Film Forum

Film Forum thanks our generous supporters July 1, 2023 – July 1, 2024.

New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
in Partnership with the City Council
Laurie Cumbo, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs

New York City Council
Adrienne Adams, Speaker
Erik Bottcher, Council Member, District 3

New York State Council on the Arts
with the Support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature
Kathy Hochul, Governor   Katherine Nicholls, Chair
Erika Mallin, Executive Director

National Endowment for the Arts
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, Chair

 

$250,000 PLUS

The Harry S. Thomson Memorial Foundation

$150,000 - $249,999

The Kaplen Brothers Fund
Alex Katz Foundation
Ostrovsky Family Fund
Anonymous 

$50,000 - $149,999

Wendy Keys / Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust
The Charles & Lucille King Family Foundation
Levy-Horowitz Foundation
Matt McClure / Goldman Sachs Gives
Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation
Daniel Palladino & Amy Sherman-Palladino
Max Rifkind-Barron / The Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation
Stella M. Strazdas & Hank Forrest
Estate of Herbert Zohn
Anonymous 

$25,000 - $49,999

Hugo Barreca / The Double R Foundation
The Chervenak-Nunnallé Foundation
J. Kerry Clayton & Paige Royer
Karen Crennan & Allen Toman
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Alba Greco & Roger Garcia
Mary W. Harriman Foundation
Maureen A. Hayes
Oscar Isaac
Alan & Lauren Klein
Daniel M. Snow & Merilee Raines
Stephen Stites / Goldman Sachs Gives
Anonymous (2)

$10,000 - $24,999

Ad Hoc Foundation
Robert Appel
Adam Bartos & Dr. Mahnaz Ispahani / Pannonia Foundation
Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation
Barbara H. Chacour
Joel Coen & Frances I. McDormand
Gray Coleman
Cultural Heritage Preservation Fund
Andrew Fierberg & Giuliana Bruno
Ethan Hawke in Honor of River Phoenix
Humanities New York
Francis Levy & Hallie Cohen
Natasha Lyonne
Ruth A. Nordenbrook
Kevin R. Parks
Cindy Sherman
Nancy Sidewater
Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss
The Winston Foundation
Fred Wistow
Anonymous (2) 

$5,000 - $9,999

Jan Albert & Dick Demenus
The Altschul Foundation
Stuart S. Applebaum
The Appleman Foundation
Lawrence Barshay
Charina Endowment Fund
Con Edison
Ella M. Foshay & Michael Rothfeld
Ann B. Glazer & Barkley J. Stuart
Clark R. Green Charitable Foundation
Catherine Gund
Hope Foundation
The David S. Howe Foundation
Lemberg Foundation
Liman Foundation
Richard Nadeau
Madeleine Richard
Rohauer Collection Foundation
Laurie Sagalyn / Sagalyn Family Fund
Alexandra Shiva & Jonathan M. Sherman / Susan Stein Shiva Foundation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 
David M. Toberisky
Pierre Tonachel
Anonymous (2) 

$2,500 - $4,999

Laurie Arbeiter & Jennifer Hobbs
Paula Cooper
Jeffrey Cranor & Jillian Sweeney
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Todd Dimston in Memory of Melissa Bank
Jeanne Donovan Fisher
Derreth Duncan
Susan & Thomas Dunn
Lisabeth During & Ross Poole
Adaline H. Frelinghuysen
Stuart Gelwarg and Karen Lipkind
Kent & Liz Habecker
The Michael Hausman / Filmhaus Foundation
Timothy Hughes
Scott Isler & Laura Picone
Karen Jorgensen
Jordan Katz & Ellen Schleifer
Kino Lorber
Lucy Kostelanetz & Steve Schrader
Eric S. Lee
Gina Leonetti
Richard H. Levy & Lorraine Gallard
James Mangold
Pamela Mendels / The Wallace Foundation
Sigrid Nunez
Timothy A. Robert & Catherine Stolz-Robert
George E. & Marjorie K. Shea
Richard P. Sloan
Anne E. Smith
Stephen Soba & Jonathan Arnold
Stacy Spikes
Robert R. & Virginia Walther
Linda Young
Anonymous 

