Grant Information
This page last updated: July 2, 2008.
Oregon Media Arts Fellowship
Download applicationDeadline: October 1, 2008
The Oregon Media Arts Fellowship(s) provide financial and other support for production expenses to enable Oregon film or video artists to create or complete new work or works in progress. The Media Arts Fellowship(s) recognize and assist media artists whose work shows exceptional promise and who have demonstrated a commitment to film or video art. The Oregon Arts Commission, the Gordon D. Sondland and Katherine J. Durant Foundation and Oregon Public Broadcasting fund the program. The Media Arts Fellowship program is administered by the Northwest Film Center/Portland Art Museum. Additional support is provided by the Oregon Film and Video Office and Chambers Communications.ACE/SILVERDOCS
GRANT INCREASED TO $25,000 FOR 2008!
ACE (Animal Content in Entertainment) is a program of the Humane Society of the United States and run by the group's Hollywood Office. Its mission is to support and encourage positive Animal issues in television and film.Playing an essential role in the life of our planet, animals share our world and impact our lives as we undoubtedly impact theirs. Part of the rich canvas of human life, animal stories are our stories and there are many waiting to be told. Through ACE, we aim to support and encourage those involved in all media to find creative and compelling ways to portray animal issues in their work.
SILVERDOCS is joining forces with ACE to offer a $25,000 grant to filmmakers for the creation of a documentary of 40 minutes or more highlighting an animal issue.
Disney - ABC Television Group The Walt Disney Studios
2008 Writing Fellowship
Deadline for application: JULY 1st
Please visit: www.disneyabctalentdevelopment.com
Email: abc.fellowship@abc.com
Phone: 818.460.6932
Roy W. Dean Grants
The Roy W. Dean offers writing and editing grants.
For more information on how to apply please visit: fromtheheartproductions.com.
The Phelan Art Award
James D. Phelan Art award in Film of $7,500 is available to a California-born filmmaker whose body of work exhibits high artistic achievement and creativity. Filmmakers born in California, regardless of current residency, are eligible to apply. Contact:
The Phelan Art Award in Film
Film Arts Foundation
145 Ninth St #101
San Francisco CA 94103
grants@filmarts.org
Sundance Documentary Fund
The Sundance documentary fund supports international documentary films & videos on current & significant issues in human rights, freedom of expression, social justice & civil liberties. Development funds for research & pre-production awarded up to $15,000; works-in-progress funds for production and post-production up to $75,000.
Contact: Sundance Documentary Fund sdf@sundance.org.
National Black Programming Consortium
The National Black Programming Consortium will begin accepting proposals for its 2007 Open Call in early 2006. Applications available at: http://www.nbpc.tv/grant_guidelines.php
Solaris Entertainment
Solaris Entertainment has created a finishing fund arm designed to support fellow indie filmmakers who seek the financial and technical resources necessary to complete their films. SOLARIS Completion Partners will provide the capital to complete post-production on three to five independent features each year.
Film Art Foundation
Created in 1984, the goal of the Film Arts Foundation Grants Program is to encourage new and diverse works by film and video artists who have little likelihood of being supported through traditional funding sources. These awards are targeted for film and videomakers in categories that are among the most difficult areas in which to raise money for media projects. Film Arts will begin accepting applications in March, 2006 for the next grant cycle.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
CPB is a major source of funding for innovative, educational and informational public television programming. Documentary programs and series like Africa: Land of the Sun and Accordion Dreams, children’s series like Arthur and Dragon Tales, and Web sites for programs like People Like Us: Class in America and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey, to name just a few from this season’s PBS National Program Service, all received CPB production funding. In addition to the targeted initiatives described below, CPB is always interested in reviewing proposals for high impact, prime-time programming projects that help viewers better understand the complex and volatile world we live in.
