Posts in 'Film'

$10,000 - Awarded July 2024

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Film
Description
For the film "Alx Through the Labyrinth," which will highlight the healthcare challenges faced by the Latinx, immigrant, and queer communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

$10,000 - Awarded June 2024

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Film
Description
To continue to move La Casa de Luz towards production by investing in casting and the film's administrative needs.

$30,000 - Awarded June 2024

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Youth Media
Film
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To support the Student Mediamaker Fund, which funds film projects led by promising local student filmmakers enrolled in higher education or affiliated with a media education organization.

$100,000 - Awarded June 2024

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Representation in Media
LGBTQIA+
Film
Description
To create a new documentary film and 2-3 training videos that target medical professionals in order to raise awareness, educate and offer solutions to health disparities facing LGBTQIA+ communities.

$200,000 - Awarded May 2024

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Film
Representation in Media
Description
Supplemental funding for general operations to support Love Now Media’s use of community storytelling and media to reimagine and redesign a future that includes liberation for historically oppressed communities.

$20,000 - Awarded March 2024

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Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
At the height of a zombie apocalypse, a resilient Black rural family discovers the outbreak that is destroying their community was a conspiracy led by the federal government. Amid the chaos, each family member questions their faith and struggles to reconcile their beliefs with the harsh realities they face.

$30,000 - Awarded March 2024

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Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
A Song for Nia is a digital dramedy series about Nia, a Los Angeles-based creative's homecoming to Philadelphia. This series will be an intimate look into the personal life of a Black woman and the Black communities she was part of in Philadelphia.

$10,000 - Awarded April 2024

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Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
To provide finishing funds for Aaron Brokenbough's film, "Trading Stories," a comedy-drama short film that explores the themes of redemption, healing, and acceptance.

$10,000 - Awarded March 2024

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Film
Description
To support "Untitled Pennhurst Documentary," which explores a class action lawsuit that shutters an institution for disabled people due to years of horrific abuse, and a group of disabled actors that reclaim the space to create a haunted house inspired by their own collective history.

$15,000 - Awarded March 2024

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Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
The Revolution Will Be Televised is an experimental film journey into the imagination of a young student who can't seem to focus in class. The film is an ode to the Gil Scott Heron quote: "the revolution will not be televised."

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