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New and innovative work, fiscally sponsored by Film Independent.
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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Winters, Nebraska

Following a sixteen-year exodus to San Francisco, and the untimely death of his partner, Jack returns home to rural Nebraska to care for his ailing grandmother, where he must face his grief while reconciling his past.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Project status: Production
Writer/Director/Producer :Eric Delehoy
Director of Photography:Bruce James Bales
Assistant Director : Marissa Vonn
Cast: Michael Ridley

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Witness

When a young girl is called upon in court as the sole witness in her father's sexual assault case, she must choose between telling the truth or protecting her family.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Mishal Mahmud
Producer: Nidhi Kulkarni
Producer: Aishy Vimal
Cinematographer: Kathryn Boyd-Batstone
Sound Recordist: Renia Akamatsu

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Women of Hollywood Mixers x Blank Paige Films

Blank Paige Films mixers foster a safe environment for women or female-identifying folk who work in the Hollywood entertainment industry to mingle, network, and have a blast with like-minded individuals. It's time to celebrate and empower each other in order to reach new heights!

Project type: Organization
Producer: Paige Blankenship

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Women with Purple Violets
In the 1970s, an all-female football fan club called ‘Purple Violets’ played a significant role in the liberation of women within a conservative Turkish society. Fifty-two years later, four elderly members of the club reunite for one final match before their beloved team and stadium are dismantled in an increasingly conservative country.

Director/Producer: Sezen Kayhan
Producers: Beste Yamalıoğlu, Fabian Kling, Natalia Imaz
Editors: Rita Bakacs, Buğra Dedeoğlu
Animation Artist: İmge Özbilge

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Writers Block

A struggling screenwriter escapes to a remote AI-controlled cabin to finish her script, but as the machine begins rewriting her life, the only way out is to finish the story, before it finishes her.

Director: Gabriela Revilla Lugo
Co-Writer/Producer: Evelyn Angelica Martinez
Executive Producer: Alambic Production

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Wyoming Christmas Carol

Facing the loss of her family’s historic Wyoming dude ranch, a determined single mom invites Willie Nelson to headline a Christmas fundraising show. As her plans unravel and all appears lost, she’s surprised to rediscover the real meaning of family, home, and Christmas.

Director: Jason Satterlund
Screenwriter/Lead Actress: Hannah Barefoot
Producer: Mark G. Mathis

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XA Endowment

One Billion people have a disability worldwide and are poorly represented in Film & Television. Our team aims to correct a hundred year old problem through financial incentive.

Producer: Grant Anderson
Singer: Wynonna Judd
Executive Producer: Brandon Sonnier

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Yield

On her way to visit her sick father, an adrift young woman, Riley Varick, hits a deer on the road and is forced to confront and accept her actions as a prerequisite for her father’s inevitable demise.

Director/Writer: Ani Schroeter
Producer: Myriam Schroeter
Director of Photography: Alexander Dynan

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Yokai

A Japanese American witch, trapped in 1942, must join forces with her grandfather to stop a world-threatening wizard, all while facing the horrors of a WWII incarceration camp.

Creator/Writer/Executive Producer: Mary Tamura
Director: Christine W. Chen
Producer: Temitope Oguntolu, Taylor Hampton

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Yoshi: Wake Up With Me

After learning about the death of his mentor on Facebook, Yoshi walks 8,800 miles to connect with her family and friends. But along his journey Yoshi discovers the courage to look inward and rectify his own past.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Momo Lee Aoi

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Yosi

Yosimar Reyes is a queer undocumented poet and a full-time caregiver, whose life takes an unexpected turn when his 89-year-old abuelita decides to self-deport.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Jimmy Goldblum
Producers: Gia Rigoli, Veronica Kompalic, Esteban Zuluaga, Justin Gonçalves

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You & I, You & Me
A romantic drama following two trans musicians -- the disgraced ex-punk rocker son of a record label CEO and a guarded former pop star -- after they are paired to write her an unlikely comeback hit.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Gabe S. Dunn
Producer: Melisa D. Monts
Cinematographer: Gabriel Carnick
Line Producer/UPM: Sara Soderquist

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You Don’t Know My Name

After being separated from his incarcerated mother at birth, Tommy Franklin searches for her identity while uncovering deep ancestral bloodlines. As he gets closer to this life-altering truth, he must navigate his way through systems designed to keep him in the dark.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Tommy Franklin
Producer: Dawne Langford
Consulting Producer: Darcy McKinnon
Director of Photography: Zuri Obi
Composer and Sound Designer: Renee Copeland

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You’re Not Well

Suddenly unemployed, Eileen takes her podcast obsession to unhealthy levels as she struggles both to find a new job and take care of herself.

Writer/Creator: Jamison Bruce Anthony
Director: Nieves Garcia Perchin
Director Of Photography: Chase Shamlian

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Young Filmmakers After School Film and Television Skills Development Program

Eliminating the Darkness, One Candle at a Time.

Project type: Organization
Director: Beverley Mitchell
Producer: Quinton Fredericks

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Your Opinion, Please

For nearly a decade, Montanans could participate in "Your Opinion, Please", a weekly public radio program that provided a platform for people to express their views live on-air. By juxtaposing audio clips from hundreds of episodes with contemporary footage of Montana, Your Opinion, Please will offer a compelling portrait of the program's impact, and the enduring importance of open communication.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer/Editor: Marshall Granger
Producer: Alana Waksman
Director of Photography: Lorin Granger

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Yurt (Dormitory)

Forced to leave the comfort of his middle class lifestyle at his father’s behest, twelve-year-old Ahmet is sent to an all-boys religious dormitory where he must navigate familial expectations, his religious obligations, and the childhood to which he so desperately clings.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer: Nehir Tuna
Producer: Tanay Abbasoglu
Producer: Dorothe Beinemeier
Co-Producer: Thierry Lenouvel
Cinematographer: Florent Herry

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ZhiZha!

In the wake of their mother’s death, two estranged sisters battle over the legacy of their family business—the last Taoist paper effigy shop in Southern California.

Writer/Director: Desdemona Chiang
Producer: Selena Leoni
Production Designer: Justine Ellen Chen

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Zugzwang

A private detective takes a job, hoping for redemption, and finds herself in the midst of an ever-expanding world of corruption.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Bridget Stokes
Producer: Erin Owens, Katie Taylor

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