Awarded Grants

Tell Me When You Get Home, is an animated short film that follows Honest Cardamom, a 15-year-old girl who encounters the spirit of an ancestor that reconnects her to her origin story.

To support Philadelphia-based cinema spaces and audiences for stories of individuals and communities that are often underrepresented in mainstream cinema.

When 50-year-old Filipina immigrant Alma Manabat Parker travels back to the Philippines for the first time since infancy, she immerses in her native culture and learns traditional dances to bring back to her Filipino-American community in Alaska, hoping to spark cultural engagement and identity amongst youth increasingly disconnected from their heritage.

A personal film told from the perspective of a Philadelphia woman who grew up in a Orthodox Jewish community that supports Israel unconditionally, "The Rabbis' Intifada" follows the journeys of four Orthodox rabbis as they speak out in support of Palestinian liberation.

An immersive, verité style film, "Kempis Coming Home" sets out to tell the story of how Kempis Songster—a man sentenced as a teenager to spend the rest of his life in prison— grapples with the responsibilities and possibilities of his extraordinary second chance in the years after his release.

“Stand Up for Madinah” follows Delaware's first female Muslim legislator, Madinah Wilson-Anton, as she challenges the Biden administration on the ongoing war in Gaza. When not confronting the establishment, Madinah spends her spare time at local comedy clubs trying to find success as a standup comedian.

Animal is an environmental science fiction horror short that follows two siblings who befriend a genetically altered rat and use it to defend their Kensington, Philadelphia neighborhood from sinister land developers who carelessly dump poisonous materials into the Delaware River.

Lanterns is an experimental stop-animation that explores the connection between the spotted lanternfly, an invasive species, and xenophobia.

The Unknown Tales of Lewis and Mary Latimer reveals the hidden story of innovation and triumph as 19th century Americans of African descent emerge from enslavement after the Civil War. The story of Latimer's creation of the modern day light bulb serves as a metaphor for the emergence of a people from darkness into light.

Eros: Fragile as it is Free is an experimental dance film that explores the confusing emotions that emerge postpartum and how those feelings can create an isolated perception of self while mirroring that of the collective unconscious. The film questions the social conditioning of the nuclear family and individualism in the U.S.