Donors

Houston Cinema Arts Society exists because of the generosity of donors who believe in the power of film to move, challenge, and connect us. Your support fuels our two flagship programs, the Houston Cinema Arts Festival and the Houston Media Conference and year round programming. Our programming has been game-changing for local creatives, offering filmmakers, artists, and industry professionals real opportunities to present work, build skills, and thrive.

Every gift helps bring bold, boundary-pushing cinema to Houston audiences and keeps arts access, cultural storytelling, and creative risk-taking at the heart of what we do.

Shape the future of Houston’s cinema community with us.

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Visionary Circle ($25,000 +)

Franci Neely Foundation

The Brown Foundation

Cabrina and Steven Owsley

Rogero Family Foundation

Premiere Circle ($10,000 +)

Sara and Bill Morgan

Kinder Foundation

Cynthia and Anthony Petrello

Louisa Stude Sarofim

Mark Wawro

Nina and Michael Zilkha

Feature Circle ($5,000 +)

Matt Ballesteros

Jared Crane

Carrin Patman and Jim Derrick

Laurence Unger and Ben Hobratsch

Vicky Wight

Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation

Storyteller Circle ($1,000 +)

Ryan Aivalis

Kelly Foreman

Charles Dove

Rick Ferguson

Fleurette Fernando

Maureen McNamara

Justice Tirapelli-Jamail

Ann Vaughan

Ellen Yarrell

Indie Circle ($500 +)

Mariela Aguirre

Denise Bates

Ty Buthod

Shawn Collier

Paul R. Davis

Karen Fang and Andrew Wong

Leslie Field

Miles D. Harper

Delicia Harvey-Carrithers

Kyla Kennedy

Marian Luntz

Vanessa Provencio