Genres Video, Film & Radio
The Bearded Lady Project: Challenging the Face of Science
The Bearded Lady Project: Challenging the Face of Science
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
"The Bearded Lady Project" is a documentary film and photographic project celebrating the work of female paleontologists and highlighting the challenges and obstacles they face. Read More
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- Website: http://thebeardedladyproject.com/
Eco-Heroism
The MY HERO Project
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
MY HERO created a Celebrate ECO-Heroism DVD of inspiring short films about environmental heroes to be used as a companion to the ECO-Heroism Guide PDF. The DVD’s were duplicated and distributed to teachers at education conferences around the world. Read More
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- Website: http://myhero.com
Woof & Chirp
Ung, Jiny
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
"Woof & Chirp" is an animated short film about a drifting bird named “Chirp” and a lonely dog named “Woof”. It is a story about loss and coping, and examines the displacement of the refugee and isolationism on a tiny coconut island. Read More
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- Website: https://tofuriotstudios.wordpress.com/
Video-Telling Workshop: Health Care Reform
Video-Telling Workshop
Year Grant Awarded: 2010
The workshop is an free video production course available to graduates of the Odyssey Project (http://www.prairie.org/odysseyproject). This year, the participants created two short documentary videos to speak about health care reform. Read More
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- Website: https://sites.google.com/site/videotelling/gallery/2011
Killed In Action
Weatherup, Christine
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
"Killed in Action" is a short film set in 1948 America. A WWII veteran visits the widow of his best friend from the war, to reveal the painful, dark secret he’s been keeping about his friend... but can she come to accept that her husband was not the Read More
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- Website: http://www.christineweatherup.com/
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/
