Fiscally Sponsored Projects

9 Pieces of Peace, a documentary film, will tell the story of how a 30-foot high peace symbol, which began as an illicit act of graffiti overlooking the city of Missoula, Montana, became the focal point of community-wide conflict resolution efforts over two decades. Underlying the story is a universal message about the complexity of human nature, the importance of listening, and the potential...

A Peace of My Mind is a documentary project that combines oral history and portraiture to explore the meaning of peace, using art and storytelling as a means to foster public dialogue.

AFTER THE WAR is a documentary film about veterans and others who have experienced radical healing from post-traumatic stress disorder, grief, and trauma through IADC therapy—Induced After Death Communication—or interacting with the dead. The film opens up a new way of thinking about death and healing through the true-life stories of the IADC "experiencers,” offering hope, forgiveness, and...

Adventure Minnesota Films brings you Among the Wild, an artistic and independent film series designed to inspire  greatness in outdoor adventurers everywhere. The documentary will profile four local athletes engaging in extreme, uniquely Minnesotan, sports. YOU will nominate athletes for inclusion in the...

Would you pose nude, bare your soul with honesty about your feelings toward your body, knowing that you would be on display for thousands of others to view? Bare Honesty is a documentary about women of all ages and sizes who take off their clothes to bare their clothes to bare their bodies and souls in front of Frank Cordelle’s camera as a way to heal from past trauma and to share their...

Get ready for the long awaited, highly anticipated rockumentary "Big Kids of Mid-America" chronicling 50 years of Twin Cities music scenes. It's a must see for all music lovers.

Youth Art and Media Works presents “Block by Block” – poignant, funny, insightful stories developed with and for ‘tweens that explore all aspects of their lives.

Through a variety of media including a fictionalized web series, original photography, art, comic books, creative writing, video games and more, “Block by Block” invites you into life from the children’s...

Building the Pink Tower is a documentary film project that reimagines schools and learning through the lens of Montessori education. In a climate of concern and criticism about American schools, Building the Pink Tower shines a light on what we want in education: eager learning, creative thinking, and collaborative work. The film will examine how Montessori schools nurture the imagination of...

Butter City is a thirty-minute television program that highlights film and television making in Minnesota. The series has produced twenty episodes and is currently interviewing film directors and producers for its third season.  

Rene and Frankie make the best of going to high school by dreaming up high-fashion photo shoots, and bribing their siblings to model for them. Rene is gay as the day is long, loves his fashion magazines and designing clothes. Frankie lives for her dark eye shadow, her camera, and punk rock. The drama they dream up in their fashion shoots becomes very real when they end up fighting over their...

A 30-minute narrative drama set in 1972 in an underground lesbian/queer bar.  Joey, is hard old school butch, handsome, charming and heavy on the booze, cigarettes and women.  Things get interesting when Ivy, a New York anti-war activist and recent Minnesota transplant comes to the bar for the purpose of lesbian organizing.

FRITZ tells the story of the life and legacy of former Vice President Walter “Fritz” Mondale and his efforts to inspire a new generation to consider a life of public service.

Rare archival footage, family home videos, and interviews with President Jimmy Carter, Vice President Al Gore, Representative Geraldine Ferraro, Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson, friends, and family...

Journeyman is a documentary about father absence, mentoring, male culture and intergenerational healing in America. It follows two struggling teenage boys who struggle with depression and violence but find themselves in a community of supportive men. The film introduces us to the boys' families, and recounts their childhood experiences without fathers in their lives. Michael Gurian (The Wonder...

Korsang will document the lives of a group of Cambodian-American deportees forced into a scene of urban despair and will expound upon their efforts, assisted by a tough ex-addict woman from Boston, to run a newly formed NGO (non-governmental organization) dedicated to reducing the harmful impacts of drug addiction. Through this involvement in the NGO, the deportees are learning to cope with a...

Lambent Fuse is a character-driven feature film that illustrates human connection and choice. The intention of this project is not only to produce an honest portrayal of human nature, but to involve members of the community in promotion and supporting the arts in Minnesota.

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Miss Tibet: Beauty in Exile explores the improbable connection between a Tibetan beauty pageant and the contemporary Tibetan struggle for survival.

Co-produced by Twin Cities Public TV (TPT) and Back of the Mississippi, LLC, the series spotlights obscure, unusal, out-of-the-way museums in the state.

My Name is Tory Lowe, is the true story of a young African American man working to support his interracial family in a small town, as he encounters the KKK. This tale of crooked cops, illegal labor, deception and prejudice unveils the deep social problems we continue to face as a society today. An unsettling narrative you’ll wish was fiction, ends up in federal court and is instrumental in...

A two-hour documentary film revealing the history and times of the First Minnesota Volunteering Regiment during the United States Civil War (1861-1865) against the backdrop of pioneer Minnesota. Its remarkable story will be told in a documentary film, companion books and education materials. The premiere of the film will coincide with the 150th Anniversary of their unparalleled charge.

