Delhi rape case documentary receives funding from WorldView

WorldView is proud to announce that an award has been granted to filmmaker Leslee Udwin to support the development of their breathtaking project, India’s Daughter. India’s Daughter is a documentary that pays tribute to the remarkable and inspiring short life of Jyoti Singh, and documents the brutality of her gang rape and murder in Delhi in December

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Love Commandos and Fireflies in the Abyss chosen for Good Pitch India

Two WorldView-funded documentaries, Love Commandos and Fireflies in the Abyss, are part of the selection of six films for Good Pitch² India on 4 February 2014. The event will bring the films’ makers in contact with foundations, NGOs, campaigners, policy makers, brands and media to develop campaigns and create strategies for the films to have

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Hot Docs announces funding for ‘unheard voices’ in filmmaking

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, in partnership with the R&M Lang Foundation, has launched the CrossCurrents Doc Fund, an international production fund that aims to foster documentary filmmaking from communities whose perspectives have been historically underrepresented or marginalised. The Fund will provide one successful applicant with a grant of $10,000 each year.  It will support

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Twenty films for Human Rights Day’s 20th

This year’s International Human Rights Day, on 10 December, marks the 20th anniversary of the Vienna Declaration, which created the mandate for a Hight Commissioner for Human Rights. Of the several hundred film funded over the years by WorldView, so many of them have human rights at the heart of them, as these are the

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