HOT DOCS FORUM
This limited-seating event is focused around a slate of pre-selected project-presentations and has established itself as North America's essential international market event for buyers and sellers working in the social, cultural and political documentary genres. More than 190 broadcasters and distributors from Europe, Australia, the USA, Canada and elsewhere regularly participate and the Hot Docs Forum has proven highly successful for the projects presented, as well as the rest of the delegates.
Deadline: January 16, 2014
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ITVS Open Call
Open Call provides completion funds for single nonfiction public television programs on any subject, and from any viewpoint. Projects must have begun production as evidenced by a work-in-progress video. Open Call funding is only available to independent producers who are citizens or legal residents of the U.S. and its external territories.
Deadline: January 17, 2014 at 4:00 PM PST.
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Catapult Film Fund
Catapult Film Fund provides development funding to documentary filmmakers who have a compelling story to tell, have secured access to their story and are ready to shoot and edit a piece for production fundraising purposes.
Deadline: January 31st, 2014
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NALAC Fund for the Arts
This is a national grant program open to US-based Latino working artists, ensembles and small to mid-sized Latino arts organizations that demonstrate artistic excellence in pursuit of social justice through the arts.
Deadline: February 6, 2014
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The Fledgling Fund
The Fledgling Fund is a private foundation driven by the passionate belief that film can inspire a better world. How does this happen? With thoughtful plans designed to move audiences from passive viewers to motivated citizens who are ready to act.
Deadline for Initial Letter of Inquiry: February 7th, 2014
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NYFA's 2014 Artists' Fellowships
Grants are awarded in 15 artistic disciplines, with applications accepted in five categories each year. Since the awards began in 1985, NYFA has awarded over $27 million to over 4,400 artists.
Deadline: February 10, 2014 at 11:59 p.m.more info------------------------------------------------------------ Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant ProgramThe Travel and Study Grant Program awards grants to emerging artists who create new work, rotating the eligible disciplines in alternating years. The eligible disciplines for 2014 are dance, film and video, and literature, including choreographers, film and video directors, and writers of poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, and spoken word.
Deadline: February 24, 2014more info
------------------------------------------------------------ Bridging Cultures through Film: International TopicsThe Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics program supports documentary films that examine international and transnational themes in the humanities. These projects are meant to spark Americans' engagement with the broader world by exploring countries and cultures outside of the United States. Proposed documentaries must be analytical and deeply grounded in humanities scholarship.
Deadline: June 11, 2014 for Projects Beginning January 2015
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Ford Foundation
Ford's Social Issue Film Funding Initiative will provide approximately $16 million through an open-application process to filmmakers and media makers around the world who are creating documentaries that address urgent social issues.
Deadline: Open
