Fund Grantees: Last News

Janet W. Lee Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci have announced the grantees of this year’s Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund.The grant, funded by Gucci, provides production finances for feature-length documentary films examining domestic and international social justice issues.Eleven projects — Jon Sesrie-Goff’s “After Sherman,” Shaunak Sen’s “Airborne,” Sabaah Folayan’s “Ain’t I A Woman,” Débora Souza Silva’s “Black Mothers,” Nesa Azimi’s “Driver,” Jasiri, Moyo and Duke’s “Jasiri,” Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s “King Coal,” Zaynê Akyol’s “Rojek One Day,” Rachel Lears’ “To The End,” Sura Mallouh’s “Untitled” and Kate Stonehill’s “Untitled Privacy Project” — have been selected this year to receive a total of $140,000 in funding.

The Sundance Institute has named its latest documentary fund grantees to receive $520,000 in financing for film development and production to postproduction and audience marketing. In all, 22 non-fiction projects from 19 countries will receive grants made possible by the Open Society Foundations and the MacArthur Foundation, among other sources, and with over half of the funding coming from outside the U.S.