Updated August 2014
SELECTED FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR
FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTS IN FILM AND MEDIA
STUDIES
This document lists both fellowships for individual work and grants that require institutional sign-off and
must be submitted through the University of Kansas Center for Research (KUCR) or KU Endowment
Association. Opportunities are listed for graduate students, as well as faculty, so please share the list with
any of your graduate students who may be interested.
To navigate, keep the document in layout view, scroll to the table of contents, then click on the page
number of the agency or program in which you’re interested. This will take you directly to that entry. If
you then wish to learn more, click on the agency’s website address (URL), which you will find near the
bottom of the entry. If clicking doesn’t work, copy the URL, paste it into the address line of your web
browser, and type return.
Many humanities and area studies centers offer only thematic fellowships, programs and deadlines can
change, and some agencies had not updated their websites at the time this document was compiled, so do
check the agency websites and read application instructions carefully.
Developing proposals takes focus and time. Because most agencies have deadlines only once each year
and take from three to eight months to announce awards, it is advisable to think long-term when planning
your external funding strategies. This list is intended for planning purposes. It is our hope that you will be
able to use it to quickly determine which agencies might fund your work, easily find more information
about them by visiting their websites, and then develop an external applications timeline that will help
you stay on task as you prepare your proposals.
Note that while you may be able to put together a viable fellowship proposal in as little as six weeks, it
will be quite impossible to develop an institutional proposal in that time frame. Because of their
complexity and the necessity for institutional approval and sign-off, you should begin working on an
institutional proposal a minimum of four months (if you are highly motivated and extremely organized)
and preferably six months prior to the agency’s deadline and, if necessary, work from the previous year’s
instructions until new ones are posted. This will help to ensure that you can complete and finalize all of
the proposal components by the internal deadline of 8:30 a.m. one week prior to the agency deadline.
This is not exhaustive. If you know of other sources that you believe will appeal to broadly to Film and
Media Studies faculty members or graduate students, please let us know.
We will be glad to work with faculty to develop their personal grant development plans and application
timelines and then prepare competitive external fellowship and grant applications.
Kathy Porsch, Grant Development Officer
kporsch@ku.edu - 785/864-7834
John Biersack, Research Development Graduate Assistant or
Scott C. Knowles, Grant Development Research Assistant
hgdo@ku.edu - 785/864-7887
http://www.hallcenter.ku.edu/humanities-grant-development-office
Table of Contents
Scholarly Research and Writing.................................................................................................. 3
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ........................................................................................ 3
Fulbright Scholar Program ....................................................................................................................... 3
George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation................................................................................... 3
Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities Bogliasco Fellowship Program................................. 3
National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Visiting Senior Research
Fellowship Program.................................................................................................................................. 3
UCLA Film and Television Archive Visiting Researcher Stipend........................................................... 4
Creative Work (Production, Screenwriting, Festivals, etc.) ..................................................... 4
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ........................................................................................ 4
Film Festival Grants ............................................................................................................................ 4
Educational Grants Program ............................................................................................................... 4
The Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting ........................................................................................... 4
The Student Academy Awards .............................................................................................................. 4
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation ............................................................................ 5
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ...................................................................................................................... 5
Creative Capital Foundation Grants for Individual Artists. ...................................................................... 5
Djerassi Resident Artists Program ............................................................................................................ 5
Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology ............................................................... 5
FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) .......................................................................................... 6
Foundation for Jewish Culture, Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film .................... 6
Frameline .................................................................................................................................................. 6
From the Heart Productions ...................................................................................................................... 6
Fulbright Scholar Program ....................................................................................................................... 6
Independent Television Service (ITVS) ................................................................................................... 7
Diversity Development Fund (DDF) .................................................................................................... 7
Linking Independents and Co-Producing Stations (LINCS) ................................................................ 7
Open Call ............................................................................................................................................. 7
Commissioned R&D/Production Funding ........................................................................................... 7
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation ...................................................................................... 7
MacDowell Colony, Inc. .......................................................................................................................... 8
Millay Colony for the Arts, Inc. ............................................................................................................... 8
National Endowment for the Humanities ................................................................................................. 8
Media Projects Grant ........................................................................................................................... 8
NEH Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics ............................................................... 8
POV (Point of View), American Documentary, Inc. ................................................................................ 9
Sundance Institute..................................................................................................................................... 9
Tribeca Film Institute ............................................................................................................................... 9
The Documentary Fund........................................................................................................................ 9
Sloan Filmmaker Fund ....................................................................................................................... 10
All Access Fund .................................................................................................................................. 10
New Media Fund ................................................................................................................................ 10
Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund ..................................................................................................... 10
University Film and Video Association Carole Fielding Student Grants ............................................... 10
Yaddo Artists Residency ........................................................................................................................ 10
Other Resources .......................................................................................................................... 11
How to Finance your Independent Film ................................................................................................. 11
Independent Film Financing (IFF).......................................................................................................... 11
International Documentary Association (IDA) ...................................................................................... 11
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Scholarly Research and Writing
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Film Scholars Program
This program is designed to stimulate and support the creation of innovative and significant works of film
scholarship about aesthetic, cultural, educational, historical, theoretical or scientific aspects of theatrical
motion pictures. Works solely exploring television, video or other media arts are not eligible. Proposed
projects may be books, multimedia presentations, curatorial projects, DVD-ROMs or Internet sites.
