Center For Independent Documentary Inc

W.E.B. DU BOIS [W.E.B. DU BOIS WILL WEAVE DU BOIS' PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY WITH THE HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HIS TIMES, COVERING NEARLY A CENTURY ? FROM THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, FIVE YEARS BEFORE HIS BIRTH, TO THE 1963 MARCH ON WASHINGTON, THE DAY AFTER HE DIED. HIS WRITINGS, FROM ACADEMIC JOURNALS TO NATIONAL MAGAZINES, FROM PROSE TO POETRY, REACHED A MASS AUDIENCE -- FROM WORKERS SEEKING FREEDOM AND FAIRNESS -- TO U.S. PRESIDENTS GRAPPLING WITH THE CHANGING CULTURAL TIDES -- TO THE LEADERS OF DEVELOPING NATIONS. IN THE FILM, HIS WRITINGS TAKE CENTER STAGE, VOICED BY DU BOIS HIMSELF OR READ BY CONTEMPORARY VOICES AND SUPPORTED BY COMMENTARY FROM HISTORIANS AND OTHER SCHOLARS. THIS AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST, SOCIALIST, HISTORIAN AND PAN-AFRICANIST CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST COMPLETED GRADUATE WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN AND HARVARD, WHERE HE WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO EARN A DOCTORATE. HE BECAME A PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, SOCIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS AT ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.]

HANNAH ARENDT: THINKING IS DANGEROUS [?HANNAH ARENDT: THINKING IS DANGEROUS? (WT.) IS A PROPOSED TWO-HOUR FEATURE FILM DOCUMENTARY ABOUT ONE OF THE GREATEST POLITICAL THINKERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. SUPPORTED BY THE PBS SERIES AMERICAN MASTERS, ARENDT?S WORK ON THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY, THE RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM AND THE BANALITY OF EVIL HAS NEVER BEEN MORE RELEVANT THAN IT IS TODAY. IT IS THROUGH ARENDT?S LIFE AND WORK THAT THE FILM?S NARRATIVE WILL BE CONSTRUCTED.]

OUR MR. MATSURA [A FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE LIFE OF JAPANESE-BORN PHOTOGRAPHER SAKAE ?FRANK? MATSURA, WHO MADE THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST HIS HOME IN THE EARLY 1900S.]

DOCUMENTARY ABOUT SHIRLEY CLARKE: FOUNDER OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILM [HOW DO YOU BREAK INTO THE BOYS CLUB OF FILM DIRECTING? SHIRLEY CLARKE (1919-1927) WAS A GROUNDBREAKING ARTIST AND A LEADER OF THE MOVEMENT THAT CREATED INDEPENDENT FILM IN THE UNITED STATES. SHE DECLARED WAR ON HOLLYWOOD BY TELLING STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE WHO HAD ALWAYS BEEN EXCLUDED FROM THE BIG SCREEN. BLACK STORIES. GAY STORIES. TRUE STORIES. SHE WAS THE ONLY AMERICAN WOMAN TO WIN RECOGNITION FOR HER INDEPENDENT FILMS IN THE 1960S. BUT THEN SHE WAS ALMOST EXCLUDED HERSELF, WRITTEN OUT OF FILM HISTORY. IN OUR FILM, HER CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXTRAORDINARY LIFE COME BACK TO LIFE. A TIMELY TALE OF COOL, IDENTITY, AND STRUGGLE IN NEW YORK CITY, CANNES, AND LOS ANGELES, FROM THE 1950S TO THE 1980S. WITH JAZZ.]

DIAMOND DIPLOMACY: U.S. JAPAN RELATIONS THROUGH A SHARED LOVE OF BASEBALL [THE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM, DIAMOND DIPLOMACY EXAMINES HOW TWO VASTLY DIFFERENT CULTURES CAME TO EMBRACE BASEBALL WITH DIFFERENT STYLES BUT EQUAL PASSION, ARGUING THAT THE NATIONS? SHARED OBSESSION WITH THE GAME HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN HEALING WOUNDS CAUSED BY WORLD WAR II AND THE 1980S ECONOMIC STANDOFF BETWEEN THE U.S. AND JAPAN. THE FILM INTRODUCES A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE ?GREAT AMERICAN PASTIME? AND ITS SURPRISING ROLE IN STRENGTHENING BOTH COUNTRIES? NATIONAL IDENTITIES, OFTEN IN THE MIDST OF MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC CONFLICTS.]

