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Film Forum thanks our generous supporters July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025.




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

$300,000 PLUS

The Harry S. Thomson Memorial Foundation

$150,000 - $299,999

The Kaplen Brothers Fund
Alex Katz Foundation
The Charles & Lucille King Family Foundation
Ostrovsky Family Fund
Anonymous 

$50,000 - $149,999

Berkshire Foundation
Charina Endowment Fund
Wendy Keys / Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust
Matt McClure / GS Gives
Daniel Palladino & Amy Sherman-Palladino  
Max Rifkind-Barron / Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation  
Daniel M. Snow & Merilee Raines 
Stella M. Strazdas & Hank Forrest 
Anonymous 

$25,000 - $49,999

Hugo Barreca / The Double R Foundation 
J. Kerry Clayton & Paige Royer / Clayton-Royer Family Fund 
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
Natasha Lyonne
Stephen Stites / GS Gives
Annie Thomas & David H. Kirkwood
Anonymous 

$10,000 - $24,999

Ad Hoc Foundation  
Jan Albert & Dick Demenus  
Robert E. Appel  
Adam Bartos & Dr. Mahnaz Ispahani / Pannonia Foundation 
Barbara H. Chacour 
The Chervenak-Nunnallé Foundation  
Joel Coen & Frances McDormand  
Gray Coleman  
Andrew Fierberg & Giuliana Bruno  
Ethan Hawke in honor of River Phoenix  
Timothy S. Ketring 
David L. Klein, Jr. Foundation 
Francis Levy & Hallie Cohen  
Richard L. & Ronay Menschel / Charina Foundation  
Cindy Sherman 
Shumaker Family Fund in honor of Nicholas Shumaker 
Nancy Sidewater Foundation 
Cameron Winklevoss  
Tyler Winklevoss 
The Winston Foundation 
Fred Wistow 
Anonymous in honor of Robert Christman 
Anonymous (3)

$5,000 - $9,999

The Altschul Foundation  
Stuart S. Applebaum in honor of Karen Cooper  
Lawrence N. Barshay  
Ethan Coen  
Lenore F. & Robert Davis / The Pixley Hill Foundation 
Sara Driver  
Derreth C. Duncan  
Aaron Edison  
Ella M. Foshay & Michael Rothfeld  
Ann B. Glazer & Barkley J. Stuart
Clark R. Green Charitable Foundation    
Catherine Gund  
Kent & Liz Habecker 
The David S. Howe Foundation  
Karen Jorgensen  
Lemberg Foundation  
Ruth A. Nordenbrook 
Kevin R. Parks  
Madeleine Richard  
Sagalyn Family Fund 
Alexandra Shiva & Jonathan M. Sherman / Susan Stein Shiva Foundation  
Melissa Thomas & David Koepp
David M. Toberisky 
Anonymous (2) 

$2,500 - $4,999

Laurie Arbeiter & Jennifer Hobbs  
Michael Bennett  
Helen Rother Cahill / The KMC Foundation  
Paula Cooper  
Michael Corapi  
Cowles Charitable Trust  
Jeffrey Cranor & Jillian Sweeney  
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP  
Susan & Thomas Dunn  
Lisabeth During & Ross Poole  
Veronica Espaillat  
Carol Farris  
Adaline H. Frelinghuysen  
Stuart Gelwarg & Karen Lipkind 
The Michael Hausman / Filmhaus Foundation   
Hope Foundation
Timothy Hughes  
Gail Hupper & Bill Wood  
Scott Isler & Laura Picone  
Diane Jacobs  
Jon R. Jucovy  
Kino Lorber, Inc.  
Janet Kuhl & John Orberg  
Thomas Larson  
Eric S. Lee  
Gina Leonetti  
Richard H. Levy & Lorraine Gallard  
Eva Lindemann-Sanchez  
Peter Mensch & Anita Bitton 
Peter Menz  
Alvin & Louise Myerberg Family Foundation, Inc.  
Richenthal Foundation  
Timothy A. Robert & Catherine Stolz-Robert  
Rohauer Collection Foundation  
George & Marjorie Shea 
Anne E. Smith 
Stephen Soba & Jonathan Arnold  
Robert R. & Virginia Walther 
Linda Young 
Anonymous (2) 

