Sponsored Projects

Film Independent Fiscal Sponsorship

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.
Filter by:
Upstream
At the edge of youth and adulthood, young men converge at a remote salmon conservation site along Alaska’s Taku River. Cut off from the outside world, they must rely on each other and the lessons of the salmon to confront turbulent pasts and come-of-age.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Co-Director: Natalie Berger, Moira Fett
Producer: Martha Gregory, Sean Weiner
Story Consultant: Logan O'Shea

Donate Now | Learn More

US, INTERNATIONAL

Facing social and political instability in the US, and also in some of their home countries, four foreign university students from four different countries struggle internally and externally with their own versions of the American Dream as they pursue their degrees in Utah—can they forge a life here?

Project Type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Ya-Chi Yang
Producer: Mengxu Pan
Writer: Sonia Albert-Sobrino
Co-producer: Miriam Albert-Sobrino
Editor: Stan Clawson

Learn More

Vanitas

A woman hires a photographer to document her estranged family’s last day with their dying matriarch, but her sister is running late.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Lucy Gamades
Producer: Mike Ferlita
Director of Photography: Alexa Carroll
Line Producer: Ryan Leibowitz
Casting Director: Joshua Michael Payne
Sound Designer: Michael Spencer

Learn More

Vault

A competition drama about athletes vying for a gold medal in a little known equestrian sport. Vaulting combines gravity-defying gymnastics and dance - on horseback.

Director/Producer: Rebecca Stern
Producer: Max Peltz
Producer: Maxim Gertler-Jaffe

Donate Now | Learn More

Veins of the Veld

Suffering from a supernatural malady, a woman returns to her homeland and solicits her sister's help to find a cure, only to walk into a trap that reveals she’s not the only “sick” one.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Producer/Actor: Nomsa L Mlambo
Executive Producer: Tendayi Nyeke
Cinematographer: Bongani Mlambo

Donate Now | Learn More

Velvet Mind

A young woman chasing her dreams is pulled into the Pandora’s box of bipolar disorder and must define a new normal for herself.

Director: Karen Slade

Writer/Producer: Amy Olson
Producer: Ged Dickersin

Donate Now | Learn More

Venus in Furs

A Wall Street wannabe is swept into the underbelly of New York after meeting a seductive drifter.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Liam Walsh
Producer: Nate Cohen, Kathryn Wright

Donate Now | Learn More

Vial

When an aging supermodel's (played by Claudia Suleweksi) appeal begins to dim, she visits a magical apothecary in hopes of revitalizing her appearance but quickly learns that beauty comes at a price.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Caroline Iaffaldano
Producer: Tallulah Dirnfeld
Talent/Executive Producer: Claudia Sulewski
Executive Producer: LE Seydel

Donate Now | Learn More

Victorine

On the one year anniversary of her mother's death, a Haitian-American dancer claims her place in a long line of powerful women.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Lunise Cerin
Producer: Danielle Dougé
Co-Producer: Donovan Tolledo
Co-Producer: Love Soulèy
Co-Producer: Cameron Carr

Donate Now | Learn More

Viv & Vivienne

Viv & Vivienne is a highly entertaining comedy-horror with twists, jump scares, and plenty of gore, but also a laser-focused social satire of latter-day Hollywood and the entrapments of modern fame and extreme fandom.

Writer/Director/: Bobcat Goldthwait
Cast: Pollyanna McIntosh
Cast: Natalie Palamides

Donate Now | Learn More

Vulva La Revolution

Vulva la Revolution (a film by Meredith Yinger + Dr. Maria Uloko) is a bold, investigative journey into the roots of medical sexism. Equal parts historical exposé, cultural analysis, and radical re-education, it unpacks how centuries of bias have created today’s epidemic of medical gaslighting—and introduces the patients, scientists, and visionaries creating new systems.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Meredith Yinger
Director/Producer: Dr. Maria Uloko

Donate Now | Learn More

Walk With Me

Walk With Me In 2019, Charlie Hess — father, husband, graphic designer, and a man content in his life — was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Over the next four years, his wife, acclaimed casting director Heidi Levitt, turns the camera on their marriage and family, capturing how love stretches, shifts, and endures as memory and cognitive abilities begin to change.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Co-Director/Producer: Heidi Levitt
Cinematographer: Lisa Rinzler
Producer: Vanessa Perez
Producer/Lead Subject: Charlie Hess
Executive Producer: Alex Gibney

Donate Now | Learn More

Wander Women

After being uprooted from their isolated doomsday cult, two best friends are thrust into the modern world and forced to find sanctuary in Los Angeles.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Actor: Scarlett Bress
Writer/Actor: Olivia Singer
Director: Drew Denny
Producer: Isabella Dake

Donate Now | Learn More

Waste King

Paul feels anxious, hopeless, and disconnected. But what is his ailment?

Writer/Director: Joshua Yunis

Donate Now | Learn More

Water Dog

A disillusioned millennial man bumps into an old classmate and meets his new wife - a disembodied head. Questioning his sanity, the man brings his girlfriend to dinner with the couple.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Directors: Christina Kelly Holmes
Producer: Roxanne Griffith
Cinematographer: Pip White
Production Designer: Esmé Cruz Jackson

Learn More

We Burn Like This

When 22 year-old Rae, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, is targeted by Neo-Nazis in Billings, Montana, her ancestors' trauma becomes real.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Alana Waksman
Executive Producer: Neda Armian
Producer: Jeri Rafter
Producer/Editor: Marshall Granger
Director of Photography: B. Rubén Mendoza

Learn More

We Could Be A Dynasty: the Story of the Iron Kids

When a group teenage outsiders find paintball and come together as a team in the late ‘90s, it sends shock waves through their sport, forever changing both the game and themselves.

Producers: Dan Napoli, Alex Fraige, Oliver Lang

Donate Now | Learn More

We Just Want To Be

In 1960s California, an L.A. clinic opened its doors to offer conversion therapy to worried parents of LGBTQ children. Doctors wondered if identity was flexible, and designed a project to see if gender and sexuality were the results of nature or nurture. While seeking the truth in this story behind their own identities, two unlikely friends, come together to investigate the ongoing harm of conversion therapy shapes the lives of trans youth today.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Directors: Sé Sullivan & Mauro Sifuentes
Producers: Sé Sullivan & Mauro Sifuentes
Consulting Producer: Marc Smolowitz
 

Donate Now | Learn More

We Strangers

Rayelle Martin, a commercial cleaning woman in Gary, Indiana, stumbles into a new job cleaning the homes of several rich, suburban families. While working, she tells one small lie that spins out of control.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Anu Valia
Producers: Olivia Wingate, Miranda Kahn, Joy Jorgensen, Alex Bach, Zachary Spicer

Donate Now | Learn More

We Walked In Their Shadows

During a late night drug raid in a Triad gaming arcade, a young Indian cop desperate to prove himself to his Chinese superiors uncovers a personal connection to a suspect—forcing him to choose between duty and dishonor. Based on a true story.

Writer/Director/Actor: Amarik Singh Khosa
Producer: Lung Kwok Yiu
Actor (Sunny): ZAIN

Learn More

1 37 38 39 40 41