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Providing matching dollars to seven local newsrooms—Hidden City Philadelphia, Next City, PA Post, Philadelphia Public School Notebook, Spotlight PA, Tarbell, WHYY, PBS 39 / WLVT—in support of this year-end giving campaign.
The 2020 film grant will support "La Lucha Sigue." The documentary centers immigrant rights leaders who are calling for the Berks Detention Center, one of three prisons that detain immigrant children, to close. Characters such as a mother from Mexico who is teaching her kids about social movements, and an elder who spent part of his childhood in a Japanese internment camp, explain how the immigration industrial complex has impacted various communities of color. The characters portray how to hold elected officials accountable and organize on a local level through art, storytelling, and creative actions.
For BlackStar Film Festival general operating support.
Support for local women filmmakers of color, to help create a virtual community, where members can interact online, learn, share content, maintain their web presence and continue to create content.
The 2020 film grant will support "InVade" which tells the story of an 8-year-old boy who is detained along with his father during an ICE raid. The father and son are separated, prompting the son to escape and venture out to find him.
Providing matching dollars to seven local newsrooms—Hidden City Philadelphia, Next City, PA Post, Philadelphia Public School Notebook, Spotlight PA, Tarbell, WHYY, PBS 39 / WLVT—in support of this year-end giving campaign.
The 2020 film grant will support "Dilemma of a Bird in a Mirror," a soft-horror fever dream where a femme's psyche splits as she struggles through societal expectations on the eve of her birthday. This is an approximately 25-minute fiction short film, featuring an all POC (people of color) cast, addressing identity, conformity, disability, mental health, and transformation. Drawing on absurdist theater, existential nihilism, queerness, and their intersections with disability, this film is influenced by the underground aesthetics of filmmakers like Jodorowsky, Lynch, and La Nouvelle Vague experimentation to tell the story of a main character's nervous breakdown and eventual recovery and transformation.
The 2020 film grant will support "in love, in memory." In the wake of her son's murder, Shalon Buskirk assembles intimate memories and intergenerational stories to reframe her loss within her city's haunting legacy of displacement. This meditative portrait resists the erosive forces of time and violence by keeping her son Parris' life ever-present.
The 2020 film grant will support "Another Life." The film explores the childhood experiences of the filmmaker and her family in the Federal Witness Protection Program (which provides for the security and safety of government witnesses). Johnson-Young crafts a journey of discovery using memory, personal photographs, archival footage, and interviews that puts the pieces of her life back together.
The 2020 film grant will support "in love, in memory." In the wake of her son's murder, Shalon Buskirk assembles intimate memories and intergenerational stories to reframe her loss within her city's haunting legacy of displacement. This meditative portrait resists the erosive forces of time and violence by keeping her son Parris' life ever-present.