$1,000 - $2,499

Megan Abbott  
Philip Aromando  
Susan Babbitt  
Michael Badalucco & Brenda Heyob 
Patricia Begley & George H. Beane 
Thomas W. & Jana Bergdall  
Sara Bershtel 
Guillermo Bichara & Viviana Guzman 
Joe Blades 
Valerie M. Block  
Lauren Bon  
Steven A. Buehler  
Terese Carpenter 
Bryan Chegwidden 
Sandra M. & Thomas G. Christie  
Jennifer Christman & Jay Cohen 
Jeanne Collins & John Elderfield 
David Corkery 
Edrie A. Cote  
Allen Coulter & Kim Knowlton  
Ritik Dholakia 
Bernard D'Orazio  
Virginia Dorris 
Scott Duprey 
Kathleen & Henry Elsesser / GS Gives  
Timothy Farrington  
Paul A. Ferrara 
Tom Ferriter 
Jeanne Donovan Fisher
Jill Fortunato 
Gisela H. Gamper 
Stephen B. Garrett  
Jeff Garlin 
Alex Gibney & Anne Debevoise 
Laurel Gonsalves 
Pamela Grace 
Jeffrey Guss & James Lawer 
Jeff R. Gutterman  
Emily Hacker 
Anna Hanks 
Marjorie Heins 
Stephen Henderson & James LaForce  
Ted D. Hicks 
Mott W. Hupfel  
Jason Isralowitz 
Paul W. Jackel & Nancy Grubb  
Robert Jeffrey  
Wayne S. Kabak & Marsha Berkowitz  
Michael Kahn & Charles Mitchem 
Fred M. Kaplan & Brooke Gladstone  
The J. M. Kaplan Fund  
Brian Kariger 
Ellen Tobey Klass  
Rachel Klein & Lyle Rexer
Robert Kulach 
Neil Landreville 
Jonathan S. Lee  
David O. Leiwant  
Mickey Lemle 
Dan Levy & Adrienne M. Ward 
Ellen Lewis 
Stuart E. Leyton & Linda Wambaugh  
Hely Lima 
Lawrence Luhring & Lucrecia Zappi 
Maria-Liisa Lydon 
Esti Marpet 
Gillian McCain & James Marshall 
Michelle McMahon 
Keith McNally 
Roberto Mendez 
Y. H. Mirzoeff & Sons Foundation in honor of Martin Ewenstein 
Dan P. Muldoon  
Monica Murphy & William R. Wasik 
Mark Nelkin & Lenore Malen  
New York University  
Adam Offenhartz 
Elizabeth Olmsted & Randall K. Kau 
Robert O. Owens & Gustie Owens  
Michael & Daniella Plottel  
Laura Poitras 
Nicole Polier 
Amos A. Posner  
Patrick Quarterman
Jordan Reuter  
Frank H. Rich & Alex Witchel  
Yoruba Richen 
Bill Roney & Mark Barreiro 
Alexander S. C. Rower 
Ira Sachs & Boris Torres  
Caroline Samuels & Michael Sturmer  
Val Schaffner 
Allison Schreuder & Alex Waxler 
Susan Schuur 
Daniel L. Selden  
Kavita Shah 
Neal Shapiro & Juju Chang  
Jennifer M. Shotwell  
Jamil Simon  
Dominique Singer & Joan Greenfield
Charles L. Sivertsen, Jr.  
Brian S. Sokoloff  
Stephen L. Spiegel  
Jay M. Stern  
George Stevens, Jr.  
Dr. P. R. Sundaresan  
Michael Taglieri 
Bill Thurston 
Joel S. Truman & Sara Lustigman  
Cameron Tung 
John & Katherine Turturro  
Villa Albertine 
Margo L. & Anthony Viscusi  
Isabelle Wald 
Marc N. Weiss & Nancy Meyer  
Ryan Werner 
Scott Weyandt 
Andrew Wilcox 
Frederick Zeigler 
Ivan D. Zimmerman & Taryn Higashi  
Laurence Zuckerman 
David & Monica Zwirner 
Anonymous (4)

