Posts in 'BIPOC Stories'

To support PhillyCAM’s Verizon cable franchise negotiation and its People Power News Radio program.

For continued support of Paul Robeson House & Museum's work to maintain the Paul Robeson's archives and use the space as training tool for the community, educational institutions, and other organizations.

To support the production and impact production of "Eso No Tiene Nombre," a one-woman show celebrating the oral history of Latina lesbian elders.

To support the second year of the Philadelphia Media Founders' Exchange, an accelerator program that supports BIPOC media entrepreneurs through training, one-on-one coaching, and grantmaking.

To provide finishing funds for filmmaker M. Asli Dukan's film series, "The Invisible Universe Foundation—Sundown Road."

For the film "Beautiful Struggle," a documentary series about three married couples in various leadership roles who strive to sustain healthy marriages while navigating personal and professional obstacles, and making an impact in their communities

In rapidly gentrifying North Philadelphia, two genius Black siblings, at risk of eviction, begin doing the coursework of local college students in exchange for cash. When one of their clients, a white woman, goes viral from an essay they wrote, the siblings are faced with a moral dilemma: allow their client to publicly use their voices, or be caught at the center of a cheating scandal.

To follow up on the success of the “Images in Quarantine” issue of Motivos magazine and highlight the amazing photography produced by students as the country is emerging from the COVID-19 quarantine.

This "Untilted" documentary explores the culinary culture of immigrant farm workers that comprise the backbone of the US food system and power the Vermont dairy farm industry. The farmers' lack of access to transportation, coupled with the presence of ICE in their communities and the fear of deportation, means that accessing ingredients to prepare traditional meals is difficult or impossible. The film also follows the story of an underground network of women who bring popular Central and South American ingredients to rural dairy farms throughout the state, connecting farmworkers back to homemade meals and to one another.

$30,000 will go towards the final cut of the film as well as film festival expenses. The remaining $1,570 will go towards BlackStar’s fiscal sponsor fees.