Tribeca Film Institute (TFI), in partnership with the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms Initiative has announced five grant recipients of the 2014 TFI New Media Fund.

Tribeca Film Institute (TFI), in partnership with the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms Initiative has announced five grant recipients of the 2014 TFI New Media Fund.

The interactive, non-fiction transmedia projects were selected from a pool of 208 submissions and explore social issues from online tracking to gender-based sexual violence in India.

The Fund will now begin accepting submissions biannually, allowing applicants’ projects to focus on timely events and social issues.

The five developed docu-projects have been awardned between $50,000 and $100,000 apiece, with funding effective immediately.

Grantees will also take part in regular peer-to-peer meetings and a lab focused on interactive storytelling to help them develop their projects and build engagement with audiences.

The jury comprised Local Projects founder Jake Barton, Fledgling executive director Sheila Leddy, Melcher Media and Future Of Storytelling founder Charles Melcher, Trilogy Films founder Dawn Porter, photographer Hank Willis Thomas and Lux Digital co-founder Deanna Zandt.

The grantees are:

Do Not Track
Key participants: Brett Gaylor, Sébastien Brothier;

The Oakland Fence Project
Key participants: Wendy Levy, Chris Johnson, Eric Doversberger;

Priya’s Shakti
Key participants: Ram Devineni, Lina Srivastava;

Quipu
Key participants: Rosemarie Lerner, Maria Court; and

This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate
Key participants: Katie McKenna, Avi Lewis, Michael Premo, Alex Kelly.

The two projects receiving development funding are:

The Enemy
Key participants: Karim Ben Khelifa, Chloe Jarry; and

Single Rwandan Seeks Serious Relationship
Key participants: Jacqueline Kalimunda, Kivu Ruhorahoza.

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