$500 - $999

Jade Albert & Jonathan Segal
Mark Alexander
Robert Alpert & Marcia Eisenberg
Anthony Anemone
Joshua J. Angel
Gail Aronow
Gary Arthur
Jacob Arthur
Shauna Bahssin
Elizabeth Baker
Henry S. Bean
Brandi Beck & Andrew Rosen
Beth M. & Robert Belkin
Carolyn Benbow
Jay Benzon
Raymond Bonner & Jane Perlez
John Borelli
Zachary Bregman
Nicholas Britell
Thomas T. Buck
David M. Bushler
Robert B. Cartwright
Elizabeth A. Castelli
Margaret Conklin
Deborah Costello
Liam Craig
William J. Cunningham
The Dammann Fund, Inc.
Grant Delin
Paul de Sa
Bella DeVaan
Susan Dixon
Mary K. Doris
Sally & Joe Dorsten
Steven Eckler
Vadim Egoul
Abdo Esa
Thomas N. & Miriam H. Farmakis
Alan Felsenthal
Elizabeth Ferando & Robb Patryk
Gary J. Firuta
John & Deborah B. Fogarty
Brock Forsblom
Mary Beth Forshaw & Thomas Merrill
David S. Frankel
Brian Gentes
Jonathan Goldberg & Michael T. Murphy
Elaine Goldman
Alexander A. Grasso
Molly B. Grattan
Adrienne Halpern
Jonathan Harber
Deborah Hasin
Kathy Hatab
Heimbinder Family Foundation
Matthew Hermalyn
Brian Hinchcliffe 
Georgia Hubley & Ira Kaplan
Jan Lisa Huttner & Richard Bayard Miller
Linda Irenegreene 
Nicole Israel & Josh Kaufman
Gary J. Jacobson
Paula Jarowski & Earl Black
Alexandre Jasserme
Gary Kahn
Ellen Kamhi
Brian William Kane
Robert Kapsis
Jesse Karp & Maren Berthelsen
Eric M. Katz & Susan Barbash
Susan Katz & Ellen Sowchek
Cathy Kaufman & Tom Pippert
Thomas Kearns & Michele Tortorelli
Peter J. Keenan
Sam Kerbel
Michael King & Ruth Orlowicz
Jill Kirschenbaum
Leni Klaimitz
Kurt C. Koepfle
Susan Lazarus
Susan Lee
Peter Leffman
William Lemberg & Audrey Stone
Maxwell Lenahan
Irving B. Lerner
Michael M. Leslie
Keith A. Levine 
William G. & Marcia D. Levy  
Elaine Lippman 
Daniel S. Loeb
Nelson J. Luria
Barbara J. Lydon 
Edward Mafoud
Edward Maguire
Nitya Mankad
Marie Martinez-Wolcott
Tim Masick
Malcolm Matt
Jonah Max
Noah McCormack
Donna & Dale McCormick
Janet McGiffin
Stephen McGrath
Maurice Menares
Stephin R. Merritt
Mitchell R. Metcalf
Jacob Miller
Joyce R. Miller
Gail Monaghan
Nan J. Morrison
Jeffrey & Henna Moskin
Matthew Neiger
Maury Newburger 
Guy Nordenson
Sigrid Nunez
Alicia Ogawa
Carol J. Ott
Louise K. Owen
Lois Padawer 
Deborah L. Paul 
Mark Perro
William R. Pullano
Christina Reik 
Sanford & Robin Reikes
Patrick Reisinger
Anne E. Rosen & Andre Spears
William H. Roth 
Mitzie Rothzeid
Anne Rudman
Robin Sagon
Kristina F. Saxena
Stephen Schaefer
Bruno Schiavello
Laura Schoen
Ismar Schorsch
Sherry Schwartz
Peter Scibetta 
Hannah P. Shostack
Tina Silvestri & David Pugh
Alan Sinsheimer
Ken Small
Bryan Smith 
Kyle T. Smith
Lois Smith
Judith Sottile
Stephen A. Stano
Ingrid Steffensen
David Stonehill 
Annette Stover & Richard Feiner
Michael Stringer
Katherine Tandler
Togo Travalia
Arda Ungun
Charles T. Urban
Stephen Wagley
Aaron Wald
Richard Weigand
Nancy A. Wiese & Aram Fox
Eric Wollman
Zachary E. Woolfe
Anonymous (4)

