Native Source provides unrestricted grants to film-makers whose projects and passions overlap with our overall mission.
Below are some examples of previous recipients and their work as well as videos made with our partners at Sterling Stamos and Snap Shot TV Productions for some of the non-profits we support.
Check back here for future grant opportunities.
Documentary Films:
Unrestricted grants were made to the following films:
"In 2004, thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers from all four corners, moved
by their concern for our planet, came together at a historic gathering,
where they decided to form an alliance: The International Council of
Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. This is their story. Four years
in-the-making and shot on location in the Amazon rainforest, the
mountains of Mexico, North America, and at a private meeting with the
Dalai Lama in India, For the Next 7 Generations follows what happens
when these wise women unite. Facing a world in crisis, they share with
us their visions of healing and a call for change now, before it's too
late. This film documents their unparalleled journey and timely
perspectives on a timeless wisdom."
A window into the lives of six Cambodians that escaped the Khmer Rouge genocide and became Americans.
"...One Christmas Day, my parents called
a family meeting. They sat down my brother,
two older sisters and me – to reveal
secrets after 25 years. My mother told
us that my two sisters aren’t actually
my sisters. They are the children of
my mother’s sister, orphaned when
their parents were killed by the Khmer
Rouge. We learned my older brother isn’t
actually my full brother. He is my half
brother – the surviving child from
her first family. My mother’s first
husband and daughter died in the genocide.
This was the first I’d heard of
them. It was the first for my brother
too. In that room of shocked and tearful
children, my father got up and in his
character, locked himself in the bathroom....This documentary gives voice to his story
and that of my family on their way to
becoming Americans."
"In the war-zones of Liberia and Congo, four volunteers with Doctors
Without Borders struggle to provide emergency medical care under
extreme conditions. With different levels of experience, each volunteer
must find their own way to face the challenges, the tough choices, and
the limits of their idealism. "Living in Emergency" is a window into
the seldom portrayed and less-than glamorous side of humanitarian aid
work. It explores a world that is challenging, complex, and fraught
with dilemmas - the struggles, both internal and external, that aid
workers face when working in war zones and other difficult contexts."
Fund Raising Videos:
Native Source, in conjunction with our partners at Sterling Stamos and Snap Shot Productions funded, wrote, filmed, and produced the following fund-raising films for non-profits whose work we believe in and support through donations and grants.
"First Light at Angkor" - for the Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
"The Children of Angkor"
"FACE AIDS" --A student movement for social justice, Rwanda Africa.
"FACE AIDS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing and inspiring students to fight AIDS in Africa.
FACE
AIDS aims to build a broad-based movement of students seeking to
increase global health equality. Working with Partners In Health (PIH),
a respected health and social justice organization working to provide
healthcare for the poor in nine countries, FACE AIDS runs
income-generating projects with HIV associations in the Kirehe District
of eastern Rwanda.
These projects help members gain income by
making beaded AIDS awareness pins. HIV association members place a
portion of this income into a group savings account that eventually
provides each association with startup capital for a sustainable small
business, offering ongoing economic empowerment to the HIV association
members. Students in FACE AIDS then distribute these pins in
fundraising and awareness campaigns on campuses across the U.S. During
these campaigns, FACE AIDS members spread a message of solidarity and
social justice and inspire their peers to take action against global
health inequity.
FACE AIDS donates 100% of student
fundraising proceeds, along with 1:1 matching grants from private
donors, to PIH in Rwanda to support comprehensive healthcare for
pin-makers and their communities. Since 2005, FACE AIDS has raised over
$1.4 million to fight AIDS in Africa, and recruited over 150 chapters
across the U.S."
"Quincy Jones in Cambodia," for the AHC, UNICEF Cambodia, Little Sprouts, and the Sakum Center for Children.
Award: 2006 Telly Award
(video coming soon)
"The Jaipur Foot", India.
"Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS), Jaipur was set up in 1975. It is a formally registered society in India.
It is a non-governmental, non-religious, non-sectarian, non-regional,
non-political society, for helping the physically challenged,
particularly the financially weak among them.
BMVSS is the largest organization, for the handicapped in the
world in terms of fitment of artificial limbs and calipers etc., to the
handicapped.
BMVSS, being a social organization engaged in humanitarian
work, provides all the artificial limbs, calipers, crutches, ambulatory
aids like wheelchairs, hand paddled tricycles and other aids and
appliances totally free of charge to the physically challenged."
"Esperanza -- Hope for the Next Generation," for Esperanza International.
"The mission of Esperanza International is to free children and their
families from poverty through initiatives that generate income,
education and health, restoring self-worth and dignity to those who
have lost hope."
The Cambodian Children's Fund -- CCF, Cambodia. Fund raising piece for the Project Q "Q Prize" awards ceremony, Core Club, NYC. This piece was editing together with CCF footage for the event.