North Dakota was long America’s forsaken frontier. But when it offered an open invitation to test modern extraction techniques on the Bakken, its underground sea of oil, the state permanently altered its path in history. Our character-driven documentary gives viewers a look at the economic opportunities and harsh realities of shirking foreign oil in favor of a backyard boom. Artists: ...

Before forensics, DNA, and CSI we had dollhouses – an unimaginable collection of miniature crime scenes, known as the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. Created in the 1930s and 1940s by a crime-fighting grandmother, Frances Glessner Lee created the Nutshells to help homicide detectives hone their investigative skills. These surreal dollhouses reveal a dystopic and disturbing...

We are living longer and a tsunami of Baby Boomers is approaching the shores of the “aged” demographic. We look on this part of life with tremendous personal fear and denial. Aging baby boomers fear being devalued and marginalized. Society tells us that this phase of life is a time of loss: loss of purpose, integrity and meaning leaving us to become a crippling burden on society and loved ones...

A young man invents a device to communicate with the afterlife and discovers the supernatural isn't all that super and humans can be even worse.

Would you board an aircraft without any pilots?  PILOTLESS is a documentary film currently in production that explores the possibility of unmanned aerial systems slowly working their way into today's modern cargo and passenger jetliners. Airliners being built today have a high level of automation allowing pilots a virtually "hands-free" approach to flying. ...

Steady Stalward is a burnt-out former advertising executive going forward with his television sit-com series and his big white wedding, although both have been cancelled.

She Who Would Giants Fight tells the story of how Rosalie Wahl, the first woman appointed to the Minnesota Supreme Court, became who she is: a fighter for justice, for racial and gender equality; a solider for peace; a poet and singer and writer; an inspiration for many people.

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From a mother in urban Minneapolis who kisses the cheek of her child’s killer, to a Palestinian husband kissing his Israeli wife, SMOOCH shows the power of love and affection overshadowing our differences of opinion, ethnicity, and social class.  SMOOCH is a documentary film that illuminates stories of reconciliation and healing from around the world, as participants are photographed...

A zealous quest to save a friend's life catapults a young girl into a magical world of old theatres, dance lessons and crystal shoes. Until a painful discovery pulls her back to the real world of limitations and disappointment. and a secret that shows her there are more choices than failure.

Stalag Luft III - One Man's Story told by World War II prisoner of war U.S. Army Air Force Lt. Charles Woehrle, one of many POWs crowded into Stalag Luft III barracks that would later be made famous by the iconic film "The Great Escape." Woehrle was shot down May 29th, 1943. His parachute malfunctioned when he bailed from his crippled B17...

Standing Ground explores how the unrestrained commodification of food production -- particularly the industrialization and globalization of...

Stay Then Go is a moving and personal story, written by Shelli Ainsworth, who will also direct the film. It is the fictional story of a mother and her autistic son, and illuminates the amazing connection they share and how they tackle the world that lives outside of that bond.

"Three’s a crowd” takes on a whole new meaning when Ben, Ally and Mellanie decide to tie the knot together. As these three friends try to make it in the music industry, keep their meddling families at bay and struggle to achieve their artistic dreams, they take the ultimate chance on each other and plunge into a three-way relationship.

The journey begins in 1915 when a young German skater ignites America’s love with dancing on ice. “The Fabulous Ice Age” chronicles a century of theatrical skating, from Berlin’s Charlotte, to America’s Ice Follies, Ice Capades, Holiday on Ice, and the Sonja Henie shows, illustrating how they dominated live entertainment for decades while also depicting one skaters’ quest to share...

Filmmanthropist Project is a new film contest inviting MN filmmakers to make 3-5 minute short films, documenting community betterment in their neighborhoods.

“The Homestead Experience: A Bridge Over Troubled Water” focuses on a visionary, yet simple approach to youth empowerment and community building that was born in the cultural cauldron of the 1960‘s, championed by Massachucetts Civil Rights activist/educator John Ertha and continues to quietly flourish today. The film looks at current and historical challenges that youth and teens deal with as...

“The Life and Legacy of Edward Rappaport” is a historical documentary that shares the fascinating immigrant success story of a Romanian Jew who settled in Minnesota in the early 1900s and started a backyard salvage operation that grew into one of the largest international auto parts distributors in the country. (NAPCO)

The film will document the "dance" of three women as they explore and expand their connection with heaven and earth.

In doing so, it will serve a number of purposes.  For example, it will serve as a vehicle to raise awareness about the relatedness of all things.  It will also be a tool for awakening the viewer to his or her potential as fully human components of the cosmos....

In 1991 a group of film buffs and record collectors began seeking out the shellac soundtrack discs that accompanied early 1926-1930 Vitaphone (and other) talkie shorts and features. The Vitaphone Project was formed to accomplish this goal as well as to partner with the studios (particularly Turner/WB), film archives (UCLA, LOC, BFI), and private collectors worldwide in order to get these films...

We Rock Long Distance follows three Minnesota hip-hop artists with roots far beyond the state’s borders as they travel the globe exploring the surprising and emotionally powerful ties of home and family that shape their lives and music.