NANCY DREW: THE CASE OF THE AMERICAN ICON ["NANCY DREW: THE CASE OF THE AMERICAN ICON" IS A 90-MINUTE FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY EXPLORING THE HISTORY AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FICTIONAL ?GIRL SLEUTH.? FOR NEARLY A CENTURY, NANCY DREW HAS BEEN SOLVING MYSTERIES AND INSPIRING GENERATIONS OF READERS TO BE BRAVE, CURIOUS AND BOLD. YET FEW KNOW THE STORY OF THE WOMEN AND MEN WHO INVENTED THIS ICONIC, AND SOMETIMES CONTROVERSIAL, STAPLE OF CHILDREN?S LITERATURE. WEAVING TOGETHER INTERVIEWS WITH LEADING HISTORIANS AND FAMOUS FANS, ARCHIVAL MATERIAL, ANIMATION, AND V?RIT? FOOTAGE OF "REAL LIFE" NANCY DREWS BOTH YOUNG AND OLD, THE DOCUMENTARY USES THE ICONIC LITERARY DETECTIVE AS A LENS TO EXAMINE THE CHANGING LIVES OF WOMEN IN AMERICA AND DOCUMENTS HER LEGACY AS A FEMINIST ROLE MODEL.]

WORLDS OF URSULA K. LE GUIN

"MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER": A FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY THAT EXPLORES THE LIVES AND LEGACIES OF SURVIVORS OF JEWISH WOMEN'S SLAVE LABOR DURING THE HOLOCAUST [PRODUCTION OF "MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER," A FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY THAT EXPLORES THE UNTOLD STORY OF JEWISH WOMEN'S SLAVE LABOR DURING THE HOLOCAUST THROUGH A DAUGHTER'S SEARCH FOR HER LATE MOTHER'S PAST, A COLLECTIVE CAMP DIARY IN WHICH SHE WROTE AND INTERVIEWS WITH DOZENS OF WOMEN SURVIVORS WHO REVEAL THE GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE THEY SUFFERED AND HID FROM THEIR OWN FAMILIES.]

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MISS SCOTT [A NINETY MINUTE FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY EXPLORING THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF PIANIST, ENTERTAINER, ACTIVIST AND AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM AND MEDIA PIONEER, HAZEL SCOTT. THE DOCUMENTARY WILL BE AIRED ON PBS'S "AMERICAN MASTERS".]

EYES ON THE PRIZE RECLAIMED [90-MINUTE DOCUMENTARY EXPLORING THE MAKING OF THE LANDMARK CIVIL RIGHTS TELEVISION HISTORY, EYES ON THE PRIZE, THE STORY OF ITS CREATOR HENRY HAMPTON AND ITS LEGACY TODAY.]

THE MYSTERY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

THE PEOPLE'S WILL

WALKING CINEMA: MUSEUM OF THE HIDDEN CITY [WALKING CINEMA: MUSEUM OF THE HIDDEN CITY (MHC) IS A MOBILE APPLICATION AND WALKING TOUR EXPLORING SAN FRANCISCO?S HISTORY OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING. DUE TO ITS UNIQUE MIX OF PRESERVATIONIST AND PROGRESSIVE POLICIES, SAN FRANCISCO?S AFFORDABLE HOUSING STOCK SPANS A RANGE OF ERAS: FROM DEPRESSION ERA MINIMALIST HOUSING BLOCKS, TO INCLUSIONARY HOUSING IN EXPENSIVE NEW GLASS TOWERS, TO THE LARGEST CONCENTRATION OF SINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY HOTELS LEFT IN THE UNITED STATES. THE PROJECT WILL USE THIS ARCHITECTURE AND ITS SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS AS STAGES TO SHOW HOW THE HISTORY OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INFORMS PRESENT AND FUTURE EFFORTS TO CREATE SHELTER FOR ALL THE CITY?S RESIDENTS. AMIDST NUMEROUS CRANES, UBIQUITOUS UPSCALING, AND NOTORIOUS EVICTIONS, MHC WILL REVEAL A SAGA OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES FOR A PROJECT THAT MAY JUST BE GETTING ITS FOOTING IN ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE CITIES IN THE COUNTRY.]

