Chapter 18 Cara Mertes
Since 2013, Cara Mertes has been director of the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms, a global social justice initiative supporting independent film and digital storytelling projects, as well as the organizations and networks that sustain and disseminate them. Founded in 2010, JustFilms builds on Ford Foundation’s many decades of support for documentary film as a social justice tool, and has supported more than 80 projects, including the Academy Award-winning CitizenFour (Laura Poitras); The Look of Silence and Academy Award-nominated The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer); 3½ Minutes, 10 Bullets (Marc Silver); Through a Lens Darkly (Thomas Allen Harris); Gideon’s Army (Dawn Porter); The House I Live In (Eugene Jarecki); How to ...
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