Spotlight on Education
[Source: GFEM Media Database, December 15, 2010]
If your foundation engages in grantmaking related to education, you won't want to miss these and other projects in the GFEM Media Database at http://media.gfem.org/.
Maisha Foundation
Maisha is dedicated to providing training, resources and professional support for visionary filmmakers in the East African countries of Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Rwanda, and the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Programs include labs and workshops for aspiring screenwriters, directors, actors, technicians and documentary makers.
Latino Producers Academy for Social Change Documentary Makers
NALIP's Latino Producers Academy is a 12-day artist intensive for documentary makers working to advance a just and equitable society. These documentary makers tackle issues that seek to inform decision- and policy-makers about issues of concern within their communities, including those of particular relevance to Latino/as, to the working poor, to women, to immigrants and to artists.
Growing Small
Growing Small is a feature documentary that witnesses unorthodox educators and inner-city students and parents in their endeavor to re-invent urban education by creating a custom-made public school in their community of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Future of Community Radio Campaign
Through an all out campaign of education and advocacy, Prometheus aims to improve the way the FCC regulates community radio as the new administration establishes its policy agenda. Low Power FM (LPFM) is one of the most practical first steps toward improving access to the media for minorities and new voices in broadcasting.
An American Promise
In 1999, two African-American boys from Brooklyn entered kindergarten at the Dalton School - an elite prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The documentary An American Promise follows the boys through their high school graduation in 2012, providing a rare glimpse into the social and emotional experiences that shape these boys into men.
Easy Like Water
Easy Like Water is a feature documentary that tells the story of how solar-powered floating schools are turning the front lines of climate change into a community of learning.
Open Minds Open Mouths
Open Minds Open Mouths is a one-hour documentary project that presents a multifacted story of a determined community of cooks, educators, parents, health advocates and food purveyors in Berkeley, California who are creating the replicable School Lunch Initiative and changing how our children eat.
Evolution and Intelligent Design
A documentary on the controversy over teaching evolution versus intelligent design that follows the establishment of an IDEA (Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness) Club on a college campus.
Our School
This feature-length vérité documentary follows Roma ("Gypsy") children who struggle to break the barriers of segregation in a small Transylvanian town. Rejected by teachers, they find strength in the friendship of Romanian classmates.
Snakebit: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio
Snakebit is a 1-hour documentary program for PBS broadcast in 2010 that chronicles the living legacy of the late architect Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio, the educational design/build program he founded in Hale County, Alabama to provide "charity" architecture that is both environmentally sustainable and nurturing for the soul.
Docs in Progress
Docs in Progress is an incubator for new voices in documentary film. Through a variety of programs, they give emerging documentary filmmakers the tools and support network to improve their skills at all stages of the filmmaking process.
Our City, Our Voices
Our City, Our Voices (OCOV) is a community journalism project that builds media skills among Philadelphia's immigrant community, low wage workers and youth. The aim of OCOV has been to provide low-income communities with the tools and skills to tell their stories and then distribute these stories through the Web and other mediums, using this as the basis for civic engagement.
