Today, Peace Is Loud and UFO announce the Peace is Loud x UFO Post/Impact Residency, which combines more traditional residency perks of a post-production workspace and support with impact strategizing. The pilot residency went to Wood Street, directed by Caron Creighton, which “follows members of Oakland’s Wood Street homeless encampment as they organize against dual evictions from both the city and state.”
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In the weeks since the National Endowment for the Arts announced major changes to its application criteria, many nonprofits across the country have been anxiously awaiting clarity regarding what this might mean for their prospective Fiscal Year 2026 grants. In particular, in recent weeks nonprofit managers and filmmakers are scrutinizing how the NEA applies two recent Executive Orders aimed at shutting down DEI and LGBTQ+ programs.
The National Endowment for the Arts announced radical updates to its parameters for Fiscal Year 2026 funding via press release on Thursday, February 6
The Islamic Scholarship Fund (ISF) has received $500,000 from the Doris Duke Foundation’s Building Bridges Program to provide multi-year support
The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) announced the launch of the Building Bridges Documentary Fund at IDA's Getting Real '24 conference on April 18, 2024, at the Japanese American National Museum Tateuchi Democracy Forum. This pioneering initiative, generously funded by the Doris Duke Foundation, is designed to support and elevate the voices of Muslim filmmakers across the United States, promoting a deeper understanding of the Muslim experience through the powerful medium of documentary film. Applications for the 2024 Building Bridges Documentary Fund are open now through June 17, 2024.
Bitchitra Collective: Indian Women in Documentary announces the second cohort for the Bitchitra Collective Documentary Film & Media Fellowship. Each
Filmmakers Asmahan Bkerat , Cherish Oteka , and Sharon Yeung are selected out of 76 nominees to receive $30,000 each supporting their feature-length
Today, International Documentary Association (IDA) announced the 2023 Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund recipients for the 2023-24 grant cycle. May the
Los Angeles, CA –– International Documentary Association (IDA) has announced that Dominic Asmall Willsdon has been appointed as the organization’s new
International Documentary Association (IDA) announced this year’s recipients of the Logan Elevate Grant, which provides funds to emerging women and non-binary filmmakers of color, supported by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation. 2023 recipients of the grant are filmmakers Janay Boulos (Lebanon/UK), Arya Rothe (India), and Pallavi Somusetty (USA).