Program areas at Video Veracity
Video Veracity made regrants to these non-profit educational documentary film & television projects (and film support & distribution groups) that will or are collectively reaching audiences numbering in the hundreds of thousands, or in some cases millions, via film festivals, broadcasts, cablecasts, online streaming & other distribution, disc-based distribution, classroom exhibition, and theatrical showings: Commuted, a film on making meaning after a life sentence is commuted, received $98,000 and continued in production; Creole Feast: Legacy, a film on unheralded Black chefs in New Orleans, received $4,900 and continued in production; Under G-d, a film on abortion issues in Jewish and other communities, received $256,760 and continued in production; My Ascension, a film on suicide prevention, received $6,652 and continued in distribution; Powerlands, a film on the displacement of Indigenous people, received $73,500 and continued in production and distribution; Roleplay, a film on sexual assault awareness on college campuses, received $8,489 and continued in production; City of a Million Dreams, a film on the history of New Orleans through the lens of the jazz funeral, received $19,600 and continued in distribution; The Claiborne Avenue History Project, a film on one of New Orleans' famous largely African-American business and residential corridors that was highly affected by construction of Interstate 10 in the 1960s, received $49,907 and continued in production; Give Light, a film on midwives, received $2,940 and continued in production and distribution; Patois New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival, a festival exhibiting documentary film, received $8,943 and continued its work; and the following documentary films and projects continued in production and/or distribution, and received various levels of financial and/or producing support: Hollow Tree, Last Days of the Hummingbird Grill; Untitled Peace Project; Unprisoned; Ashe; Bayou Maharajah; Free For All; Mossville; Our Voices; Big Charity; Buckjumping; and All Skinfolk Ain't Kinfolk. Many other projects that received financial support in previous years continued in production and distribution, and in some cases received technical, production, or other non-financial assistance.