Short Film News (SFN) - Sundance Institute and Skoll Foundation announced the final five grant recipients of the Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Focus Through Documentary initiative.

The announcement, which includes a film about Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, was made at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, the premier annual conference that brings together the world's foremost practitioners and leaders in the field.

Stories of Change is a three-year partnership designed to enable the creation of new, feature-length independent documentary films that frame, examine and amplify social entrepreneurship as an innovative approach to meeting the central challenges of our time.

In 2008, STORIES OF CHANGE launched a request for proposals and received more than 300 film projects filmmakers around the world. Among them, 10 films have been chosen, with the first films likely to be completed as early as 2010.

The five new Stories of Change Grant Award Recipients are:

Connected
Director: Jonathan Stack
Social Entrepreneur: Aloy Chife

Easy Like Water
Director: Glenn Baker
Social Entrepreneur: Abul Hasanat Mohammed Rezwan

To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America (working title)
Director: Gayle Ferraro
Social Entrepreneur: Muhammad Yunus

Sh*t!
Directors: Annika Gustafson and Phil Jandaly
Social Entrepreneurs: Various

The Revolutionary Optimists
Directors: Maren Grainger-Monsen, Nicole Newnham
Social Entrepreneur: Amlan Ganguly