Posts in 'Film'

$5,280 - Awarded February 2025

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
To enable filmmaker Eunice Levis to participate in the 2025-26 AFI DWW+ program for filmmakers in Los Angeles.

$10,000 - Awarded March 2024

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
For "Without Vision," which explores how music builds and informs relationships and connections not just for the artists, but also for the community. The documentary follows the trajectory of singer/songwriter/pianist Kayla Childs as she develops music and a live performance with Philadelphia's up-and-coming jazz greats.

$15,000 - Awarded October 2024

Focus areas
Film
Immigrant Voices
Representation in Media
Description
To create a digital docu-series aimed at fostering solidarity and offering a sense of belonging for recently arrived Haitian immigrants, while addressing the growing xenophobic rhetoric in local and national media.

$20,000 - Awarded October 2024

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Representation in Media
Description
To script and edit new scenes and host community screenings of "Barrio Television," a documentary that seeks to energize and inspire Black and brown led grassroots media organizing in Philadelphia and beyond.

$15,000 - Awarded October 2024

Focus areas
Film
Immigrant Voices
Description
To support the production of a documentary about generations of Hispanic immigrant mushroom farmworkers in Chester County who have socially and culturally integrated into the community.

$27,500 - Awarded October 2024

Focus areas
Film
Representation in Media
Description
To produce the documentary the "Meeting of Condor and the Eagle," which showcases the experiences of native and Indigenous people living in Philadelphia.

$10,000 - Awarded October 2024

Focus areas
Youth Media
Media Training
Film
Movement Media
Description
To support the Acting Without Boundaries' Youth Acting Lab Film Project which amplifies the voices of BIPOC youth who have disabilities by sharing their talents and stories through film.

$15,000 - Awarded October 2024

Focus areas
Film
Media Training
Youth Media
Policing and Community Safety
Description
To support the Restorative Justice Filmmaking Program, where young people impacted by the juvenile justice system will be trained to use filmmaking to share their stories.

$30,000 - Awarded October 2024

Focus areas
Film
Policing and Community Safety
Description
To produce a documentary in partnership with Black youth and adults impacted by the carceral system that deconstructs the myth of individual culpability and highlights how to holistically address cycles of criminalization in Philadelphia.

$10,000 - Awarded October 2024

Focus areas
Film
Archives
BIPOC Stories
Representation in Media
Description
To support a docuseries uplifting the stories of Haddonfield's Black residents, past and present, in order to preserve the rich and diverse history of the Haddonfield community.

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