This year we've awarded $150,000 in grants to aid in the production of character-driven nonfiction films.

They're among the 46 film/video and visual arts projects receiving funding.

Six narrative and five documentary works-in-progress have been selected for the 2012 program.

David receives a $50,000 grant towards his science-themed script 'Penny Stock.'

Funds will support investigative journalism and outreach and engagement.

Whitney will be the first to receive the prize for achievements in painting.

Channel 4 BRITDOC + Puma partnership, Reframe partner Ken Jacobs at Union Docs, Pantelion Films announcement, TFI's Ryan Harrington at Independent Film Week, plus TFI Doc Fund and more!

TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund program manager Erin Hildebrand brings us an update from the set of FUTURE WEATHER, one of the 2010 recipients of the Fund.

TAA alumna among this year's Film Independent's Directors Lab participants, Yoav Gross from TFI Reframe partner B'Tselem at Berlinale, the impact of the ongoing political crisis on the Egyptian filmmaking community, and more.

The latest in the TFI at The New School panels, to be held on November 2, will discuss using documentary films as a tool of social and political change.