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As a 501(c)(3) non-profit, Los Angeles Filmforum serves as fiscal sponsor for independent, non-commercial films, which allows filmmakers and artists to raise tax-deductible funds to support their projects. There are no application fees, however applicants must be Filmforum members. Please fill out the form to contact us for more information.

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Our Film Sponsorships

The Land of Orange Groves & Jails

The Land of Orange Groves & Jails unfolds as I finally convince my reluctant aunt Yetta to tell her story of teenage activism during the labor and free speech battles of 1920s Los Angeles. Her arrest for flying a red flag at a remote summer camp resulted in a precedent-setting free speech case that helped lay the groundwork for our right to protest and dissent. In the beginning of our journey Yetta thinks that current political events are so much more important than the past – but by the end we both come to see how her story set a powerful precedent for current activism.

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The View from up Here

The View from up Here chronicles director Askhat Kuchinchirekov as he shoots his second feature film in the remote Kazakh village of Shybyshy. Focused on Kuchinchirekov’s collaborative and organic production process, TVFUH is a feature-length documentary that captures a vision of filmmaking rooted in humility, reciprocity, and surrender to the rhythms of everyday life.

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Untitled JVB Project

Part musical, part documentary, all glam-camp fever dream, Untitled JVB Project is a magical-realist concert, and concert film, starring legendary performance icon Justin Vivian Bond. Mx Bond’s first solo, feature-length performance film, Untitled will create and capture much more than a live show, featuring an immersive cabaret, and set in a dream-like fairy grotto outside under the stars.

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Stars in the Dark

Directed by disabled filmmaker Brian Weidling, Stars in the Dark is a feature documentary, currently in post-production, that follows America’s only all-blind theater company as they stage the US premiere of The Braille Legacy

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The Weightless Ventriloquist Saga

From the maker of the award-winning NOTFILM:
a series of four feature-length films disguised as a sci-fi TV series that explores the house of mirrors of our unconscious minds, as seen in clips from classic and not-so classic works of cinema. At once fiction, archival documentary, and psychoanalytic session, The Weightless Ventriloquist Saga integrates playful formal experiments in a new kind of essay film that speaks to both the conscious and unconscious experience. The first film in the series, The Case of the Vanishing Gods, is a cultural history of ventriloquism integrating live actors with vintage and artist-made puppets.

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Over Head

Over Head will tell the history of the liquid light show that began in 1950s San Francisco, where it spread from art galleries and Beatnik jazz clubs to the 1966 Trips Festival. Fueled by Ken Kesey’s LSD and electrified by the Grateful Dead, it was the light show that illuminated the dancehall with a collage of psychedelic imagery. Its aesthetics became the basis for a new counterculture in San Francisco that quickly acquired a global resonance.

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Big Jay

Big Jay will tell the story of Cecil “Big Jay” McNeely, legendary saxophone ‘honker’ and one of the last surviving Rhythm & Blues (R&B) music greats of the 1950s. His shows are incredibly exciting, as his playing builds intensity, the dancers swinging, the band roaring…. and they’ve been that way for over fifty years.

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