Applicants must be established scholars, writers, historians or researchers with a significant record of
achievement. Projects cannot be film, television or video productions. Amount: $25,000.
URL: http://www.oscars.org/education-outreach/grants/filmscholars/index.html
Deadline: October 1
Fulbright Scholar Program
This Fulbright program sends US faculty from all disciplines abroad for various periods, usually three to
nine months, to lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
URL: http://www.cies.org/
Deadline: August 1
George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation
The foundation offers $30,000 fellowships on a six-year rotation of fields in the Liberal and Fine Arts.
The focus is on Creative Writing (Fiction), Creative Writing (Poetry), and Philosophy for the Fall 2014
competition (fellowship 2015-16). It will rotate to to field of Film Studies in the Fall 2015 competition
(fellowship 2016-17; Creative Non-Fiction, Literary Translation into English, Film Studies, Literary
Studies). The fellowship is targeted at early mid-career individuals. Applicants should have completed
their formal studies within the past five to fifteen years and have successfully completed at least one
major project beyond degree requirements sufficient for the awarding of tenure at a research institution.
Assistant and full professors are not normally eligible for a Howard Fellowship. Applicants must be
professionally based in the US by affiliation or residence.
URL: http://www.brown.edu/initiatives/howard-foundation/
Deadline: November 1
Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities Bogliasco Fellowship Program
The Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities provides residential fellowships for qualified
persons working on advanced creative or scholarly projects in the arts and humanities. Fellowships are
awarded to qualified persons doing advanced creative work or scholarly research in the following
disciplines: archaeology, architecture, classics, dance, film or video, history, landscape architecture,
literature, music, philosophy, theater, and visual arts. The Study Center welcomes persons doing both
creative and scholarly work (such as art history, musicology, film criticism, and so on).
ULR: http://www.bfny.org/english/fellowships.cfm
Deadline: January 15 for the next fall semester and April 15 for the next spring semester
National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Visiting Senior Research
Fellowship Program
Visiting senior fellowships are intended for those who have held the PhD for five years or more or who
possess an equivalent record of professional accomplishment at the time of application. Scholars are
expected to reside in Washington conducting full-time research and to participate in Center activities
throughout the fellowship period. Applications are considered in the history, theory, and criticism of the
visual arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, prints and drawings, film,
photography, decorative arts, industrial design, and other arts) of any geographical area and of any period.
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Stipends for two-month fellowships range from $6,000 to $8,000, depending on relocation requirements.
URL: http://www.nga.gov/resources/casvavissen.htm
Deadline: September 21 and March 21
UCLA Film and Television Archive Visiting Researcher Stipend
The purpose of this $3,000 stipend is to support and encourage the work of scholars who require shortterm access to the moving image collections held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, specifically
to offset expenses associated with their research visit there. The stipend is transferred after the research
visit is concluded.
URL: http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/education/visiting-researcher-stipend-2014
Deadline: July 9 (the last known deadline)
Creative Work (Production, Screenwriting, Festivals, etc.)
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Film Festival Grants
Festivals based in the U.S. that have held at least five festivals by December 31 of the year prior to
applying are eligible. Grant requests must target one or more concrete elements within the festival.
No grants will be awarded for general support. Festivals with a cash budget of less than $100,000 can
apply for up to 10 percent of their cash budget or $2,500, whichever is larger. Festivals with cash
budgets from $100,000 to less than $200,000 can apply for up to $10,000. Festivals with cash budgets
from $200,000 to $600,000 can apply for up to $20,000. Festivals with cash budgets greater than
$600,000 can apply for up to $30,000.
