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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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No Handicap

Disabled players and their allies are using advocacy and technology to fight stigmas and enact change to make electronic gaming accessible and level the playing field.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Derek Dabkoski
Producer: Ian McClellan
Producer: Paige Draney
Co-Producer/Director of Photography: Nicholas Finn Myggen

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No One Likes a Mad Woman

In a Puritan town consumed by paranoia, a young mother, haunted by her friend's execution, must navigate growing suspicion to protect her daughter from a similar fate.

Director: Kim Caicedo
Writer/Producer: Teresa Catherine
Producer: Susanne McDonald, Lauren Elizabeth Harris,

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No Word For No

Youth in Indonesia are poised to become the majority of their country’s population by 2020. Despite unprecedented death tolls in the wake of environmental disasters, they remain resilient. No Word for No explores the question: how are the young people of Indonesia preparing to face the challenges ahead?

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer: Andrew Morrison
Director of Photography: Auden Bui
Editor: Colton Loftin
Master Dalang: Ki Midiyanto

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Nomad Shadow
Disheartened by her deportation from Europe, Mariam is forced to return home to Western Sahara. Adrift in the very place that was once her home, she desperately searches for the means to assert agency over her own life.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director:Eimi Imanishi
Producer: Shrihari Sathe, Eric Dupont, Virginie Lacombe, Belén Sánchez Silvero, Damon Owlia

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Noor

Noor, a Black woman develops a deep connection to Rami, an Arab man who works in her neighborhood bodega in the midst of an unexpected tragedy. Based on the award-winning feature script, Noor.

Writer/Director: Nijla Mu'min
Producer: Avril Speaks

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NORA (NORA’S MOTHER + NORA’S HUSBAND)

Nora's Mother and Nora's Husband follow the already-produced Nora to create a trilogy of films that weave together to consider the existential vis-a-vis the banal. These queer fever dreams are a stylized, stylish look at a pivotal moment in which three complicated characters consider a single, simple question: Who am I? Inspired by Shakespearean soliloquies and TikTok rants, Nora… explores the vulnerability and narcissism of publicly sharing a private reflection.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer/Producer/Actor: Neil D'Astolfo
Producer/Editor: Erika Kramer
Producer: Kevin Bender

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Norita

How a mother’s search for her son led to the defeat of a dictatorship and inspired a new generation of women to fight for their freedoms.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Jayson McNamara, Andrea Tortonese
Producer: Sarah Schoellkopf

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Not a Cooking Show

Celebrity chef Susan Feniger, the bubbly “Mary Tyler Moore” of the cooking world, must team up with a foul-mouthed, scotch swilling “influencer” to save her flagging TV career. It’s a match made in hell.

Creator/Producer/Director: Liz Lachman
Cast: Susan Feniger

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Not Afraid

After a blow up during basketball practice, Olivia struggles to face a deeper devastating reality in rural Montana.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Mikaela Bruce
Writer/Producer: v.c. rhone
Executive Producer: Jen Buckley-Murphy, Luna Zhang

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Not Far From Here

A Nigerian-Italian girl secretly witnesses a white Italian boy she grew up with commit a hate crime, and wrestles with whether to speak up or not when the boy shows up to her home the next day.

Project type: Fiction Short
Producer/Co-Writer/"Renzo": Will Graziano
Director: Francesca Castelbuono
Executive Producer: Bradley Gallo
Executive Producer: Olivia Hurd
Co-Writer: Daphne Di Cinto
Co-Writer: Alanna Bennett
Script Consultant: Angelica Pesarini

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Not Going Quietly

When 32-year-old father Ady Barkan is diagnosed with ALS, a terminal illness that will soon paralyze his entire body, he decides to use the time he has left to confront the politicians who threaten his health care and America’s democracy. As he loses his ability to speak, he sets out across the country with his wife, 2-year old son, and a motley crew of activists to launch the most unlikely political movement in a generation.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Nicholas Bruckman
Producer: Amanda Roddy

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Now and Never

A woman in the midst of an anxiety attack is confronted with questions about her own existence by two characters, who happen to be voices in her head.

Project type: Fiction Short
Producers: Kavi Ladnier, Rohi Mirza Pandya, Anita Hodges
Director/Screenplay: Kymberly Harris

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Oasis

A thriller about a collection of confident women who begin spending time at a midcentury home with a bachelor who offers them an interesting escape and ''members only" solution to their problems, only to experience him nurturing their insecurities into an entirely different form. As they descend into an unconventional bacchanal, one innocent voyeur puts things right.

Writer/Director: Anne Marie Boidock
Producer: Jay Johnson
Music Supervisor: Alex Suskind

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Ocean Moon, Water Mother (海月 水母)

An elderly woman being priced out of her family home on O'ahu, Hawai'i must decide whether to leave the islands for good, or start anew with the help of an ancient island entity.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Melina Kiyomi Coumas
Associate Producer: B Okabe
Cinematographer: Miles Sprietsma

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October Mourning

Henry, a Black man grieving the unexpected loss of his father, finds himself regretting all the conversations they never had, when an opportunity arises for them to talk one final time.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Frederick Thornton
Producer: Gia Rigoli
Producer: Sean Hackett
Executive Producer: Fanshen Cox

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Oh, No!

A Rom-Com with a splash of sci-fi about a time loop rebellion against fate.

Writer/Director/Producer: Scott Mckinney
Producer/Composer: Jackson Brown
Producer: Benjamin Hatmaker

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Old Ladies Find Money

On a storm-ravaged beach, two women-of-a-certain-age find $2.5 Million and take it, knowing no one will suspect them. But when a couple of baddies show up looking for their cash and a townie ends up dead, the women must come up with a plan to save their community.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: AR Nicholas
Associate Producer: Marla Friedson

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Oldhead

A young man that’s been living a life of crime has finally come face to face with his fate but it’s up to his Godfather to save him from making the biggest mistake of his life.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Tony Chennault
Producer: Joshua Meekins
Producer: Osagie Johnson
Producer: Shandra McDonald
Executive Producers: Brandon Pankey, Christina Faith, Stephon Barnes

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Oma

A nurse’s unexpected transfer to the isolated Austrian Alps to care for an impaired woman turns into a nightmare when the patient forces her into a series of psychological and sadistic games.

Director: Bianca Foscht, Dilara Foscht
Producer: Ilayda Cetinkaya
Cinematographer: Leo Behrens

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One for the Road

Two movers reluctantly help a lost man in the dead of the night, only to realize far too late the trap they've gotten themselves into. A horror short, based on a story by Stephen King.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer: Corey Slater
Director: Daniel Carsenty
Producer: Blaine Morris

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