BoomGen Studios
Building an accelerator for mid-career culture change artists in entertainment
Artists Advancing Culture Change
The Pop Culture Collaborative supports artists and/or artist cohorts from various disciplines, geographies and industries to bring their artistic vision to mass audiences, while also contributing to field-wide efforts to build widespread public yearning for a just and pluralist America.
Cast Iron Company
A new artist-in-residence pilot to support artists of color to tell their own stories
Crenshaw Dairy Mart
Transforming Patrisse Cullors’ best-selling memoir “When They Call You a Terrorist” into a television series
For Freedoms
Using art to deepen public discussions on civic issues and core American values
Noor Theater
Supporting Middle Eastern artists to control the narratives about their own cultures
Noor Theater
Noor Theatre is an OBIE Award–winning company that supports, develops, and produces the work of theater artists of Middle Eastern descent. Led by Founding Artistic Director Lameece Issaq, an award-winning actor and writer, Noor was created to develop artists’ voices and share their often-unheard stories with a diverse audience. Noor’s aim is to allow artists to control the narratives about their own cultures and to eliminate stereotypical and/or dangerous portrayals of Middle Eastern people.
Open TV
Revolutionizing the way television and the arts are developed through an artist-centered and community-based approach
Open TV
OTV | Open Television is a platform for intersectional digital television that develops and supports the launch of indie series by Chicago-based Black, brown, differently abled, and queer artists. OTV aims to revolutionize the way TV and the arts are developed through an artist-centered and community-based approach. In the last few years, OTV has released 41 pilots, shorts, and series that have received over 1 million plays on Vimeo alone.
Paola Mendoza: Artist-Led Rapid Response
Advancing Artist-led rapid responses on immigration and gender justice
Senior Fellow Emanuel Brown
Convening a culture change network across trans communities of color.
Starfish Accelerator
Supporting the development and activation of an accelerator for mid-career culture change artists in entertainment
STARFISH Accelerator
Launching a second cohort of six mid-career BIPOC artists to develop, produce and disseminate their own creative IP
The Center for Cultural Power
Assisting pop culture artists who have been deeply financially affected by the coronavirus pandemic and support for Disruptors Fellowship
The Center for Cultural Power
Accelerating the power of immigrant, refugee, disabled, and/or trans emerging television writers through the Artists Disruptors Fellowship Program
The Light Alliance
Depicting the grief of separating mother and child on the anniversary of the zero-tolerance family separation policy
VAM Studio Co.
Developing the series Damaged Goods to further discussion about the representation of black sex and intimacy on TV.