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Funding Resources/Funding
Lists
General
Film/Video Funders
Cinereach Grants
Large granting program for emerging and established filmmakers. Grants range from $5,000 - $50,000 for feature and documentary films in all stages of production. Cinereach also offers The Reach Film Fellowship for filmmakers who have recently completed a film studies program and are producing socially relevant short films. The fellowship provides a $5,000 grant, production support, mentorship, workshops, career coaching, and industry exposure. Sign up to receive their newsletter (on website) to be informed of upcoming deadlines.
Cinereach Grants
c/o Cinereach
126 Fifth Ave., 5th Floor
New York, NY 10011
Phone: (212) 727-3224
Email: grants@cinereach.org
Website: www.cinereach.org/grants/
Independent Television Service (ITVS)
ITVS seeks proposals for public TV programs that take creative risks, serve underrepresented audiences and express points of view seldom seen on commercial or public TV. Applicants must be independent producers with previous film or TV production experience in a principal role. Students are not eligible. ITVS accepts proposals for single programs (not series) in any genre (drama, documentary, animation, experimental).
Open Call provides finishing funds for single public television programs on any subject, from any viewpoint and in any genre. Projects must have begun production as evidenced by a work-in-progress tape.
The International Media Development Fund International Call provides production funds for independent producers who are non-U.S. citizens, helping them create documentaries for American television. Through the fund, ITVS works with these producers to bring compelling international stories to U.S. audiences who are looking to better understand people, cultures and points of view in other parts of the world.
The Diversity Development Fund seeks talented minority producers to develop projects for public television. We want to support minority artists to tell their stories and reach audiences often overlooked by conventional programming. Projects must be in the research or development phase, and cannot have begun production.
LOCAL INDEPENDENTS COLLABORATING WITH STATIONS (LINCS) 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.
Independent Television Service
651 Brannan Street, Suite 410
San Francisco, CA 94107
Phone: (415) 356-8383
Fax: (415) 356-8391
Email: itvs@itvs.org
Website: www.itvs.org/producers/
National Endowment for the Arts
Provides grants to organizations for the production, public exhibition, distribution, and preservation of film, video, and audio works as art forms themselves. Media Arts organizations also receive funds for services to media artists, media literacy programs, publications, and professional training.
National Endowment for the Arts
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506
Phone: (202) 682-5400
Email: webmgr@arts.endow.gov
Website: www.arts.gov
National Endowment for the Humanities
Offers grants for independent filmmakers and digital media producers whose work addresses significant subjects in the humanities; reaches broad public audiences; grows out of sound scholarship; and uses imaginative, engaging formats.
National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W.
Washington, DC 20506
Phone: 1 (800) NEH-1121
Email: info@neh.gov
Website: www.neh.gov
Ford Foundation Media, Arts and Culture Grants
Supports public broadcasting and the independent production of film, video and radio programming; and supports efforts to engage diverse groups in work related to the media and to analyze the media's effect on society. A letter of inquiry is advisable to determine whether the foundation's present interests and funds permit consideration of the request.
The Ford Foundation
320 East 43 Street
New York, NY 10017
Phone:
(212) 573-5000
Fax:
(212) 351-3677
Email:
office-secretary@fordfound.org
Website: www.fordfound.org
MoxieDocs Co-production Award
Provide the means for complete production, postproduction, and theatrical distribution to the selected documentary proposal.
Projects considered are those in work-in-progress stages.
The award provides over $150,000 in products and services.
Moxie Films
Attn: MoxieDocs
107 Suffolk St.
Studio #517
New York, NY 10002
Phone: (212) 982-5008
Fax: (212) 353-3707
Email: info@moxie-films.com
Website: www.moxie-films.com
The Fledgling Fund / Creative Media Projects
Supporting the creation and dissemination of innovative media projects that can play critical roles in igniting social change – bearing witness to the challenges faced by vulnerable individuals, families, and communities around the world; creating a broader understanding of social problems; and inspiring concrete action. Key issues: Girls Empowerment and Education, Human Rights, Migration and Immigration, Health Care, Healthy and Sustainable Communities, Cross Cultural Understanding, War and Its Aftermath.
Grants: Grants for Films generally support post-production costs; occasionally, early production costs, usually in partnership with other funders.
Outreach and Community Engagement Grants support the development and/or implementation of strategic community engagement initiatives for both completed films and for those that are in post-production. Grant amounts range widely. Rolling deadline, response within approx. 30 days.
The Fledgling Fund
162 Fifth Ave., Suite 901
New York, NY 10010
Phone: (212) 242-1680
Email: info@thefledglingfund.org
Website: www.thefledglingfund.org
Chicago Underground Film Fund
Grants awarded to selected film or video makers for post-production on works-in-progress that are in keeping with the festival's mission to promote works that push boundaries, defy commercial expectations and transcend the mainstream of independent filmmaking.
Grants: between $500 and $2,000
CUFF c/o IFP Chicago
PO Box 3065
Chicago, IL 60654
Phone: (312) 506-4699
Fax: (773) 327-3464
Email: info@cuff.org
Website: www.cuff.org
The Roy W. Dean Grant
Offers grants annually to films that are unique and benefit society. Six grants offer services and residencies to film and video makers, editors, and writers.
