...so, I just got turned down by a fiscal sponsor. My first reaction is: ARE THEY BLIND??!!
ARE THEY CRAZY??!
WHAT ARE THEY THINKIN'???!! 
...Okay, so now that I have done the outraged, tempermental artist-kick the trashcan-piss-and-moan thing...
...The reason I was turned down was because my project is too commercial. Fiscal sponsors seem to be looking for non-profit non-commercial projects. It would seem to me that if you want your project to be seen, they kind of are all commercial. I kind of get the point, however...
...my project has educational value, even though initially it may not seem to at surface, and I can explain it
...many grant providers don't want to fund 'historical' projects, mine is pretty timely, but does have a historical aspect to it. But I have worked around the 'historical' thing without being deceptive or compromising my idea...
Here's my question: Anyone know how I can get around the 'commercial' appearance of my film? What constitutes commercial or non-commercial? I intend to ask some contacts I have made thus far, but I can't contact them until the work week, so I come to this community, humbled, grumbled, and pissed off, but not deterred.
...does anyone have any insight? Or know where I could go?
...how dare they turn me down!!!...uh, okay, I'm done now...really....I am...(grumbling under my breath)
--spinner



...Okay, so now that I have done the outraged, tempermental artist-kick the trashcan-piss-and-moan thing...
...The reason I was turned down was because my project is too commercial. Fiscal sponsors seem to be looking for non-profit non-commercial projects. It would seem to me that if you want your project to be seen, they kind of are all commercial. I kind of get the point, however...
...my project has educational value, even though initially it may not seem to at surface, and I can explain it
...many grant providers don't want to fund 'historical' projects, mine is pretty timely, but does have a historical aspect to it. But I have worked around the 'historical' thing without being deceptive or compromising my idea...
Here's my question: Anyone know how I can get around the 'commercial' appearance of my film? What constitutes commercial or non-commercial? I intend to ask some contacts I have made thus far, but I can't contact them until the work week, so I come to this community, humbled, grumbled, and pissed off, but not deterred.
...does anyone have any insight? Or know where I could go?
...how dare they turn me down!!!...uh, okay, I'm done now...really....I am...(grumbling under my breath)

--spinner
