Directory of Sponsored Projects

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    [title] => The Last Guardian
    [text] => This cinematic short will spotlight a singular person’s lifelong connection to and fight for one of the world’s most complex habitats: A bay that divides the nation's most populous city on one side and its busiest international airport on the other. Stuck in between is an incredibly rich but poorly understood ecosystem, as well as some of the region's only recreational swimming, fishing and surfing areas. This is a deeply personal narrative, told with authenticity through the eyes of our protagonist, with global implications.

THE LAST GUARDIAN is a story of simple pleasures and true, salt-of-earth environmental stewardship: The act of quietly observing the world outside your backyard and — perhaps foolishly — trying to get others to give a damn, too. Far from the noise of corporate sustainability buzzwords and greenwashing campaigns, the world within this quietly observed portrait will capture the dignity and loneliness of a man who’s dedicated his life to a place he alone cannot save. But one that is clearly worth fighting for.
    [logline] => An 86-year-old man living alone on a sinking island at the edge of New York City is the first and possibly last guardian of one of the world’s most critical waterways.
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    [title] => The In Between
    [text] => At the intersection of the northern Mexico desert and the plains of Southwest Texas exists a symbiotic community. Here, people’s lives are spread 
across the margins of two countries, connected by a bridge and a river that they all travel. Following a journalist capturing the changing political landscape, a lone crusader promoting international kayaking while the local rag-tag kids splash by the river banks, a mother straddling a life in two countries to keep her family together, and the quotidian moments of the lives lived in between two nations and their cultures, The In Between offers an intimate portrait of a place and its people at the heart of Mexican-American identity.
    [logline] => The in Between is a portrait of a unique community that follows the exceptional but very normal lives of the citizens of the sister cities of Eagle Pass, Texas and Piedras Negras, Coahuila along the U.S. / Mexico border, offering an intimate look into the heart of Mexican-American identity.
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    [title] => Surf The Wild Woman
    [text] => This film is a project of Documentary Australia and is sponsored by Women Make Movies as part of our ongoing partnership in support of independent filmmakers.

Within every woman is an untamed wild, instinctive creature — a powerful force of passion, creativity, and infinite wisdom.
Her name is Wild Woman.

Five intrepid friends set out on the surfing adventure of a lifetime. Commencing in Australia, they head to California where they gather themselves in preparation for the 3000-mile odyssey from Mexico all the way down the Central American coastline to Panama.

Surf the Wild Woman is a journey of discovery into the wild nature of woman, where each encounter and experience along the way challenges these women to grow through humour and grace, whilst keeping open hearts and minds so that they can become more of who they already are.

Enriching the tapestry of this journey, the women find themselves bumping shoulders with Janne Robinson, Tammi Lynn Kent and other inspiring women who embody the wild woman essence. They hit legendary, as well as local surf locations throughout Central America and beyond, in search of adventure.
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    [title] => The New York Love Songs
    [text] => From the classroom through graduation and a decade beyond, filmmaker and vocalist Darah Golub chronicles her peers. A collection of stories, or volumes of songs, The New York Love Songs interweaves the tales of jazz graduates Melanie Charles, Becca Stevens and Angelo Spagnolo, together with a kaleidoscope of other musicians, as they search for identity, fulfillment and purpose throughout a watershed decade. 

    [logline] => Millennial musicians journey from jazz school to adulthood as the aughts give way to a new digital frontier in this lyrical and intimate odyssey shot over 15 years. 

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    [title] => Stand Up for Madinah
    [text] => Madinah Wilson-Anton, a Black Muslim hijabi Delaware State Representative for the most ethnically and racially diverse neighborhood in the state, is known for her passionate politics and biting humor. When she's not advocating for her community as a politician, she's shaping perceptions of it in her other role -- as a standup comedian. 