From the Heart Productions
Attn. Roy W. Dean Film Grant
1455 Mandalay Beach Road
Oxnard, CA 93035-2845
Phone: (805) 984-0098
Email: general@fromtheheartproductions.com
Website: www.fromtheheartproductions.com
Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media
Film/video projects that will reach a broad audience with an organizing component and can demonstrate that the production will be used for social change organizing.
Grants: Up to $15,000; most $3,000-$6,000
Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media
The Funding Exchange
666 Broadway, Suite 500
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 529-5300
Fax: (212) 982-9272
Email: info@fex.org
Website: www.fex.org
Arthur
Vining Davis Foundations
Grants
provide partial support for major educational series assured of airing
nationally by PBS. Consideration is given from time-to-time to single
stand-alone programs.
Grants: to $400,000
Arthur
Vining Davis Foundations
225 Water Street, Suite 1510
Jacksonville, FL 32202-5185
Phone: (904) 359-0670
Email: office@avdf.org
Website: www.avdf.org
Creative
Capital
Provides grants to individual artists for specific projects, with an emphasis
on experimental work. Disciplines rotate, meaning that media grants are
given every other year.
Grants: up to $20,000
Creative
Capital
65 Bleeker St 7th floor
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 598-9900
Fax: (212) 598-4934
Email: grants@creative-capital.org
Website: www.creative-capital.org
Sundance
Documentary Fund
Supports U.S. and international documentary films
and videos focused on current and significant issues and movements in
contemporary human rights, freedom of expression, social justice, and
civil liberties. In supporting such works, the Sundance Documentary
Fund hopes to give voice to the diverse exchange of ideas crucial to developing
an open society, raise the public consciousness about human rights abuses
and restrictions of civil liberties, and engage citizens in a lively,
ongoing debate about these issues.
Grants: Development funds up to $15,000 and Production/Post-Production
to $75,000, though most will be from $25,000 to $50,000. No deadline.
Sundance
Documentary Fund
Sundance Institute
8857 West Olympic Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Email: sdf@sundance.org
Website: www.sundance.org
The
Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund for Independent Video
Awards grants for criticism and production.
The
Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund
for
Independent Video
P.O. Box 3514
Church St. Station
New York, NY 10007
Website: http://www.vdb.org/lbmf/index.html
The
Puffin Foundation
Grants that encourage emerging artists whose works, due to their
genre and/or social philosophy might have difficulty being aired.
Grants: up to $2,500
The
Puffin Foundation
20 Puffin Way
Teaneck, NJ 07666
Phone: (201) 836-8923
Fax: (201) 836-1734
Email: puffingrant@mindspring.com
Website: www.puffinfoundation.org
The
Lucius & Eva Eastman Fund
Supports film/video on social issues.
The
Lucius & Eva Eastman Fund
Jennifer Eastman, Attorney at Law
P.O. Box 470
Westwood, MA 02090
Phone: (781) 329-2473
OR Contact:
Lucius R. Eastman, President
5926 Fiddletown Pl.
San Jose, CA 95120
Phone: (408) 268-2083
The
Playboy Foundation
Finishing funds for documentaries in post-production, especially those focused on
civil rights and liberties in the United States.
Grants: $1,000 - $5,000
The
Playboy Foundation
680 N. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312) 751-8000
Fax: (312) 751-2818
Website: www.playboyenterprises.com
Unitarian
Universalist Funding Program/Fund for a Just Society
Funds film/video only if it is an integral part of a strategy of collective
action for social change.
Grants:
up to $15,000; most from $5,000-$7,000
Unitarian
Universalist Funding Program/
Fund
for a Just Society
P.O. Box 301149
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Phone: (617) 742-2100
Fax: (617) 971-0029
Email: uufp@uua.org
Website: www.uua.org/uufp/
Resist, Inc.
Distribution costs of film and video linked to social justice
organizing.
Resist,
Inc.
259 Elm Street, Ste. 201
Somerville, MA 02144
Phone: (617) 623-5110
Email: grants@resistinc.org
Website: www.resistinc.org
Open
Meadows Foundation
Projects that have limited financial access which reflect the
cultural and ethnic diversity of our society and promote the empowerment
of women and girls; and projects for social change that have encountered
obstacles in their search for funding.
Grants:
up to $2,000
Open
Meadows Foundation
PO Box 150-607
Van Brunt Station
Brooklyn, NY 11215-0150
Phone: (718) 885-0969
Email:
openmeadows@igc.org
Website: www.openmeadows.org
Dance
Film Association, Inc.
Members may apply for DFA's annual postproduction grants for films about
dance.
Grants:
up to $2,000
Dance
Film Association, Inc.
48 West 21st Street, #907
New York, NY 10010
Phone/Fax: (212) 727-0764
Email: info@dancefilms.org
Website: www.dancefilmsassn.org
John
D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Grants support public interest media projects, including independent documentary
film, to help ensure a diversity of viewpoints, expand the availability of high-quality content, and advance the broad purposes of the Foundation: Human and Community
Development and Global Security and Sustainability.
John
D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
140 S. Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60603
Phone: (312) 726-8000
Fax: (312) 920-6258
Email:
4answers@macfound.org
Website: www.macfound.org
A.
J. Muste Institute
Funds film/video ONLY as part of projects organizing for social change.
Note: Grantmaking temporarily suspended as of December 2008; check back for updates.
A. J. Muste Institute
339 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 533-4335
Fax: (212) 228-6193
Email:
info@ajmuste.org
Website: www.ajmuste.org
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