The Donor; The Story of a Modern American Family
a feature documentary
The Donor has been selected by The Southern Documentary fund for fiscal sponsorship!
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At 19 years old Nate walked into a fertility clinic and donated sperm. Now at age 50, he has over 85 donor conceived offspring.
Kianni is the eldest of Nate's offspring. She grew up with two step-brothers but when the parents split up, she was left without them. Lonely, she sought out her donor conceived siblings and started a community of found family of 85 siblings (and counting).
With no kids of his own, Nate has the unique opportunity to embrace this offbeat family or silently keep his distance.
This is the story of Nate's complicated choice and of Kianni's dogged pursuit of family.
In the spring of 2025, we crowdfunded a pitch for this feature documentary via the Seed&Spark platform. In 45 days we were able to raise 120% of our funding goal, with additional donations and funding coming on the heels of the campaign’s success.
To date we have raised just over $31,000 for principal photography that will take place over the summer of 2025.