$1,000 - $2,499

Philip Aromando
Helen Jean Arthur
Michael Badalucco & Brenda Heyob
Michael Bennett
Sara Bershtel
Joe Blades
Valerie M. Block
Stephen M. Brown
Steven A. Buehler
Charles M. Carberry & Kathleen Dunne
Terese Carpenter
Bryan Chegwidden
Jennifer Christman & Jay Cohen
Jeanne Collins & John Elderfield
David Corkery
Cowles Charitable Trust
Allen Coulter & Kim Knowlton
Mark T. Dibattista & Wendy K. Haley
Bernard D'Orazio
Kathleen & Henry Elsesser / Goldman Sachs Gives
Timothy Farrington
Carol Farris
Peter Feinstein
Tom Ferriter
Carol Flaton
Mary Beth Forshaw & Thomas Merrill
Gisela H. Gamper
Jeff Garlin
Stephen B. Garrett
Alex Gibney & Anne Debevoise
Chris W. & Susan Gifford
Laurel Gonsalves
Pamela Grace
Jeffrey Guss & James Lawer
Jeff R. Gutterman
Emily Hacker
Oded Halahmy
Anna Hanks
Stephen Henderson & James LaForce
Ted D. Hicks
Jason & Rachel Isralowitz
Paul W. Jackel & Nancy Grubb
Diane Jacobs
Alexandre Jasserme
Robert Jeffrey
Jon R. Jucovy
Wayne S. Kabak & Marsha Berkowitz
Fred M. Kaplan & Brooke Gladstone
Ellen T. Klass
Rachel Klein & Lyle Rexer 
Daniel R. Kramer / The Dammann Fund
Robert Kulach
Neil Landreville
Thomas Larson
Jonathan S. Lee
Peter Leffman
David O. Leiwant
Mickey Lemle
Stuart E. Leyton & Linda Wambaugh
Ned & Elena Lord 
Lawrence Luhring & Lucrecia Zappi
John & Kathleen M. Malast
Esti Marpet
Brendan McDonald
Jane McGrath Martin / Deerdodds Fund
Peter Mensch
Ken Mroczek
Monica Murphy & Bill Wasik
Alvin & Louise Myerberg Family Foundation, Inc.
Dorothy & Mark Nelkin
Amy D. Newman & Bud Shulman
Adam Offenhartz
Elizabeth Olmsted & Randall K. Kau
Robert O. Owens & Eve Klein
Farley W. Pennington
Michael & Daniella Plottel
Laura Poitras
Amos A. Posner
Patrick Quarterman
Karen Rabe
Zach Rait
Frank H. Rich & Alex Witchel
Yoruba Richen
Avrom Robin
Bill Roney & Mark Barreiro
Rosemary A. Rotondi
Alexander S. C. Rower
Ira Sachs & Boris Torres
Jonathan Scheuer & Debra Granik
Jana Schreuder
Susan Schuur
Kavita Shah
Neal Shapiro & Juju Chang
Estate of Sam Shepard
Jennifer M. Shotwell
Peter & Courtney Simon
Dominique R. Singer & Joan Greenfield
Kyle Thomas Smith
Brian S. Sokoloff
Judy Sottile
Andre Spears & Anne E. Rosen / The A & A Spears Fund
Stephen L. Spiegel
Dr. P. R. Sundaresan
Michael Taglieri
Annie Thomas & David Kirkwood
Bill Thurston
Joel S. Truman & Sara Lustigman
Cameron Tung
John & Katherine Turturro
John F. Tweddle
Margo L. & Anthony Viscusi 
Isabelle Wald
Marc N. Weiss & Nancy Meyer
Scott Weyandt
James Wilentz & Robin Maxwell
Frederick Zeigler
Ivan D. Zimmerman & Taryn Higashi
Laurence Zuckerman
David & Monica Zwirner
Anonymous (4) 

