Love Now Media Programs & Initiatives
2026-2027
HUMAN.AI.TY is an urgent narrative and cultural intervention initiative featuring a 6-part film series and impact campaign designed to bring humanity, social justice, and ancestral intelligence back into public discourse at a moment when technology is outpacing our collective ethics. The impact campaign amplifies these stories beyond the screen, sparking civic dialogue, shaping public imagination, and equipping communities with tools to design more equitable futures. Together, the series and campaign aim to shift narratives, build collective power, and inspire tangible social and policy outcomes grounded in love, wisdom, and liberation.
ArtPhilly 250th Celebration – What Now? Love Now! is Love Now Media’s signature contribution to Philadelphia’s 250th celebration, an immersive 11-day art experience that invites the city to imagine the future through the power of love. The exhibit brings together large-scale photography, film, ritual, storytelling, and hands-on art making to create a space where people can reflect, create, and connect. Visitors will move through a living archive of joy and resilience sourced from a decade of Love Now Media’s work, then step into activation stations where floral design, herbal art, painting, and personal expressions of love come to life. A weekend of films, conversations, and a live storytelling concert anchors the celebration. This gathering honors the past and calls audiences into a shared future centered on community and care, offering an unforgettable cultural experience for Philadelphia’s milestone year.
America’s 250th Hackathon for Humanity 250 – is a 48-hour design jam in Philadelphia convening technologists, artists, journalists, civic leaders, and youth to build ethical, culturally grounded AI tools. Rooted in collective care and civic power, the program responds to the urgent need for communities historically excluded from tech to shape its future. The event explores how AI can support justice, storytelling, and civic participation—offering an alternative to extractive innovation models. The program will culminate in a public showcase during the America 250 commemorations in July 2026.
Current Partner Projects
Freedom Journeys 250 – Celebrating the Lives of 250 Phenomenal Black Philadelphians – is a citywide storytelling initiative that marks the nation’s semiquincentennial by centering the lives, legacies, and imaginations of 250 remarkable Philadelphians. Conceived by lawyer and journalist Renee Chenault-Fattah and executively produced by Sara Lomax (WURD Radio), Love Now Media serves as the production partner for the project which features video stories, audio stories, portraits, and archival materials to connect personal histories to the broader arc of Philadelphia’s past and future. The project weaves together narratives to create an intimate portrait of how culture-makers, thinkers, and community builders have shaped the city and the country across generations by honoring resilience and strengthening collective memory. Learn more or nominate someone.
Philadelphia Media Founders Exchange News Creator Network & Revenue Summit
The PMFE News Creator Network is a program of the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, led by Love Now Media in collaboration with Will Toms. The program is a four-month incubator that brings together local newsrooms and independent creators to produce community-centered civic storytelling that reaches people where they are. Designed through deep listening and grounded in Philadelphia’s media ecosystem, the program supports teams with funding, mentorship, collaboration labs, and hands-on training in emerging technology and AI. Participants work in two-week sprints to experiment with new formats, strengthen reporting practices, expand audience reach, and build sustainable revenue strategies. By pairing newsroom rigor with creator-driven storytelling, the network helps shape a stronger, more connected information landscape for Philadelphia. Learn More.
Queen Mother: Falaka Fattah and the House of Umoja Documentary (fiscal sponsorship)
When gang violence tore through Philadelphia, one mother opened her home—and her heart—to help build a movement for peace. Now at 93, she’s calling a new generation to remember the power of unity, love, and community healing. Queen Mother is a documentary film by Jos Duncan-Ase, co-produced and edited by Jason Pollard.
UnShackled: The Reality of Re-entry (fiscal sponsorship)
Conceived and co-directed by Dana Johnson, Unshackled follows the real lives of people returning home from incarceration and shows the difficult choices, quiet victories, and systemic barriers they face as they work to rebuild their futures. The film moves through reentry programs, courtrooms, neighborhoods, and family spaces to reveal how resilience, love, and community support shape the path forward. It exposes the pressure of navigating jobs, housing, probation, and trauma while highlighting the people and movements fighting for a more humane approach to justice. This story calls audiences to witness the full humanity of those impacted by the system and to reconsider what accountability, safety, and healing should look like in our society.
The Poet’s Press Film (fiscal sponsorship)
Set inside a one-day poetry intensive led by the legendary Professor Nia Chez, the story follows a diverse group of students who confront headlines on war, immigration, erasure, and identity and transform their rage, grief, and difference into collective artistic resistance. As institutions dismantle DEI, political divisions harden, and global conflicts escalate, this film recenters humanity through the power of voice, truth telling, and creative awakening. The Poet’s Press reminds us that art is not decoration but survival, not escape but confrontation, and not individual but communal. It insists that leaning into our differences, listening across wounds, and speaking our truths on the page are essential acts of resistance in a world struggling to hold onto its compassion. The film is written and directed by Jos Duncan-Asé