2024 Grant Award Winners

The Invisible Valley - Elivia Shaw, Director. *2024 Saul Zaentz Award

Julia Vinograd: Between Spirit and Stone - Ken Paul Rosenthal, Director and Producer. *2024 Al Bendich Award

Becoming Us - Loi Ameera Almeron, Producer, Eli Hiller, Director. *Jonathan Logan Family Foundation Elevate Award

Time Hunter - Daniel Chein, Co-Director, Mushiva, Co-Director, David Felix Sutcliffe, Producer. *Saul Zaentz Creative Vision Award

All We Carry - Cady Voge, Director, Rachel Clara Reed, Editor and Co-Producer, Laura Pilloni, Producer, Laura Tatham, Producer.

As You Choose - Elly Schmidt-Hopper, Director, Producer, Joe Barnett, Director of Photography.

Burrocracy - Asali Echols, Director, George Csicsery, Producer, Kat McLain, Cinematographer.

Cabras y Chivas - Palmer Morse, Co-Director, Nick Stone Schearer, Co-Director, Catalina Luna, Producer & Translator.

Contamination - Ariel Ritchin, Director and Producer, Zahra Rasool, Producer.

Existimos en la Memoria - Darian Woehr, Director, Hailey Sadler, Producer, Produced by The Home Collective.

Fog Eaters - Kyle Baker, Director and Producer, Produced by Mimetic Films.

OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage - Clare Major, Director and Producer, Whitney Bradshaw, Producer, Rivkah Beth Medow, Producer, Jen Rainin, Producer.

PLANT LIFE - Brett Marty and Josh Izenberg, Co-Creators.

Post-Atlantic: The Art of Dewey Crumpler (working title only) - Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman, Co-Directors, Co-Producers.

Sally! - Deborah Craig, Ondine Rarey, Jörg Fockele

The Aunties (working title) - Pallavi Somusetty, Director, Prerana Thakurdesai, Producer.

The Strike - JoeBill Muñoz, Director/Producer, Lucas Guilkey, Director/Producer.

Untitled Gus Newport film project - Leah Mahan, Co-Director and Producer, Damien Durr, Co-Director.

Women Who Ride - Jessica Jones, Director, Debra Wilson, Producer.

Student Films

Juvenile Lifers - Shadeed Wallace-Stepter, Director and Producer - Berkeley City College student.

(M)otherhood - Maggie Fuller, Director/Producer, Jule Sophie Hermann, Director and Cinematographer – UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Unconditional - Danica Simonet, Director and Co-Producer, Albert Gregory, Co-Producer and Director - UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

When the Smoke Clears - Misha Schwarz and Maarya Zafar, Co-Creators - UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

This is Not a Climate Film - Hana Beach and Beki San Martin, Co-Creators - UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.