Posts in 'Film'

$20,000 - Awarded March 2024

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
At the height of a zombie apocalypse, a resilient Black rural family discovers the outbreak that is destroying their community was a conspiracy led by the federal government. Amid the chaos, each family member questions their faith and struggles to reconcile their beliefs with the harsh realities they face.

$30,000 - Awarded March 2024

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
A Song for Nia is a digital dramedy series about Nia, a Los Angeles-based creative's homecoming to Philadelphia. This series will be an intimate look into the personal life of a Black woman and the Black communities she was part of in Philadelphia.

$10,000 - Awarded April 2024

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
To provide finishing funds for Aaron Brokenbough's film, "Trading Stories," a comedy-drama short film that explores the themes of redemption, healing, and acceptance.

$10,000 - Awarded March 2024

Focus areas
Film
Description
To support "Untitled Pennhurst Documentary," which explores a class action lawsuit that shutters an institution for disabled people due to years of horrific abuse, and a group of disabled actors that reclaim the space to create a haunted house inspired by their own collective history.

$15,000 - Awarded March 2024

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
The Revolution Will Be Televised is an experimental film journey into the imagination of a young student who can't seem to focus in class. The film is an ode to the Gil Scott Heron quote: "the revolution will not be televised."

$20,000 - Awarded March 2024

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
Love Jawns: A Writers Room is a short film that captures the creative journey of an intergenerational cohort of five emerging Black Philadelphia women writers.

$25,000 - Awarded March 2024

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
To support a short narrative film about a depressed young woman who stumbles upon a self-help cassette tape promising to cure her woes and help her fit into a world of toxic positivity. Her descent into madness accelerates as she blindly follows its instructions, revealing the absurdity of conformity and the dangers of suppressing emotions in a society obsessed with superficial happiness.

$20,000 - Awarded March 2024

Focus areas
Film
Description
To support "The Dennis Boys" a film about two brothers - a realist and a dreamer - who struggle to find common ground when their sick mother's condition worsens.

$10,000 - Awarded April 2024

Focus areas
Film
Immigrant Voices
BIPOC Stories
Description
To excavate, preserve and elevate Haitian and American history through the completion and distribution of the feature length documentary, Ulrick: Guardian of History. To provide a resource to the Haitian, Art and Academic communities that celebrates and amplifies the contributions of Ulrick Jean-Pierre and our Haitian heros.

$15,000 - Awarded March 2024

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
To support "SOFT," an experimental visual documentary seeking to restore the humanity of Black women by highlighting moments of gentleness and relaxation rarely seen in mainstream media. Through interviews and archival footage, the film underscores rest as a form of resistance against systemic oppression, inviting three notable Black women to discuss the significance of rest amidst historical trauma and capitalist pressures in the United States.

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