Genres Video, Film & Radio

No Human Involved

PJ Starr

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

No Human Involved is a feature length documentary about a woman destroyed by a 27-month prison sentence for prostitution in Arizona and the tenacity of those who fight for justice in her name through public art and other forms of activism. Video can be viewed at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/nohumaninvolved Read More

Puppetry in Practice Stop-Motion Animation Artist Residency

Puppetry in Practice

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Puppetry in Practice reaches approximately 20 NYC schools with its diverse arts-based and literacy-driven programming. More than half request Stop-Motion Animation or Film projects. This program improves digital literacy and creativity. Read More

Lee Baby

Raidt, Leah

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

Lee, a trans man, and his wife Charlie are smack dab in the middle of creating a family. Insecurities, hormone imbalances, loss of bodily autonomy, and the exhaustion of new parenthood test the limits of this resilient queer couple. 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

A Holocaust Journey: Lessons We Learned

Reznik, Lisa

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

A Holocaust Journey: Lessons We Learned presents a group of students who traveled to Berlin/Poland with the aim of trying to comprehend the reality of the Holocaust. We filmed the reactions of the students and interviewed them two years later about their experiences traveling with their professors. Read More

Lake Hopatcong

Rosenzweig, Mitchell

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

New Jersey’s largest freshwater lake, Lake Hopatcong, has been forced to close public beaches to swimming for several summers due to the presence of harmful algal blooms. Storm water runoff from the roads and properties, surrounding the lake, have carried phosphates and nitrates from lawn fertilizer Read More

Remembering the 4th Ward, Englewood NJ

Sam Lee / Encounters In Black Traditions

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Englewood folklorist Thomas Monroe talks with 4th Ward elder Mrs. Edna Dobbins Floyd. The interview takes place in the house she was born in. A project of Encounters In Black Traditions, made possible in part with the support of the Puffin Foundatio Read More

Now You See Me

Sarah Thornington - Ebb the Tide

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

Mini stop motions made with found marine-debris about the superpowers of some of our endangered sea creatures like North Atlantic Right Whales and Piping Plovers, and why we should work harder to protect them. Read More

Lonnie Holley: The Southern Folk Art Legend (2014)

Schear, Theo

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Powered by the Puffin Foundation, Theo Schear and a group of student musicians from the University of Michigan will visit the world renowned artist Lonnie Holley to collaborate on a short documentary film in March 2015. Read More

SEZ ME (2014)

SEZ ME

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

A Queer webseries intended for children and their allies Read More