Many foundations and large donors require grant applicants to be 501(c)(3) nonprofits, and unfortunately, obtaining this status is time-consuming and labor-intensive. This process is especially frustrating for independent artists searching for funding to complete their projects in a timely manner.
Luckily, Utah Film Center offers artist support with an alternative program: fiscal sponsorship. Artists and filmmakers in need of funding can apply to our fiscal sponsorship program online and approved non-commercial film projects are eligible to use the Film Center’s nonprofit status, rather than establishing their own.
All donations made to projects fiscally sponsored by Utah Film Center are 100% tax-deductible, and filmmaker recipients are awarded 94% of each of their donations. Utah Film Center retains 6% of each donation to cover administrative costs. Best of all, the fiscal sponsorship program also allows Utah Film Center to support artists and projects worldwide and provides Utahns access to each completed project free of charge.
Scroll below for a list of current and past fiscal sponsor projects. To learn more about the program or apply, click here.
To donate to any of the film/projects, please send a check to:
Utah Film Center
50 W Broadway Ste 1125
Salt Lake City UT 84101
Include the name of the film/project in the memo line. For questions, contact Sarah Mohr (smohr@utahfilmcenter.org) at 801-746-7000.
Utah Film Center Fiscal Sponsorship Projects
| Title | Director |
|---|---|
| 306 Hollywood | Elan Bogarin and Jonathan Bogarin |
| 3000 Cups of Tea | Jennifer Jordan |
| A World Unseen | Cole Sax |
| Afghan Cycles | Sarah Menzies |
| After Tiller | Lana Wilson and Martha Shane |
| Afterward | Ofra Bloch |
| Albatross | Chris Jordan |
| Alive Inside | Michael Rossato-Bennett |
| All Hearts and Minds | Vanessa Hope |
| Almost Inland | John Raftery/Heather Flanders |
| Always in Season | Jacqueline Olive |
| Anbessa | Mo Scarpelli |
| Another Night in the Free World | Susanne Rostock |
| Apostate | Alexandra Fuller & Anson Fogel |
| The Art of Political Murder | Paul Taylor |
| Assassins | Ryan White |
| Battlement Mesa | Gayle Embrey |
| Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache | Pamela Green |
| Before Your Time | Lucas James McGraw |
| Belly of the Beast | Erika Cohn |
| Bending the Arc | Kief Davidson |
| Between Love and Madness | Ismene Vetas |
| Bias | Robin Hauser |
| Bisbee '17 | Robert Greene |
| The Bleeding Edge | Kirby Dick |
| Born into the Gig | David Heilbroner |
| Bread Head | Max Lugavere |
| Breadwinner | Nora Twomey |
| Breaking Bones, Breaking Barriers | Cecilia Peck |
| Breakthrough | Laura Gabbert |
| The C Word | Meghan O'Hara |
| Cain, Abel and the Cowgirl | Dina Amer |
| Campesino | Mia Tate and Tchavdar Georgiev |
| Cello | Angie Su |
| Changing of the Gods | Louie Schwartzberg and Kenny Ausubel |
| Charlotte So Far | Charlotte Tirola and Douglas Tirola |
| Church & State | Kendall Wilcox and Holly Tuckett |
| Church: The Life and Murder of Gordon Church | Chad Anderson; Jason Conforto - Co-director |
| Cipher | Cam Goold |
| Compared to What : The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank | Sheila Canavan and Mike Chandler |
| The Condor & The Eagle | Clement Guerra |
| Confluence | Amy Marquis and Dana Romanoff |
| Connecting Thread | TBD |
| Cracked Up | Michelle Esrick |
| Cradle Song | Celeste Chaney |
| The Crash Reel | Lucy Walker |
| Distance | Anson Fogel and Alexandra Fuller |
| Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes | Alexis Bloom |
| Dogtown Redemption | Amir Soltani |
| Dolores | Peter Bratt |
| Don't Make Me Over: Dionne Warwick's Crossover Journey | Dave Wooley and David Heilbroner |
| The Donut Dollies | Norm Anderson |
| Down Ticket | Adam Moffat |
| Down the Fence | MJ Isakson and Lori Adamski Peek |
| Dreamcatcher | Kim Longinotto |
| Dying in Vein | Jenny Mackenzie |
| The Eagle Huntress | Otto Bell |
| Earth Camp One | Jennie Livingston |
| The Education of Shelby Knox | Alethea Jones |
| Elder | Genea Gaudet |
| Embargo | Jeri Rice |
| Emily Dickinson Radio Program | Frederick Wiseman |
| Escape From San Quentin | Daniel Vernon |
| Ethel | Rory Kennedy |
| Ex Libris | Frederick Wiseman |
| Eye of the Storm | Brooke Harris Wolff |
| Fantasy Island | Lauren Greenfield |
| Feels Good Man | Arthur Jones |
| The Fire and the Flood | Lucy Walker |
| Following Harry | Susanne Rostock |
| Forger | Tyler Measom |
| Forgotten Fields | Jesse Soursourian |
| Frame by Frame | Alexandria Bombach and Mo Scarpelli |
| Franca: Chaos and Creation | Francesco Carrozzini |
| Frederick Wiseman Preservation Project | |
| Generation Wealth | Lauren Greenfield |
| Genevieve: Girl Before a Mirror | Jill Goldman |
| Global Crossroads | Ross Kauffman |
| The Grand Rescue | Jenny Wilson and Meredith Lavitt |
| The Great Hack | Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer |
