Genres Video, Film & Radio

Montage of the Legacy, History and Contributions of African Americans in Englewood NJ

Encounters In Black Traditons, Sam Lee video artist

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

Remembering the '4th Ward'Englewood New Jerseyis a project of Encounters In Black Traditions,inc. The Legacy, History and Contributions of the African American experience being home to first generation Fourth Warders and their daughters, sons, gran Read More

I (heart) Jack LaLanne: A Cartoon Memoir

Erickson, LeAnn

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

The filmmaker, a Lesbian, feminist, baby boomer, shares her coming out story with the help of fitness guru Jack LaLanne. Read More

Film: “The Power of Dreaming Small” (2014)

Fair Trade Teaneck

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

An investigation of free and fair trade practices in the global south and the inspiration the fair trade movement offers to students at Teaneck High School (New Jersey). Read More

The Goddess Unbound: No BITCH Here Project ©

Flowers, Jamekaa

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

The Goddess Unbound: No BITCH Here Project© is a revolutionary social change multimedia initiative with a global mission to amplify the voices of women that reject sexist and misogynistic language, such as the word "bitch"and terms like "bad bitch." Read More

The Wish Horse

Ford, Lisa

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

The Wish Horse is a short narrative film about an important social issue: the effects on children when a parent has a mental illness. Read More

Puffin Foundation

Demon Mineral

Formidable Entities

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

DEMON MINERAL documents life in the radioactive desert on the Navajo Reservation. Spanning a landscape perforated by orphaned uranium mines in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, the film follows a group of indigenous scientists, elders, and activists as they work to protect a vital living space on cont Read More

FRAME BY FRAME

FRAME BY FRAME

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

After decades of war and an oppressive Taliban regime, four Afghan photojournalists face the realities of building a free press in a country left to stand on its own – reframing Afghanistan for the world and for themselves. Read More

Echo: Shostakovich in Catharsis

Frisson Films, Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Echo is a short film that combines solo violin by Kelly Hall-Tompkins with interpretive aerial dance by Alexandra Peter as a cathartic expression of the emotions surrounding the Black Lives Matter Movement; giving voice to oppression as a way of speaking against it. Read More

Your Bird Story

Georgia Silvera Seamans - Washington Square Park Eco Projects

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Your Bird Story is a podcast about people-bird relationships. The mission of the podcast is to share everyday people's stories of their encounters and relationships with wild birds in cities and urbanized landscapes. Read More

Traces of Home

Ghunim, Colette

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Filmmaker Colette Ghunim takes her parents to find the ancestral homes in Mexico and Palestine that they had fled from decades earlier. While filling in the missing pieces of her identity, the journeys unravel the trauma of displacement that passed down through generations. Read More

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