$250 - $499

Brian D. Abel
Anthony Abenante
Peter W. Ackerman
William Adelson
Clinton Alford
Maeser Allen
Eric C. Andrus
James Arendt
Michael & Christine Augenbraun
Jody Avirgan
Rick Babwin
Peter H. Baker
Mary Lee Baranger
Jay Barksdale
Tina Barnet
Will Barrett & Becky Barker
Stuart Bauchner
George Bean
Noah Beckwith & Julia McCormick
James Benson
Jill Benz-Malter & Nicholas Malter
Deborah Berke & Peter McCann
Amy Berkov
Howard Berkowitz
Giovanna Bianco
Sheila Biddle
Ian Blecher
Creighton Blinn
Judith Boies
Pamela & Jack Bolen
Robert Bomgardner
Gregory Bongen
Jennifer Boudinot
Joseph L. Braun & Wendy Jo Cohen
Hali Breindel
Aaron Michael Brenner
Kay Breslow
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Richard Brouillard
Beverly Brown & Doug Breitbart
Howard Bryant
Angie L. Bucknell
Richard Burbridge
Hollis J. Burridge
Timothy Byrne
Daniel M. Cahill
John Calhoun
Tom Callahan
Nicholas & Elizabeth Cammuso
Michael Campbell
Cathy Caplan
Anne Carey
James Carnahan
Rosemary Carroll
Mark J. Catalano
Barbara Chernow
Michael J. & Alice Cincotta
Nancy L. Clark
Steve Coats
Edwin Cohen & Victoria Shaw
Martin A. Cohen
Ellis C. Coleman
Joseph Colletti
Diane Conn
Alice Connorton
Karin Coonrod & Jonathan Geballe
Mary Corliss
Nadine E. Covert
Serafin Craig
Niall Cunningham
Rachel Daniell
Tom Dannenbaum
Gwen Darien & Jonathan Sibley
Andy & Jessie Davis
Michael J. Davis
Charles L. DeFanti
Matthew Delaney
Marcus Delgado
Marj Demmer
Ellen DeNicola
Zachary Denkensohn
Elizabeth C. Denlinger
Katherine Dieckmann & Caroline Wallis
Danielle Dimston & Raffi Momjian
Julia DiNapoli
Lisa J. Dobbs
Peter Doodeheefver
Laura Dunphy & Michael Erlinger
Audrey Dursht & Sandy Herzfeld
Stewart A. & Rhoda Farber
Wendy Feuer
Ron Finkelstein
Clark Fitzgerald
Joan M. Flanigan
Tim Flink
Sandy Flitterman-Lewis & Joel Lewis
Terry Fonville 
Miriam Frank
John Frankfurt
Krin Gabbard
George L. Ganat
Michael S. Garfinkle & Dory Ellis
Alexander Geppert & Anna Kathryn Kendrick
Peter Gethers
Don Gibson
David Gilbert
Michael J. Glatthaar
Susan Gold
Y. G. Goode
Jenniphr L. Goodman
Barry Goozner
James Gould
Stanley Greenberg & Lynn Yellen
Scott Greenfield
William Grogan
John E. Gura
Carlos Gutiérrez
Susan L. Halper
John Hamilton
Laura Hansen
Cathryn Harding
Henry Hart
Molly Haskell & Andrew Sarris
Carolyn Hearn
Steven D. Heller
Odie Henderson
Kimberly D. Hendrickson
Claude Hersh
David N. Herskovits
Robert Hertzberg
Kayla Hicks
Paul Hildner
Ralph S. Hirshorn
Jonathan Hock
Denise Hoguet
Bryant Hoven
Dean Imperial
Kristin Iversen
Edward L. Jackson & Carol A. Forget
George Jarjoura
Sandra Jennings-Guskin
Tim Johnson
Camila Jones & Peter Blas
Aldo Juraidini
Anuar Juraidini
Carl S. Kaplan & Pamela Mendels
Joannie S. Kaplan
Dennis K. Karr
Peter Kaufman
Peter Keepnews
Matthew Keesan
William Kelly
Michele Kenner
David & Sandra Kerman
Charles Khosla
Doug Knecht
Paul & Anne L. Koenig
Alexander Kopelman & Sarah Richardson
Catherine Kord
Amy Krafft
Laura Shapiro Kramer
Alys Kremer
David S. Kurnick
David LaFleur
Jennifer Lake
Glenn Lalich
Carole Lalli
Gregg Lamotta
Ira Langsam
Ann LaPides
Paul Latham
Brian Lathrop
Thomas D. Lauricella
Michael Lavinger
Ken A. LaZebnik
Aaron Lehman
Jean M. Leo & Richard Kuczkowski 
Mark Levine
Stuart Liebman
Luminary Labs
John R. MacArthur
William Madison
Carolyn R. Malcolm
John-John C. Manlutac
Anne Kriken Mann
Eugene F. Manning
Charlotte Marchant & Mona Fafarman
Ralph Martin & Christina Eisenbeis
