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| TWN June News: Gideon's Army Wins Awards, the Work of Yoruba Richen, Jason DaSilva & Grace Lee on PBS, Chas Brack Wins Breaking Ethnic Barriers Award, Film Grants and More!



Gideon's Army wins the Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize and the Silver Gavel Award for Media and the Arts. Congratulations to film director Dawn Porter!

Gideon's Army follows the personal stories of Travis Williams, Brandy Alexander and June Hardwick, three young public defenders who are part of a small group of idealistic lawyers in the Deep South challenging the assumptions that drive a criminal justice system strained to the breaking point. Backed by mentor Jonathan "Rap" Rapping, a charismatic leader who heads the Southern Public Defender Training Center (now known as Gideon's Promise) they struggle against long hours, low pay and staggering caseloads so common that even the most committed often give up in their first year. Nearly 50 years since the landmark Supreme Court ruling Gideon vs. Wainwright that established the right to counsel, can these courageous lawyers revolutionize the way America thinks about indigent defense and make "justice for all" a reality?
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TWN congratulates Yoruba Richen, Jason DaSilva, and our own Production Workshop Alumna Grace Lee for their respective air dates on PBS this month! TWN proudly represents Yoruba Richen's first documentary film Promised Land, Jason DaSilva's Lest We Forget, and Grace Lee's Camp Arirang.

The New Black by Yoruba Richen on Independent Lens
Sunday, June 15 at 10:30 PM

When I Walk by Jason DaSilva on POV
Monday, June 23, 2014 at 10:00 PM

Monday, June 30, 2014 at 10:00 PM

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TWN congratulates Chas Brack for receiving the Antioch College Walter Anderson Award for Breaking Ethnic Barriers!

The Walter Anderson Award recognizes contributions by alumni and friends who have advanced Antioch College's ideals by breaking down racial and ethnic barriers. The award is named for Antioch's longtime music department chair, the first African-American department head at a historically non-black institution of higher education. Nominees should have shown fortitude and effectiveness in promoting diversity within the Antioch community and beyond.
more info

| Film Grants & More


UnionDocs Summer Documentary Intensive
The UnionDocs Summer Intensive is a 5 week program for a select group of emerging filmmakers from the U.S. and abroad. Based in one of NYC's most exciting neighborhoods, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the program explores contemporary approaches to documentary film, offers a stronger understanding of the best practices and business of production, and helps to develop the foundation of your independent project.
Regular Deadline: June 1, 2014
Late Deadline: June 15, 2014

more info

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Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics
The Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics program supports documentary films that examine international and transnational themes in the humanities. These projects are meant to spark Americans' engagement with the broader world by exploring countries and cultures outside of the United States. Proposed documentaries must be analytical and deeply grounded in humanities scholarship.
Deadline: June 11, 2014 for Projects Beginning January 2015
more info

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Sundance Institute Documentary Fund

The Fund provides creative and financial support to cinematic, feature documentaries from independent filmmakers globally. We provide $1M-$2M in non-recoupable financing annually across all stages of development, production, post-production, and strategic audience engagement

Deadline: July 8, 2014
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Ford Foundation 
Ford's Social Issue Film Funding Initiative will provide approximately $16 million through an open-application process to filmmakers and media makers around the world who are creating documentaries that address urgent social issues.   
Deadline: Open 
 

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Jerome Foundation

Grants of up to $30,000 will be awarded to individual film and video artists living in New York City who work in the genres of experimental, narrative, animation, and documentary production.

Deadline: Open

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| TWN Thanks








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