Posts in 'BIPOC Stories'

$7,900 - Awarded February 2024

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
To support screenings, community engagement and distribution efforts for the film, "Wisdom Gone Wild" by Rea Tajiri.

$9,553 - Awarded February 2024

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
To complete the film "Della Can Fly" by Jasmine Lynea.

$10,000 - Awarded February 2024

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
To support the completion of the film "Affordable Housing" by Wi-Moto Nyoka and Eunice Levis.

$100,000 - Awarded June 2024

Focus areas
Movement Media
Film
Policing and Community Safety
BIPOC Stories
Description
To create two mini-documentaries highlighting mobile crisis units and the commutation process, and to craft narratives of people who are serving death by incarceration.

$8,000 - Awarded October 2023

Focus areas
Archives
Youth Media
BIPOC Stories
Description
To empower and incentivize high school students to preserve the wisdom of the elders in their families and communities and to explore some of the Black institutions in Philadelphia that highlight and preserve knowledge and culture.

$15,000 - Awarded September 2023

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Immigrant Voices
Description
For finishing funds for Brujo de la Mancha's film, "¿Y Nosotr@s que?."

$20,000 - Awarded September 2023

Focus areas
BIPOC Stories
Film
Immigrant Voices
Description
For the film, "La Casa de Luz," which tells the story of Lucy, who returns to Puerto Rico to care for her grandmother, but whose world is turned upside down when Abuela's unexpected mental clarity reveals Lucy's time is limited.

$40,000 - Awarded September 2023

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Immigrant Voices
Description
For the film, "The Full Never Told" about a daring prison escape on a small Caribbean Island of three Rastafarians incarcerated under unjust circumstances and their struggle with meanings of freedom, justice, and memory.

$25,000 - Awarded September 2023

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
For the film, "Kick" about the hardships and pressures of a promising soccer player from North Philadelphia who has gained national attention following a record-breaking game at the age of 13.

$20,000 - Awarded September 2023

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
For the film, "Blacked Out" about a functional alcoholic who is forced to confront his demons when enrolled in a secret magical rehabilitation program.

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