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
| Project | Director |
|---|---|
| "Same Sex Attracted" | Maddy Purves and Zoie Young |
| 3000 Cups of Tea | Jennifer Jordan |
| 306 Hollywood | Elan Bogarin and Jonathan Bogarin |
| The 5 Browns: Digging Through the Darkness | Ben Niles |
| Afghan Cycles | Sarah Menzies |
| After Tiller | Lana Wilson and Martha Shane |
| Afterward | Ofra Bloch |
| Albatross | Chris Jordan |
| Alive Inside | Michael Rossato-Bennett |
| All Eyes And Ears | Vanessa Hope |
| All Hearts and Minds | Vanessa Hope |
| Almost Inland | John Raftery/Heather Flanders |
| Alternative Peaks | Jamie MoCrazy |
| Always in Season | Jacqueline Olive |
| American Girls | Amanda Lipitz |
| American Voices Project | David Heilbroner and Kate Davis |
| Anbessa | Mo Scarpelli |
| Another | Lane Russell |
| Another Night in the Free World | Susanne Rostock |
| The Apollo | Roger Ross Williams |
| Apostate | Alexandra Fuller & Anson Fogel |
| The Art of Political Murder | Paul Taylor |
| Assassins | Ryan White |
| Atomic Hope | Frankie Fenton |
| 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 and Kate Davis |
| Bread Head | Max Lugavere |
| Breadwinner | Nora Twomey |
| Breaking Bones, Breaking Barriers | Cecilia Peck |
| Bring Your Own Brigade | Lucy Walker |
| The Burning | Isabella Alexander-Nathani |
| Butterfly Hunter | Melora Hardin |
| The C Word | Meghan O'Hara |
| Campesino | Mia Tate and Tchavdar Georgiev |
| Casey | Rylee Syme |
| Cello | Angie Su |
| Changin' Times of Ike White | Daniel Vernon |
| Changing of the Gods | Louie Schwartzberg and Kenny Ausubel |
| Changing the Game | Michael Barnett |
| Charlotte So Far | Charlotte Tirola and Douglas Tirola |
| Chasing the Moon | Robert Stone |
| Chewed Gum | Alana Maiello |
| Church & State | Kendall Wilcox and Holly Tuckett |
| Cipher | Cam Goold |
| City Hall | Frederick Wiseman |
| CLEMENCY | Chinonye Chukwu |
| Comic Relief | Koura Linda |
| Compared to What : The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank | Sheila Canavan and Mike Chandler |
| The Condor & The Eagle | Sophie & Clement Guerra |
| Confluence | Amy Marquis and Dana Romanoff |
| Connecting Thread | TBD |
| Cortina | Harper Klay |
| Cowboys & Indians | Amy Redford |
| Cracked Up | Michelle Esrick |
| Cradle Song | Celeste Chaney |
| The Crash Reel | Lucy Walker |
| Disappearing Insects | Jennifer Baichwal |
| Distance | Anson Fogel and Alexandra Fuller |
| Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes | Alexis Bloom |
| Dog Valley | Chad Anderson; Jason Conforto - Co-director |
| 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 the Fence | MJ Isakson and Lori Adamski Peek |
| Down Ticket | Adam Moffat |
| 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 |
| El Father Plays Himself | Mo Scarpelli |
| Elder | Genea Gaudet |
| Eli | Nora Mandray & Jason B Kohl |
| Embargo | Jeri Rice |
| Emily Dickinson Radio Program | Frederick Wiseman |
| Enongo | Kevin Schreck |
| Ethel | Rory Kennedy |
| Ex Libris | Frederick Wiseman |
| The Experiment | Sarah Johnson & Sian Edwards-Beal |
| Eye of the Storm | Brooke Harris Wolff |
| Feels Good Man | Arthur Jones |
| Following Harry | Susanne Rostock |
| 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 |
| Giving Voice | James D. Stern & Fernando Villena |
| Global Crossroads | Ross Kauffman |
| The Glorias | Julie Taymor |
| Good Fire | Marissa Lila & Holly Tuckett |
| The Grand Rescue | Jenny Wilson and Meredith Lavitt |
| The Great Divide | Tom Donahue |
| The Great Hack | Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer |
| Growing Up Behind Bars | Avery Peterson and Lulu Orozco |
