Posts in 'Film'

$250,000 - Awarded June 2023

Focus areas
Youth Media
Media Training
Community-Centered Journalism
Film
Description
For continued support of POPPYN, a space for youth to transform local media with other young people about issues impacting them.

$325,000 - Awarded June 2023

Focus areas
Youth Media
Film
Media Training
Description
For continued support of Lil' Filmmakers, a filmmaking training program for Black and Brown youth in Philadelphia.

$225,000 - Awarded June 2023

Focus areas
Film
Immigrant Voices
Description
For continued support of the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, a platform to showcase and celebrate Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora storytellers and their works through film.

$150,000 - Awarded June 2023

Focus areas
Film
Immigrant Voices
Description
To support the creation of an AR/VR project with Latine and Asian American leaders that amplifies the stories of their communities facing challenges of gentrification, displacement, and cultural erasure.

$150,000 - Awarded June 2023

Focus areas
Film
Representation in Media
Media Training
BIPOC Stories
Description
To amplify and elevate the voices of Black, Brown, Indigenous women media makers who have been silenced through the systemic marginalization of mainstream media.

$25,000 - Awarded June 2023

Focus areas
Film
Media Training
Description
To support Scribe Video Center's Philadelphia Student Mediamaker Fund, a program supporting local student filmmakers with film funds and mentorship.

$10,000 - Awarded May 2023

Focus areas
Archives
Film
BIPOC Stories
LGBTQIA+
Immigrant Voices
Description
To support the production and impact production of "Eso No Tiene Nombre," a one-woman show celebrating the oral history of Latina lesbian elders.

$2,500 - Awarded February 2023

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
To provide finishing funds for filmmaker M. Asli Dukan's film series, "The Invisible Universe Foundation—Sundown Road."

$10,000 - Awarded September 2023

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
For the film "Beautiful Struggle," a documentary series about three married couples in various leadership roles who strive to sustain healthy marriages while navigating personal and professional obstacles, and making an impact in their communities

$20,000 - Awarded December 2024

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
In rapidly gentrifying North Philadelphia, two genius Black siblings, at risk of eviction, begin doing the coursework of local college students in exchange for cash. When one of their clients, a white woman, goes viral from an essay they wrote, the siblings are faced with a moral dilemma: allow their client to publicly use their voices, or be caught at the center of a cheating scandal.

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