You can make one of our financial grants happen in 2026. Grant will be awarded "Courtesy of...YOU" and may be added on to create a larger grant amount in total.

Our grants are awarded twice a year. FOFIF Supported shorts have screened and won top awards at Sundance, SXSW, TIFF, NewFest, BFI Flare, and more.

You can make one of our in-person screenings happen in 2026. Your supported screening (location TBD) will be "Courtesy of...YOU" - you will receive tickets and complimentary drinks. Great advertising opportunity!

Cinematographer (SORRY BABY, SUPERIOR)
Mia Cioffi Henry is a cinematographer based between New York and Italy, whose work spans feature films, television, commercials, and music videos premiering at major festivals including Cannes, Venice, Berlinale, and Sundance. With a background in dance, production design, and still photography, she brings a character-driven, naturally heightened visual style to projects such as SORRY, BABY (A24) and COVER-UP (Netflix), and currently serves as Head of Graduate Cinematography at NYU Tisch, where she earned her MFA.

*Will take place in January - February 2026

A forty-five minute virtual session just for The FOFIF with Kate McEdwards, partner at TRACK SHOT, a film publicity and consulting agency. Kate will review your feature/short/narrative/doc to talk and consult about your filmmaking aspirations.

*Will take place in January - February 2026

Kate McEdwards, a dedicated film publicist, has held roles at IFC Films, Shudder, Cinetic Media and Oscilloscope Laboratories, where she worked with some of the most important creative voices of the last decade, from first-time filmmakers to long established masters of cinema. Kate specializes in the support and advocacy of genre film and is an active member of her local film community. She has hosted screenings and Q&As, curated film programs, produced a podcast on women in horror and served on several panels and juries nationwide. Kate is an alumna of the University of Toronto with a BA in Cinema Studies.

Jonah Rabb is an agent at WME specializing in independent film distribution, financing, packaging, and sales. He also works across director and producer representation, specializing in global cinema and American indies. Previously, he worked at CAA Media Finance, and before that at Searchlight Pictures. He is based in Los Angeles.

*Will take place in January - February 2026

Executive Director of the Film Festival Alliance

Barbara Twist is the Executive Director of the Film Festival Alliance, a nonprofit for festivals and the people who run them. She has extensive experience in distribution and exhibition, and her previous work includes Director of Partnerships at Vidiots, as well as Art House Convergence, Europa International, and others. Barbara is one of the organizers of IND/EX, the largest gathering of independent Exhibitors and Distributors in North America, and has been a key force behind exciting discussion series and new initiatives to address the distribution crisis - including most recently The Popcorn List, highlighting exceptional films that have yet to secure distribution after a festival premiere. A frequent contributor to Dear Producer, she has written for various industry outlets on exhibition and distribution issues. She co-leads a monthly convening focused on surfacing challenges within indie distribution through the Filmmaker Distribution Collective, and she is a co-founder and board member of the field-wide advocacy nonprofit, Future Film Coalition.

*Will take place in January - February 2026

Agent, WME
Maddie started at WME in 2018 before joining the film group at Endeavor Content. She returned to the agency in 2021 as part of the WME Independent division, where she currently works as a film finance, consulting & sales agent.

*Will take place in January - February 2026

Festival Director, Fantastic Fest
Lisa Dreyer is the Festival Director of Alamo Drafthouse's Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the US. She previously worked in acquisitions for Drafthouse Films, and has curated for a variety of festivals and theaters, including the Oak Cliff Film Festival, Contrast Film Festival, and the Austin Film Society. Her work was recently highlighted in Variety's inaugural Horror Impact Report, and she is passionate about supporting new voices and boundary-pushing projects in the genre space.

*Will take place in January - February 2026

Founder & CEO of Suncatcher Productions

Annalisa Shoemaker (she/her) is the founder and CEO of Suncatcher Productions. Since Suncatcher’s inception, Annalisa has led the theatrical execution for ten feature films including TO KILL A TIGER, an Academy Award® nominee for Best Documentary Feature. Annalisa also released the disability themed rom-com GOOD BAD THINGS in over 50 theaters before licensing home entertainment rights to Music Box Films and streaming rights to Hulu. Prior to Suncatcher, Annalisa spent over a decade working on theatrical distribution campaigns at Amazon Studios and Focus Features.

*Will take place in January - February 2026

Made exclusively for our November 2023 FOFIF Filmmaker Screening, this butterfly enamel pin by Kate and Laura Mulleavy (from Rodarte) is limited to just 100. All proceeds from its sale go towards The FOFIF programs.

PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING

Our latest zine (no. 3) is inspired by our exhibition series, GIRLS TO THE FRONT: NINETIES AND NOW, at the Museum of Modern Art.

Contributions and images by: Casey Niccoli, Allison Anders, Bridgett M. Davis, Caren Spruch - Planned Parenthood, Jourdain Searles, Florencia Varela, Yasmina Tawil, Sylvia Sichel, Jill Sprecher, Jennifer Reeder, Marnie Weber, and your girls at FOFIF, Caryn and Brittany.

32 pages. 4.5 × 5.5 inches. $9 plus $1 shipping.

The cover of our first zine! Delphine Seyrig and Carole Roussopoulos and title design by Mila Matveeva.