$500 - $999

Megan Abbott
Jade Albert & Jonathan Segal
Robert Alpert & Marcia Eisenberg
Joshua J. Angel
Gail Aronow
Gary Arthur
Shauna Bahssin
Elizabeth Baker
Carolyn Benbow
Earl Black & Paula Jarowski
Creighton Blinn
David Bourgeois
Thomas T. Buck
David M. Bushler
Deborah Costello
Renee Critchell
Dexter David
Philip DiFiore
Mary K. Doris
Sally & Joe Dorsten
Maureen Dougherty
Paul Dougherty & Ellen Goodman
Bilge Fahri Ebiri
Vadim Egoul
Stewart A. & Rhoda Farber
Thomas N. & Miriam H. Farmakis
Elizabeth Ferando & Robb Patryk
Paul A. Ferrara
Bonnie Filker in Memory of Selma Ring Filker
Gary J. Firuta
Julie A. Flanagan
Sandy Flitterman-Lewis & Joel Lewis
Deborah & John Fogarty
Framarb Foundation
David S. Frankel
Elizabeth B. Gilmore
Henry Goldberg & Kim Hetherington
Elaine Goldman
Alexander A. Grasso
Molly B. Grattan
Eric B. Grossman & Elizabeth Schorr
Adrienne Halpern
Kathleen Hatab
Marjorie Heins
Gabrielle A. & Michael Hirschfeld
Georgia Hubley & Ira Kaplan
Linda Irenegreene
Nicole Israel & Josh Kaufman
Gary J. Jacobson
Elise Jaffe & Jeffrey Brown
Tim Johnson
Gary Kahn
Michael Kahn & Charles Mitchem
Wanjiku Kamau
Ellen Kamhi
Brian William Kane
Peter Kaufman
Eric M. Katz & Susan Barbash
Thomas Kearns & Michele Tortorelli
Peter J. Keenan
Michael King & Ruth Orlowicz
Leni Klaimitz
Kurt C. Koepfle
Janet Kuhl
Richard C. Ledes
Susan Lee
Irving B. Lerner
Francois & Calleen Letaconnoux
Daniel Levy & Adrienne M. Ward
Hely Lima 
Barbara J. Lydon
Maria-Liisa Lydon
Jordan Magid
Edward Maguire
Nitya Mankad
Chris Marino
Marie Martinez-Wolcott
Michael J. Matcovich
Malcolm Matt
Jonah Max
Jen J. May
Gillian McCain & James Marshall
Joseph McEwen
Maurice Menares
Roberto Mendez
Stephin R. Merritt
Mitchell R. Metcalf
Susan Moger in Memory of Jole Carliner
Gail Monaghan
Jeffrey & Henna Moskin
Dennis Murphy
Matthew Neiger
Maury Newburger
Alicia Ogawa
David Olstein
John Orberg
Louise K. Owen
Lois Padawer
Deborah Paul
Mark & Sophia Penberthy
Mark Perro
Jonathan Plasse
Marlin S. Potash
Christina Reik
Robin Reikes
David Rivel & Laura Ensler
Stephen Schaefer
Val Schaffner / Schaffner Family Foundation
Bruno Schiavello
Ismar Schorsch
Sherry Schwartz
Leila Shakkour & Mike Thorne / LLL Foundation
Karen Shatzkin & Mike Brecher
Janine Shelffo
Hannah P. Shostack
Barbara Sicuranza
Tina Silvestri & David Pugh
Jamil Simon
Bryan Smith
Rickie Solinger
Stephen A. Stano
Lisa Stokes
Annette Stover & Richard Feiner
Michael Stringer
Illya Szilak
Katherine Tandler
Susan Tribbitt
Charles T. Urban
Perry L. & Jen D. van der Meer
Estela Vazquez
Stephen Wagley
Nela Wagman
David Wah & Gabrielle Rieckhof
Aaron Wald
Eric Wollman
Zachary E. Woolfe