| The Guardians | Billie Mintz |
| Healing Quest | Judy Brooks; Roy Walkenhorst |
| Hebron- H2 | Idit Avrahami, Noam Sheizaf |
| The Heist | Galen Knowles, co-director; Phil Hessler, co-dir |
| High School Athlete | Michael Barnett |
| Holy Hell | Will Allen |
| However Long | Jenny Mackenzie |
| The Hunt | Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw |
| The Hunting Ground | Kirby Dick |
| Hurricane Roxcy | Susanna Styron |
| Hurricane Hate | Kim A. Snyder |
| I SHOT MY FATHER | Mo Scarpelli |
| I Am We | Ron Davis |
| In Jackson Heights | Frederick Wiseman |
| In Football We Trust | Tony Vainuku and Erika Cohn |
| Inheritance | Laura Davis |
| An Insignificant Man | Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla |
| Invisible Disabilities | Jenny Mackenzie |
| The Invisible War | Kirby Dick |
| Jacinta | Jessica Earnshaw |
| Janis: Little Girl Blue | Amy Berg |
| Jesus Town, USA | Julian T. Pinder and Billie Mintz |
| Joan Little | Nelson George |
| Keepers of the Message | Te Anu Tonga and Heather Harrison |
| La Borrega | Carly Jakins and Jared Jakins |
| Leftover Women | Hilla Medalia and Shosh Shlam |
| Life in the Doghouse | Ron Davis |
| The Life Before Us | Edoardo Ponti |
| All Eyes And Ears | Vanessa Hope |
| Like a Rolling Stone | Suzanne Kai |
| Lion's Mouth Opens | Lucy Walker |
| Living in Stereo | Tyler Measom |
| Love & Stuff | Judith Helfand |
| Mandela's Children | Kweku Mandela and Kemal Akhtar |
| Maxima | Claudia Sparrow |
| Meet the Patels | Geeta V. Patel and Ravi V. Patel |
| Michael Brody Jr. Doc (Untitled) | Keith Maitland |
| Mixed Status | Isabel Castro |
| Moksha | Francesca Weikert |
| Monrovia, Indiana | Frederick Wiseman |
| Monumenta: Beverly Pepper | Gregory Whitmore |
| Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements | Irene Taylor Brodsky |
| Mormon Pavilion | |
| Newtown | Kim A. Snyder |
| Not Carol | Eamon Harrington |
| Once Was Water | Christopher Beaver |
| One of Us | Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady |
| One Planet | Bambi Lynn Blitz |
| Open Shadow: The Story of Teal Swan | Paola Marino |
| Oslo Diaries | Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan |
| The Other Side of Everything | Mila Turajlic |
| Out and Around | Lauren Fash and Ryan Suffern |
| Pandora's Promise | Robert Stone |
| Piper's Price | Nino DelGiudice |
| Possible Selves | Shaun Kadlec |
| Prophet's Prey | Amy Berg |
| Quiet Heroes | Jenny Mackenzie |
| Quiet Storms of Reform | Ben DeSoto; Julye Newlin, co-director |
| The Radicals | Jehane Noujaim |
| Rafea: Solar Mama | Jehane Noujaim and Mona Eldaief |
| The Rape of Recy Taylor | Nancy Buriski |
| READy or Not? | Jenny Mackenzie |
| Rebel Hearts | Pedro Kos |
| Recovery High | Steven Liss |
| Restorative Youth Circles | Eric Metzgar |
| Revolution RENT | Victor Patrick Alvarez & Andy Senor Jr. |
| The Rex Lee Story (working title) | Dodge Billingsley |
| Roll Red Roll | Nancy Schwartzman |
| "Same Sex Attracted" | Maddy Purves and Zoie Young |
| The Seventh Fire | Jack Riccobono |
| Shooting the Mafia: Letizia Battaglia | Kim Longinotto |
| Short Cuts: Bridges | Lucy Walker |
| Sketchbook | Helen Nightengale |
| Social Secretary | Shaun Kadlec |
| Song Of Lahore | Andy Schocken and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy |
| Space Project (Untitled) | Robert Stone |
| Splinters of a Nation | Scott Porter |
| The Square (Al Midan) | Jehane Noujaim |
| Step | Amanda Lipitz |
| Sugar Babies | Jenny Mackenzie |
| Sun Ladies | Celine Tricart |
| Swift Current | Joshua Rofe |
| The Take Care Campaign | Mulitple |
| A Tale of Two Drugs | Lucy Walker |
| That is Circling All Round the Sun | Colleen Kwok |
| The Judge | Erika Cohn |
| The Man Who Saved the World | Peter Anthony |
| The 5 Browns: Digging Through the Darkness | Ben Niles |
| This is Home | Alexandra Shiva |
| This is America | Amy Berg |
| Tom Stockham: The Father of Digital Audio Recording | Sam Katz |
| Traffic Stop | Kate Davis |
| Tsunami | Jace Alexander |
| Undiagnosed: Medical Refugees | Dr. Katia Moritz |
| Unrest | Jennifer Brea |
| Untitled Parkland Project | Kim A Snyder |
| Untitled Amanda Lipitz Project | Amanda Lipitz |
| Untitled Priests Project | Robert Greene |
| Untitled Incest Documentary | Kirby Dick |
| Untitled Hollywood Assaults Project | Kirby Dick; Amy Ziering |
| Untitled Yannis Behrakis Project | Buddy Squires |
| The Vow | Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amir |
| The Water Song Project | Nicole Betancourt |
| Waterproof | Ross Kauffman |
| We the Animals | Jeremiah Zagar |
| The Weight of a Decision | Pamela D. Smith |
| When Claude Got Shot | Brad Lichtenstein |
| Where's My Roy Cohn? | Matt Tyrnauer |
| Wide Awake | Hemal Trivedi |
| Wild: Of Wolves and Wildness | Darcy Dennett |
| Won't You Be My Neighbor | Morgan Neville |
| Wrenched | ML Lincoln |
| Wrestling Ghosts | Ana Joanes |
