Posts in 'Movement Media'

$100,000 - Awarded June 2024

Focus areas
Movement Media
Media Center
Description
To continue building community media infrastructure for political education, mobilization, and narrative power in Philadelphia.

$10,000 - Awarded March 2024

Focus areas
Film
Movement Media
Description
“Stand Up for Madinah” follows Delaware's first female Muslim legislator, Madinah Wilson-Anton, as she challenges the Biden administration on the ongoing war in Gaza. When not confronting the establishment, Madinah spends her spare time at local comedy clubs trying to find success as a standup comedian.

$10,000 - Awarded March 2024

Focus areas
Film
Movement Media
Description
A personal film told from the perspective of a Philadelphia woman who grew up in a Orthodox Jewish community that supports Israel unconditionally, "The Rabbis' Intifada" follows the journeys of four Orthodox rabbis as they speak out in support of Palestinian liberation.

$125,000 - Awarded March 2024

Focus areas
Film
Movement Media
Description
To support Philadelphia-based cinema spaces and audiences for stories of individuals and communities that are often underrepresented in mainstream cinema.

$10,000 - Awarded February 2024

Focus areas
Film
Movement Media
Description
To support the film "Fox Chase Boy", which gathers a Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood Catholic community into reflection around a long unspoken history of collective trauma and abuse, and to support community screenings of the film.

$100,000 - Awarded June 2024

Focus areas
Movement Media
Film
Policing and Community Safety
BIPOC Stories
Description
To create two mini-documentaries highlighting mobile crisis units and the commutation process, and to craft narratives of people who are serving death by incarceration.

$75,000 - Awarded June 2023

Focus areas
Policing and Community Safety
Podcast and Audio Storytelling
Film
Movement Media
Description
To distribute "No Way Out," a short documentary that complicates narratives of victims wanting retribution, and season 2 of the "Move It Forward" podcast exploring gun violence and its root causes.

$15,000 - Awarded November 2023

Focus areas
Podcast and Audio Storytelling
Movement Media
Field Building
Description
To support the Craft of Campaigns podcast, which amplifies stories of successful issue-based campaigns, highlighting tactics, strategy, challenges, and lessons learned.

$200,000 - Awarded November 2023

Focus areas
Movement Media
Representation in Media
Description
To support Spiral Q's general operations and core programming.

$25,000 - Awarded September 2023

Focus areas
Policing and Community Safety
Movement Media
Description
To integrate a suite of abolitionist media production, archiving, and media-based organizing methods into the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School curriculum.

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