$250 - $499

Susanna B. Aaron
Anthony Abenante
Joan Abrams
Peter W. Ackerman
Carolyn Alexander
James Arendt
Michael & Christine Augenbraun
Peter H. Baker
Nancy Barber & William Stone
Arjada Bardhi
Will Barrett & Becky Barker
Brandi Beck & Andrew Rosen
Beth M. & Robert Belkin
James Benson
Jill Benz-Malter & Nicholas Malter 
Deborah Berke & Peter McCann
Howard Berkowitz
Ian Blecher
Marc Boddewyn
Judith Boies & Robert Christman
Pamela & Jack Bolen
Robert Bomgardner
Gregory Bongen
Raymond Bonner
Emily R. Bono
Timothy Bradley
Joseph L. Braun & Wendy Jo Cohen
Kay Breslow
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Beverly Brown & Doug Breitbart
Howard Bryant
Hollis J. Burridge
Timothy Byrne
Daniel M. Cahill
John Calhoun
Tom Callahan
Nicholas & Elizabeth Cammuso
Frances Caroll
Gabriele Caroti
Susan Case
Mark J. Catalano
Barbara Chernow in Honor of Blanche Chernow
Carrie Chung
Michael J. & Alice Cincotta
Nancy L. Clark
Steve Coats
Martin A. Cohen
Margaret Conklin
Diane Conn
Dick P. Connette
Alice Connorton
Karin Coonrod & Jonathan Geballe
Nadine E. Covert
Liam Craig
Richard J. Craig
Serafin Craig
William J. Cunningham
Tom Dannenbaum
Andy & Jessie Davis
Michael J. Davis in Memory of Anne Davis
Joe T. Dawson
Susan de Menil
Paul de Sa
David S. Delbaum
Zachary Denkensohn
Elizabeth C. Denlinger
Ritik Dholakia
Katherine Dieckmann
Danielle Dimston & Raffi Momjian
Julia DiNapoli
Peter Doodeheefver
Steven Eckler
Abdo Esa
Jeffrey Fagan
Holeri Faruolo
Thomas J. Feie
Ron Finkelstein
Tim Flink
Marina V. Font
Brock Forsblom
Nicholas Franco
John Frankfurt
Charles Fuller
Krin Gabbard
George L. Ganat
Rachel & Brian Garcia
Brian Gentes
Don Gibson
Charles Giordano
Michael J. Glatthaar
Richard F. Glover
Susan Gold
Y. G. Goode
Barry Goozner
James Gould
Scott Greenfield
Josephine Grieder
William Grogan
John E. Gura
Stephanie Guyet
Dan Halsted
John Hamilton
Henry Hart
Deborah Hasin
Paul Hastings LLP 
Odie Henderson
David N. Herskovits
Kayla Hicks
Paul Hildner
Ralph S. Hirshorn
Jonathan Hock
Denise Hoguet
Janat Horn
Bryant Hoven
Mott W. Hupfel, III
Edward L. Jackson & Carol A. Forget
Peter & Gillian Jakab
José Jiménez
Camila Jones & Peter Blas
Joannie S. Kaplan
Jesse Karp & Maren Berthelsen
Dennis K. Karr
Susan Katz & Ellen Sowchek
Cathy Kaufman & Tom Pippert
Peter Keepnews
Matthew Keesan
Michele Kenner
Sam Kerbel
David & Sandra Kerman
Ronald F. & Lorraine Klagsbrun
Paul & Anne L. Koenig
Catherine Kord
Amy Krafft
Gary Kronfeld
Mary Kuhns
David S. Kurnick
Jennifer Lake
Glenn Lalich
Carole Lalli
Gregg Lamotta
Ira Langsam
Paul Latham
Michael Lavinger
Diane Lazarus
Susan Lazarus
Emily Lemer
Jean M. Leo & Richard Kuczkowski
Michael M. Leslie
Vienna Levitan
Samuel Levy
Mark Lewin
Stuart Liebman
Alvaro Lima
Elaine Lippman
William B. Longo
Nelson J. Luria
Edward Mafoud
Carolyn R. Malcolm
Anne Kriken Mann
Charlotte Marchant & Mona Fafarman
Ralph Martin & Christina Eisenbeis
Thomas E. Martin
Robert Mastrangelo
Lynn Mautner
John Mazzella
Anthony McCall
Bill McCarter
Vincent McGee
Michael E. McGrath
Peter McIntyre
David McMahon
Craig M. McNulty
Jacob Mendelsohn
Margaret Mercer
Steven & Elizabeth Mezick
Helen Mills
Matt Miranda
Gary Mongiovi & Margaret Bailey
Joseph T. Morello
Nan J. Morrison
John J. Morrone, Jr. in Honor of Sylvia Golden
Thomas E. Moseley
Nicholas Moyne
Matthew Murabito
David Murdock
Lawrence K. Murphy
Thomas R. Naparst
Fredric Nelson
Mark H. O'Donoghue
Richard J. & Janice Oppenheimer
Lawrence Orlowski
Bill Pahlka
John W. Palattella & Holly Case
Robert B. Palmer
Carmen Paulino
Valeria Pelet del Toro
Juan Carlos Peña
Richard Peña
Pauline B. Pinto
Bruce Polsky
Michael Quagerelli
Christina Quintanilla
Steven M. Rabinowitz
Cristina Rackow
Honora Raphael & Jetta Weinstein
Matthew Raycroft
Kathryn N. & Richard J. Reichert
Norman & Linda Reimer
Patrick Reisinger
Julia S. Robbins
Raymond Rogers & Diane Pazar
Katie Rogin
Sebastian Roldan
Peter Rosenstein
William H. Roth
Vivian Ruesch
Julie M. Salamon & William Abrams
Harry Sandick
The Benjamin Schiff Fund for the Arts
Jeff S. Schneider & Elsa Dixler
Laura Schoen
Thelma C. Schoonmaker
Peter Scibetta
Marjorie Shaffer
Claire M. Shanley
David M. Shanton
Monica Shapiro
Alexios Shaw
David S. Sherman
Alec Signorino
Renoka Singh
Stanley Sisskin
Jeff Sisson
John D. Smith
Lois Smith
Sarah E. Sparkman
Charles J. Sperling
Theo E. Spilka
Ingrid Steffensen
Lisa Stein & Karim Smires
M. G. Stevenson
David Stonehill
Judith Stonehill
Patricia Stumpp
Mark Sullivan
Mark P. Sullivan
Philip Stafford
Sarah Teitler
James Tong
Tom Towey
Aaron & Hannah Tracy
Togo Travalia
Jean Vallier
Nicholas J. Vendetti
Renee Viola
Stuart Waldman & Elizabeth Mann
Jeremy Warren
Aviva Weintraub
Barry Weisfeld
Jeffrey Weiss
Elizabeth Weitzman
Nancy A. Wiese & Aram Fox
Gary Wiesendanger
Kent M. Wilhelm
Yuri Zanow
Cynthia Zarin
Stephen Zolotow
Anonymous (3) 

