Fiscal Sponsorship
Indigenous Lenses’ fiscal sponsorship program is a tool that allows filmmakers to use Indigenous Lenses’ 501(c)3 nonprofit status to fundraise. This status enables donors, wishing to support a documentary film, to receive the tax benefit of making a charitable donation. Five percent of all donations will be directed towards Indigenous Lenses’ humanitarian work in Nepal.
Current Fiscal Sponsorship Projects:
Docked
Located remotely on the Western Range of the Rocky Mountains are a small
number of Nepali sheepherders. Brought into the country on temporary visas
with promises of wages that will help raise their families out of poverty
back home, they are kept as indentured servants. Living under the threat of
blacklisting and deportation, they work 24 hours a day, seven days a week
and survive in living conditions considered illegal by federal standards.
A Sarah C. Sifers production
Sugar Babies
SUGAR BABIES is a compelling documentary that examines the public health
epidemic of diabetic children in America. Through archival footage and
intimate interviews with four families, we discover the complex reality of this
ancient disease – the heartbreaking burdens, the unexpected triumphs, and
the abiding dreams. We see Type 1 and Type 2 kids and their families
struggle with very different challenges. Physicians, researchers, and health
care experts lay out our public health crisis and describe the scientific,
social, and economic barriers to improved care, as they try to answer the
question that has bedeviled us for two thousand years: why is there no cure for
a disease that is now ravaging America’s youth?
Jenny Mackenzie, Ph.D.
www.jennymackenziefilms.com
Refugee Soccer
Every year, an average of 80,000 refugees enter the United States as they
escape from wars, genocide, persecution and violence. Many don't speak
English, few can anticipate the life that waits for them here, all are without
hope of returning home. Finding a job, assimilating into American culture,
and keeping their kids safe are only a few obstacles that the refugees
have to face in the new land. From their native countries to the refugee camps
to their new home, through it all the one thing they carry with them is
the love of soccer. "Refugee soccer" (working title) is the story of a
passion that unites nations and peoples. It's a story of displaced human beings
that after a long journey through war-torn countries finally find their home
on a soccer field.
Ana Antunes
