The Film Society is dedicated to supporting emerging and established filmmakers. Our fiscal sponsorship program is designed to help you step-by-step through the process of getting your film funded, made and seen.

When you apply for fiscal sponsorship you are beginning the process of preparing your project proposal for funding organizations. At the Film Society we want to ensure that you and your project are likely candidates for funding, and we work with you until your proposal is ready. Sometimes this means many proposal drafts before we accept you for Fiscal Sponsorship, but it will be worth it in the long run. We will not sponsor a project that we do not believe in.

The program is run by former staff members of Film Arts Foundation, which enjoyed an excellent reputation over three decades as one of the finest fiscal sponsoring organizations in the country. Numerous funding sources put considerable trust in the program and many Film Arts fiscal sponsorship projects went on to considerable acclaim, including winning Academy Awards. The Film Society is now the keeper of that fine legacy and brings an organization-wide dedication to the stewardship of all its Fiscal Sponsorship projects.

The Film Society has a special affinity with Bay Area filmmakers but is also well known and well respected nationally and internationally. We meet in person with filmmakers based in the Bay Area and consult by phone and email for those who reside out of state. Since our staff attends numerous film festivals, we are available to meet with filmmakers at various events around the world.

In addition to the one-on-one care the fiscal sponsorship team brings to each project, the Film Society has a full suite of professional-development workshops and classes—many of which will be online by mid-2009—for filmmakers interested in learning more about fundraising as well as budgeting, legal issues, marketing, theatrical distribution and ancillary markets.



Current Projects
Browse all of the current fiscally-sponsored projects, or donate to an individual project. Read more...

The SFFS Program
Learn about the advantages of placing your film with the SFFS Fiscal Sponsorship program. Read more...

How Donations Work
Learn about procedural issues pertaining to donations, reports and keeping fiscal sponsorship active. Read more...

How to Apply
Essential information regarding the application process, including eligibility. Read more...

IndieGoGo Partnership
Learn how to integrate your fiscally sponsorship with your audience-building and crowd funding efforts through SFFS’ partnership with IndieGoGo. Read more...

Fiscal Sponsorship FAQs
Answers to many fiscal sponsorship-related questions can be found here. Read more...

Funding Resources
Start or broaden your fundraising campaign with this list of resources. Read more...

Contact
Contact Michele Turnure-Salleo, Director, Filmmaker Services, or Athena Kalkopoulou, Fiscal Sponsorship Coordinator. Read more...