Posts in 'Movement Media'

The 2021 Community Voices Fund will support the creation of a community-led multimedia archive that will highlight arts/culture work for social change by Latinx communities in Philadelphia.

Through the 2021 Community Voices Grant, Manifestando Tus Sueños will utilize various communication tools (digital, visual, written and audio) to advocate for, empower, inspire and educate those who wish to manifest their dreams past their current realities. Through Spanish-language content, Manifestando Tus Sueños will motivate their audience to evolve, create and live up to their maximum potential.

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support building community narrative power rooted in a cooperative nonprofit community bookstore and social center movement space. This project will feature an open access library, archive, and reading room; a year-long oral history and lecture series around Philadelphia's Black Radical Tradition; political education around media systems and community media literacies around policing, housing, education, care, and food issues; and community-based media content creation licensed under creative commons for community use.

The 2020 Community Voices Fund grant will support Big Picture Alliance's Via Lux Teen Media program, a youth-led collective that produces films about important stories shaping the lives of young people and engages the public through screenings, broadcasts, social media, and an annual film fest.

This two-year operating grant will support the expansion of BPA's school, summer, and workforce digital filmmaking programs including the launch of “Media Futures,” a paid professional development & leadership program for BIPOC youth seeking careers in film and media.

To support a documentary and other media-making for the Best Medical Practices for Transgender, Non-Binary, and Intersex Patients program, highlighting their stories and experiences, and honing in on what medical professionals should know and how they can more adequately and appropriately offer medical care. Recipient of the 2021 Community Voices Fund grant.

The 2020 film grant will support "Expanding Sanctuary" as the documentary tells the story of a Latinx immigrant community's successful journey to change immigration legislation and protect families.

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support the "Pardon Project," as the film humanizes what a pardon and criminal record clearing can mean to people struggling to achieve their potentials, but who remain imprisoned long after they have served their sentences.

The 2021 film grant will support the production of season 3, the final season, of the “Resistance: the battle of philadelphia,” as it completes its story arc as a short form web series about a community's struggle against state surveillance and state violence in a near-future West Philadelphia.

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support the production of a season two of the web series, Resistance: the battle of philadelphia, a six-part, short form, speculative fiction web series about a community's struggle against the surveillance and state violence of a powerful corporate government in a near-future Philadelphia.