Guido Santi and Tina Mascara’s documentary Chris and Don: A Love Story opened in theaters on July 4th, 2008. The film was a great success at the Telluride Film Festival, the AFI, and many other film festivals. The documentary has been widely praised. Kirk Honeycut in The Hollywood Reporter called Santi and Mascara “superb filmmakers, fully alive ... Read the latest newsletter. 

The main purpose of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation is to contribute significantly to the flourishing of American letters by awarding grants to published novelists and to Isherwood scholars. These $4,000.00 grants enable writers to devote time to writing projects and provide funds for research.

We especially want to thank the Ahmanson Foundation, The Huntington, Angelina Jolie, Doris Roberts, and Barbara McCormick.

In 2008 several hundred published novelists applied for our grants. We appreciate each of these applicants whose work testifies to the strength of current American fiction.