Awarded Grants

For the film, "Kick" about the hardships and pressures of a promising soccer player from North Philadelphia who has gained national attention following a record-breaking game at the age of 13.

To integrate a suite of abolitionist media production, archiving, and media-based organizing methods into the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School curriculum.

For the Rene Smith Summer Youth Media Fellowship in support of emerging media creators.

For the film, "The Full Never Told" about a daring prison escape on a small Caribbean Island of three Rastafarians incarcerated under unjust circumstances and their struggle with meanings of freedom, justice, and memory.

To document the experiences and beliefs of students and educators in Philly public schools, in order to cultivate intergenerational solidarity, push forward movement work to humanize schools, and amplify participants’ calls for systemic change in education.

For the film, "La Casa de Luz," which tells the story of Lucy, who returns to Puerto Rico to care for her grandmother, but whose world is turned upside down when Abuela's unexpected mental clarity reveals Lucy's time is limited.

For the film, "Shattered: The Chase and The Rebirth" by Nicole Rae Shaw which is the story of seven black women who attempt to escape their stereotypes and build new realities.

For finishing funds for Brujo de la Mancha's film, "¿Y Nosotr@s que?."

For the film, "Crowned" by Keyssh Datt, which is the story of a teenage boy's journey toward inner peace, self-transformation, and justice after his mother is shot and killed.

For the film, "Omossa" by Ingrid Raphaël, which tells the story of a woman, haunted by her mother's disappearance during a catastrophic flood, who rescues an unfamiliar person from the river and unlocks the truth about her mother.