Fiscal Sponsorship is a fundraising tool that serves as an alternative to a filmmaker establishing her own 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation. It allows a filmmaker's non-commercial project to apply for funding from organizations requiring that the recipient have nonprofit status. As fiscal sponsor, Arts Engine, Inc., serves as the nonprofit tax-exempt umbrella organization that accepts and administers contributions made to a filmmaker's project.

Arts Engine has served as fiscal sponsor for such outstanding films as The Trials of Darryl Hunt by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg, Matt Mochary and Jeff Zimbalist's Favela Rising, and God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan by Christopher Dillon Quinn and Tommy Walker.

For more detailed information and an application, click here.

Congratulations to Gini Reticker for winning the “Best Documentary Feature” award at the Tribeca Film Festival with Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Depicting the story of the brave women of Liberia who played a crucial role in ending the civil war in their country, this documentary had its world premiere in New York City. Arts Engine is proud to be a fiscal sponsor for Gini and wish her continued success as she exhibits her powerful film.

We also extend our praise for Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers, whose Lioness received the Center for Documentary Studies Award at the Full Frame Festival, in North Carolina, this past April. Their documentary shows the first group of women in the U.S. military to engage in ground combat, which is not officially permitted by policy.

Doxita, a festival of short documentaries, had its New York debut on May 12, at the IFC Center. Films featured are under 40 minutes in length and the entire program clocks in at approximately two hours. The festival’s first season — titled “The Hours of Our Lives” — is showing works by filmmakers from Spain, the Netherlands, the UK/Wales, and the United States, and after New York, it will travel to Pittsburgh, Miami, and Seattle. If you’d like to schedule a screening in your city, contact festival founder Karen Cirillo. For more info, see: www.doxita.org.

You Belong To Me, the first feature film by Arts Engine alum Sam Zalutsky, is now available via Netflix. This independent smart thriller stars Patti D’Arbanville and Daniel Sauli. Please add it your queue!

Paul Cronin recently had works-in-progress screenings of A Time To Stir, at Columbia University and Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater. His film revisits the 1968 student protests at Columbia that brought classes at that University to a halt.

We welcome several filmmakers to our stellar roster of fiscally-sponsored projects: Ross Kauffman and Wait For Me; Jeff Zimbalist, The Scribe of Uraba; Marcelo Bukin, Dreaming Nicaragua; Isaac Brown, Gigablight; Ambika Samarthya, Project CHILD; and Richard Barber, The Whole Gritty City. We look forward to helping them along in their paths to the completion of their films.