Grants & Awards

Fiction

Looks at a working class couple in Florida struggling to survive with minimum wage jobs and an unexpected pregnancy.

Fiction

A dramatic feature that tells the story of a forbidden love in Gaza, and is the modern re-telling of the Arabo-Islamic romance "Majnun Layla."

Nonfiction

Chronicles the lives of three high school seniors living on the Navajo Nation, struggling to shape their identities as both Native Americans and modern Americans.

Fiction

This film explores the institution of blood feuds and its effect on a family in modern Albania, as seen through the eyes of a 17-year-old boy and his younger sister.

Nonfiction

Explores the untold stories of the Niger Delta and the Niger Delta militancy.

Fiction

Set in a Middle Eastern country, three childhood friends grapple with sexuality, love, and friendship during a tumultuous adolescence.

Nonfiction

Joins three contemporary American rituals for a sociological inspection of the fading identity of small-town America and the evolving myth of the American Dream.

Engages large audiences with innovative, entertaining, socially-aware films by hosting screenings in unique locations pertinent to the films' subject matter.

Nonfiction

Two spirited daughters from China's last remaining matriarchal society are thrust into the worldwide economic downturn when they lose the only jobs they've ever known.

Fiction

A new project in development from the writer and director Ramin Bahrani.

Fiction

Caught between the reality of war and the unknown of the natural world, a woman, a man, and a boy make a journey in search of home.

Nonfiction

Traversing time and continents to explore genocide and the world's response.

Nonfiction

Follows Russian and US modeling scouts as they scour Siberian landscapes in search of teen girls to become models in Tokyo.

Nonfiction

What happens when teenagers raised in different cultures around the world are brought together in a single NYC classroom?

Nonfiction

Intimately reveals the lives of peasant miners in the historic gold-mining town of Marmato, Colombia as a Canadian multinational mining company plans a total takeover.

Nonfiction

A young Kenyan's life is changed dramatically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger.

Nonfiction

This film captures the experiences of several LGBTQ seniors as they navigate the adventures, challenges and surprises of their “golden years.”

Fiction

On the island of Okinawa, Kuichi is a biracial boy growing up in a town built by the US military. Like the town itself, Kuichi is trapped between cultures and identities.

Nonfiction

This is the story of the dramatic and extreme measures one man is taking in order to save himself and those he loves from the oncoming apocalypse in 2012.

Fiction

When Jack's mother turns up dead at the edge of a field near his rural home, he and his brother set out on an arduous journey to fulfill her last wish.

Nonfiction

Seventeen years ago, the violent death of her brother drove the director’s middle class black family into a crippling silence.

Nonfiction

A disquieting and at times surreal exploration of an assisted living facility.

Fiction

When forced to choose between the fragile cohesion of her middle-class family and loyalty to her best friend, a Bronx teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

Nonfiction

In recent years, growing pressures from the outside world have posed unprecedented challenges for Tibetan nomads.

Fiction

A unique film project - a feature length fictional film made by, with, for the community of Kibera, east Africa’s largest slum.

Nonfiction

When war came to Rose’s village in the Congo, she was separated from her five-year-old daughter, Nangabire. Over a decade later, they are reunited in the U.S., where they must face the past and build a new future.

Nonfiction

A bank-robber-turned-filmmaker returns home to examine how his actions affected his family and victims.

Nonfiction

Follows headstrong 17-year-old Rocky's journey as she leaves behind her mother in New York City to reunite with her father, a chief in Ghana, West Africa.

The Mohamed Amin Foundation provides scholarships to young East African students wishing to learn the skills and techniques that will enable them to relate the African stories through television and film.

Nonfiction

Follows a unique group of women who are carrying on the true spirit of surfing as a cultural, community and spiritual practice with deep roots in ancient Polynesia.

Nonfiction

Providing a unique insight into modern day Amazonian life, this film reveals how Peruvian indigenous natives are being threatened to fuel the illusion of our only possible subsistence; oil.

Ciné Institute provides Haitian youth with film education and edutainment, technical training, and media related micro enterprise opportunities.

Nonfiction

Ewing and Grady are currently in production on INSIDE THE KINGDOM, a film about the youth of Saudi Arabia.

Fiction

A young boy in a Nicaraguan barrio steals money from his family to buy a video game.

Fiction

A young mother goes on an extraordinary journey to save her eight year old daughter from an arranged marriage.

In recognition of the power of film to educate and galvanize a broad constituency of concerned citizens, Human Rights Watch decided to create the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.

Fiction

After Antonio abandons Mariana in New York, she must find a way to provide for her children emotionally and financially in a strange an unfamiliar world.

Nonfiction

An American family struggles for stability while haunted by the ghosts of war, teen pregnancy, foster care and child abuse.

Nonfiction

Explores the social and cultural mindset of the Brazilian elite via dialogues with the owners of eight penthouses in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Recife.

Works with young adults in refugee camps teaching them basic camera and editing skills in an effort to help them tell their own stories through video.

Nonfiction

Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad, Islam today is the world’s second largest and fastest growing religion.

The Festival continues its proud tradition of showing the newest and most important cinematic works by directors from around the world.

Nonfiction

Set in Uganda, CHILDREN OF WAR chronicles the daily struggle towards rehabilitation and reconciliation by a group of recently escaped child soldiers of the Lord’s Resistance Army.

A website that will completely revolutionize the way human rights activists and concerned citizens around the world engage in video advocacy.

An organization that provides education, training, and centralization of media to traditionally underrepresented communities.

Nonfiction

A 40 minute documentary that follows two young American filmmakers’ journey to Iran for the 2007 Verite Film Festival.

A media based 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization where adults and youth are taught video, photography, music, and art as a way to document their surroundings, make change in the world, and most importantly, make change within themselves.

Nonfiction

After 14 years of a brutal civil war, Liberia elects its first female president-Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, nicknamed the Iron Lady.

Nonfiction

NEW WORLD WATER captures the story of man’s rapidly changing relationship with water and the environment at the dawn of the 21st century.

Nonfiction

Two American friends from opposite sides of the divide, investigate the war in Kashmir and find their friendship tested over deeply rooted political, cultural and religious biases.

Fiction

A television program targeted at families of the Indian subcontinent.

Nonfiction

Follows the journey of Imran, a young American Muslim who struggles to take over his father's halal slaughterhouse in New York City.

Nonfiction

An online web series produced by Chat the Planet, tells the stories of three young Iraqis struggling to survive in Baghdad during the war.