Directors: Priya Giri Desai and Ann S. Kim
In a culture steeped in tradition and obsessed with marriage, how do you find love, companionship, and partnership when you are HIV-positive? MATCH + is a narrative documentary film that tells the story of the growing movement for HIV-positive marriage matchmaking in India.
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Check out a recent series of posts by Gayle Ferraro who blogged for Filmmaker magazine from the 2009 Skoll World Forum. Ferraro’s work in progress, To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America (WT), recently received a Stories of Change grant.
Since I am in the final stages of production and into post on a [...]
Sundance Institute and Skoll Foundation today announced the final five grant recipients of the STORIES OF CHANGE: SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN FOCUS THROUGH DOCUMENTARY initiative, a three-year partnership designed to enable the creation of new, feature-length independent documentary films that frame, examine and amplify social entrepreneurship as an innovative approach to meeting the central challenges of [...]
Director: Glenn Baker
Producer: Stephen Sapienza
Social Entrepreneur: Abul Hasanat Mohammed Rezwan
Easy Like Water is a feature documentary about floating schools, solar power, and the fate of the earth.
In Bangladesh, solar-powered floating schools are turning the front lines of climate change into a community of learning. As the water steals the land, one [...]
This film journeys with Dr. Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Laureate and the architect of microfinance, as he continues building opportunities for the poor world-wide and as close to home as in Queens, NY through Grameen micro credit, his original social business.
The YouthBuild feature documentary (working title) closely follows a year in the life of three young people who are selected for YouthBuild, which combines innovative education with high stakes community rebuilding in one of the toughest cities in America: Newark, New Jersey.
The film is as much about powerful stories of rebuilding neglected neighborhoods and transforming [...]
Kenyans scramble to produce a dramatic TV soap opera series, hoping taboo storylines can bridge deep ethnic divisions, as their country teeters on the brink. Can they captivate an audience and save a nation?
Poor Consuelo Conquers the World tells the story of popular soap operas and telenovelas, now being used to combat the effects of poverty around the world.
Producer: Julie Parker Benello
Social Entrepreneur: Sakena Yacoobi
To some she is a radical out for trouble. To others she represents a bright post-Taliban future. Sakena Yacoobi’s weapon of choice –books and the Afghan Institute for Learning, a grassroots organization she founded 12 years ago. Using a combination of intimate stylized interviews, archival news footage, the occasional [...]