Grantee tags film

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

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

Legacy of Exiled NDNZ (2014)

Peters, Pamela J.

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

LEGACY OF EXILED NDNZ documents the lives of seven American Indian young adults currently living in Los Angeles, California. Shot in a neorealist visual aesthetic reminiscent of Kent Mackenzie’s 1961 film, The Exiles. Read More

The Orpheus Variations

The Deconstructive Theatre Project

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

The Orpheus Variations is a fractured multimedia exploration of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Underworld. Read More

Five Flights Up

Schlesinger, Toni

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

A reporter sets out to write the greatest book in the world about how people live and survive, visiting them in their homes which consistently embody their character and longings and state of being. Her journey is a mirror of the complexity of the 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

PUBLIC HEARING

Kienitz Wilkins, James N.

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

A public hearing in close-up. Read More

Night Sky

Alison

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Two girls search for help after their car breaks down in the desert and discover portals to other dimensions, sound chambers and the magic of wanderlust. 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

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