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Celebrate the past 15 years
and support a successful future!
Celebrate the past 15 years and support a successful future!
Fifteen years ago, TMI Project began its journey with co-founders Eva Tenuto and Julie Novak sitting with a few friends in a living room, sharing stories that eventually made their way to the stage of the Rosendale Theater on February 19, 2010. Since then, thanks to your generous support and faith in us, TMI Project has reached nearly 300,000 audience members, produced more than 250 shows, and worked with over 3,000 storytellers. We’ve produced an award-winning podcast and have listeners in 167 countries. In 2024, two of our films have traveled the country to national acclaim. Thank you for helping us get here. We couldn’t have done it without you.
As many of you know, our co-founder, Julie Novak, passed away from breast cancer on August 31, 2024. Eva lost her partner in love and life, and the entire TMI Project community lost a legendary beacon of light. Though we would give anything to watch these films with Julie on the big screen, or see her face light up when our name was called for an award, we know that more than receiving accolades, Julie cared most about changing lives and deeply impacting youth.
Being there for young people was Julie’s driving force. She spent her life becoming the superhero she longed for in her youth. As she often said, “Storytelling can help someone turn their kryptonite into their superpower!” She helped hundreds of young people do just that.
In 2025, we are excited to expand three programs dear to Julie’s heart, all of which will serve young people, both locally and nationwide:
“To be a part of helping people release the shame that binds them, to see people transform in the most positive way after sharing their truth is what gives my life meaning. Countless times I have witnessed how the act of being seen and heard can create true connection and lasting change.”
– Julie Novak, TMI Project co-founder
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One Story at a Time: Celeste Lecesne
Your support will ensure no LGBTQIA+ child reaches the point of crisis where they need to make a life-saving call!
One Story at a Time: Celeste Lecesne: an award-winning short film that highlights the personal journey behind the creation of The Trevor Project, the largest suicide prevention lifeline for LGBTQIA+ youth.
Looking Back: In 2024 One Story at a Time screened 37 times in 19 states at several notable festivals including DC/DOX, Reeling Chicago International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, GlobeDocs by The Boston Globe, Utah Queer Film Festival, and Portland Film Festival. The film won 4 awards, including Best of Documentary at OutWest Film Festival and Best LGBTQ+ Film at Global Drama Project Short Film Festival.
Looking Forward: In 2025, your support will help us pair this award-winning film with programming for students and educators across the country to ensure no LGBTQIA+ child reaches the point of crisis where they need to make a life-saving call.
Locker Room Talk
Your support will help empower a generation of healthy young men!
Locker Room Talk: an award-winning docushort, created in partnership with the nationally acclaimed A Call to Men, that chronicles a group of Kingston High School football players as they participate in a TMI Project true storytelling workshop designed to redefine what it means to be men.
Looking Back: The film was screened 14 times in 11 states and 3 countries at notable festivals including Montreal International Film Festival, Global Peace Film Festival, and Vermont Film Festival. It won Best Documentary Storytelling at Montreal International Film Festival. It was picked up by Good Docs for educational distribution.
Looking Forward: IN 2025, your support will help us bring Locker Room Talk and its accompanying programming to schools and communities nationwide, empowering a generation of healthy young men to become empowered to speak up for themselves, each other, and in the face of violence against women.
Period Power! Stories
Your support will help us train a group of youth activists to tackle period poverty for 14,000 students!
Period Power! Stories: A student-led, story-driven educational initiative tackling period poverty among menstruators who face inadequate access to period supplies, substandard health education, and social stigma.
Looking Back: The inaugural production of Period Power! Stories mobilized support, resulting in donations of non-toxic menstrual products. The storytellers used their true narratives to end period poverty at Kingston High School and now support over 700 students and other community members in need!
Looking Forward: IN 2025, your support will help us train a group of youth activists to roll out a multimedia story-driven impact campaign that will tackle period poverty in New York’s Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, and Sullivan Counties, impacting an estimated 14,000 young people.
Together, we can transform young people’s lives, one story at a time.
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