FILM FOUNDATIONS & GRANTS
Sponsors grants and fellowships to encourage developing filmmakers, including:
Nichols Fellowships in Screenwriting and Student Academy Awards.
http://www.oscars.org/
Academy of Television
Arts and
The College Television Awards is a major Academy competition which recognizes
excellence in college student film/video productions. It is national in scope,
accepting entries each year from scores of colleges and universities. The
entire program, including $24,500 in cash prizes, is sponsored by the Academy
Foundation. First place winners receive $2,000, second place winners receive
$1,000, and third place winners receive $500.
http://www.emmys.org/foundation/education.php
Adolph and Esther
Gottlieb Society Foundation
Provides funding for visual artists who incorporate video and film into their
work. A Funder FAQ posted by the Association of
Independent Video and Filmmakers.
212.226.0581 | http://www.aivf.org/resources/faq/funderarchives/0007_coe.html
American Film Institute
Directing Workshop for women
Deadline: January 13
AFI's DWW is designed specifically for women who are
working in the arts and are ready to seriously pursue narrative directing.
Applicants must have a minimum of five years experience in the arts but may
have no professional credits as a narrative director. If you have just
completed film school, it is to your advantage to take some time and build up
work experience before applying to the program.
http://www.afi.com/education/dww/
Gives out numerous awards to each year's winners. For
more information, see FC Search.
http://aafilmfest.org/
Aperture Film Grant
For film and video projects costing $20,000 or less. A Funder
FAQ posted by the Arts Resource Network. Call for information
310.772.8294 | http://www.aivf.org/resources/faq/funderarchives/9908_coe.html
Funding
Opportunities for Individuals in Film, Video, and Media
Courtesy of the City of
http://www.artsresourcenetwork.org/opportunities/competitions_funding/film_video_media.asp
Association of
Independent Video and Filmmakers
Offers a list of funders for
its members, an open forum about fundraising, and links to other financial
resources. Need to join association for full access.
http://www.aivf.org/
Check out the screenplay competition. This competition is open to
writers who do not earn a living writing for film or TV with original,
feature-length screenplays (90-120 pages). Cash prizes awarded in three
feature-length categories: comedy ($1,000 prize), adult/mature ($4,000),
children/family ($4,000). Winners also receive hotel accomodation
and airfare reimbursement (up to $500) to/from the Heart of Film Festival and
Screenwriters Conference
http://www.austinfilmfestival.com/
Chesterfield Field
Company Writer's Film Project
Offer a screenwriting fellowship.
http://www.chesterfield-co.com/
Chez Jim: Financing Films
Reviews a wide variety of funding and other kinds of assistance available to
film producers. Courtesy of Jim Chevallier,
http://www.jimcheval.com/film/filmfin.html
Creative Capital
Foundation
Creative Capital funds artist projects in four disciplines: visual arts
(includes installation art, painting, fiber art, mixed media works, public art,
etc.), film/video arts, performing arts (includes music, dance, theater,
puppetry, performance art, etc.), and emerging art fields (includes all forms
of digital work, and experimental literature). Projects that transcend
traditional discipline boundaries are highly encouraged. Creative Capital
operates on a two-year grant cycle, funding alternative disciplines each year.
The first year of each cycle, we issue grants in visual and film/video arts;
the second year, performing and emerging arts.
http://www.creative-capital.org/
Dance Films Association
Grants for Post-Production Expenses
http://www.dancefilmsassn.org/
Echo Lake Productions:
Production Company and Film Fund for Independents
http://www.echolakeproductions.com/
Film Arts Foundation
Founded in 1968, Film/Video Arts is the largest nonprofit media arts center in
the
http://www.fva.com/
Film Arts Foundation
Grants
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. In 2000, Film Arts
Foundation will give 16 cash awards valued at $68,500 and 12 awards in
materials and access valued at over $52,000. 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.
http://www.filmarts.org/grants/index.html
Funding Exchange/Paul
Robeson Fund for Independent Media
The Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media named to honor this singer, actor
and civil rights activist, supports independent film, video and radio projects
made by organizations and independent media producers on critical social
issues. The Robeson Fund supports pre-production and distribution of film and
video, and all stages of radio productions that: combine intellectual clarity
with creative use of the medium, will reach a broad audience with an organizing
component, demonstrate how the production will be used
for social change organizing.
http://www.fex.org/home.html
How to
Raise Money
Hints for embarking on the fundraising journey by Michelle Coe. Courtesy of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers.
http://www.aivf.org/resources/tips/coefunding.html
Independent Film and
Video Monthly
Each issue of The Independent Film & Video Monthly contains a Funder FAQ: an in-depth profile of a media funder. The Independent also publishes an extensive list of
funding opportunities in each issue. Note: access limited to subscribers.
