From The Heart Productions
Fiscally Sponsored Indie Films and Projects
From the Heart Productions Fiscal Sponsorship Program
is designed to carry out our mission to help independent filmmakers who have unique projects that make a contribution to society, get their films funded.
Working with our 501(c)3 non-profit, fiscally sponsored filmmakers can offer donors tax deductions for their donations. Our “boutique” program sets itself apart by offering hands-on personalized attention, support, and film funding advice from our board members and staff.
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Black Family Lies
Documentary Film
A true story of an young woman finally escaping her severely dysfunctional family, this abuse survivor finds God and begins to heal from a lifetime of horrors, including years of drug addiction, prostitution, and suicide attempts, by channeling her emotions and new found hope through increasingly creative outlets.
BLONDE INSTiNCT
Web/TV Series
Road trip into Montana where the two heroines are on the run to escape a mobster and an obsessed detective. The girls are left in the wilderness where they must ditch wealth, pretense, and luscious platinum hairdos to stay out of the cross hairs. Evocative of any faith journey, the girls must purge their former lives. This remote environment metaphorically supplies all their needs. Naturally, effervescent springs, caves with obscured treasures, waterfalls with rugged, rocky, overhangs, and gardens of the gods offer unmistakable mysticism. The story line will be shot all over the state of Montana offering not just a glimpse into our majesty but involving local communities and their artists.
Blue Skies
Documentary Film
Through one summer, this feature-length documentary takes us behind the scenes of Wisconsin’s longest running water ski team and the construction of an Anishinaabe wigwam. With kids at its center, the film observes how tradition, lineage, and relationship to land manifest in two distinct communities under the same blue skies of Wisconsin’s Northwoods.
Body Stories: Marta & Fidel
Short Film
In pursuit of their musical dreams, a struggling singer and an anxious producer must overcome personal barriers and trust each other to create a transformative song.
Embark on a heartfelt journey with Marta and Fidel, two latino musicians navigating personal and cultural challenges.
Set against the backdrop of Atlanta, our film delves into the transformative power of music, exploring themes of identity, resilience and connection.
Born To Save
Short Film
BORN TO SAVE is a film about a young black youth, whose dream is to be a great goalkeeper. It’s a tale of growing up, coming into your destiny, mirrored in the young life of Christ, who Billy believes in, filled with danger and discouragement, but Billy pushes on and gets a trial with a football club, before being gunned down, leaving his family distraught; his young killer is unable to come forward for fear of being killed. Yet there is hope: the child Jesus is also born to save.
Boutique
Documentary Film
BOUTIQUE chronicles the recent burgeoning Blu-ray collectible renaissance and the rising number of specialty distribution labels worldwide, creating an increased demand for long-lost cinema obscurities to classic cinematic landmarks. In addition, these companies endeavor to rescue and restore films, bringing back to the forefront underappreciated artists and overlooked and forgotten works to the masses.
Featuring interviews with filmmakers and the stars of the films, alongside the company representatives lovingly rescuing, restoring, and releasing the work, and historians who gloriously provide commentary tracks and extras packaged with the releases, as well as fans, collectors, and more.
Broken Strings
Web/TV Series
Broken Strings
Web/TV Series
Bum Next Door
Narrative Feature
Rahi Khalili, Ray, unemployed actor and comedian, is recovering from betrayal by his best friend Dan, also an actor, who sold the series they developed together without him.
Ray's only support is his grandmother in Iran, Maman Monir.
Ray’s depression is interrupted by Jay, a homeless man who moves into Ray’s backyard shed.
Jay has a job and keeps his appearance sharp with membership in a fitness club.
After several attempts to get rid of Jay, which is not an uneasy task in state of New Jersey, Ray and Jay form an unlikely friendship and go on an adventure aka “Harold and Kumar go to White Castle”.
Calf Rope
Short Film
During the summer of '66, a former rodeo champion and cattle auctioneer from Oklahoma bonds tightly with his young grandson from suburban Pennsylvania while teaching him a few tricks from his previous trades. Shot entirely in rural Pennsylvania, Calf Rope captures the intense love that grandparents often share with their grandchildren and the legacy that lives on long after they have gone.
Chalice
Narrative Feature
Cold Cross
Narrative Feature
Con palos y piedras (With Sticks and Stones)
Short Film
Cosmic Adventures of Rena and Taye
Other
Animated Music Video Series featuring Florentina's MyKids Unite Friends Characters.
