From The Heart Productions
Fiscally Sponsored Indie Films and Projects

Bike Helmet Harry is a comedy about a quirky bike courier (who never removes his helmet). He teams up with a charismatic con man to win a disco dance contest and win the heart of a dance teacher. The film is an entertaining ride through the underground disco dance scene (like "Saturday Night Fever" meets "There’s Something About Mary").
In addition to entertaining audiences the film will raise awareness about bike helmet safety.
1. Cycling is the #1 cause of severe head injuries of all recreational sports.
2. Studies show wearing a helmet can reduce severe head injuries by 60%.
This film will raise awareness about bike helmet safety while also expressing the joy and passion for dance.

A desperate married couple and an internet anarchist kidnap a billionaire with plans to livestream his execution; meanwhile, a ruthless insurance investigator has 12 hours to hunt them down and save the company's bottom line.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

The journey of a variety of artists lives intersect as they search for harmony against all odds. Set in St. Louis and New York, family, culture, activism and war cycle through this gritty, yet poignant mosaic of underrepresented artists.

The journey of a variety of artists lives intersect as they search for harmony against all odds. Set in St. Louis and New York, family, culture, activism and war cycle through this gritty, yet poignant mosaic of underrepresented artists.

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”.

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.

A group of friends gather for a weekend chalet getaway to celebrate one of their own birthday, only to be forced into isolation when a nationwide lockdown goes into effect.

CHALICE is a narrative film about grieving those we have loved and lost. We follow Charles and Alice throughout the tumultuous 1970s as they meet, fall in love, and make a life together. But they soon face a terrifying realization — one of them doesn’t have much longer to live.

In the Ultimate underdog story, Chasing Plastic: Team Korea Great Grand Masters, chronicles the journey of the Korean Ultimate Frisbee GGM team (ages 48+). Korean national teams were a combined 0-24 in international competition in the current decade. At the last World Masters Championships in 2018, the Korean Grand Masters team (ages 40+) finished a disheartening 0-9. As they prepare for the 2024 World Masters Ultimate Championships, this film dives deep into their struggles, triumphs, and the unbreakable spirit of a team determined to change history.

After killing Sheriff Felix Danberry for orphaning him, William McCarthy learns his parents were sold out by their own gang to obtain amnesty from the law. Unbeknownst to William, a man dressed in black mercilessly hunts him during his search for the dastardly gang that took what’s dearest to him.

A disabled Hispanic teen's fragile constitution splinters and breaks in the aftermath of his abusive father's death.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Bollywood Seniors Dance Class, a Cabaret Performer in her 60’s, an Amateur Dance Student in her 70’s, and a film-maker in her late 40’s, pursue fulfillment, inspiring change in our limiting perceptions of older women. As one woman boldly pursues her dream, it has a ripple effect on another.

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.

Darcy Delane is a sharp-witted, passionate 10-year-old psychic and animal activist, navigating life as a foster child in the 4th grade. While her classmates find her eccentric, her new friend Craig Wright sees her unique abilities as a gift.
When they cross paths with Detective Ben O’Neill, who’s struggling to dismantle a notorious crime syndicate led by the feared mob boss George Montague, Darcy and Craig find themselves in the thick of the action.
Ben’s undercover efforts have hit a dead end, but Darcy’s psychic talents and Craig’s resourcefulness give them a new lead: George’s loyal and pampered dog, George Junior. Eventually after much guidance from Darcy and Craig, Ben wins the trust

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.

A ruminative child discovers the concept of mortality when he tries to resurrect a dead shark that he found on the beach.

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.

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?"

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.

A father's attempt to protect his teenage son from police brutality amidst racial injustice and raging national protest risks himself becoming an indisposed martyr for a higher cause. A Soulful, R&B/Hip Hop Musical at the crossroads of Entertainment Street and Social Injustice.

​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 - 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.

The innaugural film for EDEN.VIDEO - Takes you on a psychedelic journey through the Garden Of Eden Story from a contemporary Lens.

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.

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 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...

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