The Sundance Institute and Skoll Foundation have announced the final five grant recipients of the Stories Of Change: Social Entrepreneurship In Focus Through Documentary initiative.

The initiative is a three-year partnership to create a total of ten documentaries highlighting social entrepreneurship as a way of meeting the challenges of contemporary times.

The announcement came at the Skoll World Forum this week (March 26).

Sundance Institute officers took part in the Forum for the third year and along with Skoll Foundation officers selected ten projects from 300 submissions based on recommendations from an advisory committee comprising documentarian Eugene Jarecki, Skoll Foundation senior advancement officer Sandy Herz and CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour.

Sundance Institute sources said the first films are likely to be completed as early as 2010. The final five films with directors and social entrepreneurs are:

Connected by Jonathan Stack, which profiles Nigerian Aloy Chife's efforts to erase Africa's digital divide by bringing information technology to those who need it most.

Easy Like Water, Glenn Baker's film about architect Abul Hasanat Mohammed Rezwan's solar powered floating school project in Bangladesh.

To Catch A Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks On America (working title) by director Gayle Ferraro, which focuses on the celebrated microcredit pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and his latest efforts to help 500 female borrowers in Queens, New York.

Sh*t! by Annika Gustafson and Phil Jandaly, about various entrepreneurs and their schemes to save the planet, save money and have a laugh or two in the process.

The Revolutionary Optimists, a film by Maren Grainger-Monsen and Nicole Newnham about Amlan Ganguly, a former lawyer who empowers children in the Calcutta slums to oversee healthcare issues in their communities.

Skoll Foundation president and CEO Sally Osberg said it was 'critical' to highlight the work of the entrepreneurs 'not only to inform but also to inspire.'

Sundance Documentary Film Program director Cara Mertes added, 'In their optimism, integrity and intelligence, the films that are launching today reflect the deep challenges we face as a global community, tempered with the ingenuity and commitment to effective, transformative change that social entrepreneurs exemplify.'

The five previously announced recipients and their projects are: Julia Parker Benello's Back To School, about Sakena Yacoobi's Afghan women's education initiative; Megan Gelstein's Green Shall Overcome, exploring Van Jones' eco-friendly jobs programme in Oakland, California; Poor Consuelo Conquers The World by Peter Friedman, about Paul Miller's initiative to use telenovelas to educate viewers about poverty; The Team by Patrick Reed, about John Marks and Susan Collin Marks' plan to remove ethnic divisions in Kenya through soap operas; and Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern's Youthbuild Documentary (working title), which profiles Dorothy Stoneman's work with youngsters on a community re-build project in North Philadelphia.