Rena is a 9th Dimension Revolutionary from Planet Maia within the Pleiades Star Cluster.
Along with Taye her Winged-Protector and band "The Galactic Four", their musically charged missions ignite universal awareness to awaken humanity from under the spell of chaos to transition into a uniting era of Peace & Love on Planet Earth.
Covered Up: The History Of Queer Pulp Fiction
Documentary Film
Using interviews with historians, collectors, academics, fans, and the authors who wrote them, COVERED UP is a feature documentary on the history of LGBTQIA+ "pulp novels." Covering gay, lesbian, and transgender stories told within them, the glorious cover art and the importance of the books in terms of queer history, the gay liberation movement, the legacy left by those writers today, and the significance of those stories on today's LGBTQIA+ community.
Coyote 2 Moon
Documentary Film
A competitive ultra runner, 32 year old Laura Bepko, runs her backyard to prepare for the local storied event, the 100-mile Coyote 2 Moon. With 26,000 feet of elevation gain and descent, through the chapparal of the Coast Range that invites both extreme heat during the day and frigid temps at night, this will be her hardest run to date. Laura’s world is brought into focus and allows us a glimpse into what’s needed to survive in this demanding reality of extreme running events.
Crohnie
Narrative Feature
CROWN
Short Film
Hustle culture is a term that New Yorkers live and breathe. "Day job" is a term that artists tend to dread. When Keith, a Black photographer, and sommelier, submits to the whole day job thing, we wonder, can Keith’s personal expression be accepted and celebrated in the same spaces and in the same way his bold photographs suddenly are?
In CROWN, we experience the protagonist as the outsider in spaces that should invite him with open arms. When he tries to fit in professionally, he’s left with the trauma of sacrificing part of his identity.
In support of the C.R.O.W.N Act, the film CROWN is a call to action for audiences who do not understand the impact of hair-base discrimination.
CUATE
Narrative Feature
When a seasoned Hispanic trainer decides to take in and train a black boxer, an unlikely and close friendship develops. Together come to realize that they may have more in common with each other than they have with their own families.
To access the CUATE page.
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Dangerous Deeds
Web/TV Series
Dangerous Deeds is a proposed television show following rival families The Bishops versus the McCarthys. Beginning five years after middle-child Gabriel Bishop witnesses his parents’ brutal death in a car-bombing, Gabriel takes justice into his own hands on his mission of vengeance against the main suspect for the crime – the McCarthy patriarch. A WAR IS BREWING, AND IT BRINGS THE FIRE!
Our Texas-based production team is seeking $70,000 to finance the Pilot episode of Dangerous Deeds to showcase at festivals and pitch the show to streamers. Our project is fiscally sponsored by From the Heart Productions, which makes your donation 100% tax-deductible.
DARK THINGS
Short Film
Daruma
Narrative Feature
PATRICK (30s, bitter paraplegic) must enlist the help of his cantankerous neighbor ROBERT (60s, double arm amputee) to transport the four-year-old daughter he never knew he had to live with her maternal grandparents on the other side of the country.
This is an authentically cast film with two lead actors with disabilities but the movie is NOT about disability.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/allisonnorlian/2020/05/28/disability-advocates-fear-losing-the-fight-for-inclusion-in-post-pandemic-hollywood/#58e749fbaa26
Darwin Need An Update
Documentary Film
A story about groundbreaking Game Theory research on cooperation in evolution, and how that impacts our survival response to the climate emergency.
Darwin Needs an Update is a film that shatters the myth that “Survival of the Fittest” is the driving force for evolutionary survival. Based on decades of research and cutting edge math, Game Theory scientists around the world, from Oxford, Princeton, and Harvard, to the Max Planck Institute, show how cooperation is a third defining trait of evolution. Math can prove it. These findings have enormous consequences when applied to the climate emergency, which requires immediate cooperative human action and imagination in new ways.
Dead in Love
Narrative Feature
Dead Pet Shark
Short Film
Dear Kate,
Narrative Feature
Death Target
Web/TV Series
Logline: Heroic healer battles PTSD and fights to clear his name of murder while vanquishing ruthless swindlers with a vengeance.