Thomas E. Martin
Eliza Mason
Robert Mastrangelo
Lynn Mautner
Jen J. May
John Mazzella
Cindy McBennett
Bill McCarter
Thomas McCarthy 
Patrick G. McCullough
Hugh Mcfadden
Justine W. McGovern
Michael E. McGrath
Colleen McGuinness
Peter McIntyre
Christy McKenna
Timothy M. McLaughlin
Jacob Mendelsohn
Margaret Mercer
Steven & Elizabeth Mezick
Keith Miller
Kristen Mitchell
Gary Mongiovi & Margaret Bailey
John J. Morrone Jr.
Thomas E. Moseley
Nicholas Moyne
Matthew Murabito & Karen Ando
David Murdock 
Lawrence K. Murphy
Sondos Nassar
Christine Newman
Kevin Nieves
Mark H. O'Donoghue 
Richard J. & Janice Oppenheimer
Robert B. Palmer
Rebecca Park
Valeria Pelet del Toro
Richard R. Peña
Minerva Phifer
Pauline B. Pinto
William Platt
Leonard S. Polonsky
Bruce Polsky
Johnny Pomatto & Robin Sandusky
Dennis Powers
Michael Quagerelli
Steven M. Rabinowitz
Cristina Rackow
Raajit Rampal
Frank Rand
Honora Raphael & Jetta Weinstein
Kathryn N. & Richard J. Reichert
Linda & Norman Reimer Charitable Foundation
Arden Rodgers
Raymond Rogers & Diane Pazar
Katie Rogin
Sebastian Roldan
Michael Rosenfeld
Mark Rossier
Yuko & Lou Royer
Xianzhi Ruan
Vivian Ruesch
Lynne A. Sachs
Julie M. Salamon & William Abrams
Harry Sandick
Daniel Scheffey
Elizabeth A. Scheines & Ron Elton
Roslyn Schloss 
Jeff S. Schneider & Elsa Dixler
Thelma C. Schoonmaker
Paul Schueler
Toby Schwartz
Gabriel Sciannella
Marjorie Shaffer
Stanley J. Shaffer
Leila Shakkour & Mike Thorne
Claire M. Shanley
David M. Shanton
Monica Shapiro
Karen Shatzkin & Mike Brecher
Stephan Shaw
Daniel Sheinberg
David S. Sherman
John P. Short
David W. Siegel
G. Michael Simmon
Renoka Singh
Ujjwal Sinha
Stanley Sisskin
Jeff Sisson
Diana Situ
Richard P. Sloan
John D. Smith
Vasilisa Sokolova
Charles J. Sperling
Saul Spicer
Theo E. Spilka
Gillian Steel
Lisa Stein & Karim Smires
M. G. Stevenson
Deborah Stewart
Patricia Stumpp
Mateo Suarez
Mark P. Sullivan
Patience & Narayan Sundaresan
Theresa D. Swink
Illya I. Szilak
Sarah Teitler
Barbara Timmer
Margaret M. Tobin
Tom Towey
Aaron Tracy
Susan Tribbitt
Yunus Tuncel
Eric Unverzagt
Jay Upadhyay
Jean Vallier
Perry L. & Jen D. van der Meer
Thomas Van Essen & Bobbie Fishman
Estela Vazquez
Nicholas J. Vendetti
Caroline Vichot
Renee Viola
Kenneth M. Vittor & Judith Aisen
David Wah & Gabrielle Rieckhof
Jeremy Warren
Willet Weeks
Claudia W. Weill
Sharon Weinberg & Jeffrey Zimmerman
Barry Weisfeld
Jeffrey Weiss
Elizabeth Weitzman
Ben & Amanda Welsh
Donald Werner
Nathaniel A. Wice
Gary Wiesendanger
Mike Wilson
Victoria Wilson
Cary Woods
Stephanie Zacharek
Mark Zadrozny
Cynthia Zarin
Haoyu Zhu
Jeffrey Zimmerman
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 George Boras
Estate of Richard Brick
Andrew G. Dickos
Estate of Helen Jean Arthur Dunn
Estate of Harvey Fried
Emily J. Gertz
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 Robert Bruce Martin
Estate of Frederick Meyer
Kevin R. Parks
Estate of Sam Shepard
Dominique Singer & Joan Greenfield
Anne E. Smith
David Toberisky & Martha Hanson
Ryan Warden
Estate of Margo Wintersteen

 

Special thanks to our landlord, Jeff Gural / GFP Real Estate LLC,  for their kind donation of storage space.

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

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

 

For a list of contributors to our 2024 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.

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