AXS Film Fund Announces Latest Round Of Grants To Diverse Nonfiction Creatives Living With Disabilities

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EXCLUSIVE: Seven documentary projects are getting an important boost from the AXS Film Fund, an initiative launched in 2020 to support nonfiction creators living with disabilities from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds.

The fund, created in partnership with the Bertha Foundation, announced grants of up to $10,000 each for five films and two new media projects.

One of the selected films, Breaking the Silence, explores the long-running Indian boarding school system in the United States which deliberately stripped Indigenous children of their language and culture. (Sugarcane, Oscar-nominated this year, examined the legacy of such institutions in Canada).

Scroll for full details on this year’s grantees. AXS Film Fund brings visibility to an underrepresented community of creatives “by intervening and providing opportunities that they may not otherwise have with mainstream funding structures,” according to a release.