“STAND UP FOR MADINAH” is a short documentary exploring Madinah's two roles. The film showcases her comedy, where she uses humor to navigate her identity as a Black Muslim woman in the U.S. It highlights bold actions that raise her national profile, like publicly advocating for a ceasefire in Gaza and staging a hunger strike outside the White House, but also subject her to online trolling and criticism. And through intimate interviews and behind-the-scenes footage, the film delves into what her choices say about how Black and brown women can use their voices in today's America, and the challenges progressive politicians face from the country's political divisions. As the 2024 elections approach, the film shows Madinah grappling with a crucial question: In today's political climate, can she successfully fulfill her roles as a lawmaker and a comedian, or will she be compelled to pick one over the other?
    [logline] => “STAND UP FOR MADINAH” follows the first female Muslim legislator in Delaware as she challenges the Biden administration on the ongoing war in Gaza. When she is not confronting the establishment, Madinah is spending time at comedy clubs trying her luck to find success as a local stand up comedian.
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    [title] => A Photographic Memory
    [text] => Thirty years after her mother’s death, photographer Rachel Elizabeth Seed discovers her mother’s work — more than 50 hours of interviews with the greatest photographers of the 20th Century, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lisette Model, Gordon Parks, W. Eugene Smith, Roman Vishniac, Cornell Capa, and Bruce Davidson. When Rachel threads in the audio reels and presses play, she hears her mother’s voice for the first time since she was a baby. Sheila Turner-Seed, a daring, world-traveling journalist ahead of her time, died suddenly of a brain aneurysm when Rachel was just 18 months old. Moved to uncover more of what she left behind, Rachel sets out to revisit her mom’s subjects, family and friends, revisiting the photographers she interviewed decades before. As new truths emerge, Rachel builds an unlikely relationship with her mother through the audio recordings, photographs, and films her mother made during her brief life, crafting an imagined conversation through the cinematic medium. As she discovers the shocking secrets which may have led to her mother’s untimely death, Rachel’s ability to forge her own path hinges on how these revelations affect her own life. The film draws from footage of Rachel’s visits to the photographers her mother interviewed, Sheila’s award-winning audio-visual work, Super 8 family films, still photography, audio letters, and journals, weaving together personal and photohistorical media to tell a universal story — about facing mortality and loss, the construction of memory and the restoration of a legacy. 
    [logline] => A daughter attempts to piece together a portrait of her mother, a daring journalist, and a woman she never knew. Uncovering the vast archive Sheila Turner-Seed produced, including lost interviews with iconic photographers, the film explores memory, legacy and stories left untold.
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    [title] => The Day Iceland Stood Still
    [text] => When almost all the women of Iceland walked off the job and out of their homes one fall morning in 1975 refusing to work, cook, or take care of the children, they brought their country to its knees and catapulted the island nation to its status as one of the best places in the world today to be a woman. Told for the first time by the women themselves and timed for release in the lead-up to the strike’s 50th anniversary, the story is subversive and unexpectedly funny. “We loved our male chauvinist pigs,” recalls one of the activists, “We just wanted to change them a little!” This is the true story of one day that changed everything. The Day Iceland Stood Still is a collaboration between U.S. director Pamela Hogan, who campaigned as a high school student in the 1970s with her activist mother to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, and Icelandic producer Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir, who at the age of 7 accompanied her mother to that very strike in 1975 and thought that when she woke up the next morning “everything would be perfect.” The E.R.A. never passed in the U.S., and Iceland still isn’t perfect – but it’s the only country to have closed over 90% of its gender gap, and committed to reaching full equality in the near future. There’s a famous saying: “The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.” We hope this story will inspire viewers all over the world to reimagine the possible.
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    [text] => Washington, D.C. may be the political epicenter of the world, but residents beyond Capitol Hill have long battled socioeconomic disparity and fought to have their voice heard. As the city gentrifies, black residents have been pushed to the outskirts, along with their homegrown folkloric music: Go-Go.

We follow: TOB, a popular Go-Go band with a large youth following. TOB is fighting the erasure of Black people and culture through music. LIL CHRIS is the conductor of the twelve-piece band and, as the “lead mic,” he tells the crowd what is going on. FLIP, LIL CHRIS’s older brother, creates harmonizing melodies that blend with his little brother’s lyrics. People of all ages stand in line in anticipation of hearing TOB, dancing and to have their neighborhood stamped. Stamping is when a Go-Go band shouts out the name of a neighborhood, as if to say you were here and you mattered. In the face of housing gentrification and cultural erasure, this is one of a few places where Black Washingtonians are seen, recognized, and celebrated. This is one of a few places that reflects the old D.C. As the city gentrifies, many of those neighborhoods no longer exist.