URL: http://www.oscars.org/education-outreach/grants/filmfestival/index.html
Deadline: June 30 (last known deadline)
Educational Grants Program
These grants are awarded only to nonprofit film organizations, film programs within universities, and
other nonprofits. Eligible programs include: workshops and conferences, library and archival
projects, screening programs, seminar programs, teacher training programs, and visiting artist
programs. This agency has eligibility restrictions, for example, awards cannot be used for
administrative, equipment, or overhead expenses. Check the website for eligibility details.
URL: http://www.oscars.org/education-outreach/grants/institutional/index.html
Deadline: December 15 (last known deadline)
The Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
This is an international competition open to screenwriters who have not earned more than $25,000
(total earnings) writing for film or television. Entry scripts must be the original work of a sole author
or of no more than two collaborative authors. Up to five $35,000 fellowships are awarded annually.
URL: http://www.oscars.org/awards/nicholl/
Deadline: May 1 (last known deadline)
The Student Academy Awards
This competition supports filmmakers with no previous professional experience who are enrolled in
accredited colleges and universities as full-time students. Professionals should not play any major
role in the production of student films. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medal Awards (which include cash
grants of $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000, respectively) may be given in recognition of outstanding
achievements in student filmmaking in animation, documentary, narrative, and alternative.
URL: http://www.oscars.org/awards/saa/index.html
Deadline: April 1 (last known deadline)
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Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation
The College Television Awards competition rewards excellence in college student film/video productions
by honoring student producers. The producer should be mainly and ultimately responsible for the whole
and final product, faculty may act in an advisory capacity only. Entries are accepted in animation,
children's, comedy, comedy series, commercial, documentary, drama, drama series, magazine, music, and
newscast. Winners receive monetary awards, gift packs, and/or certificates.
URL: http://www.emmysfoundation.org/college-television-awards
Deadline: January 14 (last known deadline)
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Public Understanding of Science and Technology. This program aims to convey to reach a wide nonspecialist audience some of the challenges and rewards of the scientific and technological enterprise and
of the lives of those engaged in it through the use of books, radio, public television, commercial
television, films, theater, and the Internet. The Film program seeks to influence the next generation of
filmmakers to tackle science and technology themes and characters, to increase visibility for feature films
that depict this subject matter, and to produce new scripts about science, technology, scientists, engineers,
and mathematicians. This program works primarily through initiatives with film schools, film festivals,
and independent and Hollywood film producers. A brief letter of inquiry is the first step for an applicant.
The Foundation's activities do not normally extend to religion, the creative or performing arts, elementary
or secondary education, medical research or health care, the humanities, or to activities outside the US.
URL: http://www.sloan.org/major-program-areas/public-understanding-of-science-and-technology/film/
Deadline: Open
Creative Capital Foundation Grants for Individual Artists.
Successful applicants will have at least five years of experience and propose works innovative in form
and/or content in the performing and visual arts, film and video, and in emerging fields. Funding is
offered in film/video arts, performing arts (includes theater), and emerging art fields (includes all forms of
digital work and innovative literature). Projects that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries are
highly encouraged. Creative Capital operates on a two-year grant cycle, funding alternative disciplines
each year. For the 2016 cycle (deadline: 2015), it will support performing, emerging arts and innovative
literature;
URL: http://www.creative-capital.org/ourprogram
Deadline: March 1 (anticipated) for film/video and visual arts
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Residencies are awarded competitively, at no cost, to national and international artists in the disciplines of
choreography, literature, music composition, visual arts, and media arts/new genres. This program seeks
applications from emerging and mid-career artists, for whom appointments as resident artists may make a
significant difference to their careers, as well as from established artists with national and/or international
reputations. Panels of arts professionals evaluate applications in each category. Those selected are offered
living and studio space for 30-day sessions during the season, which runs from mid-March through midNovember. There is a $45 application fee.
URL: http://www.djerassi.org/artistresidencies.html
Deadline: February 15
Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology
NOTE: Submissions to the Foundation have been temporarily suspended until funds become available.
Please check the website for more information.
This Foundation supports projects that meet at least one of the Foundation's aims: to promote
contemporary artistic practices that use digital technologies to express aesthetic and critical forms of
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discourse; to encourage interdisciplinary research; and to sustain the development of projects calling for
co-operation between people from a variety of fields, such as artists, scientists, and technologists.
URL: http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/index.php
Deadlines: Not been announced as of 8/11/2014, check website for updates.
FACE (French American Cultural Exchange)
FACE is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting contemporary creative work in the context of
French-American cultural and educational exchange. FACE administers a variety of programs and
projects in education, film and theater.
