Films We’re
Supporting
2026
Development
grant cohort
Rescue
Alessio Schiazza, Tamara Human
Driven by compassion and an unshakeable sense of responsibility, a group of rescuers from across the world move toward the frontlines of Ukraine. Through active shelling zones and mined roads, from Kostyantynivka to Pokrovsk, they move toward the danger rather than away from it, to reach animals no one else came back for.
What’s Eating Britain
PabloD’Ambrosi, Rebecca Loviconi
As over 2,000 factory farms spread across the UK, threatening public health, the environment, and the survival of rural communities, a group of ordinary British women step forward to lead an extraordinary fight.
Wild Kind
Karni Ariele, Saul Freed
In a genre bending, Attenborough-style eco-fantasy, seven wild animals - portrayed in fantasy human form - battle hunger, migration, climate collapse and human intrusion, in a mythic yet urgent portrait of survival, motherhood, and the fragile bond between humanity and the natural world.
The Light Between Mountains
Alex Lockwood
Set in a picturesque valley in the Spanish Pyrenees, the sanctuary brings together people and animals living at the margins of the world around them. As winter sets in, ideas of safety begin to fray. A single fence separates the animals sheltered inside from those hunted just beyond it, and pressures of the surrounding landscape slowly begin to build.
Bombing Beavers
Kylie Stott, Graeme Hart
A lovable rodent becomes a political grenade when eco-activists illegally smuggle beavers into the Scottish countryside. Irate farmers, anglers, re-wilders and a gaffe-prone government agency collide as Britain is forced to decide who will control its rivers.
The Architecture of Empathy
Allison Argo, Michael Werner
On a bucolic patch of North Carolina farmland, architect and animal whisperer Paul Drake is on a mission to transform the lives of some of America's most overlooked creatures. With Bella, a rescued chicken, at the story’s center, Drake sets out to create her dream home, one uniquely designed for a chicken’s every need. It’s Babe meets This Old House.
2026
RESEARCH
grant cohort
Longevity on a Budget
Christopher Pollock, Craig Hung
The science of living longer is real, but so is the price tag. Two filmmakers put longevity to the test on a strict $100-a-month budget, chasing the question the $27 trillion wellness industry doesn’t want answered: is healthy aging actually available to everyone, or just to people who can afford it?
The Translation Problem
Souvid Datta
A Bangladeshi mother translating AI safety research and her daughter whose call centre job is automated by the systems she helped train - a generational story about what technology takes, what it can't touch, and what remains when the machines learn to speak.
STRONG MAN
Andrew Massa
A team of weightlifters prepare for Mr. America, a bodybuilding and powerlifting competition that will test their physical limits and our beliefs of true strength and performance. Counterbalancing entrenched cultural paradigms, the featured subjects lead through example, striving to reach the apex of human excellence, proving that power and compassion can coexist within any environment.
Cultivated
James Hoot
In 2017, filmmaker James Hoot became what is believed to be the youngest investor in cultivated meat history, putting his life savings into an industry he was certain would change the world. Nearly a decade later, companies with FDA approval are going bankrupt, seven US states have banned it outright, and China is pouring $555 million into the space. Cultivated is a six-part documentary series asking the only question that matters: is cultivated meat the future of food, or were we sold a lie?
THE LAST HUMANS
Kate Stonehill, Marc Silver
Animated by fears of existential threats to humanity, a group of activists on the outskirts of San Francisco forge a bold, radical movement to protest the development of Artificial Intelligence.
COEXISTENCE
Danielle Hanosh, Molly Condit
As wolves return to landscapes long dominated by cattle ranching, a new idea is emerging: that true coexistence may require transforming agriculture itself. Coexistence explores how shifting from livestock production to plant-based farming could restore ecosystems, reduce conflict with predators, and redefine humanity’s relationship with the wild.
SHOW HOLE: The Robots Are COMING
Jessica Riches
Sex is the one thing we all have in common, it’s as human as it gets. It also has a reliable track record as a predictor of where technology, law, and society are heading next. The most human thing I could think to do about the AI revolution was join OnlyFans. I didn't expect to enjoy it so much.
The AI Handover
Charlotte Stix, Elena Andreicheva
AI doesn’t need to take over if we hand over. What lessons can the progressive replacement of human staffers, the integration of experimental advanced AI systems in critical pipelines and the corresponding power shifts inside frontier AI companies tell us about a future with highly capable frontier AI systems?
Feed The Beast
Shawn Bannon
Through advertising, fast food, and American culture, “Feed the Beast” explores how meat became one of the most powerful and addictive forces in modern life. In the pursuit of the perfect “bliss point,” the meat industry now fuels a global system of overconsumption with devastating consequences for our bodies, our environment, and the future of the planet, while humanity consumes more of it than ever before.
2025
RESEARCH
grant cohort
TRAUMA
Sara Pearl Kenigsberg, Rebecca Aguilar
In NOT OKAY, director Sara Pearl Kenigsberg follows lawyer and mother Kathleen Redpath-Perez as her involuntary commitment; captured in unprecedented police body-camera footage - reveals hidden civil rights abuses within the mental health system.
RADICAL MUSLIMS
Zehra Abbas
Three Muslim women in Toronto challenge cultural taboos and religious assumptions as they campaign for animal rights and environmental justice, uncovering a troubling clash between industrial halal practices, faith, and ecology
ULTRAPROCESSED
Jamie Logan, Rebecca Loviconi
A satirical mockumentary filmmaker turns the tables on Big Meat, exposing how the term "ultra-processed" was weaponised against plant-based foods while the most industrialised food system on earth branded itself natural.
THE GREEN EDIFICE
JC Ralls
From the birth of agriculture to today’s global food system, this documentary explores how our diets shaped civilisation, and what must change if we’re to feed the future.
I’m Not Your Shifu
Yi Jian
Four chefs, two countries, one mission: Transform the future of food. A 5-episode reality TV series where four chefs from U.S. universities travel to China to master traditional plant-based culinary arts - and return home to transform how students eat while inspiring renewed pride in China’s plant-based heritage.
BORN ON DEATH ROW
Fiaz Ahmed, Jacqui Ahmed
Through the lives of beagle puppies bred at scale for controversial animal experiments - and tender stories of rescued survivors - the film exposes a hidden industry of 'necessary harm', undermined by scientific division and shielded from public scrutiny.
AHIMSA
Shreya Ghodawat, James Hoot
If Ahimsa means reducing suffering, can a Jain filmmaker persuade her community not only to embrace veganism, but to direct its philanthropy toward ending large-scale animal farming in India?