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Film Forum thanks our generous supporters in calendar year 2023.
National Endowment for the Arts
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, Chair
New York City Council
Adrienne Adams, Speaker
Erik Bottcher, Council Member, District 3
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
in Partnership with the City Council
Laurie Cumbo, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs
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
$250,000 PLUS
The Harry S. Thomson Memorial Foundation
$150,000 - $249,999
The Kaplen Brothers Fund
Alex Katz Foundation
Ostrovsky Family Fund
$50,000 - $149,999
Wendy Keys / Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust
Hely Lima & Estate of Herbert Zohn
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
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
Levy-Horowitz Foundation
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Taipei Economic & Cultural Office
Anonymous (2)
$10,000 - $24,999
Ad Hoc Foundation
Frank J. Anelante
Robert E. Appel
Adam Bartos & Dr. Mahnaz Ispahani / Pannonia Foundation
Barbara H. Chacour
Joel Coen & Frances I. McDormand
Gray Coleman
Con Edison
Andrew Fierberg & Giuliana Bruno
Ethan Hawke, in honor of River Phoenix
Francis Levy & Hallie Cohen
Natasha Lyonne
Ruth A. Nordenbrook
Rohauer Collection Foundation
Cindy Sherman
The Nancy Sidewater Foundation
Daniel M. Snow & Merilee Raines
The Winston Foundation
Fred Wistow
Anonymous (2)
$5,000 - $9,999
Jan Albert & Dick Demenus
The Altschul Foundation
Stuart S. Applebaum, in memory of Susan & Howard Kaminsky
The Appleman Foundation
Lawrence N. Barshay
Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation
Lenore F. & Robert Davis / The Pixley Hill Foundation
Ella M. Foshay & Michael Rothfeld
Estate of Harvey Fried
Laurel Gonsalves
Clark R. Green Charitable Foundation
Catherine Gund
Hope Foundation
The David S. Howe Foundation
Lemberg Foundation
Liman Foundation
Richard L. & Ronay Menschel / Charina Endowment Fund
Richard Nadeau
Kevin R. Parks
Madeleine Richard
Laurie Sagalyn / Sagalyn Family Fund
Alexandra Shiva & Jonathan M. Sherman / Susan Stein Shiva Foundation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Michael Sternberg & Donna Green
Pierre Tonachel
Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss
Anonymous (2)
$2,500 - $4,999
Yvette J. Alberdingk-Thijm
Laurie Arbeiter & Jennifer Hobbs
Michael Bennett
Paula Cooper
Jeffrey Cranor & Jillian Sweeney
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Todd Dimston, in memory of Melissa Bank
Derreth C. Duncan
Susan & Thomas Dunn
Jeanne Donovan Fisher
Adaline H. Frelinghuysen
Stuart Gelwarg & Karen Lipkind
Pamela Grace
Kent & Liz Habecker
The Michael Hausman Filmhaus Foundation
Timothy Hughes
Scott Isler & Laura Picone
Karen Jorgensen
Kino Lorber
Lucy Kostelanetz & Steve Schrader
Charley McKenna
Sigrid Nunez
Amos A. Posner
Timothy A. Robert & Catherine Stolz-Robert
George E. & Marjorie K. Shea
Richard P. Sloan
Stephen Soba & Jonathan Arnold
Stacy Spikes
David M. Toberisky
Cameron Tung
Kent M. Wilhelm
Anonymous (2)
$1,000 - $2,499
Philip Aromando
Gail Aronow
Michael Badalucco & Brenda Heyob
Mary Lee Baranger
Sara Bershtel
Joe Blades
Valerie M. Block
Jeffrey Bloom
Stephen M. Brown
Steven A. Buehler
Terese Carpenter
Jennifer Christman & Jay Cohen
Allison Clark
David Corkery
Allen Coulter & Kim Knowlton
Cowles Charitable Trust
Mark T. Dibattista & Wendy K. Haley
Bernard D'Orazio
Kathleen & Henry Elsesser / Goldman Sachs Gives
Timothy Farrington
William L. Farris & Carol Farris
Tom Ferriter
Carol Flaton
Jeff Garlin
Stephen B. Garrett
Alex Gibney & Anne Debevoise
Jeffrey Guss & James Lawer
Jeff R. Gutterman
Emily Hacker
Oded Halahmy
Stephen Henderson & James LaForce
Ted D. Hicks
Jason Isralowitz
Paul W. Jackel & Nancy Grubb
Diane Jacobs
Robert Jeffrey
Wayne S. Kabak & Marsha Berkowitz
Maira Kalman
Fred M. Kaplan & Brooke Gladstone
Jesse Karp & Maren Berthelsen
Ellen T. Klass
Rachel S. Klein & Lyle Rexer
Robert Kulach
Neil Landreville
Thomas Larson, in memory of Danice Fink
Eric S. Lee
Jonathan S. Lee
David O. Leiwant
Mickey Lemle
Richard H. Levy & Lorraine Gallard
Stuart E. Leyton & Linda Wambaugh
Lawrence Luhring & Lucrecia Zappi
John & Kathleen M. Malast
Nitya Mankad
Esti Marpet
Brendan McDonald
Peter Mensch
Ken Mroczek
Monica Murphy & William R. Wasik
Alvin & Louise Myerberg Family Foundation, Inc.