A LONG WAY FROM HOME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BASEBALL'S DESEGREGATION

BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT: HOLLYWOOD'S FIRST BLOCKBUSTER AND THE BATTLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

BOSTON'S HIDDEN SACRED SPACES [?BOSTON?S HIDDEN SACRED SPACES? IS AN IMMERSIVE MEDIA PROJECT THAT PROVIDES AN ENTRY POINT FOR EXPLORING HOW RELIGIOUS LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES IS CHANGING. SPECIFICALLY, IT PROVIDES CLOSE READINGS OF HIDDEN CHAPELS, MEDITATION SPACES, AND PRAYER ROOMS THAT PEOPLE IN BOSTON PASS DAILY BUT FEW STOP TO CLOSELY CONSIDER. THIS PROJECT USES INNOVATIVE, DIGITAL-BASED STORY-TELLING TO SHOW HOW RELIGIOUS LIFE IS BEING DIFFUSED AND RESHAPED AS PEOPLE SEE AND EXPERIENCE THE SACRED IN NEW WAYS THROUGH THESE HIDDEN SACRED SPACES. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NPR, THE PROJECT TEAM WILL EXPAND ITS PROTOTYPE TO 10 DIVERSE SPACES IN GREATER BOSTON - INCLUDING A PORT, A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, A CAMPUS, A SHOPPING MALL, AND AN ISLAND MILITARY CHAPEL. THEY WILL TELL THE STORY OF EACH OF THESE SPACES, ILLUSTRATING THROUGH DETAILED AUDIO AND 3D MODELS THE EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION, RESPONSES TO RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY, AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE SACRED THAT UNDERLIE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS CHANGE BETWEEN 1950 AND THE PRESEN]

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY NUMBER P21AS00034FUNDING OPPORTUNITY GOALS TEXT THE JAPANESE AMERICAN CONFINEMENT SITES JACS GRANT PROGRAM PUBLIC LAW 109 441, 120 STAT 3288 PROVIDES FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO ORGANIZATIONS AND ENTITIES WORKING TO PRESERVE HISTORIC JAPANESE AMERICAN CONFINEMENT SITES AND THEIR HISTORY, INCLUDING PRIVATE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS STATE, LOCAL, AND TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS AND OTHER PUBLIC ENTITIES, FOR THE PRESERVATION AND INTERPRETATION OF U S CONFINEMENT SITES WHERE JAPANESE AMERICANS WERE DETAINED DURING WORLD WAR II REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL AGREEMENTSPURPOSE OF AWARD SUMMARY OF THE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT OVERARCHING GOAL TO PRESERVE AND INTERPRET THE HISTORY AND IMPACTS OF JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION DURING WORLD WAR II OBJECTIVES TO PRODUCE A DOCUMENTARY FILM AND CURRICULUM TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE SHORT AND LONG TERM IMPACTS OF THE INCARCERATION ON TULE LAKE INCARCEREES THAT REPATRIATED TO JAPAN SUMMARY OF PROJECT SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY WILL PRODUCE AND DISTRIBUTE A DOCUMENTARY FILM AND ACCOMPANYING CURRICULUM AND CONVERSATION GUIDE THE DIRECTOR S GRANDMOTHER AND NAMESAKE, KEIKO ELIZABETH SUDA, WAS ONE OF A SMALL GROUP OF ADULTS WHO REPATRIATED TO JAPAN FROM TULE LAKE WHILE REFUSING TO RENOUNCE THEIR UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP THE FILM WILL TRACE THE REVERBERATIONS OF SUDA S UNTIMELY DEATH THROUGH THREE GENERATIONS WHILE STRIVING TO MOTIVATE AUDIENCE MEMBERS TO BEGIN HEALING CONVERSATIONS IN THEIR OWN FAMILIES PERFORMANCE GOALS INCLUDING MILESTONES AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES DOCUMENTATION AND PRESERVATION OF TWO ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS OF FORMER INCARCEREES DEVELOPMENT OF A STANDARDS ALIGNED CURRICULUM MODULE AND CONVERSATION GUIDE BENEFICIARIES THE PUBLIC EDUCATORS NPS JACS SITES ORGANIZATIONS PRESERVING JACS SITES AND HISTORY

THE BLUES SOCIETY [TO SUPPORT POST-PRODUCTION AND OUTREACH FOR "THE BLUES SOCIETY," A DOCUMENTARY FILM EXPLORING THE HISTORY AND IMPACT OF THE MEMPHIS COUNTRY BLUES FESTIVALS OF THE LATE 1960S.]

