Journalism & Media 2020 (2 years)

Journalism & Media

The grantee is a nonprofit organization that strategically uses and deploys documentaries to increase civic engagement and shift culture at the local, state, and national levels. It offers funding and in-kind support to underrepresented filmmakers and leads conversations and trainings with nonprofits to ensure that nonfiction media is effectively leveraged as a critical resource for social movement organizations’ strategies for culture change. Through its Docs in Action project, it fully funds short documentaries on a range of social issue topics, and curates and tours collections of short films to make an impact on the issues raised. Its Impact Kickstart program provides strategy development support for documentary film projects by filmmakers from underrepresented groups, and its StoryShift initiative is designed to create a more informed conversation on how documentary filmmakers can demonstrate accountability to the communities that their films cover. This grant supports general operations, allowing the grantee to respond to emergent opportunities to support filmmakers and social movement organizations to use nonfiction multimedia storytelling in service of a more equitable society.