The Fledgling Fund Announces Spring 2011 Grantees

The Fledgling Fund is pleased to announce our newest grantees. The spring application round was again incredibly competitive with approximately 375 Letters of Inquiry submitted, of which 74 were invited to submit full applications. We appreciate the effort that all applicants put into completing the process and wish each project tremendous and sustained success as they seek to inspire and engage their audiences. We believe that each of the following 26 projects holds enormous potential for changing hearts and minds that will lead to social change. We congratulate them all on their grants and look forward to working with them this year and beyond! For a brief description of each of these projects, please click here.



CREATIVE MEDIA PROJECTS

10x10, Directed by Richard E. Robbins
Amazon Gold, Directed by Reuben Aaronson
An American Promise, Directed by Michele Stephenson and Joe Brewster
An American Teacher, Directed by Vanessa Roth
Bag It, Directed by Suzan Beraza
Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy, Directed by Alice Elliot
Burning the Future, Directed by David Novack
Cuentame, Produced by Brave New Foundation
Food RethINC, Produced by Robert Kenner
God Loves Uganda, Directed by Roger Ross Williams
Invisible: Diaries of New York's Homeless Youth, Produced by The Reciprocity Foundation
Living Downstream, Directed by Chanda Chevannes
Lunch Love Community, Directed by Helen De Michiel and Sophie Constantinou
Mississippi Innocence, Directed by Joe York
The Bully Project, Directed by Lee Hirsch
The Electron Project, Produced by Robbie Gemmel
The Loving Story, Directed by Nancy Buirski
The Truth Will Set You Free / Outspoken, Directed by Macky Alston
Truck Farm, Directed by Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis
Utopia in Ethiopia - The Awra Amba Story, Directed by Paulina Tervo
Who is Dayani Cristal?, Directed by Marc Silver


FIELD BUILDING GRANTS

Firelight Media Producers' Lab
Latino Producers Academy and LAMP New Media & Outreach Artist Training
The Fledgling Fund Fellowship in Documentary Film at The MacDowell Colony
Voices of Our Future: An Online Training Program in Web 2.0
Witness Training & Knowledge Sharing Program