The Ford Foundation has launched a new initiative called “JustFilms” which seeks to support courageous filmmakers to complete their important works and to help them reach a growing audience of engaged and socially conscious viewers.
The Foundation is investing $10 million a year over five years in documentary projects that address urgent social issues and help us understand our past, explore our present and build our future. The goal is to expand the community of emerging and established filmmakers who often lack funding to realize their visions and reach audiences.
JustFilms focuses on film, video and digital works that show courageous people confronting difficult issues and actively pursuing a more just, secure and sustainable world. Initiative funds will be distributed through three distinct paths:
- Partnerships with major organizations such as the Sundance Institute, the Independent Television Service and the Tribeca Film Institute
- Collaboration with other Ford Foundation grant-making programs where the introduction of documentary film could help draw attention to an issue or advance a movement, and
- An ongoing open-application process that will help JustFilms stay attuned to fresh ideas and stories wherever they may emerge.
For more information, visit this link.
Dear Sir,
I am the founder of SOOVA,in Orissa of India would like to asked you ,wheather we are elible for applying such type of project peoposal on Similipal ,the Biosphere in our area.
Thank you.
Yours
Saroj.
Thank you
From:ExecutiveDirector
Africa Youth Empowerment and Development Network Center (AYEDNC)
LOCATION: Lagos Nigeria
CONTACT PERSON: Gideon Adeola Olasunkanmi .
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have the Honor to write to you in relation to the above project as
the Executive Director of Africa Youth Empowerment and Development
Network Center (AYEDNC)
This is a Pan African Institution with Headquarters in Nigera. Its
role is to build skills of the Youth in Africa with an aim of creating
a knowledge and skills herb /forum for middle level and grassroots
youth as a way of reducing the gap between the western the rich
Africans and poor who cannot afford University education, yet they have
the talent, exposure and relevant knowledge, minimum skills to enable
them achieve their desired goal. All they require is support,
guidance, mentoring and practical skills building.
Having known your organization to be a credible world class
organization with a strong passion for human development, we would
like you to be part of this venture, and hence humbly ask you to
accept our request.
We will be willing to send a documentary video clips, displaying our
organization past achievement in building skills in the African
continent. This documentary was done by us with our little earnings. The documentary is about the lifes of deprieved Africans, living on the dumps, water and malnourished ones that could haven been useful for the world in the entertainment industries such as movie, music etc. We are trying to come up with more documentaries that showcase the suffering lives of the Africans especially the youths, but we need fund from a reputable office like yours.
If your office is however not the right place to direct this email, kindly link us up with any organization you feel that could assist our mission
Hoping to hear from you soon.
Yours sincerely,
Gideon Adeola Olasunkanmi .
Our organization is really impressed and welcome this innovative idea by FORD FOUNDATION since this will serve as a cutting edge to voice out issues relating to social, economic, emotional and other areas of endeavour which literarily would have been latent. Engaging this methodology, will enhance our potentials and also serve to ease the ways by which we have been disseminating information to our target audience. Our organization actually train youths in drama and as much as possible act different virtues and vices to drive home our points to our participants either on HIV/AIDS, Gender violence, Child Abuse, Drugs and Education. Tagged Knowledge Is Power. We also take documentary films that portrays a transential role from African belief to Western Integration and how it’s affecting the youths of today and their behavioural pattern.
Coming to our aids in terms of materials that will boost our project will actually assist in reducing the burden we currently carrying.
Thanking you in advance
FOR ARK CHARITY FOUNDATION
David Mark
International Coordinator
P.O.BOX 8714
KUMASI – GHANA
WEST AFRICA
Dear Sir,
Greetings from Jyotirmayee Mahila Samiti,Kendrapara,orissa,India.
This is a NGO working since 25 years for the benifit of the rural women and children.Now with the small assistance from Adobe Youth Voice and Taking It Global, we are working with youths age group between 13 to 18 th to make Digital videos,Photos and short documentary filims on the variuos local and global social issues.
Are we illigible for apply the grant?
Thanking you
Yours Sincerely
D.K.mohanty
Educator
Adobe Youth Voice
Jyotirmayee Mahila Samiti
Kendrapara,Orissa,India
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We are an organization with NGO status in The Gambia working with diverse socio-economic and cultural programmes, with Education as a thematic agenda among the students who are trained by us in, how to use computers by acquiring basic knowledge in the various programmes that we teach them.
To know more about what our organization works with,
We hope we stand the chance to apply for financial support after receiving this mail.
Best regards
Abdoulie Jeng
managing Director
Project Food First
P.O.Box27777
Gampost, Serekunda Branch
The Gambia, west Africa