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Congratulations to the following new Fledgling grantees: THE BAD KIDS Directed by Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe At a remote Mojave Desert high school, extraordinary educators believe that, more…
Collisions is Fledgling’s latest grantee within our Special Initiative on Emerging Forms of Documentary Storytelling. As we’ve shared, we have been thinking carefully about virtual reality as a storytelling form…
Hello from Sundance! Tonight is the premiere of The Bad Kids and we are excited to announce that we have recently supported the film with a grant for outreach and…
We are excited to announce that we will be starting our next Fledgling Engagement Lab in 2016. The Lab brings together a small number of social issue documentary film teams…
By Diana Barrett, The Fledgling Fund: I am fascinated with immersive storytelling projects that are pushing the boundaries of more traditional storytelling modes and have been exploring a range of projects—some are rudimentary and some have great power, such as de la Pena’s Hunger in Los Angeles project. Many rely on technologies that allow us to move between digital and physical realities and these technologies are becoming more accessible.…