From The Heart Productions
Fiscally Sponsored Indie Films and Projects

An aspiring comedian is forced to reckon with Crohn’s disease and his parents’ divorce before an opportunity of a lifetime is sabotaged.

It's a heartfelt comedy about identity, family, and the daily struggles of an embarrassing illness.

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.

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.

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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 is a period piece written in blank verse - the film reinterprets Shakespeare's Othello following the titular character's introduction to his own “otherness” in an all white society, the psychological effects and subsequent fall from Valiant General to betrayer of everyone he held dear.

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

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.

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A bisexual ghost becomes enamored with an attractive couple living in her former home. She proceeds to try and poltergeist her way into their hearts.

Dead in Love is a paranormal polyamorous romantic comedy.

After her father’s death, a recluse runaway returns home to face her former life.

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.

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 is a romantic drama about a courageous Indian woman who escapes an abusive marriage, mends the broken relationship with her daughter, and finds love where she least expected it.

The Disease Detective chronicles the ins and outs of living with chronic diseases such as SARCOIDOSIS and ATAXIA. An upcoming episode on APHASIA is in the works.

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.

​When an ambitious astronaut is vetted for the interstellar mission of her dreams, she must face-off with the strange creature in her recurring nightmares.

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.

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 is a global TV series that follows Millennial Professional Chef Lee Wright who is also a competitive slalom water skier, and recreational snow skier, action/adventure seeker on a mission to go around the world to eat locally, explore mightily, live boldly and help you discover your balance! EAT, SKI, LIVE delivers balance with food, action, travel, and lifestyle. EAT, SKI, LIVE connects global audiences for fun and authentic experiences with local communities, customs, and events. EAT, SKI, LIVE enhances wellness and mindfulness with collaboration, resources, and engagement. EAT, SKI, LIVE shows us why achieving a work-life balance is so important to our overall well-being.

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 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.

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.

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

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 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 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.

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.

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.

Residents of the world’s northernmost town—which is steeped in darkness five months per year—explore why they inhabit such a hostile place.

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A marine biologist unlucky in love finds a mermaid’s tail on the beach and gets more than she bargained for when the tails owner follows her home.

A lonely, uptight lexicographer struggles to find love in Saigon while grappling with the untimely death of his first love.

In this film, the romantic tragedy musical will explore the beauty of the Vietnamese language and untangle the mindset of someone undergoing the experiences of PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder).

Food People is an all-ages animated sitcom cooking show that tells the story of what our foods are, where they come from, and how they can all work together to become part of a bigger recipe. As each episode progresses, viewers discover the ingredients needed to make a particular food based on which characters are featured in the story. At the end of those stories is a video montage of people around the world cooking these foods at home.

Juicebox helps lead the way as our characters investigate ingredients, learn lessons about equity and inclusion, build stronger friendships, and navigate the confusion of living all together in the fridge.

Malcolm Jamal Turner, a struggling writer living in Harlem fed up with the neighborhood's changing demographics, concocts a ludicrous scheme to "de-gentrify" it.

Freedom, WI is a dark comedy that follows Penny, a young woman obsessed with the dead and repulsed by the living. Her small-town life routine is disrupted when Ephram, a struggling writer from Chicago, gets a flat tire in front of her house during a cross-country bike journey.
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With a book pitch due and a lack of inspiration, Ephram is on a mission to steal people’s stories and sell them as his own. Intrigued by Ephram, Penny allows him to camp outside of her house in exchange for fixing up her yard.
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Has Ephram found a muse? Has Penny found a living friend?

Tagline: Sometimes the hardest thing to do is stand up for what you believe is right.

From Selma to New York is an animated short documentary about Dabney Montgomery's journey to obey his conscience. Born in Selma, AL during Jim Crow he witnesses the signs of segregation everywhere in downtown Selma. On one fateful day he hears the Voice of God call him to break the segregated law. This is the story of what happens. A historic tale for modern times.

Born in Korea without legs, a Korean-American artist and athlete
finds the courage to search for the truth surrounding his birth and
abandonment at 2 weeks old.

"A coming of age love and basketball story with a Shakespearean twist".

While striving for state championships and basketball superiority, two young athletes from two totally divergent worlds meet and Cupid handles the rest. Despite raging hormones and the socioeconomic forces surrounding them, our two protagonists strive headlong toward their hoop dreams. Amid the physical impediments and competitive conflicts that naturally follow, they fall in love.

