Short Film News (SFN)- The Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci have announced the recipients selected for the 2009 Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund.

Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund, which provides finishing finances to feature length documentary projects that promote which highlight critical issues of social importance from around the world.

In the second year of the fund, seven projects have been selected from over 350 submissions from 41 countries to receive a total of $100,000.

The projects were selected by a committee consisting of Dan Cogan, Abigail Disney, Philip Gourevitch, Julia Ormond and Sam Pollard, who selected the recipients from finalists determined after an extensive review process, administered by TFI.

The projects selected for funding are:

Anatomy Of Poverty by Elinyisia Mosha, USA

Born Under Fire by Jairo Eduardo Carrillo, Colombia

Enemies Of The People by Rob Lemkin, UK, Cambodia

Growing Small by Jyllian Gunther, USA

Made In India by Rebecca Haimowitz and Vaishali Sinha, USA, India

Marathon Boy by Gemma Atwal, UK

The Promise Of Freedom by Beth Murphy, USA