http://www.aivf.org/independent/index.html
Independent Television
Service (ITVS)
Each year ITVS funds, distributes and promotes new programs produced by
independent producers primarily for public television and beyond. ITVS is
looking for proposals which increase diversity on public television and present
a range of subjects, viewpoints and forms that complement and challenge
existing public television offerings. All production funding requests must be
submitted in accordance with ITVS guidelines.
http://www.itvs.org/
International Documentary
Association
Funding Opportunities
Includes informataion of funding by deadlines,
without deadlines, and information about fiscal sponsorship.
http://www.documentary.org/resources/funding.html
Jerome Foundation
800.995.3766 | http://www.jeromefdn.org/
John D. & Catherine
T. McArthur Foundation
312.726.8000 | http://www.macfdn.org/
Morrie Warshawski's Home Page
Morrie Warshawski, author
of "Shaking the Money Tree: How to Get Grants and Donations for Film and
Video" recently announced the launch of a new Web site with an extensive
bibliography on fundraising for independent film and video projects. The site
also includes a RealAudio clip on "How to Throw a Fundraising House
Party" taken from an appearance on Marketplace Radio. For more
information, Warshawski can be contacted at MorrieWar@aol.com.
http://www.warshawski.com/
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.
http://www.moxie-films.com/
National Black
Programming Consortium Grants
NBPC funds, commissions, acquires and awards talented makers of quality African
American film and video projects. Selected programs reflect a variety of
subjects and production styles. NBPC funds every phase of the production
process -- i.e., research and development, scripting, production, and
post-production. Since 1979, NBPC has provided more than $5 million dollars in
grants to both independent and station-based producers.
http://www.blackstarcom.org/grants.php
National Endowment For The Arts (Film/Video Arts) ($10,000-$35,000)
202.682.5452 | http://www.nea.gov/
National Endowment for
the Humanities
202.606.8269 | http://www.neh.gov/
National Film
Preservation Foundation
The National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) was created by the U.S.
Congress to save
http://www.filmpreservation.org/sm_index.html
National
Foundation for Jewish Culture
Grant Programs
Provides financial support for theater, music, dance, filmmaking, fiction, and
Jewish Studies scholarship.
http://www.jewishculture.org/docs/media_arts.html
New Voices Media Fund
http://www.cpb.org/tv/funding
Open Door Fund
415.863.0814 | http://www.naatanet.org/
Oppenheimer Camera New
Filmmaker Equipment Grant
(Camera Gear)
206.467.8666 | http://www.oppenheimercamera.com/
Panavision New Filmmakers Program (Camera Gear)
818.316.1000 | http://www.panavision.com/
Playboy Foundation
The Playboy Foundation is the charitable giving program of Playboy Enterprises
that provides funding for documentary film and video projects in the
postproduction stage.
http://www.playboyenterprises.com/
Princess Grace Awards for
Aspiring Young Theater, Dance, and Film Artists in
http://www.pgfusa.com/index.html
The Charles & Lucille
King Family Foundation ($2500)
212.682.2913 | info@kingfoundation.org
The Walt Disney
Fellowship Writing Program
818.560.6894 | http://www.abctalentdevelopment.com/html/write.htm
Thousand Words Finishing
Fund
The Thousand Words Finishing Fund is designed to work together with emerging
filmmakers to create intelligent, innovative, and challenging film. The fund is
available for a variety of resources such as editing, sound mixing, music
rights, etc.
310.859.8330 | http://www.thousand-words.com/
University Film and Video
Association (UFVA)
Offers a variety of grant programs.
http://www.ufva.org/
Why Fund Media?
Advice for grantmakers on the
benefits of funding media.
http://www.fundfilm.org/for_grant/for_grant_fund.htm
Women in Film Foundation
8857 W. Olympic Blvd, Suite 201
Beverly Hills, Ca 90211
310.657.5144 ext. 24
WIF's purpose is to empower, promote, nurture, and
mentor women in the industry through a network of valuable contacts, events,
and programs including the Women In Film Mentor Program, the award-winning
Public Service Announcement Production Program, and the Internship Program in
association with the Fulfillment Fund. Additionally, we provide film finishing
funds, scholarships, grants, advocacy, community outreach programs, monthly
networking breakfasts, seminars, workshops, and a screening series with filmmakers.
http://www.wif.org/
Women Make Movies
Production Assistance
This nonprofit web page provides information about
their fiscal sponsorship program, with guidelines, and a template for the
proposal that needs to be submitted.
http://www.wmm.com/
Writer's Film Project
The Writer's Film Project (WFP) offers
fiction, theater, and film writers the opportunity to begin a career in
screenwriting. This year, up to five writers will be chosen to participate, and
each will receive a $20,000 stipend to cover his or her living expenses. The
WFP writers are chosen by competition, and evaluated on the basis of prose and
dramatic writing samples. Selected writers form a screenwriting workshop in
Chesterfield Writer's Film Project
213.683.3977 | Info@chesterfield-co.com
| http://www.chesterfield-co.com/html/wfp.html