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Foundation Watch
How the Ford Foundation Changed Entertainment: The Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation places a heavy emphasis on supporting the documentary film industry. According to the foundation, its film-related grantmaking constitutes “one of the largest documentary funds in the world.”…
by Thomas Pack, Robert Stilson on July 31, 2024

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How the Ford Foundation Changed Entertainment: Direct Film Funding
The Ford Foundation’s major film grants program, the JustFilms initiative, provides an even more detailed look at the foundation’s film-related grantmaking. Although Ford has supported filmmaking for decades, the JustFilms…
by Thomas Pack, Robert Stilson on July 31, 2024

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How the Ford Foundation Changed Entertainment: Film Festivals
Production funding is not enough to ensure a film’s impact, nor can marketing dollars alone manufacture success. Filmmakers can gain credibility for their projects with the public—and more crucially, with…
by Thomas Pack, Robert Stilson on July 31, 2024

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How the Ford Foundation Changed Entertainment: Outreach, Networks, and Education
The Ford Foundation’s film strategy involves much more than simply paying for the nuts and bolts of making and promoting a movie. JustFilms spends vast sums on what it calls…
by Thomas Pack, Robert Stilson on July 31, 2024

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How the Ford Foundation Changed Entertainment: Why Ford’s Strategy Works
The Ford Foundation has chosen to make documentary film funding a meaningful part of its massive annual grantmaking, and the impact of this spending has been staggering. Between 2017 and…
by Thomas Pack, Robert Stilson on July 31, 2024

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Soros-Funded Documentary Embraces Left-Wing Terrorists Who Plotted To Kill Republicans
I have my debut at Big Hollywood today. It’s a piece on George Soros funding leftist documentaries. Here’s the top of it: Radical philanthropist George Soros is bankrolling a…
by Matthew Vadum on October 21, 2010