Awarded Grants

When Constance moves into a suspiciously cheap apartment with socially-challenged roommate Hailey, both women discover the truth behind the apartment's low price and must fight for their right to affordable living. "Affordable Housing"" is based on a true story of trying to find an apartment in NYC. The film delves into the hardships—taking moments for comic relief—that come with the continued rise of the cost of living, nationwide evictions and subsequent protests.

To support the administration of the Media Justice Fund at Bread & Roses Community Fund, providing grants to groups using community organizing to create change in policies or practices

To support "You Don't Have to Go Home, But...", a documentary film about the legendary Philadelphia hip hop party Second Sundae and the dancers who attend. The film follows three dancers at different stages of their lives on and off the dance floor. Through glimpses into their daily routines, struggles, and dreams—in addition to a decade of archival footage of Second Sundae parties—the film explores "where do people go after the music stops and the lights come back on?" And "what draws people back to the dance floor?”

To support "The Legacy of AAPI Labor Activism," a 5-part documentary series featuring the Asian American Pacific Islander labor movement and the people in it, from rank-and-file union members, non-union workers, historians, and other labor leaders.

A dance documentary about three Filipino-Americans visiting the Philippines: one grew up in the Philippines, one returns annually to see family, and one has never been to the motherland. The documentary captures their process as they return home, faced with the reality of post colonialism, and awakening to their own romantic notions of indigeneity. The three collaborate as film artists behind and in front of the lens.

To help build and strengthen Lift Every Voice Philly's narrative strategies as it works to transform Philly’s public schools and advance racial, economic, and education justice.

To support the distribution and marketing of the film Wisdom Gone Wild at film festivals.

To support voter education on reproductive rights in Pennsylvania.

To support "Voices of the Unheard," a transformative justice film project that collects and shares stories that center incarcerated people.

To create a documentary, as part of The Philadelphia Orchard Project, about how communities that lack access to fresh food can develop, maintain and harvest their own fruits & vegetables through community owned gardens and orchards planted in vacant lots, schoolyards, and other urban spaces.