Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. Donate today and help bring Film 4 Good Fund to life.

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Film 4 Good Fund empowers underrepresented filmmakers at the finish line – providing the vital funding needed to complete films that spark empathy, shift culture, and drive justice.

Synopsis

In order to empower the next generation of indie filmmakers during this unprecedented tough time in the film industry, we need to ensure bold directors/artists have the funds necessary to get their projects over the finish line. Emerging filmmakers don’t yet have the track record to attain the sparse resources otherwise available.

Our collective vision is to elevate and empower emerging filmmakers and films centering racial, economic, gender, disability, and climate justice, led by Black, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+ people, women, immigrants, and people of color, to ultimately complete film projects that shift culture. At a time when grant applications for films are becoming increasingly competitive, this is a chance for donors to support purpose-driven projects outside of typical grant cycles.

Our purpose in this ecosystem is to pull in more philanthropic resources for filmmakers who need it and don’t have current relationships to foundations.

Meet the Filmmakers

Kareem Alston-Rosales — Project Representative
Our founder and executive director Kareem Alston-Rosales, a Stanford graduate with an advanced degree in African Studies, received grant money from Stanford to create a thesis film about Hip Hop culture and its connection to anti-apartheid struggle in Cape Town, SA. Alston-Rosales pursued filmmaking as an intern at Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions, before landing at New York Foundation, as their Communications Director doing short documentary films about their grantees to raise their profiles to attract larger funders. He then moved to the ACLU of Northern California to work at the intersection of narrative impact/political change and media/communications. Most recently, Alston-Rosales spent 6 years at The Communications Network, gathering storytellers from the most respected foundations and large nonprofits in our sector to help them both improve on and invest in narrative change work.

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Contact

For inquiries, please contact fiscalsponsorship@filmindependent.org.