Fiscal Sponsorship
One of Northwest Film Forum’s key artist support services is Fiscal Sponsorship. The Forum currently sponsors over 100 film projects and organizations.
If your film or project is approved for this program, we extend the Forum’s 501c3 status as a sponsor for the project, opening up opportunities for grants and fundraising available to nonprofit organizations. Fiscally sponsored projects can solicit tax-deductible donations from organizations or individuals. We administer donations made on behalf of the project and send donor acknowledgments. Our administrative cost is 7% for funds granted, but we do not take any ownership of the project.
Please note that this program does not provide direct financing or fundraising services.
PICTURED: The feature film, Thin Skin, directed by Charles Mudede.
Sponsored Projects
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Atopic
Coping with her failing health due to Topical Steroid Withdrawal Syndrome (TSWS), a young, Black theatre actress escapes her pain through musical fantasies only to discover she must face her reality to get the help she needs.
Big Sonia
Black Cinema Collective
Cloud Chamber
Coffee & Sugar
Detention
Dollhouse
DRAG!
East of the Mountains
Even Hell Has Its Heroes
Exes and Babies
Finding Bapu
Finding Bapu is a comedy about grief. It explores a child’s perspective into the complex world of loss, cultural identity and belonging. Sometimes, the hardest part of loving someone is learning to let go.
Finding Chaz
Fruitbowl: An Oral History of Queer Sex
The Fruit Salad Show
The Fruit Salad Show is an all-ages, intergenerational comedy/variety show and community event that centers on diverse queer voices. We strive to remove financial barriers for audiences while compensating collaborators with competitive stipends and opportunities for growth and exploration.
Goshen
Grandma's Roses
Her Mad Hatter
Her Mad Hatter is a twist on Alice in Wonderland. Danika, fairy godmother to villains, has very little time before Hatter’s sanity slips away forever. If she doesn’t find his true love, Wonderland will disintegrate with him. Danika knows that person is “Alice.” But, which one? Opening his heart to and losing Alice after Alice over centuries has chipped away at Hatter’s confidence and sanity.
Hooyo Macaan
Samira is a recent college graduate and a current disappointment to her mother. She is faced with the biggest challenge yet, her mommy issues. Samira comes head to head with her mother when they attend a Somali tribal party. Despite her poetic way with words, she can’t seem to find the right ones to stand up for herself against her mother’s constant dismissal. This results in a dance-off, the massive consumption of goat meat, and a kid figuring out how to want herself. Hooyo Macaan creates a space that highlights the beautiful, ugly, and heartbreaking aspects of having a relationship with a maternal figure. It is told through the eyes of someone who is historically unseen in media. This story asks a universal question: “Am I wanted?” and answers it in a new and refreshing way.”
Ingress
I Watched Her Grow
Seven years after the mysterious death of her mother, an isolated botanist meets an enigmatic, teenage runaway in a creek. Forming an unexpected bond, the two embark on a harrowing journey to confront their respective pasts, all while slowly realizing that they may not have to face their uncertain futures alone.
Life After Life
As Americans reconsider their relationship with death and dying after the Covid-19 Pandemic, LIFE AFTER LIFE, follows the opening of the worlds first large scale human composting facility, RETURN HOME, as they explore how their process can reconnect humans to ritual and grief through nature.
Lucy is a Loser
Marcie's
Marcie, a bartender with a dream, has to rally her people to save her community and the surrounding forest from development.
The Marsha Turner Taylor Visionary Award
The Most Dangerous Year
Peach Fuzz
Pinwheel Horizon
RADIOHEART: The Drive and Times of DJ Kevin Cole
Reckless Spirits
A metaphysical buddy comedy for a bleak new decade!
Reel Witness
Reflections of the River
Resilience
Seattle Black Panthers Fight for Justice & Freedom
The Black Panther Party (BPP) shined the light on systematic oppression, police brutality, and the targeted victimization of black people; they led the charge to tear down the stronghold of institutional racism, inhumane treatment of black people, bigotry, and injustice in America and all over the world.
Shades of Mindfulness
Shelf Life Community Story Project
She the Creator
Since I Been Down
Skagit
A Taste of Home
Thank You, MS PAM
Part Pee-Wee’s Playhouse and Mister Rogers, part Solid Gold and Arsenio Hall, Thank You, MS PAM is an educational and entertaining television show for all ages starring and created by artist, Tariqa Waters who owns and operates, MS PAM (Martyr Sauce Pop Art Museum) located in downtown Seattle’s Historic Arts District, Pioneer Square.
Thin Skin
TotemBridge
Unincarcerated Productions
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upstart crow collective
upstart crow collective produces classical plays with diverse casts of women and non-binary people, re-imagining these works for a contemporary audience.