Frameline, the organizer of the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, announced the recipients of its annual Frameline Completion Fund grants.
Every year, the fund provides grants to emerging and established filmmakers, supplying financial support to artists in need of funds to finish films that center LGBTQ+ people and their communities.
Recipients of this year’s Frameline Completion Fund include Barbara Forever, Brydie O’Connor’s archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival and won the Teddy Award for documentary at Berlin International Film Festival; Jaripeo by Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig, which also premiered at Sundance; Jennifer M. Kroot’s Hunky Jesus, which is set to open the BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival; D’Arcy Drollinger’s Lady Champagne, which will also have its world premiere at BFI Flare; Adam’s Apple by Amy Jenkins, which is poised to world premiere at SXSW; and the short film But Still, We Move by Theo Angel.
“Frameline exists because queer artists have always had to build their own infrastructure,” said Allegra Madsen, Frameline’s Executive Director. “As federal funding continues to disappear from arts organizations across the country, we’re proud to be one of the institutions still standing with fifty years of proof that we know how to endure, and a clear commitment to the LGBTQ+ storytellers who will define the next fifty. That’s exactly why our Completion Fund grantees matter so much right now: investing in these artists isn’t just meaningful — it’s how we build toward that future. Reaching our 50th festival while also doing this work feels urgent and necessary.”
Full List of 2026 Frameline Completion Fund Grantees
Adam’s Apple
DIR Amy Jenkins 2026 USA 98 min
Documentary Feature
An intimate, collaborative documentary told through the dual perspectives of Adam, a transgender teen, and his mother, visual artist Amy Jenkins, that offers an authentic and tender counterpoint to the hostility facing trans youth today.
Barbara Forever
DIR by Brydie O’Connor 2025 USA 102 min
Documentary Feature
An exploration of the films, archive, and ongoing cultural impact of experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, revealing her ingenious lifelong artistic effort to create and record lesbian histories, personal and societal.
But Still, We Move
DIR Theo Angel 2026 UK 14 min
Narrative Short
When Tendai’s housemate moves out, they find themselves facing access challenges alone for the first time. As they navigate their independence, they are hounded by the image of the “perfect wheelchair user” and how they feel they fail to match up to it, until they decide to take action and free themselves from the narrative.
Hunky Jesus
DIR Jennifer M. Kroot 2026 USA 85 min
Documentary Feature
A chronicle of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, from the order’s founding in the ‘70s to the Sisters’ history on the front lines of the AIDS crisis to their social justice movement’s current efforts to take on Trump’s America.
Jaripeo
DIR Efraín Mojica & Rebecca Zweig 2026 Mexico/USA/France 70 min
Experimental Documentary Feature
A journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
Lady Champagne
DIR D’Arcy Drollinger 2026 USA 95 min
Narrative Feature
The hilarious sequel to D’Arcy Drollinger’s Shit & Champagne (2020), starring the drag artist as erotic dancer Champagne Horowitz Jones Dickerson White.
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