Below you will find the current projects IFP/Chicago serves as a Fiscal Sponsor for. Please click on the button which corresponds to the film you would like to donate to. For more information about the Fiscal Sponsorship Program, please scroll down.
Louder Than A Bomb
A Documentary by Greg Jacobs & Jon Siskel
Louder Than a Bomb is a film about passion, competition, teamwork, and trust. It’s about the joy of being young, and the pain of growing up. It’s about speaking out, making noise, and finding your voice.
It also just happens to be about poetry.
A documentary feature intended for theatrical release, Louder Than a Bomb tells the stereotype-confounding stories of four Chicago-area high school poetry teams as they prepare for and compete in the world’s largest youth slam. By turns hopeful and heartbreaking, the film captures the tempestuous lives of these exceptional kids, exploring the ways writing shapes their world, and vice versa. This is not “high school poetry” as we often think of it. This is language as a joyful release, irrepressibly talented teenagers obsessed with making words dance. Set against the backdrop of Barack Obama’s historic primary campaign, Louder Than a Bomb paints a powerful and timely portrait of the Obama generation, from the heart of the president’s hometown.
Louder Than a Bomb had its world premiere at the Cleveland International Film Festival in March 2010, where it won both the Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award for best film and the Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Film Competition for films that celebrate social justice and activism. For more information, contact ltab@siskeljacobs.com
Typing
Director – Jack C. Newell
Writer – Ron Falzone
Producer – Ron Falzone & Jack C. Newell
Typing is the story of what happens when the creative process crashes head first into the wall of stereotypes and clichés. It features writer/actor/comedy legend Tim Kazurinsky and Steppenwolf ensemble member Francis Guinan as two tired MGM screenwriters forced into the impossible task of having to write a Robert Montgomery movie that features sex, adventure and a dog.
Postales
Writer/Director – Josh Hyde
Producer – Claire Connelly, Maxi Holland, Dan Fischer, and P.J. Fishwick
In the ancient cobblestone streets, of Cuzco, Peru, 11-year-old Pablo sells postcards to tourists in the town square, and his brother, Jano, lives a life of petty crime to help their family survive. Pablo’s world turns upside down when he encounters Mary, who unbeknownst to him is the daughter of an American businessman planning to develop the land on which his family lives.
When told they will be forced to leave their longtime home, Jano swears vengeance, and convinces his younger brother to help him rob the American. After the crime, Pablo shockingly discovers a photograph of Mary in the victim’s wallet. He vows to right this wrong by finding Mary and giving it back.
After locating Mary a couple of days later, Pablo convinces her to sneak away with him to explore the Inca ruins. While searching for Mary, her distraught parents return to their hotel only to find Elizabeth in bed with Jano, the boy who robbed her father. After a scuffle, Mary appears in the hotel room with her father’s wallet.
As the Americans prepare to depart Cuzco, and the Peruvian family packs to leave their home, both families are irreversibly altered by their contact with the other.