While TOB fights to keep the essence of Go-Go alive many of their concerts are shut down. We follow TOB as they go from being musicians to activist fighting to save Go-Go music.Through the film we discover there have been different methods of shutting down Go-Go concerts and even tracking Go-Go bands. These methods have been pushed through local government, micro laws / bills and even noise violations.  


The story of gentrification, Go-Go, and politics collide when we meet TRAYON WHITE, a community organizer and school board member. While TOB stamps D.C. residents on the Go-Go Stage, TRAYON is working to stamp the future of D.C.’s residents through legislation. After TRAYON’s mentor - Mayor Marion Berry - died while in office, the Black residents rallied behind TRAYON to run for office to protect them from looming erasure. TRAYON is running for city council in the poorest section of the city and the last to be gentrified. TRAYON grew up on Go-Go, is an ally to the culture, and often works with the Go-Go community to get the political word out and protest unlawful developments and actions happening in the city. TRAYON is on the front lines of Ward 8, running interference between politicians, police, black residents, youth and developers who have open wallets and eyes on his community.

After years of contention between the Go-Go community, local politicians and new residents in the Spring of 2019 the story of Go-Go and Gentrification goes viral. Central Communications is a cellphone store and Washington, D.C, Go-Go landmark. The store has been playing Go-Go music outside of its store since 1990’s. The store is one of the last places in the city where you can still hear Go-Go music being played. After new residents complained about the store playing Go-Go music, a campaign / rallying cry named #dontmutedc went viral, and a change.org petition started. We follow TOB as they take to the street to protest the shutting down of the store. As TOB performed on the street, more than 3,000 people gathered to protest with the band. The protest caused Go-Go lovers and Black residents to protest and get politically active. Here we see the inception of TOB as activist.

TOB and TRAYON work alongside each other, and through their shared story we show the intersection of music, activism and politics. Amid the film we see Trayon go from community activist to politician, and we see TOB go from musicians to Go-Go activists.

LISTEN TO MY HEARTBEAT highlights the culture of Go-Go and its significance to the foundation of Washington, D.C. The film investigates the politics, the over-policing and the gentrification that have led to the displacement of the poor and working-class residents of the city and their music. This is a story of resistance. We tell the story of a community fighting for their humanity, their community, their sound and their…heartbeat. 
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Though living in different parts of the country, “benzo warriors” Geraldine, Matt, Amy, and Leigh are joined in a battle to expose the benzodiazepine scourge. All are victims of prescribed-drug injury and are part of a grassroots army that helps other victims and strives to prevent harm to a new generation. Following these heroic subjects, As Prescribed tells the under-the-radar story of benzodiazepines, tracking their catastrophic impact on human health worldwide, offering a moving narrative and a timely argument for change.

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    [text] => 1946 reveals the ground-breaking research of Kathy Baldock, a Christian Conservative LGBTQIA+ activist and Ed Oxford, an LGBTQIA+ theologian, in their quest to, discover what factors ignited the anti-gay movement within American conservative Christians. The filmmaker, Sharon “Rocky” Roggio, started this pursuit in an effort to find common ground, within scripture, for her and her conservative father, Pastor Sal Roggio. What has been discovered along the way stands the chance to profoundly change the language of inclusion and to better the lives of both conservative Christians and the LGBTQIA+ people they love. The removal of the LGBTQIA+ person from the sin category is akin to this century’s abolition of racial discrimination and the passing of women’s suffrage. There are two sides of history to stand on.

C.S. Lewis said, “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
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    [text] => The fictional story follows Anna, a cognitively disabled woman who is also a caretaker, striving for autonomy. The script does not overlook her disability and she never becomes a savant, a burden, nor is she objectified — she is simply one of us.

The story uplifts the many facets of Anna’s character: she is disabled, yes, but she’s also an Asian adoptee, a sister and a caregiver to her aging parents. The story touches on themes about the adopted family as its own unique balancing act without glorifying adoptee trauma or white saviorism. Take Me Home empowers the disabled character and highlights the ethical dilemma of caretaking in the impossible American Healthcare system. There are glimpses of privilege and capitalism - who can get caregiving and who can’t? Who gets to live a respectable life after they have limited abilities?
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