Fiscal Sponsorships In 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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American Diner
In Production
Every year, there are fewer and fewer small-town diners in rural America. Yet there is an untapped reservoir of stories in those that remain. Many of these stories go unnoticed, because they are the stories of factory workers, carpenters, cooks and cleaners. Their stories are treated as no more than a report of daily life. But the daily life of such people is the daily life of America, and together their stories form America's story.American Diner has a Kickstarter campaign to raise $5,000 by May 27. Help them out! Visit the Kickstarter page here.
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Czechs in Chicago
In Production
Czechs in Chicago will be a 90 minute documentary for Chicago PBS Television WTTW, about the history of the Czech people in Chicago, from their immigrant experience to the highlights of the community today.A progressive, innovative and spirited people, Czechs helped build and shape Chicago, and in turn, Chicago empowered them to help establish their homeland as a sovereign nation, Czechoslovakia. This film will chronicle the history of the Czechs as an ethnic group, featuring many personal stories of recent as well as earlier immigrants and their families, as they became a vital part of the city.
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In Search of the Cahokian Gods and Heroes: Mysteries of Mound 34
In Production
In Search of Cahokian Gods and Heroes uncovers an ancient civilization in prehistoric eastern North America.The pre-Columbian city of Cahokia represents one of the most mysterious ancient civilizations in the world. Over a decade ago, a team of scientists launched a new research project at Cahokia to seek out truth about its secretive past. Today, with fresh evidence on hand, the scientists are rewriting Cahokia’s history.
In this documentary film, these research scientists share with the viewer their discoveries of this prehistoric city, its ascent to power, its cultural and political might, its incredible story of human achievement in prehistoric eastern North America.
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Jens Jensen: Harmonious World
In Production
Jens Jensen’s message of conservation is as fresh today as it was a century ago. Yet he is barely known out of landscape architecture circles.Jensen became the most popular landscape architect in America next to Frederick Law Olmstead, designing hundreds of landscapes for public parks, schools, public housing, roads and finally his own utopian school, The Clearing.
Jens Jensen: Harmonious World will help Americans better appreciate what landscape architecture is and how the early fight for conservation was won through design and vision as much as politics.
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Making Waves
In Production
Every eight months, on average, a new invasive species enters the Great Lakes.Making Waves: Battle for the Great Lakes will take viewers below the surface to see the incredible diversity of life in the Great Lakes, and how it is affected by invasive species. Introducing the key species in the battle for the lakes, both native and invasive, the film will dive into the arrival and successful survival of each of the featured exotic species and the damage they are causing to both the ecosystem and the economy of the Great Lakes Region.
Viewers will travel with scientists in the field, partaking in their research, both on land and water, to learn what is being done to combat, control and prevent exotics.
The program will also touch on the stresses of human activities, which have also contributed to the decline of native species in the Great Lakes, namely over-fishing, pollution and industry.
Visit the film's website: http://www.theinlandseas.com/
