2024 IMC Scholarship Recipients
We are thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2024 Immigrants Creating Change scholarships. Fredy Vasquez, Amy Liu Chen, Maria...
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Breaking the News on PBS 2/19!
Who decides which stories get told? A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists buck the white male-dominated status quo, banding...
ITVS Names Carrie Lozano as President and CEO
This is great news for all independent documentary filmmakers! The Independent Television Service (ITVS) has tapped Swell Foundation's...
2023 IMC scholarship recipients
Congratulations to the 2023 Class: Allan Jeronimo Hernandez & Gerardo Saavedra Tapia This is the third year, we are offering scholarships...
Natalia Almada's retrospective at BAM!
Congratulations to grantee Natalia Almada! The Mexican narrative and nonfiction director Natalia Almada is a two-time winner of...
Breaking The News premieres @ Tribeca Film Festival
We are thrilled to announce that Breaking the News, a documentary film partly funded by Swell Foundation will have its world premiere at...
First Builder Training in NM
Swell Foundation is thrilled to support the first high performance prefab panel install training. Held in Las Vegas, NM, teams from...
Immigrants Creating Change Scholarships announced
Meet the 2022 ICC scholarship awardees; Andrea Hernandez, Hazel Parada Salazar and Yehao Kyle Zhang. We are honored and proud to support...
2022 Peter E. Haas Public Service Award to William Rogers, President of the Board
We are so proud of Swell Foundation's president of the Board for this very well deserved award. Congratulation! William Rogers ’91,...
Scholarship Grantees announced
Congratulations to Gabriela Gonzales Martinez, Marc Torres and Elisa Aguilar, the first grantees to receive a scholarship through our...
Support for SF International High School Students
Please join us in supporting San Francisco International High School students and their families by donating to their Go Fund me campaign...
Carrie Lozano named Director of Sundance Documentary Fund
We are very proud of our board member Carrie Lozano for her new position at The Sundance Institute. “On the precipice of a new,...
Premiere of Su Hui's Picture of the Turning Sphere
At University Galleries of Illinois State University in the exhibit Jen Bervin: Shift Rotate Reflect; Selected Work (1997-2020) . The...
Black Lives Matter
Silence is not an option. Educational Resources at www.colonialwhite.com
Swell at Hot Docs
We are thrilled that SWELL, the first film distributed by Swell Cinema, shot in 1996 in 16mm, was selected to the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian...
NYT Features Board President
William Rogers, president of the Board of Directors of Swell Foundation is featured in the NYT. William, CEO of Goodwill of San...
Cal Humanities Grant
Congratulations to Vivien Hillgrove for receiving a 2020 California Documentary Project Grant. Vivien's documentary Viv's Wild Ride is...
Free streaming
During COVID-19, we are taking down the paywall, enjoy, stay well and stay inside
Library of Congress Screening
Due to COVID-19, the screening of The Ballad of Fred Hersch at The Library of Congress has been postponed to January, 21, 2021.
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