The Fledgling Fund: Creative Media

The Fledgling Fund supports innovative media projects that can play critical roles in igniting social change. We believe that film and other creative media can bear witness to the challenges faced by vulnerable individuals, families and communities in ways that statistics can not, and that it can create a broader understanding of social problems and inspire concrete action. We also believe that well-structured and creative community engagement initiatives can leverage media's ability to ignite social change by moving people from awareness to action. We strive for a portfolio of media projects that allows us to:

Support projects that are timely, tell compelling and important stories, represent a unique perspective or an intriguing solution to an entrenched social problem, and have strong potential as a vehicle for social change.
Demonstrate how films coupled with well-structured and measurable community engagement and outreach programs can raise awareness about complex social issues, encourage dialogue, share possible solutions, and move people to action.
Encourage the innovative use of media, such as Web 2.0 strategies, and short form videos, to engage new audiences around important social issues.
Leverage expertise in key issue areas including, Girls' Empowerment and Women's Leadership, Health Care, Mental Health and Homelessness, Migration and Immigration, and War and its Aftermath.

We work closely with our partners to advance these objectives.

Our Creative Media Projects

Girls' Empowerment and Education

A Walk to Beautiful

A Walk to Beautiful is a feature length documentary that tells the stories of five Ethiopian women, who suffer from devastating childbirth ...

LightBox: Expressions of Hope from Young Women in the Kibera Slum of Nairobi

LightBox is a 132 page, full-color, hardcover coffee table book, comprised of photographs and essays by the teenage members of The Binti Pamoja...

Very Young Girls

Very Young Girls is a documentary film that chronicles the journey of young women through the underground world of sexual exploitation in New York...

Healthy and Sustainable Communities

King Corn

King Corn is a feature documentary about one acre of corn and its journey into the American food system. The film explores issues of family farm...

Everything's Cool

Everything's Cool is documentary film that is a "toxic comedy" about the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding...

Migration and Immigration

Autumn's Harvest

“Autumn’s Harvest” is a documentary film that explores the impact of AIDS on the migrant population, America’s food supply and the U.S....

Children in No Man's Land

Children In No-Man's Land is a documentary that will uncover the current plight of the 100,000 unaccompanied minors entering the United States. The...

Human Rights

A Walk to Beautiful

A Walk to Beautiful is a feature length documentary that tells the stories of five Ethiopian women, who suffer from devastating childbirth ...

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB is documentary film that examines and contextualizes the abuses that occurred in the fall of 2003, abuses documented in ...

The Devil Came on Horseback

The Devil Came on Horseback is a documentary film that exposes the violence and tragedy of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan as seen through the eye-s...

The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo

Since 1998 a brutal war has been raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Over 4 million people have died. And there are the uncountable...

Health Care

A Walk to Beautiful

A Walk to Beautiful is a feature length documentary that tells the stories of five Ethiopian women, who suffer from devastating childbirth ...

Autumn's Harvest

“Autumn’s Harvest” is a documentary film that explores the impact of AIDS on the migrant population, America’s food supply and the U.S....

Orgasm, Inc.

Orgasm, Inc. is a documentary film that provides a humorous and sobering look inside "big pharma" and the marketing campaigns that are literally and...