Grantee tags documentary

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Johnson, Christine Toy

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

A documentary theatre piece with music, reflecting issues of identity amongst multi-generational and multi-cultural women. Read More

Lost Town

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

“Lost Town” tells the story of one man's obsessive search to get closer to his deceased father by uncovering the story of his family's town of Trochenbrod. First made famous by Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Everything Is Illuminated', Trochenbrod was the o Read More

Remembering the 4th Ward, Englewood NJ

Sam Lee / Encounters In Black Traditions

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Englewood folklorist Thomas Monroe talks with 4th Ward elder Mrs. Edna Dobbins Floyd. The interview takes place in the house she was born in. A project of Encounters In Black Traditions, made possible in part with the support of the Puffin Foundatio Read More

‘White: A Memoir in Color’

Katz, Joel

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

WHITE: A MEMOIR IN COLOR, a personal film about what it means to be white in America, tells an emotional multi-generational story about my (white) family encompassing immigration, assimilation, idealism, disillusionment, and ultimately an adoption. Read More

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

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

I Said I Would Never Paint This Way Again

Lowdown Entertainment

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

I SAID I WOULD NEVER PAINT THIS WAY AGAIN is a documentary that tells the story of five American Indian artists, the Urban Indian 5 (UI5), and their unique partnership through art. Read More

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