URL: http://www.facecouncil.org/cinema/index.html
Deadline: Tournées Festival: October 1; Ciné2000: no deadline provided (see website for details)
Foundation for Jewish Culture, Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film
Formerly known as the “National Foundation for Jewish Culture,” this fund is designed to support the
completion of original documentaries that explore the Jewish experience in all its complexity. Grants
range from $15,000 to $35,000 and are awarded for post-production support. Open only to US citizens
and permanent residents who have their film in postproduction at the time of application. Applications
must be submitted through a nonprofit organization with 501(c)3 status, which could be the University of
Kansas Center for Research or the KU Endowment Association. Individuals applying through this
institution must have creative, editorial, and budgetary control of the proposed project and own the
copyright of the completed film.
URL: http://jewishculture.org/film/
Deadline: Currently suspended until funds become available. (check website later this year for
updates)
Frameline
The Frameline Film & Video Completion Fund provides grants to emerging and established lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) filmmakers. Grants range from $1,500 to $5,000 and will be given
only to projects about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and their communities. Student
projects are eligible as long as the student maintains artistic and financial control of the project. Grants are
given only for completion; therefore, projects must have 90% of production finished and be in the postproduction phase or ready to begin post as soon as funding is in place. Submissions are accepted for
documentary, educational, narrative, animated or experimental projects.
URL: http://www.frameline.org/filmmaker-support/frameline-completion-fund
Deadline: October 31 (last known deadline)
From the Heart Productions
The Roy W. Dean Film & Video Grants are in the form of goods and services. Student filmmakers,
independent producers, or independent production companies producing documentaries, shorts, and lowbudget independent socially aware projects for television, film, or video are eligible. There is an
application fee of $38 ($28 for students).
URL: http://fromtheheartproductions.com/how-to-apply-for-grants/
Deadlines: Spring: April 30; Summer: June 30; Fall: September 30
Fulbright Scholar Program
This Fulbright program sends US faculty from all disciplines abroad for various periods, usually three to
nine months, to lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
URL: http://www.cies.org/
Deadline: August 1
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Independent Television Service (ITVS)
The ITVS funds, distributes, and promotes new programs primarily for public television. The agency is
committed to programming that addresses the needs of underserved and underrepresented audiences.
Diversity Development Fund (DDF)
This Fund provides up to $15,000 in research and development funding to producers of color. Funded
activities may include travel, research, script development, preliminary production for
fundraising/work-in-progress reels or other early phase activities. Projects must be in the research or
development phase, and cannot have begun production. Students are not eligible. Minority producers
must be independent producers and legal residents of the USA or its external territories seeking to
develop projects for public television. Applicants should own the copyright of their production and
have artistic, budgetary and editorial control of their project. They must not be regularly employed by
a public or commercial broadcast entity or film studio and must have some previous film or television
production experience in a principal role (director, co-director, producer, co-producer).
URL: http://www.itvs.org/funding/ddf
Deadline: October 10
Linking Independents and Co-Producing Stations (LINCS)
This program provides matching funds (up to $100,000) to partnerships between public television
stations and independent producers. To apply for LINCS funds, independents must first approach a
public television station and establish a partnership. Single shows in any genre will be considered.
Projects may be in any stage of development.
URL: http://www.itvs.org/funding/lincs/how
Deadline: Open
Open Call
Open Call provides finishing funds for single non-fiction or animation public television programs on
any subject, and from any viewpoint. Single programs of standard broadcast length (56:40 or 26:40)
and works-in-progress (for non-fiction submissions) are eligible. In rare cases (when a filmmaker’s
skills, subject, and story structure warrant it), the ITVS will consider programs at feature lengths.
Projects must have begun production as evidenced by a work-in-progress video and should be
completed within one year of contract.
URL: http://www.itvs.org/funding/open-call/how
Deadline: August 8 (last known)
Commissioned R&D/Production Funding
The ITVS accepts proposals on an ongoing basis for production funding for projects that do not fit
within the parameters of its standing initiatives (Open Call, LINCS, and DDF), including limited
series. The agency also accepts proposals on an ongoing basis for projects in all genres in need of
research and development funding. Examples might include activities, travel, research, script
development or development of a fundraising reel.
URL: http://www.itvs.org/funding/edf/how
Deadline: Open
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
This foundation offers fellowships to assist artistic creation and further the development of advanced
professional artists by helping them to engage in creation in the arts in all fields, except the performing
arts. The foundation understands advanced professionals to be those who as artists, playwrights,
filmmakers, photographers, composers, or the like, have a significant record of exhibition or performance
of their work.
