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I’m One of the Filmmakers DOGE Targeted at the NEH. Here’s Why We’re in Trouble

A documentarian describes what she and many of her peers have been going through as the Trump administration makes drastic cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Du Bois; and Matia Karrell and Hilary Prentice’s documentary Coming Home: Fight for a Legacy, about America’s overlooked female World War II aviators. As the Academy Award-nominated director Immy Humes — a grantee who has been working on a film about the little-known indie-cinema figure Shirley Clarke and who has organized a group of filmmakers to fight the moves — notes, “The cuts are too sweeping and undefined.” She adds, “I was on cloud nine when I was notified about my NEH grant award. As we celebrate the Allies win over hatred with the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day on Thursday, we can hope, pray — and fight — to ensure that organizations like the NEH are here to stop that destruction.

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