Genres Video, Film & Radio

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

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

Living American Composers

Compact Discoveries, Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The Puffin Foundation's funds were used to help pay the costs of producing two one-hour Compact Discoveries radio programs featuring, exclusively, the recorded works of living American composers. Read More

Incorrigibles

Cornyn, Alison

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Incorrigibles is a transmedia documentary project that aims to reexamine and redefine the language used to label, define and confine young women as told by those who were incarcerated at the New York State Training School for Girls and other state-run institutions over the last 100 years. Read More

Quiet on Set, short film

Crowe, Rani Deighe

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Quiet on Set is a short film about a sexual assault that occurs on a film set during the filming of a sex scene. Read More

land and flower

David Wayne Reed

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

land and flower is a short film by David Wayne Reed about tallgrass prairie remnants, the lands lost, and the flowers that remain. land and flower is a poetic acknowledgment of the native prairie, an emergent benediction, and a call to conservation of this rare and endangered ecosystem. Read More

Buffalo: Rule of Three

Davidson, Bug

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Buffalo: Rule of Three is a image investigation on history, personal narrative, and transgender. It is my intention to envision beyond the boundaries of established materiality, into a creative imaginary of unexpected theories & representations. Read More

Tune in to Green short film series

Diorama Room, LLC

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Tune in to Green short film series, featured artists who work in dialogue with nature and was available for rent on Vimeo with three live screenings. Nine shows were created, featuring over 155 international filmmakers and sound producers. Several virtual, artist talks also took place. Read More

Cinema Organica: Growing Community Films

Echo Park Film Center

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Cinema Organica: Growing Community Films is an innovative media arts project that combines urban green space, organic plant chemistry and Super 8 filmmaking to create collaborative experimental films celebrating land, food, and gardeners of all ages in the greater Los Angeles area. Read More

End of the Line

Emmett Adler

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

END OF THE LINE - a feature-length documentary - is a character-driven political drama about the New York City subway crisis and America’s crumbling infrastructure. Read More