Past
Grantees

The artist will travel to Windhoek, Tsumeb, Etosha National Park, and Seringkop farm, Namibia and Nantes, Notre-dame-des-landes, and the Zone-a-defendre (Zad), France for 33 days. Arnold plans to explore land disputes in two different cultural contexts (occupation as resistance to development in La Zone-de-Défendre, France and occupation as indigenous land reclamation near Tsumeb, Namibia) as research for a documentary on the nature of land ownership struggles.

The artist will travel to Haiti for 31 days. In preparation for a feature-length experimental film about women, family, and land in Haiti, Bruno will conduct research and collect individual stories, particularly from matriarchs, which deal with common generational land disputes that violently and deeply divide families across the Caribbean.

The artist will travel to Bukhara, Samarkand, and Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Moscow, Russia for 21 days to conduct research around her familial legacy for a new video project centered on her family's story of the Bolshevik revolution and the Perestroika.

The artist will travel to Kathmandu, Nepal for 30 days. Joshi plans to research the internationally infamous “Royal Hotel” in Kathmandu, Nepal and the role it played in Nepal’s transformation from a closed kingdom to a colonial fantasy land in the 1950s. He is working on a new film that features the Hotel’s rise to fame and it’s eventual demise.

The artist will  travel to Seoul and Gwangju, South Korea for 31 days. Key will research the false national media coverage and news suppression during the Gwangju Uprising (a historic revolt in 1980 against South Korea's militarized regime that sparked the nation’s democratization movement), as well as collect oral histories from surviving members of her family in Gwangju who witnessed the event.

The artists will travel to Northwestern Ontario for research and development on a feature film about the groundbreaking and turbulent life of legendary Ojibway artist Norval Morrisseau (1931 - 2007).

The artist will travel to Port-au-Prince, Haiti for 60 days. Saintonge’s trip will be a investigation of the punk kids of Port-au-Prince as research for the upcoming feature film Erzili. The film, titled after the voduo spirit family of Loa, will be an exploration of young Haitians as they embark on a road trip looking for one of the group’s mother, who is hiding somewhere in the north.

The artist will travel to Santa Marta, El Banco, Santa Cruz Mompox and Barranquilla, Colombia for 15 days. Tavera will travel the Magdalena municipality in Colombia to study, document, conduct interviews and capture the migration of Cumbia music and the culture of this region. Tavera is working on a new project about the Cumbia rhythm, a blend of African, Spanish and Indigenous sounds, which transcends Colombia as it has immigrated to Latin America and the world.