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Home | Good Gravy FilmsHome | Good Gravy Films Skip to main content Home Image Good Gravy Films supports compelling stories that engage audiences with authentic, humanizing characters. Projects are funded through philanthropic grants and equity investments. Launched in 2018 by Tegan Acton, Good Gravy Films is associated with the Wildcard Giving family of philanthropic entities. While the films we fund do not exclusively focus on the communities and causes that Wildcard supports, we often find ourselves drawn to stories that explore fights for justice, spark empathy, or remind us of our common humanity. Films Supported 2024 Arrest the Midwife Arrest the Midwife The arrest of midwives in a rural healthcare desert ignites an unexpected rebellion: Amish and Mennonite women who break from tradition, and emerge as fierce political activists fighting for reproductive justice and birthing rights. Director Elaine Epstein Genre Documentary Funding Type $100,000 Grant GGF Role Co-Executive Producer 2022 The Librarians The Librarians As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked in TX, FL and beyond – librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders on the frontlines of democracy, and uncover an organized effort that invokes dangerous historic precedents of Fascism. Director Kim A. Snyder Genre Documentary Funding Type $250,000 Grant GGF Role In Association With 2022 Sugarcane Sugarcane An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school sparks a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve. Director Julian Brave NoiseCat Emily Kassie Genre Documentary Funding Type $150,000 Grant GGF Role Executive Producer 2022 It's Only Life After All It's Only Life After All Blending 40 years of home movies, raw film archive, and intimate present-day verité, a poignant reflection from Amy Ray & Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls – the iconic folk rock duo. A timely look into the obstacles, activism, and life lessons of two queer friends who never expected to make it big. Director Alexandria Bombach Genre Documentary Funding Type $75,000 Grant GGF Role Executive Producer 2022 Late Bloomers Late Bloomers Louise - a depressed millennial - is drunk and breaks her hip, landing her in physical therapy. There, she makes an 86-year-old BFF who speaks no English. This unlikely friendship gives her the courage to face what she's been running from all along. Director Lisa Steen Genre Fiction Funding Type $250,000 Equity GGF Role In Association With 2021 Frybread Face and Me Frybread Face and Me When an 11-year-old city boy is sent to his grandmother’s ranch on the Navajo reservation against his will, he is introduced to a new way of life and an unexpected guest teaches him the importance of family, tradition, and what it means to be a Navajo man. Director Billy Luther Genre Fiction Funding Type $100,000 Grant $250,000 Equity GGF Role In Association With 2020 Storm Lake Storm Lake Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Art Cullen and his family fight to be the journalistic voice of their rural Iowan farming community—even as their biweekly newspaper hangs on by a thread. Director Jerry Risius Beth Levison Genre Documentary Funding Type $50,000 Grant GGF Role Co-Executive Producer StormLakeMovie.com 2020 Commuted Commuted Released after 23 years in prison for nonviolent drug offenses, a mother reconnects with her family and reflects on the legacy of the War on Drugs. Director Nailah Jefferson Genre Documentary Funding Type $25,000 Grant GGF Role Funder CommutedFilm.com 2020 A Bunch of Amateurs A Bunch of Amateurs A bunch of British working class amateur filmmakers with nothing left to lose, tackle one of Hollywood’s greatest musicals in order to save their beloved filmmaking club. Director Kim Hopkins Genre Documentary Funding Type $25,000 Grant GGF Role Funder LaborofLovefilms.com 2020 Aftershock Aftershock Through one family’s tragic loss and fight for justice, AFTERSHOCK examines one of the most pressing and shameful national crises in America today and the growing movement that surrounds it: The U.S. maternal-mortality crisis. Director Paula Eiselt Tonya Lee Lewis Genre Documentary Funding Type $100,000 Grant $100,000 Equity GGF Role In Association With 2019 Time Time Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband. An intimate, epic, and unconventional