino First Date," a teenager of mixed Black and Latino heritage is driven on his first date by his middle-aged Black father. However, at the end of the night, his attempt at a teenage rite of passage will be overshadowed by the intersecting crises of the U.S. healthcare system and ICE.
April 2026
$15,000
Focus Areas
$15,000
Imran Siddiquee

In "ASHA," a trans genderqueer Philadelphia-based artist returns home to Illinois to care for their terminally ill father, a Bangladeshi immigrant, in hopes of solving a mystery.

April 2026
$25,000
Focus Areas
$25,000
Jasmine Lynea
In "Della Can Fly!" an eccentric old man needs to prove that his long-lost sister flew away to preserve family history. With the support of his grieving great-niece, they rectify the family myth, proving it to be true.
April 2026
$20,000
Focus Areas
$20,000
Jeannine Kayembe Oro
"She Got Game" is a short documentary that excavates the essential, but often overlooked, history of Black women's basketball in the United States, charting a journey from the 1900s through the 1980s.
April 2026
$30,000
Focus Areas
$30,000
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

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