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The Michael Latt Legacy Fund Sets Inaugural Grants
The Michael Latt Legacy Fund has announced a series of grants, scholarships, and educational programming to support non-profit organizations and artists.
The Fund’s initial grantees include: Harness; Protect the Sacred; Question Culture; Saved By A Story; Center for Art & Advocacy; BLD PWR (Build Power); Sola Foundation; and Brown Girls Doc Mafia. The announcement caps a year of advocacy work by the Fund and recognition for Latt that included the NAACP Dorothy Parker Ally Award, the African American Film Critics Association Freedom As part of the event, three ground-breaking filmmakers were awarded mentorship opportunities and access to the educational resources of Sundance Collab to support their ongoing creative endeavors; Latt and his company, Lead With Love, were commemorated in Glenn Kaino’s art installation “Sails” at the Intuit Dome, the home of the LA Clippers; and, most recently, Latt was honored by the For Freedoms Congress, an artist-led organization that centers art as a catalyst for creative civic engagement, discourse and direct action.
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