A selected list of documentary films, podcasts and organizations supported by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation.
2024
Arrest the Midwife
(Elaine Esptein)
Production
FRONTLINE Democracy on Trial
(Michael Kirk)
Production
FRONTLINE The Choice 2024: Harris vs Trump
(Michael Kirk)
Production
FRONTLINE The VP Choice: Vance vs Walz
(Gabrielle Schonder)
Production
Labors of Love: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold
(Abby Ginzberg)
Production
Kids Like Me
(Cynthia Lowen and Jon Cohrs)
Production
Out the Vote
(Vivian Kleiman)
Production
Seized, But Not Silenced
(Sharon Liese)
Production
The Disruptors
(Yoruba Richen)
Production
2023
#WhileBlack
(Sidney Fussell and Samantha Knowles)
Production
A Double Life
(Catherine Masud)
Archival rights
Access is Independence: The Zona Roberts Story
(Dale Bell)
Production
A Night at the Stone Burlesk
(Leigh Jurecka)
Production
FRONTLINE Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court
(Michael Kirk)
Production
FRONTLINE McConnell, the GOP & the Court
(Michael Kirk)
Production
Life After
(Reid Davenport)
Production
Sally!
(Deborah Craig)
Post-production
Shaking It Up: The Story of Liz Carpenter
(Abby Ginzberg and Christy Carpenter)
Post-Production
She Dared to Dream
(Abby Ginzberg)
Production
Sun Ra and the Roots of Afrofuturism
(Christine Turner)
Production
Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote
(Robert Greenwald)
Production
The Inquisitor
(Angela Tucker)
Production
The Librarians
(Kim Snyder)
Production
The Movement and the ‘Madman’
(Stephen Talbot)
Music and archival rights
The Only Game in Town
(Marjolaine Grappe)
Post-production
The World According to Pussy Noir
(Amy Oden)
Post-production
Untitled Uvalde Documentary
(Anayansi Prado)
Production
You Don’t Know My Name
(Tommy Franklin)
Production
2022
#WhileBlack
(Sidney Fussell and Samantha Knowles)
Production
A Decent Home
(Sara Terry)
Outreach
American Justice on Trial
(Andrew Abrahams and Herb Ferrette)
Outreach
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America
(Joy Davenport)
Post-production
FRONTLINE Lies, Politics and Democracy
(Michael Kirk)
Production
FRONTLINE Michael Flynn’s Holy War
(Rick Rowley)
Production
FRONTLINE Plot to Overturn the Election
(Sam Black)
Production
Life After
(Reid Davenport)
Production
Queendom
(Agniia Galdanova)
Production
Santos: Skin to Skin
(Kathryn Golden)
Outreach
Shame of Chicago
(Bruce Orenstein)
Production
Storm Lake
(Jerry Risius and Beth Levison)
Outreach
Sugarcane
(Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie)
Production
The Only Game in Town
(Marjolaine Grappe)
Production
The Spies Among Us
(Jamie Coughlin and Gabriel Silverman)
Production
2021
Access is Independence: The Zona Roberts Story
(Dale Bell)
Production
American Justice on Trial
(Andrew Abrahams and Herb Ferrette)
Production
Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power
(Abby Ginzberg)
Outreach
Bonnie Blue: James Cotton’s Life in the Blues
(Bestor Cram)
Archival and music rights
FRONTLINE American Reckoning
(Yoruba Richen and Brad Lichtenstein)
Production
Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
(Aviva Kempner and Ben West)
Production
Mama Bears
(Daresha Kyi)
Post-production
New York Public Radio
La Brega podcast production
No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics
(Vivian Kleiman)
Outreach
Run With It
(Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman)
Production
2020
And She Could Be Next
(Grace Lee and Marjan Safinia)
Production
And Then They Came for Us
(Abby Ginzberg and Ken Schneider)
Outreach
Change the Name
(Cai Thomas)
Production
The Picture Taker
(Phil Bertelsen)
Archival support
2019
A Decent Home
(Sara Terry)
Production
Always In Season
(Jacqueline Olive)
Outreach
On These Grounds
(Garrett Zevgetis)
Production
Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins
(Janice Engel)
Archival footage licensing
Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life
(Patrice O’Neill)
Production and community engagement
The Kids Are Not Alright
(Mikaela Shwer)
Production
The Pushouts
(Katie Galloway and Dawn Valadez)
Outreach
Welcome to Chechnya
(David France)
Production
2018
A Double Life: The Story of Steve Bingham
(Catherine Masud)
Post-production
Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power
(Abby Ginzberg)
Production
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
(James LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham)
Production
The Picture Taker
(Phil Bertelsen)
Production
Making Gay History
(Eric Marcus)
Podcast production
Midnight La Frontera
(Andrés Cediel and Ken Light)
Production and outreach
Moving Stories
(Rob Fruchtman)
Outreach
Ms. Diagnosed
(Tricia Regan)
Production
Public Radio Echange (PRX)
Ear Hustle podcast production
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism at the Crossroads
(Rick Goldsmith)
Production
The First Angry Man
(Jason Cohn)
Post-production and outreach
2017
Los Hermanos/The Brothers
(Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider)
Production and sound design
Newtok
(Andrew Burton, Michael Kirby Smith and Marie Meade)
Production
Shield or Sword: Religious Freedom in Today’s America
(Cal Skaggs)
Post-production
2016
And Then They Came for Us
(Abby Ginzberg and Ken Schneider)
Production
Documentary Organizations (2017 – Present)
Archival Producers Alliance
Generative AI Best Practices
Berkeley Film Foundation
Logan Elevate Grants
Catapult Film Fund
Development funding for documentary filmmakers
Chicken & Egg Pictures
General operating support
Firelight Media
William Greaves Fund for mid-career nonfiction filmmakers of color
FWD-Doc
General operating support
Indie Media Arts South
General operating support
International Documentary Association
Logan Elevate Grants and the Getting Real Conference
Investigative Studios
General operating support
Jewish Film Institute
JFI Completion Grants
The Queer Cinema Project
General operating support
Sisters in Cinema
Sisters in Cinema Media Arts Center, organizational capacity building and the Sisters in Cinema Resource Fund
Spelman College
For the Center for Innovation and the Arts, and for equipment packages for documentary film and photography students during remote learning due to COVID-19
University of California, Los Angeles, Documentary Film Legal Clinic
For the educational program, What Documentary Filmmakers Should Know About the Law