Posts in 'Film'

$3,500 - Awarded November 2022

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Immigrant Voices
Description
To support the film, ¿Y Nosotr@s Que? a film about essential workers who are undocumented Indigenous immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic.

$20,000 - Awarded November 2022

Focus areas
Film
Policing and Community Safety
Description
To support the film "Looking Forward to Reentry" about the justice system. The film will highlight legislation, government officials, agencies, and programs, and individuals working to reform the justice system

$10,000 - Awarded November 2022

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
To support a film about a man with a green thumb and a big presence who recounts his journey out of addiction as a thread emerges among other gardeners in West Philadelphia. People share their realization that talking to plants aids them in surprising ways.

$20,000 - Awarded September 2022

Focus areas
Film
Movement Media
Description
Weaving together live performance footage, raw personal interviews, nostalgia, and humor, "Fox Chase Boy" gathers a Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood Catholic community into reflection around a long unspoken history of collective trauma and abuse. Conceived as a DIY supplement to an incomplete public record, "Fox Chase Boy" documents the early, improvised efforts at a reconstruction and reclamation of a deeply personal narrative through the communal energy and exchange of live performance and storytelling.

$75,000 - Awarded June 2022

Focus areas
LGBTQIA+
Film
Movement Media
Description
To support a documentary and other media-making for the Best Medical Practices for Transgender, Non-Binary, and Intersex Patients program, highlighting their stories and experiences, and honing in on what medical professionals should know and how they can more adequately and appropriately offer medical care.

$600,000 - Awarded July 2022

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Representation in Media
Description
For continued support of their Local Filmmaker Lab. The Lab supports artists (or collectives) through a production lab fellowship that makes equipment, space, crew, mentorship, funding and critical feedback available to emerging and mid-career filmmakers based in Philadelphia, in addition to expanding job opportunities for BIPOC film crews throughout Philadelphia.

$10,600 - Awarded June 2022

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Archives
Description
To support Educators to Africa in producing a short film about its history, accomplishments and mission in Philadelphia schools.

$5,400 - Awarded May 2022

Focus areas
Film
Immigrant Voices
Description
To support a short film about an undocumented immigrant in Philadelphia starts to fall for a roommate she's never met -- forming a connection that will test the limits of her romantic imagination.

$8,000 - Awarded April 2022

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
To support editing fees and other costs related to the production of the film "Ave Maria."

$10,000 - Awarded April 2022

Focus areas
Film
Policing and Community Safety
Description
To support a video series that involves the filming of individuals and families who have had (or are seeking to have) their records expunged.

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