Addie Morfoot ContributorClose to a decade after American Zoetrope announced that the company had acquired the screen rights to Alysia Abbott’s “Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father,” the film adaptation has finally been made with the help of Safe Space Pictures Foundation.The newly-launched funding entity was founded by producer Nicole Shipley (“Trial of the Chicago 7,” “A Private War”) to champion women and underrepresented voices in the entertainment industry by providing support to issue-driven documentary and narrative projects via equity, debt, and grant funding.
Safe Space is currently working on ten nonfiction and narrative projects at various stages in production. The foundation’s investments in film or television projects range between $250,000 and $2 million. “We take risks just like other investors, but our returns are measured in lasting, positive change,” says Jeff Sobrato, the foundation’s co-founder, and board chair. “Our model gives our collaborators the latitude to tell stories no one else will.”Shipley and Sobrato will serve as executive producers on “Fairyland,” a film about Abbott growing up with her widowed father, poet and gay activist Steve Abbott.
Safe Space will also support the Sofia Coppola-produced film through release by helping to generate a grant funded impact campaign for the movie, which does not yet have a release date.Earlier this month Safe Space’s first banner film, Cynthia Lowen’s “Battleground,” premiered in the documentary competition category at the Tribeca Festival.
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