A 60-minute narrative series pilot, DEATH TARGET. Adapted from a Jack Bass Black Cloud Chronicles awarded book series by Edwin Dasso, the main character is a Veteran who suffers from PTSD. A “Jack Reacher meets MASH” story, the issues of Veterans and PTSD are a constant through line, keeping this issue in the forefront. Death Target is a gut-churning medical suspense thriller that explores the effects of PTSD on veterans while presenting a tightly woven mystery.
Death World
Narrative Feature
Logline: In a crumbling dystopia, Gage is sent on a journey to find a relic that can destroy or save mankind.
The world is in ruins, the human race has broken into communities that suit their own interests. The evil being leading this destruction has his own monster sentinel on a quest to find a lost device that will enslave the humans, turning them into his own self-replenishing yet disposable army. It is up to Gage to find the relic and set things right with the planet before Khronos can inflict any further damage.
Designed by Preeti
Narrative Feature
Disease Detective series
Web/TV Series
do you remember me?
Narrative Feature
do you remember me? follows Nicky as she is forced to deal with a man from her past who is the source of the trauma she continues to try and manage through the love of her husband Gregory. After spending a weekend away, Nicky is shocked to see a friend request from Dale, the man who coerced her to go back to his apartment where she is subsequently raped by him and three of his football teammates.
Nicky continues to cope with the impact of the rape in her life from 37 years ago while staring at a photo of the man who took a piece of her that night. Nicky asks Dale via a chat box if he remembers her. After responding yes, Nicky follows up with, "do you remember what you did to me?"
Dostoyevsky Reimagined -BTS
Documentary Film
The fascinating, behind-the-scenes struggle to create the award-winning NOTES FROM THE NEW WORLD.
The Director sets out to make an LA movie inspired by a Dostoyevsky masterpiece and encounters one disaster after another. The film, "Notes From the New World", is rescued by an eleventh hour epiphany and goes on to win multiple international awards.
Down By Law
Narrative Feature
Dream Flight
Short Film
Drew's World
Narrative Feature
When two young strangers--a sweet and imaginative Down Syndrome girl and a hot-tempered, misunderstood American Indian boy--become lost in the woods together, this unlikely duo must find a way to effectively communicate, understand and eventually trust one another in order to survive a dangerous journey--and each other.
Drive Through Fire
Short Film
When an opioid addicted veteran battling PTSD realizes the woman he just picked up in his Uber is being sold to a human trafficking ring, he fights to blast her free from the violent monsters that own her. If he can sober up enough to defeat this evil, they both might find freedom on the other side.
EAT, SKI, LIVE: A PROFESSIONAL CHEF'S JOURNEY TOWARD MENTAL HEALTH WELLNESS AND BALANCE
Documentary Film
EAT, SKI, LIVE - follows Millennial Professional Chef Lee Wright, whose struggles with mental health whipsaw him more than his skills as a competitive slalom water skier. His love and creativity for cooking landed him a role as one of the youngest MasterChef contestants. Wright’s balance in the kitchen and on the outer edge of a single water ski led to amazing worldwide adventures. But more than anything, Wright must discover a different balance to quiet his mind and give him lasting peace. The EAT, SKI, LIVE documentary and TV Series blends culinary expertise, travel, adventure, and mindfulness to inspire others to discover their balance while journeying toward mental health wellness.
EDEN: ROCK OPERA
Narrative Feature
EDGES - The Borders That Define Us
Short Film
LOGLINE: To some, Doña Cecilia is an invisible, elderly woman. For others, her presence validates their existence.
SYNOPSIS: Cecilia, a skinny Mexican lady (86), turns off her alarm at 5:00 AM to start her journey. She moves in slow motion in her low-income home to get ready. Slowly, Cecilia makes her way through the disdain of the city with a mysterious case. At night, she finally arrives at the US-Mexico border. Inside the Trump-era detention center, 45 caged children cry for their parents. Cecilia takes a guitar out of her case and sings. When the last child falls asleep, Cecilia returns home to start the same journey again the next day.
Promo: https://youtu.be/5pKYKBUIbk0
Emilia and the Garden
Short Film
Emilia prepares a meal from her garden for her lover Beau. But, we soon learn that more than a meal is being served. Jaime Jaget's directorial debut Emilia and the Garden explores the plights of womanhood -- the too muchness, and not enoughness; the rigidity and chaos -- though food, sex and murder.