COMPETITIVE JACS GRANT TO CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY

WALKING CINEMA: MUSEUM OF THE HIDDEN CITY

MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER [MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER, A FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY, WILL EXPLORE THE TENACITY, UNSPOKEN TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE OF WOMEN SURVIVORS OF NAZI SLAVE LABOR, FOCUSING ON A POLISH JEWISH WOMAN WHO CHANGED HER NAME AFTER IMMIGRATING TO THE UNITED STATES AND KEPT HER WORLD WAR II EXPERIENCES A SECRET. TWENTY YEARS AFTER HER DEATH, HER DAUGHTER DISCOVERS A PAGE HER MOTHER WROTE IN A COLLECTIVE, HOLOCAUST DIARY AND SETS OUT TO UNRAVEL THE TRUTH ABOUT HER HIDDEN PAST.]

JOHN HENRY: UNMASKING AMERICA?S REAL FIRST BLACK SUPERHERO [COMMON FOLK SONGS AND FOLKLORE ABOUT JOHN HENRY RECOUNT THE STORY OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN LABORER IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY WHO RACED AGAINST A STEAM ENGINE TO DETERMINE WHETHER MAN OR MACHINE COULD DRILL FASTER THROUGH A MOUNTAIN TO CREATE A RAILROAD TUNNEL. JOHN HENRY WINS, BUT HIS HEART GIVES OUT AND DIES FROM THE EFFORT?FOR SOME, BECOMING BOTH MARTYR AND HERO. PRESENTING AND EXPLORING A CENTURY AND A HALF OF EVOLVING JOHN HENRY REPRESENTATIONS, JOHN HENRY ALSO REVEALS IMPORTANT AND CONTEMPORARILY SIGNIFICANT HUMANITIES THEMES?FOLKLORE AND VERNACULAR MUSIC AS A MEANS OF SELF-EXPRESSION FOR MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES; MISREPRESENTATION, APPROPRIATION AND COMMODIFICATION OF BLACK CULTURE AS AMERICAN CULTURE; AFTERLIFE OF SLAVERY IN AMERICAN LABOR AND LEGAL SYSTEMS; RACIAL CAPITALISM AND THE MAKING OF THE UNITED STATES; AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF GENDER IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION?MAKING THE CASE FOR THE CENTRALITY OF BLACK FOLK CULTURE IN AMERICAN CULTURE.]

AN ART OF CHOICE: LUCINDA CHILDS [CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY REQUEST $75,000 FOR THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF A FEATURE FILM ABOUT CHOREOGRAPHER LUCINDA CHILDS]

DIAMOND DIPLOMACY [DIAMOND DIPLOMACY IS AN HOUR-LONG DOCUMENTARY FILM FOR BROADCAST, ABOUT U.S. JAPAN RELATIONS THROUGH A SHARED LOVE OF BASEBALL. TWO EX-BALLPLAYERS, ONE AMERICAN & ONE JAPANESE WILL TELL THEIR OWN BASEBALL STORIES, WHILE KEY POINTS DURING A 150-YEAR HISTORY (STARTING IN 1872) WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED.]

SAUND VS COCHRAN [SAUND VS. COCHRAN IS A NONPARTISAN DOCUMENTARY ABOUT A DRAMATIC AND GROUNDBREAKING CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN IN 1956. IN THIS ALL-AMERICAN UNDERDOG STORY, DALIP SINGH SAUND? A JUDGE AND NATURALIZED CITIZEN? CAMPAIGNED AGAINST CELEBRATED AVIATOR AND WWII LEADER JACKIE COCHRAN ODLUM TO REPRESENT CALIFORNIA?S 29TH DISTRICT. THEIR POLITICAL COMPETITION PROMPTED LOCAL DEBATE AND NATIONWIDE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HIS ETHNICITY AND HER GENDER. COCHRAN HAD UNLIMITED RESOURCES AND PRESIDENTIAL SUPPORT. SENATOR JOHN F. KENNEDY SAW SAUND AS A VEHICLE TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY ABROAD. ULTIMATELY, COCHRAN?S OWN PARTY CONSPIRED AGAINST HER AND SAUND?S GRASSROOTS VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE LED TO A NARROW AND UNEXPECTED 3,300-VOTE VICTORY. SAUND SERVED THREE TERMS AS THE FIRST-EVER ASIAN, INDIAN, AND SIKH AMERICAN MEMBER OF THE U.S. CONGRESS. BASED ON ORIGINAL RESEARCH OF PRIMARY SOURCES, THIS SURPRISINGLY OVERLOOKED STORY FROM AMERICA?S PAST SPEAKS TO THE LIMITS AND POSSIBILITIES OF DEMOCRACY TODAY.]