National Endowment for the Humanities
NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer offers a grant to support new filmmakers in producing their first serious film project. The grant awards the use of our Grant Program Arriflex 16SR camera package to senior and graduate thesis students and to independent filmmakers for a scheduled period of time. This specific package, which we have set aside for the grant program, should meet the needs of most 16mm projects. Proposed projects may be of any non-commercial nature: dramatic, narrative, documentary, experimental, etc. Our expectation is that you are working from your own vision, your own creativity and not for someone else (solely for a profit motive). The program does not support commercials, industrials, PSA’s, music videos, or pornography.
www.oppenheimercamera.com/grant2
In order to keep the package available for the largest number of filmmakers, feature length film projects are discouraged. The length of time the equipment will be available to any one project will depend on each project and on the pressures of the program. You should realistically plan your schedule. Practically, most grant projects will be expected to use the package for one to two weeks. We have only one Arri 16SR camera in the program; your compliance with the program requirements assures access for the most filmmakers.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
www.oscars.org
Sponsors grants and fellowships to encourage developing filmmakers:
Nichols Fellowships in Screenwriting
Student Academy Awards:
The Roy W. Dean Film & Video Grants
www.fromtheheartproductions.com
Soros Documentary Fund
Soros Documentary Fund supports international documentary films & video on current social & justice issues. Seed production and post production funds available. Contact: Director of Soros Documentary Fund Open Society Institute 400 W. 59th NY, NY 10019
Creative Capital
Creative Capital Offers film grants of up to $10,000.
www.creative-capital.orgNational Alliance for Media Arts
The National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture provides an updated list of available grants and has some grant programs of their own.
Thousand Words
Thousand Words offers inishing funds and money for new works.
Standby
Standby offers low cost sound design and editing assistance to filmmakers.
Playboy Enterprises
Playboy Enterprises offers postproduction documentary funding for projects that have fiscal sponsorship.
Moxie Film Grants
Moxie Films was founded in 1992 to support the careers of emerging filmmakers as well as the spirit of the independent film, documentary and short. Explore this web page to learn more about the MoxieShorts Screening and Competition Series, the Moxie Docs Film Grant, and a new Digital Feature Production Grant.
Pacific Pioneer Fund
Pacific Piioneer Fund offers support to emerging documentary filmmakers in CA, OR, WA. From $1,000-10,000. Info: Pacific Pioneer Fund PO Box 20504 Stanford, CA 94309
National Film Preservation Foundation Grants
The National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) was created by the U.S. Congress to save America’s film heritage. Working with archives and others who appreciate film, the NFPF supports preservation activities nationwide that ensure the physical survival of film and improve access to film for study, education and exhibition. The foundation provides grants of $4,000 to $10,000 to nonprofit and public archives for laboratory work to preserve culturally and historically significant film material. Nonprofit funding only.
www.filmpreservation.org/grants
Chesterfield Field Company Writer’s Film Project
The Grand Marnier Film Fellowship Competition
University Film and Video Association
Carole Fielding Student Production & Research Grants
The UFVA/UFVF Carole Fielding Student Grants are competitive awards presented annually to students whose research and production projects meet rigorous standards of academic scholarship. Up to $4,000 is available for film, video, or multimedia production and up to $1,000 is available for research projects in historical, critical, theoretical or experimental studies of film or video.
Koan, Inc.
Koan, Inc. is looking for family friendly feature films for distribution to television stations and video vendors worldwide. If you have a completed project or one in production, contact: Roger Bird 435-645-7244 ext. 144 or by email at rbird@koaninc.com.
Documentary Educational Resources
Documentary Educational Resources will offer their support as a non-profit, fiscal sponsor for independent documentary filmmakers seeking grants. Interested filmmakers should send a letter of inquiry with a brief description and one page budget of their project to:
Cynthia Close, Exec. Dir. Documentary Educational Resources 101 Morse Street Watertown, MA 02472 FAX: 617-926-9519 docued@der.org.
Licensing Video Rights
Schlessinger Media is interested in licensing video rights for the U.S. and Canada to educationally-oriented programs. In particular they are looking for new series on literature, world cultures, science, geography, history and math. Any producers with completed educational programs for which non-theatric rights are available should contact:
Shveta Berry, Acquisitions Coordinator
Schlessinger Media
A Division of Library Video Company
7 East Wynnewood Road
Wynnewood, PA 19096
610-645-4000 x 232
sberry@libraryvideo.com
http://www.libraryvideo.com
