Fiscal Sponsorships In Post Production
Chicago Filmmakers provides fiscal sponsorship for select independent film or video makers who are soliciting funds from private foundations, government agencies, and individual donors for their noncommercial film or video project. The following projects are currently in progress and seeking financial support. Please donate to them if you can!
To learn more about the Fiscal Sponsorship program, visit the program page.
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Band of Sisters: Catholic Nuns After Vatican II
In Post-Production
In the 1950’s Catholic nuns in the U.S. were obedient “daughters of the church.” They were separated from the world symbolically by their garb, spiritually by the church’s belief that religious life was a higher calling, and literally by archaic rules of enclosure.Ten years later, spurred on by the call of Vatican II to live among and for the world’s poor, U.S. nuns began a remarkable transformation. Abandoning their outmoded dress, the sisters adopted democratic styles of leadership. They found their ministry and mission among marginalized peoples, and joined in the civil rights, environmental, peace and women’s movements.
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Cicero in Winter
In Post-Production
Three Color Films is in development to produce the short film CICERO IN WINTER.Charlie is seventy-five and has just lost his wife of forty years. Alone, anxiety-filled, he has isolated himself in his home. Even his children and grandchildren cannot seem to bring him back to his old self. A sudden heart issue causes Charlie to find some time to relax. Remembering his wife’s interest in reading, Charlie goes to the library where he finds a reading group that reads the great books. Through books like The Odyssey, The Divine Comedy, and Don Quixote, where he imagines himself in these stories, he rediscovers the importance of life and family.
The film is written and directed by Richard Cohen.
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Curator at Dixon School
In Post-Production
In inner city Chicago, a creative brand of school leadership is changing the picture in urban education.Institutional beige walls, metal detectors at the door, security guards on patrol, toe-to-toe shouting between adults and students. That’s the typical image people have of an inner city public school.
But at Dixon Elementary Public School on Chicago's South Side, a very different picture is being painted and art is part of the everyday lesson plan. Dixon's plan includes a community of artists giving their time and works to the school; a museum-quality African and African-American art collection started by its former school principal; and a creative brand of school leadership passed down from one principal to the next.
