Grantee tags film
Absence/Presence
Mistry , Yasmin
Year Grant Awarded: 2023
ABSENCE/PRESENCE is a half-hour documentary film which celebrates foster youth, showing how school, extended-family and the kindness of strangers can help a child find their path in life. Read More
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- Website: https://fostercarefilm.com/absencepresence
Absence/Presence
Mistry , Yasmin
Year Grant Awarded: 2023
ABSENCE/PRESENCE is a half-hour documentary film which celebrates foster youth, showing how school, extended-family and the kindness of strangers can help a child find their path in life. Read More
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- Website: https://fostercarefilm.com/absencepresence
East Bay: Redline Redefined
Thingamajigs
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Thingamajigs commissioned eight East Bay artists to create a range of audio and visual pieces for the project, Redline Redefined, a new multi-year project that investigates, narrates and celebrates our diverse and creative formerly redlined neighborhoods. Read More
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- Website: http://www.thingamajigs.org/east-bay-redline-redefined-map
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
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- Website: www.davidwaynereed.com
Oh, The Guilt
Zargari, Shahab
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
Our short film, Oh, The Guilt, is a coming-of-age story set in the 1990s. Following the death of her best friend in a car crash, sixteen-year-old Sara is visited in her dreams by a middle-aged woman from the future bearing a terrifying message: It was actually Sara who perished in the accident. Read More
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- Website: https://thinkspeak.org/oh-the-guilt/
Sirena’s Gallery
Stoddard, Christine
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
Sirena's Gallery is an independent feature film about a Salvadoran-American woman’s struggle as an art gallery owner after losing her husband to suicide. Read More
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- Website: https://sirenasgallery.weebly.com/
Oh, The Guilt
Zargari, Shahab
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
Oh, The Guilt, is a coming-of-age film set in the 1990s featuring a Persian-American teen as the main character. The plot tackles death, and survivor’s guilt, elements of the human condition that transcend age, race, and creed. Read More
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- Website: https://thinkspeak.org/oh-the-guilt/
Missing 411: Into the Void: The Movie
SlugFest Theatre
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
Missing 411: Into the Void is a constantly evolving interdisciplinary performance project that meditates on the subjects of disappearance. In this installment, vaudeville, horror, multimedia, music, and satire come together to tell the story of the disappearance of five best friends. Read More
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- Website: https://www.michaelgalligan.com/
The Art of Un-War
Niro, Maria
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
In "The Art of Un-War" Krzysztof Wodiczko challenges our complacency towards war, xenophobia, and displacement with his unique large-scale projections onto monuments and facades. Read More
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- Website: www.un-war.com
Frenemies
Martinelli, Mirella
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
Frenemies is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of the close yet conflicted relationship between the United States and Cuba from 1950 to 2020. How much longer can this small Caribbean island survive the longest embargo in history? Read More
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- Website: https://www.movingimages.pictures/