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Grantee Filmmakers

Since 2016, we’ve supported 60 filmmaking teams through our environmental documentary grants program. These award-winning artists share stories of communities igniting their collective power to bring necessary change, traditional and innovative practices aimed at preserving our planet, legacies of injustice met with overdue yet promising solutions, and so much more.

Adrian Burrell

Producer
OAKLEAD

Adrienne Hall

Producer
In Earth We Trust

Al Brady

Producer
Police in Our Climate

Alex J. Bledsoe

Director
OAKLEAD

Alexandra Kerry

Director
One Point Five

Alina Simone

Director
Black Snow

Alizé Carrère

Director
Adaptation

Amy Kaufman

Producer
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae

Ángel Ricardo Linares Colmenares

Director
Kay

Ann Bennett

Producer
Razing Liberty Square

Ann Kaneko

Director
Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust

Arya Rothe

Director
Green is the Fire’s Tint

Ben Corona

Director
Sacrifice Zones: The 48217

Benjamin Huguet

Director
The Sovereigns

Bob Reiss

Producer
The Bering Gate

Brenda Avila-Hanna

Producer
Emergent City

Brontë Velez

Producer
Uniontown

Cara Rose Wyatt

Producer
In Between Worlds

Carlton Ward Jr

Grantee
Path of the Panther

Caroline Cox

Director
Food for the Rest of Us

Caroline Waterlow

Producer
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae

Casey Carter

Director
To Use a Mountain

Chachi Hauser

Producer
Hollow Tree

Christi Cooper

Director
Youth V Gov

Christopher Lucas

Producer
Raising Aniya

Claire Sanford

Director
Colour of the Wind

Colleen Cassingham

Producer
To Use a Mountain

Corinna Sager

Producer
Razing Liberty Square

Cristina Hanes

Director
Green is the Fire’s Tint

Crystal Whaley

Producer
Infertile Ground

Daniel Glick

Director
Bring Them Home

Daniel Sherer

Producer
Adaptation

Devon Blackwell

Director
Untitled Panda Film

Diane Becker

Producer
Inventing Tomorrow

Elena Rapu

Director
Aina Momona – Land of Plenty

Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi

Director
WE STILL HERE / NOS TENEMOS

Elivia Shaw

Director
The Invisible Valley

Erhan Arık

Director
Our Seeds

Eric Bendick

Director
Path of the Panther

Erica Sterne

Director
Brooklyn Alaska

Erika Cohn

Director
This Was The Place

Evan Mascagni

Director
Appalachian Spring

Faith E. Briggs

Director
Fruit of Soil

Farihah Zaman

Director
Nobody Loves Me

Fraser Jones

Director
Together We Can Make It Happen

Gabrielle Tenenbaum

Director
The Bering Gate

Greg Jacobs

Co-Director/Producer
The Here Now Project

Hadley Austin

Director
Demon Mineral

Haley Thompson

Director
How We Grow

Harry Vaughn

Producer
Untitled Panda Film

Heidi Burkey

Director
Salt Sisters

Holly Morris

Director
Exposure

Hyacinth Parker

Director
Harvest

Irene Kim Chin

Director
Saturday in the Park

Isabella Rinaldi

Director
Green is the Fire’s Tint

Ivan MacDonald

Director
Bring Them Home

Ivonne Serna

Co-Director
Green Gold

Ivy MacDonald

Director
Bring Them Home

Jacob Thomas

Producer
The Sovereigns

James Dawson

Director
Derek vs Derek

Jay Arthur Sterrenberg

Director
Emergent City

Jeff Reichert

Director
One Point Five

Jenn Lee Smith

Producer

Jennifer Akana Sturla

Director
IZ

Jessica Epstein

Producer
Remaining Native

Jessica Kingdon

Producer
Untitled Panda Film

Jimena Mancilla

Director
Kay

