Grantee tags documentary
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: http://www.thelongeststraw.com
The Long Ride
Lapin Ganley, Valerie
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
The Long Ride is a timely documentary film about the birth of the new Civil Rights Movement for immigrant workers. Read More
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Trust
Spotted Horse Studios
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
On the shores of Lake Superior a coalition of Native and non-native activists are working across state boundaries to protect their treaty rights and the Great Lakes from an expanding hard-rock mining industry. Trust, a documentary film follows them. Read More
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- Website: http://trustthedocumentary.com/
LOTS – a 16mm documentary film
Hanley, Sean
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
LOTS is a film-portrait of the landscape of Brooklyn during the millennia from the last Ice Age to the present. The film examines the area’s vacant lots, urban farms, brownfields, and public spaces in order to witness how land transforms over time. Read More
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- Website: http://www.lotsfilm.com
Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project
Yasmin Mistry | idesygn creative LLC
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Crushed in childhood by their fragmented families, 9 individual foster youth face down abuse, institutionalization and death to defy the odds. Read More
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- Website: http://www.fostercarefilm.com
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
Living Stories
Lenk, Waylon
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Living Stories is an exploration of an ongoing dialogue of how we as indigenous people can adapt to a radically changed world while still holding true to our identities as Native people. Read More
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- Website: http://www.waylon.org
The Newark Arts Photo Documentary Project
Gutwein, Colleen
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
The Newark Arts Photo Documentary Project is a a documentary photographed with the Jem Jr. camera, manufactured in Newark Nj in the 1940's. The project creates portraits of contemporary artists and art activists currently working in Newark, NJ. Read More
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- Website: www.colleengutwein.com
Inside the Walls, Three Judges
Idle Wild Films Inc.
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
The purpose of the photography exhibit “Inside the Walls” and the documentary film “Three Judges” is to address American misperceptions of Islam, life in the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and depictions of Arab and Muslim women. Read More
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- Website: http://threejudgesfilm.com
Trail Magic — Grandma Gatewood: An Appalachian Tale
Eden Valley Enterprises
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
The story of Emma Gatewood who became the first woman to solo thru-hike the Appalachian Trail at the age of 67 after raising 11 children and surviving domestic abuse on September 25, 1955! Read More
