Genres Video, Film & Radio
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Coal Cocked
Bernofsky, Gene
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Coal Cocked is an advocacy film meant to help stop Arch Coal from strip mining 1.3 billion tons of coal in the Tongue River and Powder River Basins of Montana. Read More
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- Website: http://www.worldwidefilmexpedition.org
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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Tea Time Reflections
Brody, Michele
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
Tea Time Reflections documents the artist Michele Brody sharing tea with community members in The Bronx to reflect and heal from the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
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- Website: http://michelebrody.com/
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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
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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
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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