Color Congress Announces Inaugural Grants
By Scott Macaulay for Filmmaker Magazine
The 17 grantees, selected from a pool of 120 applying organizations, are ones serving historically marginalized communities, have budgets under $300,000 and operate outside national media hubs. The two-year unrestricted inaugural grants range in amounts from $45,000 to $90,000.
A Kaleidoscope Coming Together: An Introduction to Color Congress
Rashid Shabazz sits down with Color Congress Co-Directors, Sonya Childress and Sahar Driver, for an interview in Documentary magazine.
A Generational Investment in Filmmakers of Color
Read Lauren Pabst’s blog on the MacArthur Foundation site about support for people of color leading a documentary film movement by and for their communities.
Trust-based Philanthropy: Creating a More Equitable, Healthy Ecosystem for Documentary Film Funding
Read a recap of the webinar, An Era of Power Reckoning: Trust-Based Philanthropy and the Implications for Documentary Film Funding, co-hosted by Color Congress and the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project.
An Era of Power Reckoning
This webinar, co-hosted by Trust-Based Philanthropy and Color Congress, focuses on the documentary film funding field contextualized within exciting philanthropy practices.
Introducing Color Congress
If you missed our launch event at Sundance 2022, which was a celebration of leaders and organizations on whose shoulders we stand, you can still check it out.
HIFF Talks SUNDANCE 2022: Sonya Childress and Sahar Driver, co-directors of COLOR CONGRESS
Sonya and Sahar join in conversation with Lee Ngo on HIFF Talks, the Official Podcast of the Hawai‘i International Film Festival.
Shifting Power From WIthin: The New Gate Openers
Check out this frank conversation with the foundation program officers who seeded Color Congress about the political and cultural experiences that shape their worldviews and funding strategies and their thoughts on the future of the documentary field.
Color Congress, a National Collective, Launches, Announces Funding and Support for POC-Led and Supporting Documentary Organizations
Color Congress launched in January 2022 with an open call for organizations to apply for unrestricted grant funding. The open call closed in February 2022.
