Fiscal Agency Campaigns
Stowe’s Fiscal Agency program supports the sponsored projects and provides them with the tools to raise donative funds
Active Campaigns
Please consider supporting these artists and their work.
CHISOM CHIEKE
As cultures clash and insufferable parents meddle, a first generation Nigerian American and her Black southerner fiancee must decide between being true to themselves or trying to live up to their families expectation…a risk to their happily ever after.
GARDEN STATE SCREENWRITERS
A grandfather weaves together terrifying tales of New Jersey for his granddaughter as they drive down the Garden State Parkway to what awaits them at... Exit Zero.
LINDSEY COPELAND
In the early summer of 2004, four childhood friends reunite at the beach shortly after high school graduation as they face decisions that will change their lives forever.
JULIA COULTER
After the sudden death of her father, a woman with a congenital heart defect turns her life upside down to train for the L’Etape Du Tour.
ASHLEY GEORGE
Laced with magic and melancholy, Slush follows Frankie as she reunites with her estranged father, Kyle, and returns home to a small-town community in the Pacific Northwest that has shunned their family for years. An explosive, psychedelic horror film, Slush explores themes of monstrosity and grief, as this family confronts their collective traumas together.
BRIANA COX
A down-on-his-luck artist gets dragged into Florida’s conspiracy theory community after taking the only job he can find - producing propaganda for a flat-earth enthusiast determined to spread The Truth.
ARI FRENKEL AND AMY DEPAOLA
After the loss of his father, Noah struggles to find his new identity, but first he has to fulfill a promise: to find his Dad's High School sweetheart and tell her the bad news. Things become complicated when he can't find her and his own past love re-enters his life. A comedic exploration of the soul - Through grief, through prayer, and through romance. Based on true events.
VICTORIA DEMARTIN
Kate is an aspiring young film editor who finally catches her big break editing a “Notebook” level feature film. With her job, engagement and sanity on the line, can she pull it off under the deadline or will she lose it all?
TISHA ROBINSON-DALY & JONATHAN MASON
In the wake of a freak accident, a nomadic telcom tower climber is forced to repair the connections he needs most--with his family.
KATERINA EICHENBERGER
When a young woman gets an illegal abortion in a totalitarian America, she’s left alone to face a sinister presence that begins rapidly growing inside of her.
SABINA VAJRAČA
When his younger brother dies under suspicious circumstances, and the police refuse to investigate, Kenan, a successful Bosnian-American banker, is forced into the dark underbelly of Florida’s Bosnian Muslim immigrant community in order to uncover what actually happened.
MOHANA RAJAKUMAR - SHORTS BY SHORTIES
The Short Film Lab is a CSO (community service organization) based in Doha, Qatar working to create unique experiences for locally based female digital storytellers.
MUGS CAHILL
When three black veterans grieving the suicide of a friend gather with the dead man’s father, the four men must put aside inner turmoil to find in each other the hope and strength to fight another day.
Completed Campaigns
DAISY ROSATO
When the leader of a vegan contact improv residency kills the possum that’s been eating their cauliflower, the residents come to a shocking consensus.
PAMELA WINFREY
When an American teenager tries to deal with the covid pandemic and the loneliness of being in a foreign country, she is haunted by a boy who died in the 1918 flu epidemic.
JESSICA HINKSON
SARA is a dramatic short film about a woman who finds the strength to confront her greatest fear by relying on the comfort of strangers.
ROBIN WANG
Manchurian Plague, 1910, a young Chinese doctor must risk his life, career, and reputation to champion his unorthodox discovery about the disease’s deadly evolution.
VICKI SPEEGLE
A quirky 12-year-old desperate to grow up learns how tough it truly is when her world collides with her super cool 16-year-old babysitter.
JACQUELINE ELYSE ROSENTHAL
After collegiate Valerie Neumann's brutal assault and silencing from authorities, her rape kit becomes shelved, one of 100,000 forgotten rape kits known as the national rape kit backlog. Years later, she is given the opportunity to testify as the key witness in the U.S. Senate Hearings, but can she trust a system that has betrayed her? Based on a true story.
CARRIE WACHOB
When Betty can't make it home to her darling Waffles, she must find another way to spread feline love.
KATHARINE PARSONS
The devastating Tubbs wildfire in Santa Rosa changed Katharine Parsons’ work—and her life—forever. As an animal lover, she became riveted by the stories of the cats who beat impossible odds to survive—and by the stories of the rescuers who spent hundreds of hours in the field to find them.
BRIAN PADIAN
Sister/Brother is a dramatic comedy about Nora Miles, a strong woman at a weak point in her life: recently-divorced, debt-burdened, and desperate to rise from the ashes of her mistakes. A road trip reunites Nora with her younger brother Scotty and brings them both to different places of growth and renewal.
DANIELLE KARAGANNIS
A live-action, psychological drama that's an interpretation of David Bowie's character Major Tom. Envision 2001: A Space Odyssey crashing into Requiem for a Dream.
REBECCA MLINEK
An elderly woman vies against her accomplished brother for control of her house, until a mysterious cat appears to tip the balance.
SEBASTIEN TOBLER
Long lost high school sweethearts, Laela and Colin, unexpectedly reunite in Los Angeles 23 years after being separated in Jakarta by the 1998 riots. What begins as a sentimental look back at an exciting upbringing, forces the characters to draw a line between unrequited love and nostalgia.
FAQs
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In order to be considered for Stowe Story Labs Fiscal Agency, you need to be an alum of one of our programs.
Every so often we consider outside projects. Please email info@stowestorylabs.org to inquire.
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Please write to info@stowestorylabs.org with the following information:
A statement of intent ("I am creating a feature film about xx and intend to use fiscal sponsorship to [crowdfund? seek grants? seek major donations?].”
logline/synopsis/artistic statement
top sheet budget
workplan (development plan, pre-production, production, post, marketing and distribution strategy)
lookbook and/or other ancillaries (if you have them)
script
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For projects with total funds of under one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) an administrative charge of nine and a half percent (9.5%) of all amounts paid.
For projects with total funds of one hundred thousand dollars or more an administrative charge of eight and a half percent (8.5%) of such amounts.