love story, filmed over two decades. Director Garrett Bradley Genre Documentary Funding Type $50,000 Grant GGF Role Funder Concordia.studio 2019 Farewell Amor Farewell Amor After 17 years apart, Angolan immigrant Walter is joined in the U.S. by his wife and teen daughter. Sharing a cramped Brooklyn apartment, they quickly discover that the years of separation and struggle have turned them into strangers. Director Ekwa Msangi Genre Fiction Funding Type $35,000 Grant GGF Role Funder IFCFilms.com 2019 A Cops and Robbers Story A Cops and Robbers Story Corey Pegues, one of the highest ranking black executives in the NYPD, reveals soon after retirement that before joining the force he worked the streets dealing crack cocaine for one of the most notorious drug gangs in the US. Director Ilinca Calugareanu Genre Documentary Funding Type $106,500 Grant GGF Role Executive Producer VernonFilms.co.uk 2019 Apart Apart The number of women in US prisons has increased 800% in the past 40 years. Caught between the opioid epidemic and surging incarceration rates, three mothers reinvent themselves and rebuild bonds with their kids after being incarcerated and separated from them for years. Director Jennifer Redfearn Genre Documentary Funding Type $25,000 Grant GGF Role Funder ApartTheMovie.com 2019 Simple As Water Simple As Water A meditation on parental love that is both urgent and timeless, the film unfolds as a sequence of cinematic short stories revolving around Syrian families fractured by the war and now across the world. Director Megan Mylan Genre Documentary Funding Type $100,000 Grant GGF Role Co-Executive Producer imdb.com 2018 Crip Camp Crip Camp Just down the road from Woodstock in the late 60s, a parallel revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers. Steeped in humor and the music of the era, the film explores awakenings that transforms lives and shape the future of the disability rights movement.  Director James Lebrecht Nicole Newnham Genre Documentary Funding Type $75,000 Grant $75,000 Impact GGF Role Funder CripCamp.com 2018 Always In Season Always In Season When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swingset in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins as the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present. Director Jacqueline Olive Genre Documentary Funding Type $100,000 Grant GGF Role In Association With AlwaysInSeasonFilm.com 2018 And She Could Be Next And She Could Be Next In a polarized America, where the dual forces of white supremacy and patriarchy threaten to further erode our democracy, women of color are claiming power by running for political office and ask if democracy itself can be preserved and made stronger by those most marginalized. Director Grace Lee Genre Documentary Funding Type $25,000 Grant GGF Role Funder AndSheCouldBeNext.com 2018 The Infiltraters The Infiltraters A rag-tag group of undocumented youth – Dreamers – get themselves detained in order to infiltrate a shadowy for-profit detention center and help free other immigrants. Director Cristina Ibarra Alex Rivera Genre Documentary Funding Type $75,000 Grant GGF Role Funder InfiltratorsFilm.com 2018 The Fight The Fight Inside the ACLU, a team of scrappy lawyers battle Trump’s historic assault on civil liberties. Director Eli B. Despres Josh Kriegman Elyse Steinberg Genre Documentary Funding Type $100,000 Grant GGF Role Funder FightTheFilm.com 2018 In the Bones In the Bones In the heart of the conservative South, women live poor, die young and have fewer rights or protections than in any other part of the country. This film illuminates the policies that disempower women through the lens of race, religion and the political establishment in deep red America. Director Kelly Duane Genre Documentary Funding Type $25,000 Grant GGF Role Funder ThreeFrames.org 2018 Us Kids Us Kids In the wake of the 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida—the worst school shooting since Newtown—Parkland students ignite the largest youth movement since the ‘60s to address gun violence in America and demand change. Director Kim A. Snyder Genre Documentary Funding Type $25,000 Grant GGF Role Funder UsKidsFilm.com jello@goodgravyfilms.orgGood Gravy Films does not accept unsolicited applications, films, scripts or letters of inquiry.© 2025 Good Gravy Filmsenenhttps://goodgravyfilms.org

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