Posts in 'Film'

$20,000 - Awarded September 2023

Focus areas
Film
Description
For the film, "The Word for World" by Cybee Ford, which is a short, poetic animation illustrating the struggles and dreams of six people across Philadelphia who are fighting to protect their homes and neighboring forests from development.

$25,000 - Awarded September 2023

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
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.

$20,000 - Awarded September 2023

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
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.

$10,000 - Awarded September 2023

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
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.

$25,000 - Awarded September 2023

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
For the film "And Breathe" by Arraiyan DuBose, which follows a Black Muslim woman’s journey as she undertakes the challenge of learning to swim.

$20,000 - Awarded September 2023

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
For the film "Cecil," an interdisciplinary, multimedia one-person poetry show about reparenting, the act of giving yourself what you didn't receive as a child.

$35,000 - Awarded September 2023

Focus areas
Film
Description
For the film "Excess," about communities around the world reckoning with the consequences of disposable consumer culture, and how one American city is waging a decades-long battle with its trash.

$30,000 - Awarded September 2023

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
For the film "Chasing Dia," about a precocious girl's adventure to reconnect the broken pieces of her family after her parents' devastating separation.

$20,000 - Awarded September 2023

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
For the film "MamaBaby," a time-travel adventure where Baby embarks on a quest to grow closer to Mama in the aftermath of her abortion, an abortion that reminds Mama of several of her own.

$16,000 - Awarded September 2023

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
For the film "Della Can Fly!" In hopes of reuniting with his long-lost sister, an eccentric old man, in desperate need to prove to his family that she flew away, partners with his grieving 10-year-old great-niece to rectify the family myth, proving it to be true.

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