DOL announces funding recipients, bringing total of YouthBuild supported programs to 228.
The project has recently begun filming, with initial interviews with founder Dorothy Stoneman, and key participants from the early years of YouthBuild, and the primary year-in-the-life focus has shifted from North Philadelphia to Newark, NJ, where there are exciting developments as YouthBuild Newark Executive [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]