Genres Video, Film & Radio

ACLU-NJ: Automated Injustice

ACLU of New Jersey Foundation

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Automated Injustice Project: a series of animated shorts to explain how government use of algorithms can perpetuate racial bias, with no opportunity or due process to challenge unjust decisions. Read More

Trolley Park: Midway Memories

Cabin Nine Films LLC

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

Trolley Park: Midway Memories visits one of the oldest trolley parks in the country. These parks helped usher in the golden age of amusement parks. In the early 1900s there were more than a thousand trolley parks. Now only a dozen remain. Read More

THE INCREDIBLE PAULK

Christoph Gelfand, Caroline Losneck &

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

Visually impaired surfer Aaron Paulk is used to uncertainty, but his latest life challenge may be the most difficult to overcome. But for Aaron, surfing isn’t only about winning gold metals + competitions. The ocean is a source of strength and healing, and a way to foster resilience and community. Read More

Singing for Justice

Estelle Freedman , Christie Herring &

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

A 60 Minute Documentary about the life of Faith Petric - a joyous performer who united folk music and activism across nearly a century, singing to change the world – and herself. Read More

The Women of Terrell Homes

Green Diebboll, Isaac

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

A feature length non-fiction film about a multi-generational matriarchy who has been fighting for 12 years to protect their home, a 275 unit public housing complex in the Ironbound Neighborhood of Newark, NJ, which has been slated for demolition. Read More

In the Stillness of the Night

Kelin, II, Daniel A.

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

In Hawai'i's shrinking rainforests, a lone 'ōpe'ape'a (hoary bat) fights for its life. This multimedia fable plunges you into the unseen battle of the islands' only endemic land mammal. Its struggle against extinction symbolizes the wider threats to indigeneity—environmental, cultural, and human. Read More

“Journey of the Invader Spirit”

Morrison , Mandy

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

"Journey of the Invader Spirit" is a fictive narrative that weaves dark humor and fantasy, with the dilemma of post-consumer waste. The link is a 5-min excerpt. Total running time is 15:47 Read More

Augmented

Rea, Raymond

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

“Augmented” (working title) is a short experimental animation incorporating traditional analog photography with digital animation techniques and digital editing to examine and educate about disability in a visceral way. Read More

The Golden Thread

VanderKelen, Janelle

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

The Golden Thread is a 16mm single-channel feature that illuminates alternative soil conservation approaches rooted in both scientific innovation and the environmental philosophies of Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th-century abbess and protofeminist scholar. Read More