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Active Voice Amount awarded: $300,000$XXX,XXX.000
Participant Media, LLC Amount awarded: $150,000$XXX,XXX.000
25 to Life, LLC Amount awarded: $50,000$XXX,XXX.000
Right on Time Productions, LLC Amount awarded: $50,000$XXX,XXX.000
Viewfinder Productions, Inc. Amount awarded: $50,000$XXX,XXX.000
Manjusha Films LLC Amount awarded: $50,000$XXX,XXX.000
Foundation-Administered Project (FAP) Amount awarded: $350,000$XXX,XXX.000
Washington Koen Media Productions Amount awarded: $100,000$XXX,XXX.000
Full Credit Productions, Inc Amount awarded: $250,000$XXX,XXX.000
The Rada Film Group Amount awarded: $200,000$XXX,XXX.000
Ma George, LLC Amount awarded: $50,000$XXX,XXX.000
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. Amount awarded: $95,000$XXX,XXX.000
Vertumnus Productions Inc. Amount awarded: $200,000$XXX,XXX.000
H2H Films LLC Amount awarded: $75,000$XXX,XXX.000
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Amount awarded: $150,000$XXX,XXX.000
Faith Project, Inc. Amount awarded: $200,000$XXX,XXX.000

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Active Voice

For the Story, Strategy and Sustained Impact project to expand and deepen the impact of powerful social justice films, helping them become catalysts for short- and long-term social change

Amount	$300,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Freedom of Expression
Initiative	JustFilms
Primary Approach	Media/Content Development

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Participant Media, LLC

For a documentary on comedian Bill Cosby, exploring what has happened in the lower-income African-American community since the Civil Rights Era through his travels into the heart of black America

Amount	$150,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Freedom of Expression
Initiative	JustFilms
Primary Approach	Media/Content Development

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25 to Life, LLC

To complete "25 to Life," a documentary on the changing landscape of HIV and AIDS among young African Americans

Amount	$50,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Freedom of Expression
Initiative	JustFilms
Primary Approach	Media/Content Development

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Right on Time Productions, LLC

For post-production of “Oscar's Comeback,” a film exploring how the annual Oscar Micheaux Film and Book Festival helped save a South Dakota community from economic demise and spark dialogue about race

Amount	$50,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Freedom of Expression
Initiative	JustFilms
Primary Approach	Media/Content Development

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Viewfinder Productions, Inc.

For "State of Mind," a feature-length film on the Haditha Massacre, a Marine-led massacre in Western Iraq

Amount	$50,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Freedom of Expression
Initiative	JustFilms
Primary Approach	Media/Content Development

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Manjusha Films LLC

For "Children of the Red Mosque," a documentary film illustrating the hard choices between extremism and abject poverty that many rural Pakistanis are forced to make

Amount	$50,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Freedom of Expression
Initiative	JustFilms
Primary Approach	Media/Content Development

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Foundation-Administered Project (FAP)

For joint learning, assessment and communications activities to enhance the work of grantees and others working in the field of film and documentary media

Amount	$350,000
Period	2012
Region	United States
Issue	Freedom of Expression
Initiative	JustFilms
Primary Approach	Media/Content Development

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Washington Koen Media Productions

For research and development of “The Newark Project,” a documentary film exploring the effectiveness and impact of extended day and afterschool programs in Newark, New Jersey

Amount	$100,000
Period	2012
Region	United States
Issue	Freedom of Expression
Initiative	JustFilms
Primary Approach	Media/Content Development

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Full Credit Productions, Inc

To produce “God Loves Uganda,” a feature-length documentary on the rise of the New Dominionist religious right and its attempts to fund a religious war against "sexual immorality" in Uganda

Amount	$250,000
Period	2012
Region	United States
Issue	Freedom of Expression
Initiative	JustFilms
Primary Approach	Media/Content Development

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The Rada Film Group

For "An American Promise," a documentary analyzing the values of diversity, realities of privilege and tensions of a multicultural environment through the experiences of two African-American boys

Amount	$200,000
Period	2012
Region	United States
Issue	Freedom of Expression
Initiative	JustFilms
Primary Approach	Media/Content Development

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Ma George, LLC

For post-production of "Mother of George," a feature film about African immigrants living in Brooklyn that endeavors to show the humanity and struggle of immigrant life in the U.S.

Amount	$50,000
Period	2012
Region	United States
Issue	Freedom of Expression
Initiative	JustFilms
Primary Approach	Media/Content Development

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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.

For public screenings and panel discussions of JustFilms documentaries at the David Rubenstein Atrium

Amount	$95,000
Period	2012
Region	United States
Issue	Freedom of Expression
Initiative	JustFilms
Primary Approach	Media/Content Development

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Vertumnus Productions Inc.

For “The Supreme Price,” a documentary on Hafstat Abiola's personal and political journey to realize her parents’ dream of bringing democracy to Nigeria, alleviating poverty and empowering women

Amount	$200,000
Period	2012
Region	United States
Issue	Freedom of Expression
Initiative	JustFilms
Primary Approach	Media/Content Development

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H2H Films LLC

For the documentary, Outlawed in Pakistan, a film about a 13-year old girl from Pakistan who dares to fight a gang-rape case in Pakistani courts

Amount	$75,000
Period	2012
Region	United States
Issue	Freedom of Expression
Initiative	JustFilms
Primary Approach	Media/Content Development

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The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

To develop a computational solution and methodology for assessing the impact of social justice documentaries

Amount	$150,000
Period	2012
Region	United States
Issue	Freedom of Expression
Initiative	JustFilms
Primary Approach	Media/Content Development

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Faith Project, Inc.

To produce "Public Health, Private Pain," a documentary about the hurdles faced by HIV-infected African-American women in rural South Carolina

Amount	$200,000
Period	2012
Region	United States
Issue	Freedom of Expression
Initiative	JustFilms
Primary Approach	Stakeholder Development and Collaboration

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