Encounters with Fear: An H.P. Lovecraft Anthology
Narrative Feature
Vagrant Fear Productions is proud to adapt three short stories by H.P. Lovecraft. The modern creators of Humanitarian Terror meet the Father of Modern Horror to bring you a feature showcasing three facets of the human condition in a feature length anthology. The Music of Erich Zann, Facts Concerning Arthur Jermyn and his Family, and The Outside each show how fear of the unknown can cause extreme results. Produced, directed, and starring all Iowa talent.
Erie
Narrative Feature
Erie is a found footage horror feature in the vein of BLAIR WITCH meets BIRD BOX that follows grieving siblings Stella and Oscar during the fall of 1999 after their sister, Iris', mysterious suicide. Stella is convinced there's something more sinister at play here, and begins her own investigation into the woods where it happened, dragging Oscar along for the ride. It's only when they find themselves lost deep in the woods of Erie, PA that the terrors begin to unfold in front of them. Stella and Oscar are thrust into a horrifying nightmare of self-destruction before they attempt to claw their way back to reality and safety. But at least they're getting the answers they were seeking...
Escape: The Unknown
Short Film
Logline: A domestic violence victim who has regained control of her life after being abused is forced down memory lane when she realizes she is being followed by an unknown person.
Short Synopsis: Raquel and Tony have a great way of showing "relationship goals", however, Tony is not innocent. Raquel and Tony have a history of domestic disputes with each other where Tony takes control of the situation. That quickly changes when she decides to challenge Tony and fight back causing him to be arrested. After his arrest, Raquel decided to regain control of her life but is forced down memory lane when she realizes she is being stalked by an unknown person whose fate will lie in her hands.
Evidence of the Afterlife
Documentary Film
Two international evidential mediums share their journey and mission to bring the truth of life after death to the world.
“Evidence of the Afterlife” is a film about the practice of evidential mediumship through the lives and experiences of world renown mediums Philip Dykes and Kerry McLeod. Evidential mediumship is a form of mediumship that gives proof that we survive physical death and our souls continue on in the afterlife or the “Spirit World”. An evidential medium will communicate with the deceased in a reading with a recipient with incredible detail that only the recipient would understand. The recipient is instructed to only answer “yes or no” to the questions or statements that th
Exit Interview
Short Film
Fresh off 90 days of no contact, Makeba and Che’s post-breakup dinner brings waves of emotions as they navigate their unresolved feelings towards each other and the past.
Exit Interview is as intimate as it is playful. witty banter engages the audience and provides comedic relief as the Makeba & Che share their complex insecurities.
introspective moments, will relay a sense of depth, introspection, and vulnerability - until they are humorously undone by the appearance of Dada & Jesse.
Exit Interview's Light hearted moments are full of Joy, optimism and romance and will be evoked by the incorporation of bright & warm colors.
Expressions
Short Film
Expressions is a unique and heartfelt romantic drama that tells the story of Flynn, a queer, Deaf man who struggles with verbal communication. Set in the mid 1990s, the film follows Flynn as he tries to work up the courage to ask his new neighbor, Parker, on a date, with the help of his best friend, Max, a loyal and loving dog. While American Sign Language is primarily used throughout the film, the use of voiceover and visual storytelling showcases Flynn's internal thoughts and emotions as he takes a new approach to expressing himself and overcoming his fears.
Faded Mist
Short Film
Faded Mist is a 2D animated dramedic tale of a little girl named Ariel Horowitz losing the person they love. Set at the riverbed of an inner town forest, a little girl is heartbroken over her mother passing away while giving birth to her baby brother. Faded Mist is a third person narrative of the girl telling her best friend, a curious cat, about the events that led up her mom’s death.
Fear and Now
Documentary Film
When a new mom confronts her traumatic birth experience, she decides she must find a better way. Through her transformative journey of discovery, she encounters a vibrant community united in rewriting the collective birth narrative, unveiling stories that inspire a birth revolution from within the system.
Firestorm'77 The Honda Canyon Fire
Documentary Film
On December 20, 1977, at 7:06 AM, gale winds blow down a power line into a deep canyon, on the southern portion of a United States Air Force Strategic Air Command installation on the Central Coast of California. Santa Ana winds, sometimes in excess of a 100 miles per hour, take a small resulting spark, ignite it and transform it into a conflagration. Within a few hours, the fire will take the lives of the Base Commander and two Fire Chiefs. The loss of senior management results in irreparable harm; those on the front-lines of the fire now have to fend for themselves. Firestorm '77 tells the true stories of those who survive and those who did not.