NANCY DREW: THE CASE OF THE AMERICAN ICON ["NANCY DREW: THE CASE OF THE AMERICAN ICON" IS A ONE HOUR DOCUMENTARY EXPLORING THE HISTORY AND CULTURAL RESONANCE OF THE FICTIONAL CHARACTER OF NANCY DREW. WEAVING TOGETHER INTERVIEWS WITH LEADING HISTORIANS AND FAMOUS FANS, ARCHIVAL MATERIAL, ANIMATION, AND V?RIT? FOOTAGE OF "REAL LIFE" NANCY DREWS BOTH YOUNG AND OLD, THE DOCUMENTARY USES THE ICONIC GIRL DETECTIVE AS A LENS TO EXAMINE THE HISTORY OF WOMEN IN AMERICA AND ACCESS THE IMPACT OF REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN IN THE MEDIA.]

THE PEOPLE'S WILL

SCALING BABEL: RISE OF THE TRANSLATORS: A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY ON THE VITAL ROLE OF LITERARY TRANSLATION IN TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND OPENING MINDS [?SCALING BABEL: THE RISE OF THE TRANSLATORS,? A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, IS A PORTRAIT OF LITERARY TRANSLATION TODAY AND ITS VITAL ROLE IN TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND OPENING MINDS. THE FILM HIGHLIGHTS IMMIGRANT TRANSLATORS, WHO ARE ACTIVELY BRINGING INTO ENGLISH NEW VOICES FROM MORE CULTURES AND LANGUAGES THAN EVER.]

TAKING THE REINS: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE COWBOY ICON AND AMERICAN IDENTITY [TAKING THE REINS EXAMINES THE FIGURE OF THE COWBOY IN AMERICA?S POPULAR IMAGINATION AND ITS ROLE IN SHAPING MYTHS AND IDENTITIES THROUGHOUT OUR NATION?S HISTORY. THE FILM EXPLORES THE UNEXPECTED WAYS IN WHICH MARGINALIZED AMERICANS, OFTEN CAST OUT OF BOTH REGIONAL AND NATIONAL NARRATIVES, HAVE REIMAGINED, REINVENTED, AND REDEPLOYED THE ICONIC COWBOY ARCHETYPE AS A MEANS OF DEMANDING INCLUSION INTO AN ?AUTHENTIC? AMERICAN IDENTITY. THROUGHOUT AMERICAN HISTORY, THE FIGURE OF THE COWBOY HAS COALESCED IDENTITY MARKERS SUCH AS INDEPENDENCE, RESILIENCE, SELF-INVENTION, AND FREEDOM. NOW, ON THE EVE OF ANOTHER PIVOTAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AS WE FIND OURSELVES MORE BITTERLY DIVIDED THAN EVER, THE DEBATES ROILING THE NATIONAL CONVERSATION CENTER ON QUESTIONS ABOUT WHO BELONGS ON THIS SOIL AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AMERICAN. OUR FILM RIDES INTO THAT CONFLICTED SPACE, EXPLORING THE CULTURAL AND POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COWBOY, HOW AND WHY WE HAVE CRAFTED ITS IMAGE, AND WHO GETS TO CLAIM IT.]

OUR MR. MATSURA [OUR MR. MATSURA, A FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY, WILL TELL THE STORY OF JAPANESE-BORN PHOTOGRAPHER FRANK (SAKAE) MATSURA WHO CAME TO LIVE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. MATSURA CREATED A BODY OF WORK THAT TRANSCENDED MERE DOCUMENTATION OF HIS ADOPTED HOME. HE DEPICTED, WITH OBVIOUS WARMTH AND CONNECTION, THE VARIED PEOPLES OF NORTHEASTERN WASHINGTON STATE, ALONG WITH SURPRISING SELF-PORTRAITURE SOME OF WHICH READS AS PHOTOGRAPHIC ?PERFORMANCE.? IN ADDITION, HE EXTENDED THIS PERFORMANCE PHOTOGRAPHY INTO COLLABORATIVE VISUAL STORYTELLING WITH MEMBERS OF THE DIVERSE POPULATION IN OKANOGAN COUNTY, WHITE SETTLERS AND NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLE ALIKE. IT IS A UNIQUE PORTFOLIO OF IMAGERY AND HAS MUCH TO TELL US ABOUT A TRANSITIONAL TIME IN U.S. HISTORY.]