A woman begins to fall for her building's maintenance worker, but finds herself still entrapped by the memory of her abusive ex-lover.
Ultimately what I hope to explore with the film is the stickiness of trauma and grief - oftentimes, you aren't simply mourning a person, but what could have been, and the death of an old self that was in a way taken from you.

Gerald’s Hands is a compelling inspirational drama about a kind-loving man on the spectrum who tries to survive a tragic loss, keep his home, and win the love of his life. turn for the worse when he's at risk of losing his norms and takes matters into his own hands.

Ghost money is a feature-length narrative documentary about the filmmaker's return to Vietnam after forty years to search for his wartime lover, only to find that he might have fathered her child. After a year without results, he falls in love again, this time with a Vietnamese mother of two. Through a rich fusion of live-action footage, hand-drawn animation and rare archival film spanning five decades, Ghost Money is a moving commentary on the legacy of the Vietnam War -- broken families, unfinished lives and left-over children.

The night after the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is leaked,
a group of New York City mothers spend their monthly “wine-and-whine” night discussing the fate of their children: all soon-to-be 18-year-old sons.
When one woman jokes about chemically castrating her son in order to spark a legal battle, the mothers find themselves entertaining a ghoulish plan…

Going Fine Since 1889: The Magical Armstrongs is a feature length documentary about a family of African American magicians traveling throughout the South in the early 1900’s within the confines of the Jim Crow era. The film explores the life and times of illusionist John Hartford Armstrong, his wife Lillie Belle and daughter Ellen E. Armstrong, who continued the family legacy with a solo magic act. As America came into a modern century, where society and entertainment were changing rapidly, the Armstrong’s brought a sophisticated grandeur to the world of magic but are virtually forgotten today.

After the sudden passing of Bully, the family dog, a young son encounters a demonic dog coroner named Cosmo. Together, they embark on a journey to a secluded compound where Cosmo reveals his unconventional method of bringing deceased dogs back to life through a unique culinary ritual.

The inspiring true story of a twelve year old girl whose bake sale built a school in Haiti.

Green Frog Cafe is a short film about family and what happens when you realize you are about to lose someone special. Ever since he was a young boy, Steven had Jack as his mentor, to teach him how to whittle, how to spit, and how to sit up straight. Jack helped Steven buy his first guitar and took him along to the Green Frog Cafe where he and the other old-timers told tall tales.
Now Jack is ill and near the end of his life. Steven is afraid to lose his old friend and does his best to push everyone away and drink away his fears, not wanting to accept the inevitable. He makes a final trip home to say his goodbyes and help ease Jack’s final days.

"From the people, for the people"
For nearly a century, the aftermath of the tragic historical period of archived and hidden American Black history of a prosperous self-sufficient black owned business district in Tulsa Oklahoma, now serves to be powerless against the effects of de-segregation, and the modernized economic advancement leaving the Greenwood district formerly known as “Black Wall Street in a state of financial economic despair. This true story of “Black Wall Street” will be told from the perspectives of Greenwood community residents, descendants of the deceased wealthy minority business owners directly affected by the race riot, while exploring the perceived economic position

Happiest Days of Our Lives is a peek into the human psyche in a moment of great tragedy. It explores the fragility of human life and how trauma left unaddressed can bring us and those around us down. It follows Cameron, an 18-year-old boy who is left numb after losing his mother to mental illness and ultimately suicide. He is plagued by guilt and confusion but is resistant to facing his pain head-on, resulting in further tragedy. The story questions the responsibility of friends and family in times of turmoil and the power of unconditional love.

After a mass shooting turns America’s schools into near prisons, a group of disaffected high school students battle to destroy the system that subjugates them. Little do they know, a sociopath bent on teaching them tortuous lessons turns each student’s archetype against them one by one.

It’s Christmastime and Jessi is all but excited. She finds herself with comparisonitis in the world of social media. Other women her age just seem to “have it all”, including that engagement ring. Jessi finds herself frustrated over her job at the local big box store, still struggling with the loss of her parents, and drowning in student loan debt. Her Grandma and friends seem to be concerned for her health and well being, and only want Jessi to be happy.

Will Jessi ever see the love that is right in front of her? Will she continue down her dark path of negativity and struggle, or will the magic of Christmas shine light on her future?

A 16mm film observing the impact of homelessness, police brutality and stage fright on a resilient single father and young son.

O'ahu's west side, local revolutionary, has earned passage to follow his dream, but has to save his young rapping brother from his drug addiction, before he leaves.