The Dorothy & Mark Nelkin Charitable Fund
New York University
Amy D. Newman & Bud Shulman
Adam Offenhartz, in memory of Mitchell Offenhartz
George Ohrstrom
Elizabeth Olmsted & Randall K. Kau
On the Road Productions International, Inc.
Robert O. Owens & Eve Klein
Farley W. Pennington
Michael & Daniella Plottel
Laura Poitras
Seth Pomerantz
Amos A. Posner
Zach Rait
Frank H. Rich & Alex Witchel
Yoruba Richen
Avrom Robin
Anne E. Rosen & Andre Spears / The A & A Spears Fund
Alexander S. C. Rower
Ira Sachs & Boris Torres
Caroline Samuels & Michael Sturmer
Jana Schreuder
Susan Schuur
Kavita Shah
Neal Shapiro & Juju Chang
Jennifer M. Shotwell
Peter & Courtney Simon
Dominique R. Singer & Joan Greenfield
Brian S. Sokoloff
Rickie Solinger
Judy Sottile
Stephen L. Spiegel
Dr. P. R. Sundaresan
Michael Taglieri
Annie Thomas & David H. Kirkwood
Bill Thurston
John & Katherine Turturro
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
Mark Alexander
Douglas Allen
Robert Alpert & Marcia Eisenberg
Joshua J. Angel
Gary Arthur
Elizabeth Baker
Patricia Begley & George H. Beane
Carolyn Benbow
Rodney B. Benson
Jay Benzon
Tim & Blaine Birchby
Earl Black & Paula Jarowski
Creighton Blinn
David Bourgeois
Thomas T. Buck
David M. Bushler
Anthony Caracappa & Nina Ruffini
Deborah Costello
Dexter David
Julia DiNapoli
Mary K. Doris
Sally & Joe Dorsten
Paul Dougherty & Ellen Goodman
Sean Duggan
Bilge Fahri Ebiri
Diana & Frederick Elghanayan
Stewart A. & Rhoda Farber
Thomas N. & Miriam H. Farmakis
Elizabeth Ferando & Robb Patryk
Bonnie Filker
Gary J. Firuta
Julie A. Flanagan
Sandy Flitterman-Lewis & Joel Lewis
Deborah & John Fogarty
David S. Frankel
Erika Gesue
Elizabeth B. Gilmore
Henry Goldberg & Kim Hetherington
Elaine Goldman
James Gould
Molly B. Grattan
Adrienne Halpern
Kathleen Hatab
Marjorie Heins
Brendan Hines
Gabrielle A. & Michael Hirschfeld
Stephanie Hodor
Georgia Hubley & Ira Kaplan
Nicole Israel & Josh Kaufman
Elise Jaffe & Jeffrey Brown
Alexandre Jasserme
Mac Jeffery / Meek Foundation
Tim Johnson
Michael Kahn & Charles Mitchem
Wanjiku Kamau
Ellen Kamhi
Brian William Kane
Eric M. Katz & Susan Barbash
Thomas Kearns & Michele Tortorelli
Peter J. Keenan
Michael King & Ruth Orlowicz
Kurt C. Koepfle
Janet Kuhl
Kristen Kusama-Hinte
Richard C. Ledes
Susan Lee
Peter Leffman
Irving B. Lerner
Daniel Levy
Elaine Lippman
Barbara J. Lydon
Maria-Liisa Lydon
Edward Maguire
Marble Fund, Inc.
