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We’re headed to @sundanceorg to award our latest grants to SEIZED and @reporterscommittee! 🎬 Seized is a gripping, stranger-than-fiction investigative thriller that plunges audiences inside the troubling police raid on the Marion County Record
We’re headed to @sundanceorg to award our latest grants to SEIZED and @reporterscommittee! RCFP is the leading pro bono legal services organization for journalists and newsrooms in the U.S. The Reporters Committee provides legal representation,
We’re headed to @sundanceorg to award our latest grants to WHEN A WITNESS RECANTS and @gideonspromise! 🎬 In 1983, noted author Ta-Nehisi Coates remembers learning that a 14-year old boy was murdered in the corridor of his Baltimore middle scho
We’re headed to @sundanceorg to award grants to WHEN A WITNESS RECANTS and @gideonspromise! Since 2007, the mission of Gideon’s Promise has been to transform the criminal legal system by building a movement of public defenders who provid
Watch HOMEGROWN for free today, January 6th, courtesy of Subject Matter! HOMEGROWN is a timely and unflinching documentary that examines the rise of domestic extremism in the United States and the pathways that have led us to the present moment. The
We’re headed to @docnycfest to award $90k in grants! Congrats to @lowlandkidsfilm and First People’s Conservation Council. 

LOWLAND KIDS follows two teenagers and their uncle—on Louisiana’s rapidly disappearing Isle de Jean C
We’re headed to @docnycfest to award $90k in grants! Congrats to @lowlandkidsfilm and First People’s Conservation Council. 

FPCC provides a forum for Native American Tribes in Coastal Louisiana to identify and solve natural resource issu
We’re headed to @docnycfest to award $90k in grants! Congrats to @nunsvsthevatican and BishopAccountability.org! She was a nun. He was a world-renowned priest and artist, the “Michelangelo” of the modern Catholic Church, courted by
We’re headed to @docnycfest to award $90k in grants! Congrats to @nunsvsthevatican and BishopAccountability.org! BishopAccountability.org is the largest public information resource dedicated to documenting the Catholic clergy abuse crisis and
Subject Matter is headed to @hamptonsfilm to award our latest grants to @alltheemptyrooms and @jhu_cgvs !

@jrseftel’s emotionally gripping 33-minute doc follows reporter Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they embark on
Subject Matter is headed to @hamptonsfilm to award our latest grants to @alltheemptyrooms and @jhu_cgvs! The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions addresses gun violence as a public health emergency. The Center conducts
Subject Matter is headed to @tribeca Festival next week to award our latest grants to Just Kids and @southernequality! In states where gender-affirming care is banned, three families face an impossible decision: remain in their home states, where th
Subject Matter is headed to @tribeca Festival next week to award our latest grants to Just Kids and @southernequality! The Campaign for Southern Equality is working to build a South where LGBTQ+ people are equal in every sphere of life. Their Trans
Special guest @iamgmjohnson, author of All Boy’s Aren’t Blue - the #2 most banned book in the U.S., has been added to our panel on Monday, 1/27 at 2:30 pm at The Box at The Ray. Join us for a conversation with The Librarians director Kim
Subject Matter is headed to @sundanceorg Film Festival this week to award our first grants of 2025 to @thelibrariansfilm and @penamerica . 

As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege joi
Subject Matter is headed to @sundanceorg Film Festival this week to award our first grants of 2025 to @thelibrariansfilm and @penamerica. 

PEN America has documented the rise of book bans and educational gag orders erasing subject matter in public s
The 15th edition of @docnycfest kicks off next week and we’ll be there to award $40,000 in grants to @storylinemedia’s timely doc HOMEGROWN and The 22nd Century Initiative. HOMEGROWN is an unflinching chronicle of Americans at war with e
The 15th edition of @docnycfest kicks off next week and we’ll be there to award $40,000 in grants to @storylinemedia’s timely doc HOMEGROWN and The 22nd Century Initiative. The 22nd Century Initiative works toward a people-powered multi-
We’re headed to @tribeca next month to award grants to I’M YOUR VENUS and @houselivesmatter ! I’M YOUR VENUS is a moving and timely documentary that follows the unsolved murder of Venus Xtravaganza, star of Paris Is Burning, the l
We’re headed to @tribeca next month to award grants to I’M YOUR VENUS and @houselivesmatter ! House Lives Matter, created for and by the house ball community, is a grassroots community organizing and advocacy initiative mobilizing house