Genres Video, Film & Radio
Bones of Contention
Weiss, Andrea
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
Bones of Contention is the first nonfiction feature film to explore the theme of historical memory in Spain, focusing on the repression of lesbians and gays during the Franco dictatorship. Read More
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- Website: https://jezebelproductions.org/bones-of-contention/
EcoReport
WFHB Community Radio
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues. One story focused on the life-cycle of bees, role of the Queen, honey production, and colony collapse disorder, etc. Read More
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- Website: http://www.wfhb.org
The Sebastopol Siege
Wilcox, Mimi
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
On the night of March 2nd, 1973, Michaela Madden, a recently widowed mother of 5, was held hostage for 8 hours in her rural California home — and subsequently vilified by her community. A documentary film. Read More
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- Website: https://www.mimiwilcox.com/sebastopol-siege
“Egg Cream”
Willow Pond Films
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
The beloved chocolate soda drink, born in immigrant neighborhoods at the turn of the 20th century, is explored in this short film about a simple beverage and its meaning to generations of Jewish Americans. Read More
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- Website: willowpondfilms.com
“Refugee Kids: One Small School Takes on the World”
Willow Pond Films
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
A short documentary about students at a New York City summer program for children seeking asylum from the world’s most volatile conflicts. Read More
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- Website: https://refugeekidsfilm.com/
Crossing Paths
Wilson, Tona
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Crossing Paths is a four-channel stop-action animated video in which figures emerge from “clippings” from newspapers and other documents that deal with immigration and migration, and interact with one another across four screens. Read More
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- Website: http://tonawilson.com
Journey without a Map
Woodward, Jill
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
In the short documentary "Journey without a Map", Abduol discovers an unlikely passion in contemporary dance, tapping into the healing power of art as he seeks asylum in Greece from his native Afghanistan. Read More
- Website: http://www.jillwoodward.com
For A Better Life
Yasmin Mistry / Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
"For A Better Life" is the fourth film in an eight part documentary film series, created by the Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project (FCFCEP), which tells the true-to-life stories of foster youth in order to create greater understanding of the U.S. child welfare system. Read More
Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project
Yasmin Mistry | idesygn creative LLC
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Crushed in childhood by their fragmented families, 9 individual foster youth face down abuse, institutionalization and death to defy the odds. Read More
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- Website: http://www.fostercarefilm.com
