Awarded Grants

To strengthen Lil' Filmmakers' infrastructure and support their education and workforce initiatives, while activating their space for youth-centered community events that build pathways to opportunity for the next generation of storytellers.

To support Al-Bustan News' Media Fellowship program to amplify Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) voices, ensure diverse narratives, and prioritize local reporting, mentorship, safety, and community partnerships.

To train and support emerging journalists of color in producing high-impact, solutions-focused reporting that amplifies underrepresented voices across South Jersey.

To support Love Now Media in building the Love Now Network, a movement of media makers who make work that resists oppression, isolation, and fear by telling stories rooted in strength, joy, abundance, wellness, activism, and action.

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.

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.

"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.

"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.

"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.