Genres Video, Film & Radio

Burning In The Sun
Birdgirl Productions
Year Grant Awarded: 2010
An inspirational portrait of a young West African man who starts a business building solar panels from scratch and selling to them to rural customers in Mali who’ve never before lived with electricity. Read More
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- Website: http://burninginthesun.wordpress.com

BloomingSongs Video Project
BloomingSongs
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
With help from the Puffin Foundation, artist- Haran Kim, and the Monroe County Public Library, BloomingSongs produced a music video of Dena El Saffar’s, “Ya Sadiqi.” Performed by Dena’s band, Salaam, “Ya Sadiqi” brings together Arabic phrases of friendship. Read More
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- Website: bloomingsongs.org

The Longest Straw
Bode, Samantha
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
In the feature-length film The Longest Straw, Director Samantha Bode spends sixty-five days backpacking the 338 mile path of the Los Angeles Aqueducts, to draw a connection between the water that supports a city and that water's source. Read More
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- Website: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4484660/

The Death Card
Bradley, Dominic
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
The Death Card is a short film about the director's evolving relationship with suicide. Read More

The Land of Orange Groves & Jails
Branfman, Judy
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
In "The Land of Orange Groves & Jails," LA’s infamous free speech and labor battles set the stage for aunt Yetta's 1929 Supreme Court case for flying a red flag at a summer camp – she helped lay the foundation for our right to protest and dissent. Read More
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- Website: http://www.orangegrovesandjailsfilm.com

Girl Model
Carnivalesque Films
Year Grant Awarded: 2010
GIRL MODEL documents a complex supply chain between Siberia, Japan, and the U.S. within the modeling industry. The story is told through the eyes of the scout and a 13 year-old model. Read More
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- Website: http://www.carnivalesquefilms.com

To Use A Mountain
Cassingham, Colleen
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
TO USE A MOUNTAIN is a feature documentary that presents vignettes of ruin and salvation in six candidate communities for the nation's nuclear dumping ground. Read More
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- Website: www.gcciii.com

Be A Mentor / Sea Un Mentor
Cathrine Lee, James E Sanders, Jr
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
This short documentary video intends to recruit volunteer mentors for a bilingual public school. Beacon Hill Academy serves a 98% Hispanic student body, most of whom enter ‘at-risk’ for dropping out. Mentors’ personal attention counteracts insecurities that cause these kids’ poor school performance. Read More
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- Website: https://vimeo.com/mediaproductionjs/videos

Coupled
ChoreoNova
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Dance film "Coupled" depicts fictional L, G, T, and heterosexual couples' equivalent friendship, romance, and devotion; love relationships as equal partnerships. "Coupled" uses the cameras as part of the dance, choreographed to go inside the stories. Read More
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- Website: http://www.choreonova.org

Overburden
Ciarrocchi, Maya
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Overburden occupies a hybrid space between video art and documentary. It centerers on the residents and landscape of the coal fields of West Virginia. Read More
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- Website: http://www.mayaciarrocchi.com