Posts in 'Film'

$20,000 - Awarded April 2025

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Film
Immigrant Voices
Description
For "To Springfield with Love," a feature-length documentary about Haitian immigrants challenging xenophobic rhetoric while celebrating their community’s resilience. The project will tell individual immigrant stories and culminate with stories from Springfield, OH, and Charleroi, PA, where Haitian communities continue to face hostility.

$20,000 - Awarded April 2025

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BIPOC Stories
Film
Description
To support "Illadelph Dreams: R U A Robot?" where Earth is facing imminent destruction while a spirited detective interrogates five unusual suspects after a raid at Philly’s most popular underground club. His questions uncover a radical plot that unites Earth-bound humans and cyborgs in a final attempt to escape the planet before its destruction.

$20,000 - Awarded April 2025

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Film
Description
To support "What Remains," where a woman recounts the harrowing tale of her captivity in a killer’s basement and how she manipulated her way to survival, only to face a world that refused to see her as a hero.

$20,000 - Awarded April 2025

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
To support "Cosmic Egg," a poetic documentary that explores the filmmaker’s personal struggle with infertility and the characters she meets in her journey through the surreal landscape of fertility mythology, egg harvesting, and surrogate birth.

$25,000 - Awarded April 2025

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Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
To support "Dyana Williams: Mother of Black Music Month" which explores the history and impact of Black music on American culture through the life of a woman who has tirelessly fought to preserve it.

$10,000 - Awarded April 2025

Focus areas
Film
Description
To support Melissa Langer's film, In Excess, with finishing funds for color grading, and conforming and delivery of the documentary for distribution.

$7,000 - Awarded April 2025

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Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
To support Kayla Watkins' film, Bumpa, with finishing funds for post-production.

$10,000 - Awarded April 2025

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
To support the remaining production for Darrelle Williams' drama series, Kick.

$10,000 - Awarded April 2025

Focus areas
Film
Description
To support Cybee Ford's film, The Word for World, with production and post-production support, including: animator stipends and staff expenses to finish production, color correction, and planning and executing community screening events.

$7,000 - Awarded April 2025

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
To support Elijah Crawford's film, The Cure for Depression, with finishing funds to provide stipends to crew and collaborators, and prepare the film for a festival distribution.

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