Jin Yoo-Kim

Producer
Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust

John Fiege

Director
Raising Aniya

Jolene Pinder

Executive Producer
Hollow Tree

Jon Siskel

Co-Director/Producer
The Here Now Project

Jonathan Nastassi

Director of Photography, Co-Director
Fork in the Road

Jonna McKone

Producer
To Use a Mountain

Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi

Producer
WE STILL HERE / NOS TENEMOS

Katja Esson

Director
Razing Liberty Square

Kelly Anderson

Director
Emergent City

Khari Slaughter

Director
Police in Our Climate

Kira Akerman

Director
Hollow Tree

Kirstine Barfod

Producer
Black Snow

Kurt Vincent

Director
Reefs at Risk

Kyle Corea

Director of Photography
Adaptation

Laura Nix

Director
Inventing Tomorrow

Leo Cerda

Producer
RICO: A Modern Gangster Tale

Lindsay Ofrias

Director
RICO: A Modern Gangster Tale

Lisa Holmes

Executive Producer, Producer
Fork in the Road

Lisa Remington

Producer
One Point Five

Liz Marshall

Director
Meat the Future

Liz Smith

Producer
Youth V Gov

Lynn Pelletier

Producer
Reefs at Risk

Maggie Lemere

Co-Director
Vs Goliath

Malina Fagan

Director
Reefs at Risk

Manon Messiant

Producer
Finding Home

Maria Stanisheva

Director
Finding Home

Marissa Lila

Co-Director
We Arrive With Fire | Ne-kah Nuue’m Mehl Mech

Masha Karpoukhina

Director
In Between Worlds

Meg Griffiths

Director
Impossible Town

Megan Alldis

Director
The Last Floating Garden (El l Último Jardín Flotante)

Melanie Miller

Producer
Inventing Tomorrow

Meryem Yavuz

Cinematographer
Our Seeds

Michael Preston

Director
In Between Worlds

Monique Walton

Producer
Hollow Tree

Nadine Pequeneza

Producer
Seeing Green

Natalie Baszile

Director
Harvest

Nate Birnbaum

Producer
Desplazados

Nicole Docta

Producer
We Arrive With Fire | Ne-kah Nuue’m Mehl Mech

Otilia Portillo

Director
Daughters of the Forest: Mycelium Chronicles

Paige Bethmann

Director and Producer
Remaining Native

Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys

Producer
The Last Floating Garden (El l Último Jardín Flotante)

Paula Arroio

Producer
Daughters of the Forest: Mycelium Chronicles

Pulkit Datta

Producer
Vs Goliath

Rachel Lears

Director
To The End

Reniqua Allen-Lamphere

Director
Infertile Ground

Ronald Baez

Producer
Razing Liberty Square

Roni Jo Draper

Director
We Arrive With Fire | Ne-kah Nuue’m Mehl Mech

Sabrina Schmidt Gordon

Producer
To The End

Sam Eilersten

Co-Director
Vs Goliath

Scott Faris

Director
Impossible Town

Sélim Benzeghia

Producer
Green Gold

Serena Kennedy

Producer
Derek vs Derek

Sergio Rapu

Director
Aina Momona – Land of Plenty

Shane Anderson

Director
Undamming Klamath

Shannon Post

Producer
Appalachian Spring

Sigrid Dyekjaer

Executive Producer
Untitled Panda Film

Sophie Morgan

Director
In Earth We Trust

Su Rynard

Director
Seeing Green

Tiffany Ayalik

Director
Food for the Rest of Us

Toby Gad

Director
Biruté

Tomas Zuccareno

Director
How We Grow

Tommy Rock

Producer
Demon Mineral

Toni Cunningham

Producer
Sacrifice Zones: The 48217

Tori Linder

Producer
Path of the Panther

Tracy Nguyen-Chung

Producer
Fruit of Soil

Victoria Lean

Director
The Acid Rain Movie

Vivian Sorenson

Co-Director, Executive Producer
Fork in the Road

Walter Hull

Producer
Raising Aniya

Wendy Abrams

Executive Producer
The Here Now Project

Yvonne Russo

Director
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae