Myles David Jewell, $5,000
The 14th Victim
A family drama revolving around the filmmaker’s grandfather, Detective Phil DeNatale, and his devotion to solving the Boston Strangler serial murders

Sara Giustini & PJ Raval, $5,000
Gay Retiree Documentary (wt)
A film following a host of characters as the first generation of out gays, lesbians, and bisexuals begin to enter retirement homes and face new challenges in arranging end of life care
http://www.unraval.com/category/director/in-developement/

Alfred Guzzetti, $5,000
History’s Children
In 1985, the filmmaker collaborated with Susan Meiselas and Richard Rogers on a film Living at Risk about a Nicaraguan family during the U.S.-backed war. History’s Children catches up with their children 25 years later to trace their lives through time.

Dakin Henderson, $5,000
Grandmothers: Slow Medicine (wt)
A film exploring how three generations of the filmmaker's family react to the complicated process of their elder relatives growing older and dying
http://media.gfem.org/node/11085

Brittany Huckabee, $5,000
Border Girls (wt)
A film following two young Nepalese women who operate a border surveillance unit in Southern Nepal: working alone, they rescue up to 200 girls every month from traffickers headed to India
http://www.v1productions.com/

Kathryn Ramey, $5,000
WEST: What I Know About Her
The story of the filmmakers great-great grandmother, a pioneer who apprenticed herself with the doctor on a caravan and led her to become a midwife and folk hero

Rob Todd, $5,000
The Alternative Housing Project
A feature-length documentary exploring three types of planned communities: public housing, private planned communities, and prisons

Robbie Gemmel, $15,000
Cape Wind
A film exploring the Cape Wind project as the filmmaker grapples with the idea of a coastal community and its negative reaction to a clean energy project
http://www.capewindmovie.com/

Ann Kim & Priya Giri Desai, $15,000
Match+
A documentary telling the human story of HIV / AIDS through the lens of the growing movement for HIV-positive marriage matchmaking in India

Ross McElwee, $15,000
Sherman’s Redux (wt)
A documentary about a fiction film being made based on a documentary – Ross McElwee and his camera follow the process and explore philosophical implications as Sherman’s March is re-made into a fiction film by Paul Blart: Mall Cop director Steve Carr

Amie Siegel, $15,000
Maria
A film exploring reality versus fantasy, fiction and performance, and how the role of the camera – and documentary – have changed a generation

Jeff Silva, $15,000
Ivan and Ivana: Variations on Amerika
A documentary film about Ivan and Ivana, a young refugee immigrant couple from Kosovo who struggle with the seduction of capitalism and material culture in the United States

Lucien Castaing-Taylor, $25,000
Sweetgrass
A feature length film about the dying world of sheepherders in the American west
http://sweetgrassthemovie.com/

Chico Colvard, $25,000
Family Affair
A documentary examining the lives of three biracial sisters who survived years of sexual abuse by their father, and their capacity to forgive in order to maintain family relationships
http://c-linefilms.com/the_movie.html

Mike Majoros, $25,000
em>A Very Old Game
A feature-length documentary focusing on the daily lives of a handful of Mongolians as they spend a year preparing for the 800 year old Naadam games