Marie Martinez-Wolcott
Jen J. May
Gillian McCain & James Marshall
Anne McCann
Joseph McEwen
Maurice Menares
Roberto Mendez
Stephin R. Merritt
Mitchell R. Metcalf
Dara Meyers-Kingsley
Gail Monaghan
Jeffrey & Henna Moskin
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
Sanford Reikes
David Rivel & Laura Ensler
Sheafe Satterthwaite
Val Schaffner / Schaffner Family Foundation
Bruno Schiavello
Ismar Schorsch
Sherry Schwartz
Leila Shakkour & Mike Thorne / LLL Foundation
Janine Shelffo
Hannah P. Shostack
Barbara Sicuranza
Tina Silvestri & David Pugh
Jamil Simon
Anne E. Smith
Bryan Smith
Kyle Thomas Smith
Stephen A. Stano
Lisa Stokes
Annette Stover & Richard Feiner
Michael Stringer
Illya Szilak
Charles T. Urban
Perry L. & Jen D. van der Meer
Louis F. Vernacchio, Jr.
Stephen Wagley
Nela Wagman
David Wah & Gabrielle Rieckhof
Eric Wollman
Zachary E. Woolfe
$250 - $499
Susanna B. Aaron
Peter W. Ackerman
Ellen K. Adler & Moshe Adler
James Arendt
Michael & Christine Augenbraun
Peter H. Baker
Nancy Barber & William Stone
Arjada Bardhi
Will Barrett & Becky Barker
Beth M. & Robert Belkin
James Benson
Jill Benz-Malter & Nicholas Malter
Gregory Berger
Deborah Berke & Peter McCann
Amy Berkov
Howard Berkowitz
Ian Blecher
Marc Boddewyn
Judith Boies & Robert Christman
Pamela & Jack Bolen
Robert Bomgardner
Gregory Bongen
Raymond Bonner
Emily R. Bono
Amanda Branson Gill
Joseph L. Braun & Wendy Jo Cohen
Kay Breslow
Beverly Brown & Doug Breitbart
Howard Bryant
Hollis J. Burridge
Timothy Byrne
Daniel M. Cahill
John Calhoun
Nicholas & Elizabeth Cammuso
Frances Caroll
Susan Case
Mark J. Catalano
Barbara Chernow, in honor of Blanche Chernow
Michael J. & Alice Cincotta
Nancy L. Clark
Steve Coats
Martin A. Cohen
Margaret Conklin
Dick P. Connette
Alice Connorton
Karin Coonrod & Jonathan Geballe
Nadine E. Covert
Richard J. Craig
Serafin Craig
William J. Cunningham
Tom Dannenbaum
Andy & Jessie Davis
Michael J. Davis, in memory of Anne Davis
Joe T. Dawson
David S. Delbaum
Susan de Menil
Zachary Denkensohn
Ritik Dholakia
Katherine Dieckmann
Danielle Dimston & Raffi Momjian
Peter Doodeheefver
Steven Eckler
Vadim Egoul
Henry Elghanayan & Nancy Newman
Abdo Esa
Jeffrey Fagan
Thomas J. Feie
Ron Finkelstein
Paul Fitzpatrick
Tim Flink
Marina V. Font
Tom Fontana
Brock Forsblom
Nicholas Franco
John Frankfurt
Charles Fuller
Krin Gabbard
Jane Gaines
George L. Ganat
Rachel & Brian Garcia
Michael S. Garfinkle & Dory Ellis
Brian Gentes
Don Gibson
Charles Giordano
Michael J. Glatthaar
Katherine Gonzalez
Y. G. Goode
Barry Goozner
Scott Greenfield
William Grogan
Eric B. Grossman & Elizabeth Schorr
John E. Gura
Ms. Stephanie Guyet
Alan J. & Paula B. Halperin
John Hamilton
Henry Hart
Deborah Hasin
Odie Henderson
Tove Hermanson & Jeffrey Leib
David N. Herskovits
Kayla Hicks
Paul Hildner
Ralph S. Hirshorn
Jonathan Hock
Denise Hoguet
Bryant Hoven
Linda Hsu
Mott W. Hupfel, III
