Spotlight on Indigenous People
LaDonna Harris: Indian 101
LaDonna Harris: Indian 101 is a documentary film about Comanche activist Ladonna Harris, who led an extensive life of Native American political and social activism and is now passing on her traditional cultural and leadership values to a new generation of emerging Indigenous leaders.
Voices of Africa
Voices of Africa Media Foundation is a new-media training organization that empowers young African men and women to build and pursue a career as a reporter and to strengthen the media function in Africa.
Song of the Bird King
Song of the Bird King is a 90-minute documentary about two musicians who follow the almost extinct Bird King in the sky and find and meet seven disappearing tribes across the Philippine Islands. While it might be too late to reverse the environmental devastation threatening the tribes' existence, the two set out to record the tribes' oral traditions, music and dance before their extinction becomes definite and irreversible.
Bridge the Gap: Lakota Sioux
Bridge the Gap is an internationally recognized entertainment web series about cultural exchange that empowers young people to alleviate global poverty. This proposal is exclusively for Bridge the Gap: Lakota Sioux, a six-episode web series to be filmed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 2010.
Sun Come Up: A Film about Climate Change Refugees
Sun Come Up is a character-driven documentary that follows the relocation of some of the world's first climate change refugees, the Carteret Islanders - a matrilineal society of 3,000 people living on a chain of low-lying islands in the South Pacific Ocean.
Broken Promises
Broken Promises is a feature-length documentary about one woman's fight for justice for 500,000 Native Americans who own mineral-rich land that has been mismanaged by the US government for over a century.
The Dull Knifes
Guy Dull Knife Jr., a Vietnam veteran, artist, single father, and modern-day Lakota Sioux leader, invokes his family legacy to help raise his 13 children on the Pine Ridge Reservation, one of America's poorest communities.
Losing Ground
Above the Arctic Circle, a poor indigenous village that is swiftly eroding due to global warming is short-listed as one of Alaska's most endangered communities.
Native American Marching Bands
The phrase "Native American music" may not invoke tubas and baton twirlers, but brass band music has been a part of Native culture for over a century. Combining portraits of contemporary bands and archival material, Native American Marching Bands (w.t.) offers an unexpected view into this vibrant music scene.
Children of the Amazon
Children of the Amazon, an award-winning documentary, follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous children she photographed fifteen years ago. Part road movie, part time travel, her journey tells the story of what happened to life in the largest forest on Earth when a road was built straight through its heart.
The Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands
The Insular Empire is the first film to document America's historical - and ongoing - role as a colonial power. Following the personal stories of four indigenous island leaders, the film examines the history of U.S. strategic colonies in the western Pacific: the U.S. Territory of Guam and the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
We Are the Blood
We Are the Blood is a poetic feature documentary that will change the way we see and think of Africa, through exploring the personal stories of West African djelis, commonly known as griots.
The Salmon People
Inspired by food and history, a young Tlingit Indian makes a pilgrimage to his ancestral home in remote Alaska and is forced to confront the dichotomy between his history and the world he lives in.
Living Under the Trees
Living Under the Trees is a photo documentary and oral history website project, documenting the communities of indigenous immigrants from Oaxaca, Mexico, working as farm workers in California.
