Posts in 'BIPOC Stories'

$7,000 - Awarded May 2025

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Film
BIPOC Stories
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To support Kamryn Bond's documentary, Victory Love, with finishing funds to cover production and a portion of post-production costs.

$7,000 - Awarded April 2025

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Film
BIPOC Stories
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To support the film "Eros: As Fragile as it is Free," with finishing funds.

$10,000 - Awarded April 2025

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Film
BIPOC Stories
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To support Jos Duncan's Film, Queen Mother: Falaka Fattah and the House of Umoja, with finishing funds.

$15,000 - Awarded April 2025

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Film
BIPOC Stories
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To support "The Seeds We Carry," a short documentary depicting intimate portraits of Southwest Philadelphia community farm stewards who find home, belonging, and cross-cultural connections as they grow, cook, and share food.

$10,000 - Awarded April 2025

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Film
BIPOC Stories
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To support "Ladybug," a narrative film about a young woman struggling to come to terms with the fading memories of her late grandmother while building the nerve to quit her job and live as a more authentic version of herself.

$10,000 - Awarded April 2025

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Film
BIPOC Stories
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To support "The Soil," a narrative film about four sisters, separated after the murder of their father, who are reunited twenty-six years later and forced to face the secrets of their childhood.

$15,000 - Awarded April 2025

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Film
BIPOC Stories
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To support "When the Roof Leaks," which tells the story of a mother’s flaw, a son's hope for connection, and the voyage through poetry and testimony that will bring them together.

$20,000 - Awarded April 2025

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Film
BIPOC Stories
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To support "White Meat: Appetizer," a narrative film about the buried bodies of hundreds of enslaved people that lie beneath Philadelphia's Washington Square Park. What if, one night, they all came back as zombies, but they only ate white people?

$15,000 - Awarded April 2025

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Film
Immigrant Voices
BIPOC Stories
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To support “Untitled PARS Project,” which exposes the hidden technological infrastructure driving immigrant surveillance and illustrates how advanced data-sharing systems are weaponized to facilitate deportations. The film combines vérité footage, archival material, and animation to follow immigrant organizers, legal advocates, and affected families as they navigate and challenge the ever-growing digital dragnet threatening their communities.

$10,000 - Awarded April 2025

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Film
Immigrant Voices
BIPOC Stories
Description
To support "Stitching Hope," which follows Susan, a Chinese-Indonesian asylum seeker, as she struggles to rebuild her life after fleeing racial violence. Susan must confront an uncertain future after experiencing a traumatic break-in and being denied an asylum request. As she perseveres through hardships, an unexpected turn offers her a new path to stay in the U.S.

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