 

Legacy Circle 

Film Forum expresses its deep appreciation to the following individuals for their foresight, generosity, and commitment to sustaining our mission. Their legacy pledges and gifts enable us to envision and plan for Film Forum’s future.

Estate of Richard Brick
Andrew G. Dickos
Estate of Harvey Fried
Kitty Glantz
Alba Greco & Roger Garcia
Julie A. Gross & Lawrence Loewinger
Ted Hicks
Estate of Peter Jacobs
Hely Lima and Estate of Herbert Zohn
Estate of Sam Shepard
Dominique Singer & Joan Greenfield
Anne E. Smith
David Toberisky & Martha Hanson
Estate of Margo Wintersteen

 

Thank you to the following corporations that contribute through matching gift and employee giving programs:

Apple	KKR
Ares Management	LinkedIn
Bank of America	McGraw Hill
Benevity Community Impact Fund	Microsoft
Blackbaud Giving Fund / Your Cause	Morgan Stanley
BNY Mellon	Open Society Institute
Celonis	Oracle Corporation
D.E. Shaw Group	Paul Hastings LLP
Dolby Laboratories	Peloton Interactive
Duolingo	Pitney Bowes Foundation
Etsy	Reuters America
ExxonMobil	Rockefeller Foundation
Fidelity Investments	Charles Schwab
First Eagle Investment Management Foundation Ford Foundation	Starz
Give Lively	Texas Instruments Foundation
GivingTrax	Third Point
Google	The T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving
Hearst	UBS Matching Gifts Program
Jewish Communal Fund	Vanguard
JP Morgan Chase & Co.	Viacom

 

For a list of contributors to our 2023 small is beautiful campaign, click here.

For a list of contributors to our endowed funds, click here.

We make every attempt to acknowledge our donors accurately. If you find an error, or have any questions, please contact Mary Ellen Obias, Director of Development at (212) 627-2035 x225 or maryellen@filmforum.org.