Genres Video, Film & Radio

Blissville…An Investigation

Linhart, Henry C.

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

An exploration of a nearby forgotten community in the shadows of Midtown Manhattan.There is a amazing mix of ethnicity and residential / industrial.A tangent leads to a Romani village and Romania. The project concludes with an update 28 years later. Read More

Foreclosed Home Movie

Lisa Danker

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

A memoir of losing a home in 1930, in Miami, becomes the sister tale to a foreclosure in 2013. Read More

ONSTAGE: ON-AIR

Little Black Dress INK

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

The ONSTAGE: ON-AIR podcast presents works by/interviews with exciting female playwrights, along with engaging conversations with producers and theatre artists that work with Little Black Dress INK's annual ONSTAGE Festival. Read More

Legacy of a Dream

Lorber Edu, Kino

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

LEGACY OF A DREAM is a 24 minute film account of Dr. King’s non-violent campaign for civil rights and social justice and covers the period from the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 through his assassination in 1968. Read More

I Said I Would Never Paint This Way Again

Lowdown Entertainment

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

I SAID I WOULD NEVER PAINT THIS WAY AGAIN is a documentary that tells the story of five American Indian artists, the Urban Indian 5 (UI5), and their unique partnership through art. Read More

Mels Love Land

Lutz, Melanie

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

A loving docu-series that asks the question..."WHAT IF all your thoughts were loving? Using 21st Century media and spiritual technology Melanie develops a new language, a high vibratory broadcast in coherence with our collective heart, baring witness to a world of love. Read More

Making Contact Media Justice Fellowship

Making Contact

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Making Contact produces media that analyzes critical issues and showcases grassroots solutions, in order to inspire audiences to action. Read More

Undue Influence: the power of Police and Prison Guards’ Unions

Making Contact/ National Radio Project

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Puffin Foundation supported the production and distribution of an edition of Making Contact investigating the undue influence of police and prison guards’ unions. MC’s radio documentary series can be heard on 141 stations and at www.radioproject.org Read More

Frenemies

Martinelli, Mirella

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Frenemies is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of the close yet conflicted relationship between the United States and Cuba from 1950 to 2020. How much longer can this small Caribbean island survive the longest embargo in history? Read More

Hayden & Her Family

May May Tchao

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Why do the Currys adopt five special-needs children from overseas while having seven healthy ones of their own? This film gives an intimate, nuanced look into the Curry’s adoption journey — their struggles, unique parenting philosophy and their humanity. Read More