Grantee tags film

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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- Website: www.tracesofhome.com

The SCRIABIN SONATAS Reimagined, Part 1
Akselrud, Elina
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
This Intertwining Arts project is a blend of live piano performance of the first five Piano Sonatas by Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) and a simultaneous projection of artistic video collages, with the Planet Earth and humanity's impact on it as the main subject matter. It was premiered in June'19. Read More
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- Website: https://intertwiningarts.org

Paradigm Shifts
Encompass New Opera Theatre
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
Music and Cinema come together to celebrate true stories of courageous change-makers from around the world who are preserving our Planet, Oceans, and Wildlife. Read More
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- Website: https://www.encompasstheatre.org

Foreclosed Home Movie
Lisa Danker
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
A memoir of losing a home in 1930, in Miami, becomes the sister tale to a foreclosure in 2013. Read More
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- Website: www.lisadanker.com

A Life’s Work
Licata, David
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
A LIFE’S WORK is about four people engaged with projects they will not complete in their lifetimes, projects that could have a positive, profound, global impact. It is a meditation on passion, commitment, deep time, and long-term thinking, something that needs to be embraced now more than ever. Read More
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- Website: http://alifesworkmovie.com/

Spy Vs. Us: MoRUS 5th Annual Film Fest:
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS)
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
Our 5th Annual Film Fest: Spy Vs. Us focused on a range of techniques used to spy on and disrupt community groups, including environmental, civil rights, and anti-war organizations. The festival featured films on these topics as well as hosted Q&As with directors and activists. Read More
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- Website: morusnyc.org

For A Better Life
Yasmin Mistry / Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
"For A Better Life" is the fourth film in an eight part documentary film series, created by the Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project (FCFCEP), which tells the true-to-life stories of foster youth in order to create greater understanding of the U.S. child welfare system. Read More

FERC Into FREC Campaign
Beyond Extreme Energy
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
The FERC Into FREC Campaign, aims to replace the corrupt Federal Energy Regulatory Commission with a Federal RENEWABLE Energy Commission as part of the Green New Deal. We went on a roadshow through impacted communities screening our film FERC Doesn't Work and created a new film about FREC! Read More
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- Website: https://beyondextremeenergy.org

The Mischlinge Exposé
Carolyn Enger
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
Through music and film, Carolyn Enger's Mischlinge Exposé paints a complex portrait of one of the greatest tragedies in the modern era and its continued relevance to our current historical moment. Read More
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- Website: www.carolynenger.com

Direct Route
Minty, Pam
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Direct Route observes a blind woman navigating her domestic surroundings, presented alongside landscape images and the retelling of memories prior to losing her vision. Read More
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- Website: http://www.pamminty.com/films/direct-route/