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Ford Foundation Announces $4.2M In Grants To Social Justice-Themed Docs, Including Sundance Premieres ‘Union’ And ‘The Battle for Laikipia’
EXCLUSIVE: The Ford Foundation is coming through for documentary filmmakers in a big way. Today, the nonprofit philanthropic institution announced its latest round of grants under the foundation’…
“Artificial Horizon” chronicles the complex and layered racial and natural histories of a tract of former plantation land in eastern Alabama, an origin point for the filmmaker’s family members who continue to live on both sides of—and sometimes crossing—the “color line.” Their bond, forged across generations and decades, gives both men the power to push back against an oppressive criminal justice system., After being sent to prison at 18 for the rest of his life, Gerald Hankerson met Henry Grisby who raised him into the man he is today. In a search of her authentic self, a South Carolina Geechee girl wakes up in Paris, realizing she’s just another starving writer living at the Beat Hotel; after a failed marriage, and work as a Moon Goddess with the Sun Ra Arkestra, her bestselling cookbook effectively changes how the world talks about women, race, and food.
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