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Grants
1
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Total Awarded
$125,000
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Years
2013
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Categories
Grants
Media Process Educational Films will produce the documentary and online project The Schools Project, co-directed by Bob Hercules and Greg Jacobs, which follows the 2013 closing of 47 Chicago public elementary schools, by following students, teachers, parents, administrators, politicians, and scholars over the course of one year following the closings. The project is collaboration between Media Process Educational Films, Siskel/Jacobs Productions, Kartemquin Films, the Kindling Group, Free Spirit Media, with additional involvement of the Chicago Sun-Times, WTTW and WBEZ, and the Chicago History Museum.