“Bread for the Journey” Offers $1000 Grant for Possible Futures Entry

Bread for the Journey International has awarded a $1000 matching grant to Big Ideas and Rich Conversations to pay for the editing and production costs of a documentary to be entered into The Possible Futures Film Contest. Yay!

From their website:

“What kind of world would you like to create?” This is the question Carole Peccorini is asking teens in Sonoma, California and in a village in Tanzania. The Vision Conversations project grew out of Peccorini’s Big Ideas and Rich Conversations series for women in the North Bay. Teenage girls from the Mentoring Alliance in Sonoma were invited to participate in the series. One young woman, Flor Suarez (14), began to videotape the proceedings to share with others. Flor has developed her skills and is now videotaping the Vision Conversations with Sonoma teens along with her mentor, videogrmakingfilmapher Kathleen Quinn.

A recent Big Ideas event sparked a plan for fourteen women to travel to Tanzania with a Big Ideas speaker who has been returning to the site of her Peace Corps service to build schools. In March 2011, Carole will use this opportunity to ask Tanzanian youth, “What kind of world would you like to create?” The conversations will be videotaped, and, along with the conversations with Sonoma teens, will be part of a documentary, “The Vision Conversations.”

A matching grant of $1,000 from Bread for the Journey of Sebastopol will pay for editing and production costs to make the documentary, which will be entered in the Possible Futures Film Contest, a new project by the Pachamama Alliance to promote global communication. Copies will also be distributed to schools and other groups here and abroad to keep the conversation alive.