Jan Lisa Huttner & Richard Bayard Miller
Dean Imperial
Paul W. Jackel & Nancy Grubb
Edward L. Jackson & Carol A. Forget
Peter & Gillian Jakab
Tom Jennings
Jose Jimenez
Joannie S. Kaplan
Dennis K. Karr
Susan Katz & Ellen Sowchek
Cathy Kaufman & Tom Pippert
Peter Kaufman
Peter Keepnews
Matthew Keesan
Michele Kenner
Sam Kerbel
David & Sandra Kerman
Paul & Anne L. Koenig
Catherine Kord
Amy Krafft
Gary Kronfeld
Mary Kuhns
Jennifer Lake
Glenn Lalich
Bob Lamm
Ira Langsam
Paul Latham
Michael Lavinger
Susan Lazarus
Andrew Lee
Lindsay Lehman
Emily Lemer
Jean M. Leo & Richard Kuczkowski
Mark Levine
Vienna Levitan
Samuel Levy
Mark Lewin
Stuart Liebman
Alvaro Lima
Rebecca Litt
William B. Longo
Rose Lord
Carolyn R. Malcolm
Anne Kriken Mann
Chris Marino
Ralph Martin & Christina Eisenbeis
Thomas E. Martin
Stephen C. Massey
Robert Mastrangelo
Lynn Mautner
Loring McAlpin
Mr. Anthony McCall
Bill McCarter
Vincent McGee
Michael E. McGrath
Peter McIntyre
Mr. David McMahon
Craig M. McNulty
Jacob Mendelsohn
Margaret Mercer
Steven & Elizabeth Mezick
Helen Mills
Matt Miranda
David Modest
Gary Mongiovi & Margaret Bailey
Joseph T. Morello
Nan J. Morrison
John J. Morrone, Jr., in honor of Sylvia Golden
Constance Mortell
Thomas E. Moseley
Fred Moten
Nicholas Moyne
Thomas R. Naparst
John L. & Shula Nemec
Regina Nouhan
Mark H. O'Donoghue
Richard J. & Janice Oppenheimer
Lawrence Orlowski
Eric S. Ost
Bill Pahlka
John W. Palattella & Holly Case
Carmen Paulino
Valeria Pelet del Toro
Juan Carlos Peña
Richard Peña
James Pincow
Pauline B. Pinto
Bruce Polsky
Linda Profuse
Michael Quagerelli
Christina Quintanilla
Steven M. Rabinowitz
Cristina Rackow
Honora Raphael & Jetta Weinstein
Kathryn N. & Richard J. Reichert
Norman & Linda Reimer
Patrick Reisinger
Raymond Rogers & Diane Pazar
Katie Rogin
Vivian Ruesch
Megan Rutherford & Alfred S. Graham
Julie M. Salamon & William Abrams
Harry Sandick
Antony Sargent
Stephen Schaefer
Emma Schechter
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
Karen Shatzkin & Mike Brecher
Alexios Shaw
David S. Sherman
Marguerite Shore, in memory of Michael Blackwood
Renoka Singh
Stanley Sisskin
Jeff Sisson
Lois Smith
Sarah E. Sparkman
Charles J. Sperling
Philip Stafford
Ingrid Steffensen
Lisa Stein & Karim Smires
M. G. Stevenson
David Stonehill
Judith Stonehill
Patricia Stumpp
Mark P. Sullivan
Mark Sullivan
Katherine Tandler
Sarah Teitler
Tom Towey
Aaron & Hannah Tracy
Jonathan Turell
Jean Vallier
Estela Vazquez
Nicholas J. Vendetti
Renee Viola
Stuart Waldman & Elizabeth Mann
Jeremy Warren
Aviva Weintraub
Barry Weisfeld
Jeffrey Weiss
Pamela Weiss
Elizabeth Weitzman
Nancy A. Wiese & Aram Fox
Gary Wiesendanger
Christopher S. Wilkinson
Yuri Zanow
Cynthia Zarin
Stephen Zolotow
Anonymous (2)
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 | |
| 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 |
| 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.