HOMEGROWN TO RECEIVE SUBJECT MATTER AWARD AT DOC NYC
Through a collaboration with DOC NYC, Subject Matter will award $40,000 in grants and activate audiences to create a positive community action in response to the documentary film Homegrown.
Subject Matter announced today that they will award $40,000 in grants at the 15th edition of DOC NYC. A $20,000 grant will go to Michael Premo and Rachel Falcone’s Homegrown to support their audience outreach and impact efforts, along with a corresponding grant of $20,000 to The 22nd Century Initiative. Subject Matter provides funds and resources to documentary films highlighting urgent social issues and to nonprofits tackling the featured topics, while inviting inspired audiences to take action.
Homegrown is an unflinching chronicle of Americans at war with each other. Three right-wing activists—a newly politicized father-to-be in New Jersey, an Air Force veteran organizing conservatives in New York City, and a charismatic activist from Texas—crisscross the country in the summer of 2020, campaigning for Donald Trump and building a movement they hope will outlast him. When they become convinced that the election is stolen, they take their fight to the streets. The film is making its New York City premiere at DOC NYC on November 17th as part of the American Stories program.
The 22nd Century Initiative (22CI) works toward a people-powered multi-racial democracy in this century and the next by advancing strategic alignment that brings together frontline organizations, national pro-democracy groups, training resources, think tanks, and advocacy organizations. Subject Matter’s grant will support their efforts focused on uniting networks through anti-authoritarian strategies and sharing methods to harness collective power to put an end to political violence.
Subject Matter will be present at the premiere to invite audiences to support The 22nd Century Initiative, to create a positive community action in response to the powerful film they have just seen. Subject Matter has also pledged to donate an additional $100 for each person who donates to 22CI during DOC NYC, up to $5,000.
Subject Matter provides funds and resources to documentary films highlighting urgent social issues and to nonprofits tackling the featured topics, while inviting inspired audiences to take action. Subject Matter is led by Co-Executive Directors Colleen Hammond and David Earls, along with Board Co-Chairs Jeffrey Wright and Lily Band, and board members Sal Al-Rashid, Christie Marchese, Samantha Rudin Earls, Loren Hammonds, and Din Blankenship.
Since Subject Matter launched in 2022, they have awarded $390,000 in grants to nine social issue documentaries (Aftershock, Lakota Nation vs. United States, Refuge, A Woman on the Outside, Breaking the News, Every Body, Daughters, All We Carry, and I’m Your Venus) and nine impactful nonprofits (saveArose Foundation, Lakota People’s Law Project, Parents for Peace, Essie Justice Group, The 19th, interAct, Girls For A Change, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, and House Lives Matter).
