Grantees All Years

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: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4484660/

Rural Women Unseen
Bortner, Lorrie
Year Grant Awarded: 2008
Represented through painting local rural women of the Taos, NM area. Read More
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- Website: http://lorriebortner.com

Taos Community Mural
Bortner, Lorrie
Year Grant Awarded: 2010
Lorrie Bortner and local youth designed and executed a mural on the exterior wall of the Taos Youth and Family Center, Taos, NM. It includes cultural and seasonal elements. It's title is Seasons of Taos. Young children painted the fish on the bottom. Read More
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- Website: http://www.lorriebortner.com

Grassroots Battle by the Gichigami (2014)
Boswell, Tom
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Wetlands and Chippewa culture are threatened by plans for an open-pit mine in Wisconsin. This documentary project by journalist Tom Boswell, to include a photo exhibit and news articles,is designed to inform the public about risks posed by the mine. Read More
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- Website: Grant awarded in 2014.

Unlearning Imperialism
Bouchard , Renée
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Renée Bouchard used the grant for The Unlearning Collective which seeks to challenge imperial thought and influences embedded in everyday experiences. In our work, we interrupt the normalization of violence in language, historical narratives, and social, economic, and political othering. Read More
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- Website: https://www.unlearningcollective.com/

Braata Folk Singers 5th Anniversary Concert (2014)
Braata Folk Singers
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A concert of Caribbean folk music celebrating 5 years of performance and preservation of Caribbean folk music in the New York Tri-state area Read More
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- Website: www.braataproductions.org

The Death Card
Bradley, Dominic
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
The Death Card is a short film about the director's evolving relationship with suicide. Read More

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Brake-Sillá, Nikki
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
How does toxic masculinity evolve? Is it when a single mother coddles her son because of the guilt she has for being both mother and father? Is it when “we” force our sons into identities where softness and masculinity cannot coexist? Read More
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- Website: https://ginifilms.com/

The Land of Orange Groves & Jails
Branfman, Judy
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
In "The Land of Orange Groves & Jails," LA’s infamous free speech and labor battles set the stage for aunt Yetta's 1929 Supreme Court case for flying a red flag at a summer camp – she helped lay the foundation for our right to protest and dissent. Read More
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- Website: http://www.orangegrovesandjailsfilm.com

Play Development
Break A Leg Productions
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
Break A Leg (BAL) Productions is committed to helping playwrights put new plays on their feet, often for the very first time as full productions and a variety of reading series. BAL follows every performance with a talkback involving playwrights and other invited guests. Read More
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- Website: www.balproductions.org