Posts in ' BIPOC Stories'

$30,000 - Awarded April 2026

Community Storytelling
Grantees
Zainab Sultan
Focus areas
BIPOC Stories
Film
Description

The documentary "Mic Check Democracy" follows Delaware State Representative Madinah Wilson-Anton as she navigates fierce opposition while challenging political norms in a deeply divided America.

$25,000 - Awarded April 2026

Community Storytelling
Grantees
Xenia Matthews
Focus areas
BIPOC Stories
Film
Description

In "MAMABABY," a Florida girl’s herbal abortion opens a portal, sinking her and her mama into a still-water spirit swamp where they wade through memories and future visions, allowing them to love each other more honestly on the surface.

$20,000 - Awarded April 2026

Community Storytelling
Grantees
Shuja Moore
Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
"Common Ground" is a documentary about a formerly incarcerated filmmaker who works to revive a deteriorating playground and sustain a community garden in West Philadelphia while the neighborhood gentrifies around him.

$30,000 - Awarded April 2026

Community Storytelling
Grantees
Rea Tajiri
Focus areas
BIPOC Stories
Immigrant Voices
Film
Description

In "Non-Alien," Vince Tajiri, an unemployed Nikkei photographer, wanders the streets of 1945 Chicago, searching for community through his camera's viewfinder. At the beach, he stumbles into a bardo outside of time; he encounters Paul Robeson, Hisaye Yamamoto, and Sun Ra, fellow artists dreaming of passage into alternative futures, as well as his three children, apparitions from worlds yet to be.

$20,000 - Awarded April 2026

Community Storytelling
Grantees
Raishad Momar
Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
Set in a tiny African-American town in Georgia, "Woodland" is an experimental documentary that tells the story of a grandmother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s and how it mirrors the quiet unraveling of her once-thriving Black community.

$10,000 - Awarded April 2026

Community Storytelling
Grantees
Mugo Muna
Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Policing and Community Safety
Description
"The Price of Freedom" shares Shalanda’s trying experience of being shot, mistakenly arrested, and her subsequent trials with rushed medical treatment, navigating the criminal justice system, quarantine, and incarceration, all due to her financial situation.

$25,000 - Awarded April 2026

Community Storytelling
Grantees
Jess X. Snow
Focus areas
Film
Immigrant Voices
BIPOC Stories
LGBTQIA+
Description
"Yellow Pearl" tells the story of Helen, a timid Chinese American PhD student, who encounters the ghost of a vengeful immigrant woman from the Chinese Exclusion Era, and is drawn into a sexual and political awakening that forces her to choose between old loyalties and burgeoning queer desire.

$30,000 - Awarded April 2026

Narrative Shift for Movement Building
Grantees
Jeannine Kayembe Oro
Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
"She Got Game" is a short documentary that excavates the essential, but often overlooked, history of Black women's basketball in the United States, charting a journey from the 1900s through the 1980s.

$20,000 - Awarded April 2026

Community Storytelling
Grantees
Jasmine Lynea
Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
In "Della Can Fly!" an eccentric old man needs to prove that his long-lost sister flew away to preserve family history. With the support of his grieving great-niece, they rectify the family myth, proving it to be true.

$15,000 - Awarded April 2026

Narrative Shift for Movement Building
Grantees
Eric César Morales + Neil M. Wilson
Focus areas
BIPOC Stories
Film
Description
In "A Blatino First Date," a teenager of mixed Black and Latino heritage is driven on his first date by his middle-aged Black father. However, at the end of the night, his attempt at a teenage rite of passage will be overshadowed by the intersecting crises of the U.S. healthcare system and ICE.

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