Spring 2025 ScreenCraft Film Fund Grant Recipients

Listed below are the Grant Recipients of the Spring 2025 ScreenCraft Film Fund. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 1,000 submissions and will receive grant assistance and creative development support from the ScreenCraft team to help these projects advance through the filmmaking process.

Grant Recipient Winners:

The Naughty List
Short
Brandon Osterman

Nine-year-old Charley finds out that she’s on The Naughty List and decides to change her fate by doing the unthinkable: kidnapping Santa Claus!

Our Bodies & Other Shames
Feature
Malka Wallick

When one of them is diagnosed with breast cancer, three childhood girlfriends gather for a sleepover in the Brooklyn of their youth, where they are confronted by their younger selves for an endless night of memories, secrets, and the meaning of what it is to truly go home again.

Tight & Nerdy
Documentary Feature
Jeff Nucera & Jonathan Ruane

A serious look into the absurd world of the first (and only) burlesque troupe devoted to “Weird Al” Yankovic. It's the story of a group of women who found inspiration in their hero’s subversion of what it means to “belong."