Posts in 'Film '

$20,000 - Awarded December 2025

Focus areas
Movement Media
Film
Description
To support "Black Box Presents: Arts in Action," a media screening and discussion series exploring the role of the arts in advancing movements for social change, and seeking to connect grassroots organizers with local artists to preserve strategies and stories for future organizing.

$30,000 - Awarded December 2025

Focus areas
Movement Media
BIPOC Stories
Immigrant Voices
Film
Description
To expand "Taking Root," a community-organizer-produced documentary series which seeks to build long-term engagement and cross-racial solidarity, and mobilize Southeast Asian communities toward systemic change.

$30,000 - Awarded December 2025

Focus areas
Movement Media
Youth Media
Film
Description
To support “Empowering Voices: Youth Narratives for Educational Justice,” which seeks to amplify the voices of youth in foster care and other marginalized communities in Philadelphia.

$20,000 - Awarded December 2025

Focus areas
Movement Media
Youth Media
Film
Description
To support “Project Dream Forward,” a youth-led cultural organizing campaign that seeks to advance a vision for collective liberation using zines, wearable messaging, and film production to transform apathy into action and develop new leaders, while contributing to a citywide movement.

$10,000 - Awarded December 2025

Focus areas
Movement Media
BIPOC Stories
Policing and Community Safety
Film
Description
To support the “Black Mama's Bail Out Storytelling Campaign,” which will amplify stories of people formerly incarcerated, pre-trial in Philadelphia, through short videos that will serve as the centerpiece of their community education and advocacy work for their annual Black Mama's Bail Out campaign in Spring 2026.

$30,000 - Awarded December 2025

Focus areas
Movement Media
Policing and Community Safety
Film
Description
To expand "Defining Safety," a collaborative public art and documentary project that urgently amplifies Philadelphians’ voices on safety, and strengthens campaigns for budget transparency, equity, and community-driven alternatives to policing and incarceration.

$10,000 - Awarded December 2025

Focus areas
Movement Media
Youth Media
Film
Description
To support “Narratives of Nourishment to Reimagine Food Futures,”which seeks to empower teens to create powerful digital storytelling and photo-collage projects documenting the planning and creation of Camden's first community-owned, full-service grocery store.

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