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Artists Grant

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:08:57 +0000

The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative is accepting applications for their new grant program until February 28, 2010.

The Direct-to-Artists Grants will award money to individual artists or collaborative groups living and working in Santa Barbara, to fund projects. There are four artistic categories: visual arts, performing arts, literary arts, and film and multimedia arts.

Two grants up to $1,500 each will be awarded in each category. To apply, each artist must be registered with the SB Arts Collaborative website, which is designed as a forum for artists within Santa Barbara to communicate and collaborate on topics relating to their artwork.

Learn more!

Filmmaker Documentary Grant

admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:29:31 +0000

A $25,000 grant will be awarded to documentary filmmakers by the SFFS / Film Arts Foundation.
The grant will make awards for documentary feature films in postproduction. This grant is open to filmmakers residing in the United States whose work expresses both a unique personal perspective and an artistic approach to their chosen subject. This will be a one-time grant with awards given in 2010.

The letter of inquiry period for the SFFS / Film Arts Foundation Documentary Grant opens January 6, 2010 and closes February 4.

Go to the guidelines

Screenwriting Grants

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:19:41 +0000

The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants support films that through plot, character, theme or setting significantly explore human and civil rights, antidiscrimination, gender and sexual identity and other urgent social justice issues of our time.

The grants, which run 2009–2013, will be awarded in the spring and fall of each year. The total amount disbursed over these five years will be over $3 million, including a total of $190,000 for Spring 2010 and a total of $225,000 for Fall 2010. The letter of inquiry period for the third SFFS/KRF grant, to be announced, for screenwriting, script development, preproduction, production and postproduction, opens January 6, 2010; the deadline is February 5, 2010.

Go to the guidelines and application

Documentary Film Grants

admin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:08:23 +0000

The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program provides year-round support to nonfiction contemporary-issue filmmakers internationally. The program encourages the exploration of innovative nonfiction storytelling, and promotes the exhibition of documentary films to a broader audience. It supports independent artists both domestically and internationally through the Sundance Documentary Fund, the Documentary Composers Laboratory and Edit and Story Laboratory, panels at the Filmmakers Lodge at the Sundance Film Festival and the Sundance Independent Producers Conference , and a variety of collaborative international documentary initiatives.

The fund considers proposals in two categories:

Development grants of up to $20,000 each to filmmakers whose projects are in the early research or pre-production stage. A previous directing sample is generally required.

Production and post-production grants ranging from $20,000 to $75,000 to filmmakers in various stages of the production and post-production stages. Applications should generally include at least twenty minutes of continuously edited material.

The next application deadline is February 9, 2010.

Go to the website for guidelines and application

Grant for Emerging Documentary Filmmakers

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:09:20 +0000

The purpose of this program is to support emerging documentary filmmakers. The term “emerging” is intended to denote a person committed to the craft of making documentaries, who has demonstrated that commitment by several years.

The program is limited to organizations anywhere in the US, certified by the IRS as “public charities”, which undertake to supervise any project for which individuals receive funds, and to control the selection of individual recipients of funds. The fund does not provide support for endowments, building campaigns, accumulated deficits, or ordinary operating budgets, or make grants to individuals. The fund does not support instructional or performance documentaries or student film projects. Filmmakers are eligible for only one grant from the Pacific Pioneer Fund during their careers.

Grants to support filmmakers are limited to filmmakers or videographers who live and work in California, Oregon and Washington.

The board meets three times a year. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. The upcoming deadlines are 12/15/09, 04/15/10, and 08/15/10. Rejected applicants must wait one year to reapply.

Go to website for more information.

Cinereach Grants for Film Projects

admin — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:59:05 +0000

Cinereach provides grant funding for narrative and documentary films that depict underrepresented perspectives, cross international boundaries and start meaningful conversations. Film projects that are consistent with Cinereach’s ethos favor good storytelling over didacticism, complexity over traditional duality. Cinereach-supported films demonstrate creativity, visual artistry and take a character-based approach.

In the past, Cinereach has awarded grants from $5,000 to $50,000 per project.

The next deadline for projects is June 1, 2010. They make grants each year, so if you aren’t ready for this deadline, you will have other opportunities!

Go to the website for more information