The Bertha Foundation Documentary Fund

The Bertha Foundation Documentary Fund is sponsored by The Bertha Foundation. Provides grants to documentary filmmakers working on projects that address social justice issues.

Our philanthropy is political. Our hospitality is radical. To support activists, storytellers and lawyers who are working to bring about social and economic justice for all.

Bertha Foundation runs programs and provides funding to support individuals and organizations working to address some of the most pressing social justice issues of our time. We exist to create space, opportunities and connections for social justice work that is often seen as too radical. Film screening - exploring masculinity through art “Indoda ayikhali” - a man does not cry.

But what happens when silence becomes too heavy to carry? This film, explores Black masculinity, vulnerability and healing through art. Come watch, reflect & feel.

More detail on the RSVP link. Data centers as rights-enabling infrastructure? Article One, with Bertha's support, and the Centre for Human Rights have proposed that local data centers can be rights-enabling infrastructure.

They've recommended to the SA Human Rights Commission a pause on huge new projects to develop the framework to make sure rights are protected. EU-Israel potential breaches of international law exposed Giacomo Zandonini has published an investigation into the negotiations between the EU and Israel on data sharing that potentially breaches international law and could further endanger Palestinian lives in Israel, Palestine and the EU.

Bertha joins movement to invest in African film Cape Town hosted a "historic moment for African cinema", bringing together investors and financiers, regional producers and experts at the Inaugural African Film Investor Roundtable. Coming out of Bertha Foundation-supported African Producers Accelarator, the roundtable furthers work to strengthen and support the sustainability of film across the continent.

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I agree to receive your newsletters and accept the data privacy statement. Bertha Website Cheat Sheet Fellowships for Activists, Investigative Journalists, Filmmakers and Lawyers to spend a year working on one pressing social justice challenge. The Bertha Artivism Awards Global funding for arts activism that mobilizes communities for social change.

A residency program for people in social justice to take the time and space to advance their work alongside a global community of co-conspirators. The Challenge Past Projects Archives Find out about our Bertha Challenge Alumni over the years and their projects. A rural retreat and convening space designed, from plan to finished product, for collaboration, community and revolution.

Cape Town’s go-to gathering place for civil society, locals and creatives to learn their politics, fight unjust systems and grow their power. A limited collection of stories that unpack Bertha’s ways of working, what we mean by holding and creating space and what the outcomes of these methods look like. The Artivism Past Projects Archives Find out more about our past Artivists and and their projects.

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