URL: http://www.gf.org/applicants/the-united-states-canadian-competition/
Deadline: September 19
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MacDowell Colony, Inc.
Residency Fellowships. MacDowell encourages artists from all backgrounds to apply. Disciplines include
Architecture, Film/Video Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts, Literature, Music Composition, Theatre, and Visual
Arts. Both artists with professional standing in their fields and emerging artists are eligible for
residencies. The maximum residence at the Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, is two months, and
the average is four weeks. Artists in residence receive room, board, and the exclusive use of a studio. The
agency also offers grants to artists in financial need, so that they may take advantage of a residency.
Fellowships are available for summer, fall, and winter periods. A processing fee of $30 is required.
URL: http://www.macdowellcolony.org/apply.html
Deadlines: September 15 (for Winter), January 15 (for Summer), April 15 (for Fall)
Millay Colony for the Arts, Inc.
Millay Colony offers one-month residencies to six visual artists; writers, including screenwriters; and
composers each month between the months of April and November. There is no stipend; rooms, studios,
and meals are provided. To accommodate artists not able to attend a month-long residency, offering two,
two-week sessions, held in the month of September only. There is a $30 application fee.
URL: http://www.millaycolony.org/residencies
Deadline: October 1
National Endowment for the Humanities
Media Projects Grant
The NEH Public Programs division offers both development and production Media Project grants. At
the center of every NEH-funded public humanities project is a core set of humanities ideas developed
by scholars, matched to imaginative formats that bring those ideas to life for people of all ages and all
walks of life. Projects must be analytical and deeply grounded in humanities scholarship in a
discipline such as history, religion, anthropology, jurisprudence, or art history. NEH is a national
funding agency, so the projects we support must demonstrate the potential to attract a broad, general
audience. We welcome humanities projects tailored to particular groups, such as families, youth
(including K-12 students), teachers, seniors, at-risk communities, and veterans, but they should also
strive to cultivate a more inclusive audience. NEH encourages projects that engage public audiences
through multiple formats in the exploration of humanities ideas. Proposed projects might include
complementary components to a film, television, or radio project. These components should deepen
the audience’s understanding of the subject: for example, websites, mobile applications, museum
exhibitions, book/film discussion programs, or podcasts. Development grants enable media producers
to collaborate with scholars to develop humanities content and to prepare programs for production.
Grants should result in a script and should also yield a detailed plan for outreach and public
engagement in collaboration with a partner organization or organizations. of films, television
programs, radio programs, and related programs that promise to engage the public. Production Grants
the production and distribution of films, television programs, radio programs, and related programs
that promise to engage the public.
URLs: Development Grants: http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/media-projects-development-grants
Production Grants: http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/media-projects-production-grants
Deadline: August 13
NEH Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics
The Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics program supports films that examine
international themes and subjects in the humanities. The films are meant to spark Americans’
engagement with the broader world by exploring countries and cultures outside of the United States.
The Division of Public Programs encourages innovative nonfiction storytelling that presents multiple
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points of view in creative formats. At the center of every NEH-funded film is a core set of
humanities ideas developed by scholars, matched to imaginative formats that bring the humanities
alive for people of all ages and all walks of life. The proposed film must be analytical and deeply
grounded in humanities scholarship. It may be as short as thirty minutes or as long as a feature-length
film. Awards are for one to three years and for up to $75,000 (for development) and up to $650,000
(for production). Please note this is an Institutional Grant opportunity and must be submitted to
KUCR 5 business days in advance of the deadline by 8:30am.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/bridging-cultures-through-film-international-topics
Deadline: June 10 (last known)
POV (Point of View), American Documentary, Inc.
POV supports emerging filmmakers through its Diverse Voices Project, a co-production fund supported
by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
$100,000 in co-production funding per project is offered to foster emerging and diverse documentary
directors and producers with production support and mentoring. Awards are made for “exemplary
storytelling, well crafted aesthetics, compelling characters and real-life drama shaped by the unique
perspective of a filmmaker with something to say to a large audience.” The stated goal is to bring fresh
voices to PBS, diversify the stories being featured on the national PBS schedule, and support a talent pool
that has not had access to public television resources.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/pov/filmmakers/diverse-voices-project.php
Deadline: Open call has ended. (The website says to sign up for the POV newsletter at
http://www.pbs.org/pov/about/newsletter.php for information on upcoming deadlines.)
