Genres Video, Film & Radio

Two and Twenty Troubles

Victor, Ilyukhin

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

A documentary about performers with disabilities trying to make it in New York City. Read More

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Victory Hall Opera

Year Grant Awarded: 2020

An opera film, featuring Verdi's "La Traviata". The cast of a COVID-cancelled opera decide the show must go on. 5 singers tell the true story of life during the pandemic, and question everything as they face an uncertain future. Directed by Miriam Gordon-Stewart. Conducted by Kathleen Kelly. Read More

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

Searching Skies

Vivian Hua 華婷婷

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

When a Syrian refugee family is invited to a Christian family's house for Christmas dinner, they are caught between opposing viewpoints for and against their presence⁠—until an unexpected event suddenly occurs. Read More

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

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

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

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

“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

“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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