The Redford Center, one of the few U.S.-based nonprofits dedicated solely to environmental impact filmmaking, has selected 13 films to receive funding, marking a significant expansion of the organization’s grants program with an increase in the number of projects and funding amount.

The international cohort of films, selected for “high impact potential and unique solutions-based themes,” will each receive $25k to support the completion of the projects and to advance their impact efforts and goals.

The Redford Center received more than 500 applications from 67 countries, marking the most expansive and globally diverse open call in the org’s history, demonstrating, it said, the overwhelming presence of impact-driven independent films and the striking gap of funding and support currently offered by the film industry.

The Center was established in direct response to a lack of support available and is a central pillar of work that the Redford Center’s late...