Sundance Institute
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program is dedicated to supporting nonfiction contemporaryissue filmmakers. This fund supports US and international documentary films and videos focused on
contemporary and significant issues and movements in contemporary human rights, freedom of
expression, social justice, and civil liberties. Projects are considered in: Development (up to $20,000),
Production/Post-Production (up to $50,000), and Audience Engagement (up to $20,000, but only for
previously funded projects).
URL: http://www.sundance.org/programs/documentary-fund/ also see FAQs at
http://www.sundance.org/programs/sdf-faq/
Deadline: Development & Production/Post-Production: Early February and July
Audience Engagement: Open
Tribeca Film Institute
The Documentary Fund
TFI Documentary Fund is offers grants totaling $160,000 to ten exceptional, character-driven feature
documentaries that aim to take audiences into someone else’s world. With this fund, TFI looks for
films that specifically sit outside of the social-issue landscape by painting a dynamic portrait of
compelling individuals and uplifting stories. By playfully engaging in these unexplored perspectives,
TFI seeks to spotlight the journey of the individual. For additional information about the
TFI Documentary Fund, visit Rules and Regulations and FAQs, or contact us at
documentary@tribecafilminstitute.org or 212.274.8080 x28
URL: http://www.tribecafilminstitute.org/filmmakers/tfi_documentary/
Deadline: November 5
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Sloan Filmmaker Fund
This program offers grants and professional guidance in support of innovative and compelling
narrative features that offer a fresh take on scientific, mathematic, and technological themes. It funds
films at any stage of production. Grants range from $10,000 to $75,000.
URL: https://tribecafilminstitute.org/programs/detail/tfi_sloan_filmmaker_fund
Deadline: November 5
All Access Fund
This program supports working filmmakers from communities that are statistically underrepresented
in the film industry by providing grants, year-round resources, and access to industry contacts. It
funds films at any stage of production. In addition to a grant of $15,000, grantees work closely with
TFI and develop professional relationships throughout the film industry via networking that includes:
one-on-one industry meetings, panels, workshops and other events during the Tribeca Film Festival.
Year-round, Tribeca All Access also provides customized support in order to advance projects
through completion and participants are eligible for an additional $10,000 Creative Promise award.
URL: https://tribecafilminstitute.org/programs/detail/tribeca_all_access
Deadline: November 5
New Media Fund
This program provides funding and support to non-fiction, social issue media projects which go
beyond traditional screens -- integrating film with content across media platforms, from video games
and mobile apps to social networks and interactive websites. It funds projects in advanced
development or beyond. Grants range from $50,000 to $100,000
URL: https://tribecafilminstitute.org/programs/detail/tfi_new_media_fund
Deadline: November 5
Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund
This program provides finishing funds to feature-length documentaries that are in production or postproduction with the intended premiere exhibition in late 2012 or 2013 and highlight and humanize
issues of social importance from around the world. Funded films are driven by thoughtful and indepth storytelling, bolstered by a compelling visual approach. Grants range from $10,000 to $25,000.
URL: https://tribecafilminstitute.org/programs/detail/gucci_tribeca_documentary_fund
Deadline: February 5
University Film and Video Association Carole Fielding Student Grants
This fund supports work by undergraduate and graduate students in film and video. Each year, more than
$4,000 is competitively awarded for production proposals in five categories. Up to $1,000 is awarded for
research projects. Applicants must be students (undergraduate/graduate) at the time the application is
made. A faculty member who is an active member of the University Film & Video Association or on the
staff at a UFVA member institution must sponsor the applicant.
URL: http://www.ufva.org/?page=Grants
Deadline: December 15
Yaddo Artists Residency
Yaddo offers residencies to professional creative artists working in one or more of the following media:
choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance art, photography, printmaking,
sculpture, and video. Artists may apply individually or as members of collaborative teams of two or three
persons. Residencies last from two weeks to two months and include room, board, and studio.
URL: http://yaddo.org/yaddo/ApplicationGuidelines.shtml
Deadlines: January 1 (for residencies May-February); August 1 (for residencies October-May)
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Other Resources
How to Finance your Independent Film
This is a tutorial offering strategies and advice about raising funds to finance independent film creation.
URL: http://www.newenglandfilm.com/news/archives/98july/funding.htm
Independent Film Financing (IFF)
This site offers information about raising capital for independent movie making.
URL: http://www.filmproposals.com/
International Documentary Association (IDA)
IDA serves as a forum and voice for documentarians around the world.
URL: http://www.documentary.org/
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