We are thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2024 Immigrants Creating Change scholarships. Fredy Vasquez, Amy Liu Chen, Maria...

Who decides which stories get told? A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+  journalists buck the white male-dominated status quo, banding...

This is great news for all independent documentary filmmakers! The Independent Television Service (ITVS) has tapped Swell Foundation's...

Congratulations to the 2023 Class: Allan Jeronimo Hernandez & Gerardo Saavedra Tapia This is the third year, we are offering scholarships...

Congratulations to grantee Natalia Almada! The Mexican narrative and nonfiction director Natalia Almada is a two-time winner of...

We are thrilled to announce that Breaking the News, a documentary film partly funded by Swell Foundation will have its world premiere at...

Swell Foundation is thrilled to support the first high performance prefab panel install training. Held in Las Vegas, NM, teams from...

Meet the 2022 ICC scholarship awardees; Andrea Hernandez, Hazel Parada Salazar and Yehao Kyle Zhang. We are honored and proud to support...

We are so proud of Swell Foundation's president of the Board for this very well deserved award. Congratulation! William Rogers ’91,...

Congratulations to Gabriela Gonzales Martinez, Marc Torres and Elisa Aguilar, the first grantees to receive a scholarship through our...

Please join us in supporting San Francisco International High School students and their families by donating to their Go Fund me campaign...

We are very proud of our board member Carrie Lozano for her new position at The Sundance Institute. “On the precipice of a new,...

At University Galleries of Illinois State University in the exhibit Jen Bervin: Shift Rotate Reflect; Selected Work (1997-2020) . The...

Silence is not an option. Educational Resources at www.colonialwhite.com

We are thrilled that SWELL, the first film distributed by Swell Cinema, shot in 1996 in 16mm, was selected to the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian...

William Rogers, president of the Board of Directors of Swell Foundation is featured in the NYT. William, CEO of Goodwill of San...

Congratulations to Vivien Hillgrove for receiving a 2020 California Documentary Project Grant. Vivien's documentary Viv's Wild Ride is...

During COVID-19, we are taking down the paywall, enjoy, stay well and stay inside

Due to COVID-19, the screening of The Ballad of Fred Hersch at The Library of Congress has been postponed to January, 21, 2021.