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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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Ricky

A young ex-convict struggling with new freedom pursues redemption at all costs when given a job from his neighbor.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Rashad Frett
Executive Producer: Mark Manson
Producer: Pierre Coleman, Ramfis Myrthil
Cinematographer: Sam Motamedi
Lead Actor: Melvin Mogoli

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Ride or Die

After college, Paula's California dreams intertwine with a reunion with her crush Jamie. A casual errand becomes a cathartic journey through the Midwest where a budding romance is transformed by a plot for vengeance.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Josalynn Smith
Producer: Matthew Keene Smith
Casting Director: Lois Drabkin

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Riding on the Moon Boat
An adolescent girl faces adversity and discrimination as her father is shunned by the majority of the village, but she perseveres with resilience and hope, to overcome these challenges and thrive.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Triparna Banerjee
Producer: Sue-Ellen Chitunya
Creative Producer: Shivajee Chandrabhushan

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Sacred Land of Thirteen Wind Jaguar

Intrusive powers threaten a family’s traditional Mayan sustainable agriculture practices- but more is at risk besides just the land. Told in blended 2d animation and documentary, the destruction of the sacred maize is also the destruction of the spirit of the Mayan people.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Co-Producer: Verónica Wood
Co-Producer: Eduardo Tzaloj
Cinematographer: Eduardo Rosal

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Safe Word

A middle aged virgin and a widow spend their wedding night in an isolated cabin, where they each come out with the secrets they've been hiding. She's not interested in monogamy, and he believes he's a werewolf. Safe Word is an exploration of love, acceptance, and sex positivity in the form of a Lynchian horror-dramedy.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Project status: Development
Producer: Dani Parker
Producer: Mat Miller
Cinematographer: Brandon Woodard
Sound Designer/Production Mixer: Jeramy Parker

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Salma’s Home

Three Arab women living in modern day Jordan must put their differences aside and work together in order to survive. Tangled in a family drama after Bakri dies, his two wives and his adopted daughter navigate his inheritance, finding out that the only way forward is to try and make peace with each other.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Hanadi Elyan
Producer: Nathan Bennett

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Salomé

When the perfect woman stumbles upon a dirty chained prisoner in the desert she falls into an unrequited love she kills to control culminating in a life changing revelation.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Olivia Gray
Creative Producer: Emily Timmer
Director of Photography: Martyna Jakimowska
Sound Design: Articulated Sound

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Salt Sisters

Off the coast of Maine, America’s addiction and environmental crises meet at a crossroads. Female lobsterman Colleen Francke leads a team of women in recovery from alcohol and drug use disorder as they work to create a burgeoning seaweed farm that doubles as Maine’s first all-female sober work program. The Salt Sisters will discover what it takes to lead Maine into a new coastal economy – rehabilitating both the water and themselves along the way.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Heidi Burkey
Producer: Julie Hook
Underwater Photography: Jenny Adler

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Sam and Reed

Reed, a depressed teenager of divorced parents who wrestles with belonging and bullying begins to find inspiration through filmmaking and connection with his younger half-brother Sam. Utilizing their allyship, and spirit of adventure, the brothers head out on a 1000-mile roadtrip to find Sam’s missing mom.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer: Reed Harkness
Writer: Sam Harkness

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Sam Now

What happens when a boy and his brother go on a road trip in search of their missing mom? Sam Now follows Sam Harkness from age 11 to 36, as his once-average family becomes heartbroken and wracked with questions after his mother suddenly abandons them.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Reed Harkness
Producer/Editor: Jason Reid
Editor: Darren Lund
Co-Producer: Heather Hawksford
Co-Producer: Adam Brown
Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer, Lois Vossen, Andy McDonough, Colin Harper Plank, David J. Cornfield

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Sardinia

A serious man tries to avoid catching a deadly laughing plague in a growingly polarized and dystopian society.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Paul Kowalski
Producer: Pin-Chun Liu
Producer: Stephanie Furtun
Producer: Daniel Leighton

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Scars Unseen

A triumph of the human spirit documentary following 3 women who have overcome domestic violence and are paying it forward.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Creator/Executive Producer: Meredith Yinger
Creator/Executive Producer/Director of Photography: Natalie Perez

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Scenes From Our Marriage

Co-stars Ela’ (Clarke Peters) and Legbani (Yolonda Ross) burn up the stage in a new racially fueled Broadway play. But when trust is violated, fact and fiction become blurred as the couple wrestles with what it means to love and succeed as black artists in show business.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer: Yolonda Ross
Producer: Laura Ivey
Executive Producer:Jeffrey Waxman

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Seasick

Sadie, a 17-year-old ferry deckhand has her day turned upside down when she tries to delete a love-confessing text message before outing herself to the crew.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Lindsey Ryan
Producer: Samantha Scolarici
Co-Producer: Danny Ryan
Executive Producer: Katherine Doyle
Associate Producer: Eden Strassburg
Cinematographer: Ming Hu
Colorist: Elodie Ichter
Cast - Sadie: Pauline Chalamet

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Season of the Witches

Season of the Witches is a psycho-social crime thriller following three American PhD students volunteering in post-hurricane Puerto Rico who accidentally kill a local playboy in a revenge scheme gone wrong. When the “doing good on the Island” women try to cover up the murder, they are pursued by a local detective with demons of her own, raising the stakes on what it means to be loyal and good.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Deborah Riley Draper
Writer/Producer: Sherri Daye Scott
Executive Producer: Mikki Taylor
Executive Producer: Cheryl Polote-Williamson

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Second Chance

A young woman suffering a mysterious trauma retreats from the city to the high mountains. Time, nature, and the unexpected influences of one who has seen a lot more of life and another who is yet to see much of it - help her heal.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Subhadra Mahajan
Producer: Shyam Bora
Executive Producer: Pan Nalin
Executive Producer/Director of Photography: Swapnil S. Sonawane

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Seeing Diane Arbus

A movie theater projectionist with dwarfism has a fateful, frightening reunion with the famously voyeuristic photographer, Diane Arbus.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer/Producer: Lindsay Zibach
Producer: Natalie Heltzel
Executive Producer: Ian Gibson

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Semicolon; life goes on

After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, Amy a 15-year old, rebellious teenage girl, awakens in the hospital to find herself sharing a bedside with Tito, a 3- year-old boy in a deep coma from a drowning incident. Through vivid dreams & surreal encounters, Tito becomes the catalyst that motivates Amy to rebuild her life while adapting to a life with an epilepsy diagnosis.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Andreina P. Aristeiguieta
Co-Writer: Alberto Arvelo
Producer: Emmi Grullon

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Shadow Dance

When Amare’s father catches him in the act with another boy, Amare is kicked out of the house and finds himself trying to survive in the cold unforgiving streets of New York, while still struggling to make his dreams of dancing with the renowned Alvin Ailey dance troupe a reality.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Producer/Actor: Reggie Lochard
Director: Kelley Kali
Producer: Kellon Akeem, Reggie Lochard, Capella Fahoome

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Shakti

To tame her mischief, a single mother enrolls her nine-year-old daughter in private painting lessons in Kathmandu until she suddenly catches a mysterious illness. When doctors are unable to pin down a diagnosis, her strong-willed mother turns to a local shaman who reveals shared trauma that leads mother and daughter down a path of redemption.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Nani Sahra Walker

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