| The Guardians | Billie Mintz |
| Healing Quest | Judy Brooks; Roy Walkenhorst |
| Hebron- H2 | Idit Avrahami, Noam Sheizaf |
| Holy Hell | Will Allen |
| However Long | Jenny Mackenzie |
| The Hunting Ground | Kirby Dick |
| Hurricane Hate | Kim A. Snyder |
| Hurricane Roxcy | Susanna Styron |
| I Am We | Ron Davis |
| I Want My MTV | Tyler Measom |
| In Football We Trust | Tony Vainuku and Erika Cohn |
| In Jackson Heights | Frederick Wiseman |
| Inheritance | Laura Davis |
| An Insignificant Man | Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla |
| Invisible Disabilities | Jenny Mackenzie |
| Jacinta | Jessica Earnshaw |
| Jane Doe Project | Kirby Dick; Amy Ziering |
| Janis: Little Girl Blue | Amy Berg |
| Jesus Town, USA | Julian T. Pinder and Billie Mintz |
| Joan Little | Nelson George |
| The Judge | Erika Cohn |
| K'naan: The Storyteller | Alexandra Shiva |
| Kingmaker | Lauren Greenfield |
| La Borrega | Carly Jakins and Jared Jakins |
| Lali | Dana Ware |
| Leftover Women | Hilla Medalia and Shosh Shlam |
| The Life Ahead | Edoardo Ponti |
| Life in the Doghouse | Ron Davis |
| Like a Rolling Stone | Suzanne Kai |
| Lion's Mouth Opens | Lucy Walker |
| LIV | Alan Hicks |
| Lost and Found | TBD thru Stick Figure |
| Love & Stuff | Judith Helfand |
| Making Waves Education | Jon Shenk |
| The Man Who Saved the World | Peter Anthony |
| Mandela's Children | Kweku Mandela and Kemal Akhtar |
| Maxima | Claudia Sparrow |
| Mayor Pete Project | Jesse Moss |
| 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 |
| Motherland | Jesse Soursourian |
| The Name Game | Savannah Ostler |
| 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 Boys | Robert Greene |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Riley Can You Hear Me? | Weston Razooli |
| Rocky Mountain Mythology (Trilogy) | Maxim and Lucy Nebeker |
| Roll Red Roll | Nancy Schwartzman |
| The Sacred Grey | Dina Amer |
| Salamander | Tyler Measom |
| Salt in My Soul | Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick |
| São Tomé | Julia Steers |
| SAY HER NAME: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SANDRA BLAND | David Heilbroner and Kate Davis |
| The Seventh Fire | Jack Riccobono |
| Shooting the Mafia: Letizia Battaglia | Kim Longinotto |
| Short Cuts: Bridges | Lucy Walker |
| Sketchbook | Helen Nightengale |
| Song Of Lahore | Andy Schocken and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy |
| Spaceship Earth | Matt Wolf |
| The Speedway Project | Trinity West |
| 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 RED DRESSES | Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick |
| THE WILD ONES | Lydia Nibley |
| This is America | Amy Berg |
| This is Home | Alexandra Shiva |
| Traffic Stop | Kate Davis |
| The Truffle Hunters | Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw |
| Tsunami | Jace Alexander |
| TV Event | Jeff Daniels |
| Twice The Dream 2 | Savannah Ostler |
| Undiagnosed: Medical Refugees | Dr. Katia Moritz |
| Unrest | Jennifer Brea |
| Untitled Danny Gans Project | Andrew Gans |
| UNTITLED EVAN RACHEL WOOD PROJECT | Amy Berg |
| Untitled Incest Documentary | Kirby Dick |
| Untitled Parkland Project | Kim A Snyder |
| 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 |
| What Would Sophia Loren Do? | Ross Kauffman |
| When Claude Got Shot | Brad Lichtenstein |
| Where's My Roy Cohn? | Matt Tyrnauer |
| Wide Awake | Hemal Trivedi |
| Wild Lands | Galen Knowles, co-director; Phil Hessler, co-dir |
| Wild: Of Wolves and Wildness | Darcy Dennett |
| Won't You Be My Neighbor | Morgan Neville |
| A World Unseen | Cole Sax |
| Wrenched | ML Lincoln |
| Wrestling Ghosts | Ana Joanes |