EYES ON THE PRIZE RECLAIMED

ERROL FLYNN'S GHOST: HOLLYWOOD IN HAVANA

RUTH AND MARGARET

MYSTICISM AND MONOTHEISM

TO SUPPORT OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT COSTS FOR THE FILM "REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG," A DOCUMENTARY ON THE LATE CRITIC, NOVELIST, FILM DIRECTOR, AND ACTIVI

WORLDS OF URSULA K. LE GUIN

THE MYSTERY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG

MURDER AT HARVARD MOBILE

TO SUPPORT THE POST-PRODUCTION COSTS OF "REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG," A DOCUMENTARY BY NANCY KATES.

TO SUPPORT THE PRESERVATION OF JOBS THAT ARE THREATENED BY DECLINES IN PHILANTHROPIC AND OTHER SUPPORT DURING THE CURRENT ECONOMIC DOWNTURN.

BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT

A LONG WAY FROM HOME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BASEBALL'S DESEGREGATION

CRIP CAMP: A DOCUMENTARY

TO SUPPORT POST-PRODUCTION AND AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT COSTS FOR THE DOCUMENTARY FILM "TABOO: STORIES TO TELL" BY NANCY KELLY.

TO SUPPORT POST-PRODUCTION COSTS FOR THE QUIET ZONE A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY KATIE DELLAMAGGIORE.

TO SUPPORT POST-PRODUCTION COSTS FOR "EDGAR ALLAN POE: BURIED ALIVE," DIRECTED BY ERIC STANGE.

TO SUPPORT PRODUCTION COSTS FOR A DOCUMENTARY "REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG " BY NANCY KATES.

TO SUPPORT PRE-PRODUCTION AND PRODUCTION COSTS FOR A DOCUMENTARY, "REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG," A PORTRAIT OF THE LATE WRITER AND CRITIC BY NANCY KATES.

PURPOSE:TO SUPPORT THE DOCUMENTARY FILM THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MISS SCOTT, DIRECTED BY NICOLE LONDON.

PURPOSE: TO SUPPORT POST-PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION COSTS FOR EVERYTHING SEEMED POSSIBLE A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY RAMÓN RIVERA MORET AND OREN RUDAVSKY.

TO SUPPORT POST-PRODUCTION OF A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY IMMY HUMES ABOUT AMERICAN FILMMAKER SHIRLEY CLARKE.

TO SUPPORT DISTRIBUTION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES FOR LOS HERMANOS/THE BROTHERS A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY MARCIA JARMEL AND KEN SCHNEIDER. 

TO SUPPORT PRODUCTION COSTS FOR A DOCUMENTARY FILM THAT WILL FOCUS ON INTERNATIONAL AWARD WINNING FILMS THAT WERE PRODUCED IN PUERTO RICO BETWEEN 1947-1968  BY RAMÓN RIVERA MORET AND OREN RUDAVSKY.

TO SUPPORT THE PRODUCTION OF THE DOCUMENTARY FILM TERRY RILEY: BEAUTIFUL OFFERINGS.

TO SUPPORT POST-PRODUCTION COSTS FOR A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY MARCIA JARMEL AND KEN SCHNEIDER.

TO SUPPORT THE PRODUCTION OF "PRESIDENT OF BEAUTY: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LESTER YOUNG," DIRECTED BY HENRY FERRINI.

TO SUPPORT THE SECOND PHASE OF THE INTERACTIVE WEB SITE, OUR MOTHER TONGUES, AND ITS RELATED COMMUNITY OUTREACH ACTIVITIES.

TO SUPPORT COMPLETION COSTS OF A DOCUMENTARY FILM ON CINEMA VERITE FILMMAKER RICHARD LEACOCK.

TO SUPPORT POST-PRODUCTION AND COMPLETION OF "FEELINGS ARE FACTS: THE LIFE OF YVONNE RAINER," A TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY DIRECTED BY JACK WALSH.

TO SUPPORT POST-PRODUCTION COSTS FOR A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY ELIZABETH HARRINGTON.

TO SUPPORT POST-PRODUCTION COSTS FOR PRESIDENT OF BEAUTY: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LESTER YOUNG A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY HENRY FERRINI.

TO SUPPORT POST-PRODUCTION COSTS FOR A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT AMERICAN FILMMAKER SHIRLEY CLARKE.