JustFilms - Ford Foundation https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/justfilms/justfilms-collection/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 15:59:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://www.fordfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cropped-Ford-Monogram-Color.png?w=32 JustFilms - Ford Foundation https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/justfilms/justfilms-collection/ 32 32 Invisible Beauty Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:06:29 +0000 Invisible Beauty is the story of Bethann Hardison, a fashion revolutionary who has been on the front lines of racial justice in her industry for over five decades. Through her life journey as a pioneering Black model, modeling agent and activist, the film explores race, beauty and representation.

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]]> Invisible Beauty is the story of Bethann Hardison, a fashion revolutionary who has been on the front lines of racial justice in her industry for over five decades. Through her life journey as a pioneering Black model, modeling agent and activist, the film explores race, beauty and representation.

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]]> Eat Bitter 吃苦 https://www.eat-bitter.com/ Sat, 24 Jun 2023 20:22:00 +0000 During a civil war in the Central African Republic, an immigrant Chinese construction manager and a local worker on opposite ends of the spectrum to construct a bank.

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]]> During a civil war in the Central African Republic, an immigrant Chinese construction manager and a local worker on opposite ends of the spectrum to construct a bank. As deadlines loom, they don’t hesitate to strip the earth and destroy their family for a seat at the table of prosperity.

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]]> The Tuba Thieves Wed, 24 May 2023 20:36:00 +0000 From 2011-2013 a rash of tuba thefts occurred in high schools across Southern California. The Tuba Thieves does not tell the story of the thieves or the missing tubas. Instead, it asks what it means to listen.

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]]> From 2011-2013 a rash of tuba thefts occurred in high schools across Southern California. The Tuba Thieves does not tell the story of the thieves or the missing tubas. Instead, it asks what it means to listen.

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]]> Unseen Tue, 25 Apr 2023 13:35:00 +0000 An aspiring social worker, Pedro must confront political restrictions as a blind, undocumented immigrant to get his college degree and support his family. But when attaining his dreams leads to new and unexpected challenges, what will Pedro do?

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]]> An aspiring social worker, Pedro must confront political restrictions as a blind, undocumented immigrant to get his college degree and support his family. But when attaining his dreams leads to new and unexpected challenges, what will Pedro do?

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]]> Wisdom Gone Wild Wed, 12 Apr 2023 13:38:00 +0000 Wisdom Gone Wild is an immersive meditation on elder consciousness and the act of caregiving a parent with dementia.

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]]> Wisdom Gone Wild is an immersive meditation on elder consciousness and the act of caregiving a parent with dementia. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri weaves her mother’s storytelling wisdom into the dream fabric of this film. Rose’s songs provide a soundtrack for time travel as we witness her evolution across nine decades of living.

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]]> Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project Fri, 07 Apr 2023 13:43:00 +0000 Going to Mars takes us through the mind-scape of legendary poet, Nikki Giovanni. Her voice guides us across time and outer space, dreams and remembrances, and across decades of American history, as we reimagine her most iconic work with visual lyricism fit for a poet.

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]]> Going to Mars takes us through the mind-scape of legendary poet, Nikki Giovanni. Her voice guides us across time and outer space, dreams and remembrances, and across decades of American history, as we reimagine her most iconic work with visual lyricism fit for a poet. The film’s cinematic intergalactic journey ventures beyond Nikki’s own lifetime, to Middle Passage and Mars, always keeping hold of possibility and the potential of Black liberation.

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]]> Hummingbirds Sat, 01 Apr 2023 13:51:00 +0000 Hummingbirds is a uniquely collaborative cinematic nonfiction film about young artist-activists coming of age in a Texas border town.

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]]> Hummingbirds is a uniquely collaborative cinematic nonfiction film about young artist-activists coming of age in a Texas border town.

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]]> Fire Through Dry Grass Wed, 04 Jan 2023 21:16:00 +0000 On a tiny island in NYC, a group of Black and brown disabled artists fight Covid and the city to protect the lives of 500 vulnerable nursing home residents.

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]]> On a tiny island in NYC, a group of Black and brown disabled artists fight Covid and the city to protect the lives of 500 vulnerable nursing home residents.

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]]> The 19th: Breaking the News Tue, 03 Jan 2023 21:11:00 +0000 Breaking The News, previously The Untitled 19th News Documentary: follows a fearless group of female journalists in 2020, including founder Emily Ramshaw and editor-at-large Errin Haines, as they seek to ​upend the status quo by launching an all-women news start-up. ​Building a newsroom that reflects the women they’re writing about, Breaking The News could be a model in these changing times — If they can survive their tumultuous first year.

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]]> Breaking The News, previously The Untitled 19th News Documentary: follows a fearless group of female journalists in 2020, including founder Emily Ramshaw and editor-at-large Errin Haines, as they seek to ​upend the status quo by launching an all-women news start-up. ​Building a newsroom that reflects the women they’re writing about, Breaking The News could be a model in these changing times — If they can survive their tumultuous first year.

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]]> Queer Futures Tue, 03 Jan 2023 20:59:00 +0000 Queer Futures is a 3 episode collection (soon to be 4) that takes its cues from José Estaban Muñoz who defined the concept as “imagining a future that moves beyond the negative present” and leads the day through the dynamism, creativity, and fluidity of queer experience. 

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]]> Queer Futures is a 3 episode collection (soon to be 4) that takes its cues from José Estaban Muñoz who defined the concept as “imagining a future that moves beyond the negative present” and leads the day through the dynamism, creativity, and fluidity of queer experience.

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