Past Fiscally Sponsored Projects

When Depression, an African American woman in her 30s, finds herself overwhelmed by life's challenges, her three friends—Anger, Grief, and Pain—arrive unexpectedly to help her confront her struggles.

In April 1997, Martin Thomas, a popular Kansas City church minister, pled guilty to the murder of a man who he once knew. Never revealing why he took the man’s life, Martin’s family was shattered and left with unanswered questions.

A Holocaust Journey: Lessons We Learned presents a group of students who traveled to Berlin/Poland with the aim of trying to comprehend the reality of the Holocaust.

A Vow From the Ruins is an intimate portrait of Setsuko Thurlow, a passionate, 85 year-old woman who survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.

A horrific murder of a 15 year old boy riles a small town community, exposes deep fault lines, and leads to the 1999 convictions of four Native boys based on questionable evidence.

Meet four young women who tell the stories of their struggles to escape poverty and pave the road for others to follow.

Aspiring Taiwanese artist Mia marries fellow artist Joe at Brooklyn's Court House. Meanwhile, Mia's aunt Lilian also immigrates to the U.S., marrying Richard and settling in rural town upstate New York.

AmeRican Poet Tato Laviera tells the story of a prolific poet, playwright, and community activist from the Lower East Side.

Madagascar’s ecosystem is one of the most threatened on the planet.

A young researcher aboard an interplanetary mission gets a brief chance to observe the subject of her academic obsession up close, a species on the brink of extinction: humans.

The idea for Arena came to me as a question: if I take everything away from you—your family, your friends, your material possessions, and the stories that led you to success or trauma... Who you?

In a prosperous suburb in 1986, New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl discovers her father is a child molester and has been using her as bait. Will she protect him or tell the truth in this heartbreaking true story?

Beautiful Pasadena tells the story of a marriage in crisis at the start of the economic collapse in 2008.

What people can do and talk about in the bedroom? Creativity has no limit in this anthology series.

This 30 minute series celebrates strong, opinionated women and emphasizes that we don’t need to agree (or even like each other) to peacefully co-exist. All we need to do is find common ground and laugh about it!

Black Enuf* is an animated documemoir that takes a playful approach to heavier questions of identity, difference, and self-acceptance.

Teenage Rylie buckles under the weight of her PTSD, and forces herself on a journey to find where the painful parts of her were born and now live.

A survivor of the deadliest day in Mt. Everest’s lurid history, journalist and adventure-filmmaker Michael Churton returns to the Himalayas to pay respects to the past and rediscover what was lost.

CAP is a father-son love story set in Los Angeles and inspired by true events. This two part story explores the devastating effects of gun violence on a family.

cataclysm.begins is a LGBTQ+ centric YA sci-fi dystopian series set in a not-so-distant dystopian future about a pair of queer teenage twins coming of age during a traumatic time in their life.

Over the course of twenty-five years, Creatively Speaking has become the leading, curated film series offering a diverse forum that highlights independent film by and about women and people of color.

Feature-length experimental documentary reimagines this countercultural festival, known as the Rainbow Gathering, as a psychedelic trip to another planet

Dust highlights the tragedy of the people who relive 9/11 and deal with its deadly legacy on a daily basis.

In Feel Memory, artist Viviane Silvera combines live action with stop-motion made out of thousands of hand-painted stills (approximately 50,000).

Through running the diner Victor tries to establish his masculinity, while Nick follows, resulting in a huge argument and Nick looking over his sperm donor files, pondering if this really could be his father.

This is a love story. Between a Seamstress and her own Right Hand.

An aging blues singer returns to the stage 17 years after music broke his heart. Frank Bey’s incredible journey reaches a climactic year as he overcomes the loss of his backing band to record his dream album in Nashville.

On August 21, 2017 a Total Solar Eclipse crossed the length of the United States from the Oregon coast to North Carolina.

Twenty-five year old nanny and aspiring writer Sophie can’t believe her luck when she lands a gig babysitting for the daughter of her favorite author, Linda Carson.

“A family of animated precocious grade-school bugs confront bullying and the stigmas of being from “the wrong side of the tracks” while pursuing their dreams of becoming all-star basketball players.

New York Women in Film and Television is proud to serve as fiscal agent for the Lights! Camera! Access! 2.0 Initiative by The Loreen Arbus Foundation and EIN SOF Communications.

In her own words, comedian Gilda Radner looks back and reflects on her life and career.

Nobody escapes from blood and thunder in Colombia, and definitely not in the archipelago of San Andres. The Raizal people are excruciatingly persecuted by their government.

A 16-year old with dreams of rock stardom, has become the “special friend” of Schwartzey, a powerful music producer with a penchant for teenage girls who promises to make her dreams come true.

The New York WILD Film Festival showcases a spectrum of topics, from exploration and adventure to wildlife and the environment, bringing all things WILD to one of the most urban cities in the world.

Say the name Oliver Stone and you get a reaction. Once the firebrand voice of America’s radical left and the country’s most political filmmaker, he now finds himself in uncertain territory — his legacy hanging in the balance.

“On the Road with David Amram” is a documentary film about Jewish-American composer, conductor and multi-instrumentalist David Amram, for whom the adjective “eclectic” is entirely fitting.

This project examines the future of public media in the United States, with a focus on sustaining independent documentary and community-rooted storytelling as vital resources for democracy.

A deeply moving documentary about homeless man Roosevelt Wilkerson, whose passion for carving walking sticks connects him to a world beyond the streets and launches him on an incredible journey.

Super Fire Woman And Her Sparks is a talk show hosted by Super Fire Woman that celebrates people with unique challenges to show case their talent.

Set in 1964 Haiti, during the reign of François Duvalier, Ti Zwazo (Little Bird) tells the story of Rene, and his family as they navigate the dangers of political unrest. Ti Zwazo is a moving exploration of love, resilience, and sacrifice in the face of political turmoil, highlighting a family’s unwavering hope and determination to survive.