Posts in 'Movement Media'

To support the archiving of the history of marginalized communities and social movements in Philadelphia.

To support a multimedia project that connects the global to the local through the lens of photography of 20 years of the Apartheid Wall in Palestine, disrupting mainstream narratives about Palestinians, and thus building a larger solidarity movement with a local community focus.

Three-year grant for continued support of Leeway’s Media Artist-in-Residence Program which pairs media artists with nonprofits to work collaboratively on media projects important to their communities. Also support for the “Care Fund” and general operating support.

To build 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.

To help build and strengthen Lift Every Voice Philly's narrative strategies as it works to transform Philly’s public schools and advance racial, economic, and education justice.

To support the administration of the Media Justice Fund at Bread & Roses Community Fund, providing grants to groups using community organizing to create change in policies or practices

Weaving together live performance footage, raw personal interviews, nostalgia, and humor, "Fox Chase Boy" gathers a Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood Catholic community into reflection around a long unspoken history of collective trauma and abuse. Conceived as a DIY supplement to an incomplete public record, "Fox Chase Boy" documents the early, improvised efforts at a reconstruction and reclamation of a deeply personal narrative through the communal energy and exchange of live performance and storytelling.

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.

To support the work of the Movement Alliance Project (MAP) as part of the Shift the Narrative Coalition, which aims to change the narratives in local media around violence, crime, and safety, and put the power of storytelling in the hands of the community.

To support the expansion of cineSPEAK's team, the development and implementation of  public programming, and the broadening of cineSPEAK’s audience and readership.