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The Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists, supporting a diverse slate of projects at every stage of the filmmaking process – from development to distribution and beyond. Support Film Independent's creative community and help bring these projects to life by donating below.
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Happy Birthday Charlie

A road trip drama about a mom who tries to do right by her daughter, but winds up doing everything wrong...

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Producer/Writer: Nina Martinek
Writer/Producer: Boris Frumin
Composer: Daniel Schnyder

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Happy Pills

A bipolar girl breaks up with her psychiatrist.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Erica Cantor
Producer: Emma Flanders
Actor: Emma Raimi
Actor: Robin Roth
Director of Photography: Adam Birch

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Happy Sabbath

Happy Sabbath is a story about a young man reconnecting with his estranged mother expecting a handout. In his search for financial support, he learns family secrets that can forever rock everything he knows to be true.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Producer: Brian Grigsby
Director: Steven Lloyd Bennett
Producer: Albert Lopez

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Hard Boiled Eggs
A 10-year-old Chinese American girl who suspects that her mother is cheating after overhearing a mysterious phone call decides to investigate it by herself, only to find the harsh truth that she's been disregarding.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Yimeng “Yuki” Yuan
Writer/Producer: Yuky Shen
Producer: Pablo Zamorano

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Hargrove

A humble virtuoso walks unwittingly towards death while traveling the world playing his last concerts, reflecting on his life musically, professionally, personally, and spiritually. Trumpet legend Roy Hargrove is celebrated through priceless footage of his final days and treasured memories from music industry legends.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Eliane Henri/Poplife Productions
Cinematographer: Robert Benavides

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Hatchback

Due to job losses in early 2020 caused by the pandemic, an African-American family of four is living out of their hatchback car until the next pay day arrives. The family dreams of just one night in a motel. But each passing day living out of their hatchback vehicle brings new setbacks that push that dream further and further out of reach.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Lynelle White
Producer: Kellianne Jordan
Producer: Anita M. Cal

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Heat

When two women’s emotional wounds collide in a sauna, one storms out, leaving the other trapped - questioning whether the betrayal was deliberate or just a cruel accident.

Director: Elizabeth "Ella" Danna
Writer/Producers: Becca E. Davis
Director of Photography: Rebecca “Reb” Richard

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Heir to My Ancestors’ Dreams

On the verge of her first book deal and a career-defining opportunity, Zuri, a grieving writer, is visited by her ancestors, whose unfinished dreams may hold the key for her to complete their unfinished story.

Co-Writer/Director/Producer: Ethan Felizzari-Castillo
Original Playwright/ Co-Writer: Nancy Irene Kelly
Executive Producer: Paul Zaentz

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HIATUS

Bringing remarkable stage plays beyond the theater through cinematic adaptation, professional collaboration, and immersive mentorship.

Executive Director: Jes Macallan
Artistic Director: Nic Bishop

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HIBM: Her Inescapable Brave Mission

International human-rights advocate, Cara Yar Khan, battling an aggressive, fatal, muscle-wasting disease ventures out on a daring, 12-day Grand Canyon expedition on horseback and in whitewater rafts. But a journey that begins as a dramatic advocacy effort, quickly becomes an exercise in survival when Cara suffers a head injury one hour into the descent. And as the expedition team confronts unanticipated dangers in a remote wilderness that threatens to kill, wound, or undo them without warning, they also come face to face with their own individual demons. Her Inescapable Brave Mission is a story of fear, adrenaline, hubris, courage, and perseverance against the odds. A transformational journey for anyone who's ever found themselves, inescapably, on the edge of a cliff.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Celia Aniskovich
Producer: Liz Yale Marsh
Producer: Wendy Eley Jackson
Executive Producer: Sam Pollard

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High Value Man

A social media influencer obsessed with his "high value" image faces a crisis when his carefully crafted persona starts to unravel.

Writer/Director: Marissa HIgh
Producer: Devi Rawal
Directory of Photography : Phil Jackson

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Hive

A scrupulous teenager loses the young girl she's babysitting at an idyllic playground, forced to confront an insidious entity hidden among the children.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Felipe Vargas
Actor: Xochitl Gomez
Producer: Nicole Crespo

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Hold You So Tight

An anxious woman meets two men - one a scientist, one not - who work to ease her mind by supplying a unique embrace from their homemade robot.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Producer/Actor: Eric Rudnick
Actor: Kareem Ferguson
Robot Fabricator and Technician: Alan Timm
Robot Technician: Walter Martinez
Cinematographer: Davey Robertson
Art Director: Rebecca Scott
Production Sound Mixer: Ryan Graff
Producer: Cameron Fife
Producer at Large: Mike McNamara
Consulting Producer: Gabby Revilla Lugo
Script Consultant: Pilar Alessandra
AI Specialist: Sabri Sansoy
Robot InMoov Designer: Gael Langevin

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Holy Water

When a spiritual man is faced with a possible illness, his belief system is questioned and he’s forced to step into his authentic self in order to heal his emotional pain.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Sebastian LaCause
Producers: Roxanne Morrison, Jai Rodriguez

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Home

After a tragic accident leaves her caught between life and death, a grieving young girl awakens in a dreamlike Trinidad & Tobago, where she must find her late grandmother’s spirit — before a brewing storm traps her in the dream forever.

Director/Writer: Halle Hazzard
Producer: Nicole Greene
Director of Photography: Christian Burkett

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Homecoming

Set in 1970, the mother and daughter of a notoriously rich family cope with the return of their lost child/brother.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Quinn Sheehan-Hipple
Co-Writer: Oliver Heffron
Producer: Stephen Fitzgibbon, Corrine Dye
Cinematographer: Christopher Blauvelt

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Homegoing/Homecoming

A quiet, college wrestler struggles to save his home from foreclosure, protect his younger sister and cope with the return of their absentee mother.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: C.A. Barrow
Producer: Robin Rose Singer

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Homesick

A wrong number call connects an ex-addict looking for his daughter with a young woman on house arrest grieving the loss of her own father.

Writer/Director/"Toni": Michelle Askew
Producer: Angela Gulner
Producer: Delani Wolf

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Hoop Like This

The 12 best Indian ballers from around the world join forces to compete for $1 million dollars to show the world Indians can hoop on ESPN's international stage.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer/Executive Producer: Shubhangi Shekhar
Executive Producer/Lead Talent: Gautam Kapur
Executive Producer: Akhil Hegde, BFD Productions
Producer: Kunal Patel

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Horror Lives Here!

A fictional documentary crew takes a peek behind the screams at a fading haunted attraction, where three eccentric employees compete to become the next owner… but with dysfunctional staff, acts of sabotage, and a mysterious clown terrorizing the haunt, can they even survive the season?

Writer/Director/Producer: Danica Jensen
Producer: Baldur Thor
Producer: Logan Floyd

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