Alabama, arkansas, florida, georgia, kentucky, louisiana, mississippi, north carolina, south carolina, tennessee, virginia, and west virginia. Shaleece haas is a documentary filmmaker, who recently produced and directed the 2016 documentary real boy, which earned 20 festival awards, was nominated for a glaad media award, and was broadcast nationally on pbs independent lens. List of california documentary project grants california. Documentary has been described as a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries. Its pretty clear that california doesnt spend enough on education. This unique event focuses on international films in both the short and feature categories as well as showcasing animation. Fund your film sffilm makers offers a wide range of funding and artist development services for fiction and documentary filmmakers all over the world. 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. Cdp the california documentary project, is a competitive grant program in support of california humanities designed to promote the understanding of californias history, culture, and peoples.
Approximately four to 10 projects are awarded each year. California arts council 0 i street, suite 930, sacramento, ca 95814 phone. The hot docsblue ice group documentary fund hdbig offers grants in development and production for feature or broadcastlength documentaries. Grants to california filmmakers and students for animation. Funding is intended to support projects that are already in the production, postproduction, or distribution stages. Documentary filmmaking workshop berkeley advanced media. Asian americans is a fivehour film series that delivers a bold, fresh perspective on a history that matters today, more than ever. Supported projects include narrative films, documentary films, and new media projects that align with themes of social justice, empowerment, and cultural exchange. The women in film finishing fund gives grants to filmmakers working in both short and long formats, in all genres narrative, documentary, animated and. The game changers official film website documentary. Production grants support film, television, and radio projects for general audiences. Tribeca film festival, pov, directed the documentary short old people driving 2010, and codirected the short. Catapult film fund provides development funding to documentary filmmakers who have a. Crosby, presents this documentary film running time 57 minutes on the great murals rock art paintings.
Check out the documentary fundraising toolkit from the emmywinning creator of desktop documentaries. List of documentary grants 2020 for your upcoming film production. Finding film grants for your short film, documentary, or feature film can be an effective way of getting. List of california documentary project grants california humanities.
The ida enterprise documentary fund provides production and development funds to featurelength documentary films taking on indepth explorations of original, contemporary stories and integrating journalistic practice into the filmmaking process. 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. This film will encompass pit river history, language, art, music, spirituality, and political action from the early 1800s to today. Our mission is to enable filmmakers to develop their films to the next level at a moment where funding is hard to find.
Filmmakers without borders fwb supports independent filmmakers around the world via grants and other funding initiatives. Documentary examines how california public schools fell. American documentary and animation film festival and film. Interweaving film and television clips with reenactments and interviews, this essay film traces how the female bodyfrom preproduction through distribution is. The california documentary project cdp is a competitive grant program that supports the research and development and production stages of film, audio, and interactive media projects that enhance our understanding of california and its cultures, peoples, and histories. The tallest trees on earth 4k nature documentary film redwood national and state parks duration. The california documentary project cdp is a competitive grant program that supports the research and development and production stages of film, audio, and. October 15, 2018 the california documentary project cdp is a competitive grant program of california humanities that supports documentary film, radio, and new media productions that enhance our understanding of california and. All projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship and demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful. California documentary project grants california humanities. As america becomes more diverse, and more divided, while facing.
The california documentary project cdp is a competitive grant. The ultimate film grant list updated february 2019. The california documentary project cdp is a competitive grant program. In 2010 lisa and bonni cohen founded catapult film fund in order to enable important and moving documentary films to get off the ground and to fill a gap in the documentary funding landscape for development support.
A documentary film is a nonfictional, motion picture intended to document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record. Shortform open call offers development and coproduction funding to help. California humanities offers grants from the california documentary project are intended for films that have some kind of connection to. Macarthur awards 19 documentary film grants macarthur. Find grant information, film festivals, new media funding, fiscal sponsors and more.
The california film commission is your onestop resource for film, tv, and commercial production across the golden state. The california documentary project cdp is a competitive grants program that supports documentary film, radio, and new media productions that enhance our understanding of california and its cultures, peoples, and histories. Told from helens perspective, this film captures a fiery political couple forced to evaluate their contribution to american politics and explores the burdens a public spotlight puts on private lives. Body parts is a documentary film exploring the female body as the site of a cultural battle in hollywood media. Rooftop filmsadrienne shelly foundation short film grant for women. Pew center for arts and heritage the pew center for arts and heritage awards grants exclusively to organizations and individuals in the fivecounty southeastern pennsylvania region. The upcoming deadline is for preproduction funding and covers longformat documentary films and video projects in the new england region. Great resource for you to find film funding and to easily apply directly. Projects should use the humanities to provide context, depth and perspective and reach and engage broad. Playboy foundation charitable giving program of playboy enterprises that provides funding to documentary film and video projects in the postproduction stage. This weeks film celebrates the courageous lawyer, aaron sapiro, who took on henry ford who released a 21article barrage of lies, distortions, and innuendo against him and other jewish americans. The new grants represent macarthurs largest single year investment in documentaries, and they bring the total number of documentary films. By the time the camp fire was extinguished, it had killed 85 people, displaced 50,000 residents and destroyed 95% of local structures. Equipment and postproduction grants for feature films.
California arts council 0 i street, suite 930 sacramento, ca 95814 phone. The deadline for this round was september, 2019 11. Funding sources from the heart productions incfrom the heart. The bradshaw foundation, in conjunction with harry w. List of the most important film funding organisations. The california documentary project cdp is a competitive grant program that supports the research and development and production stages of film, audio, and digital media projects that seek to document california in all its complexity. Documentary film funding grants tennessee entertainment. We have the best weather 315 days of sunshine, wildly diverse locations from 840 miles of coastline to vast desert sand dunes, highly skilled. The film describes how, in the 1950s and 1960s, communities funded and controlled their local schools. The toolkit includes a 190page fullcolor documentary fundraising guide, a 25page documentary proposal template with instructions, two budget templates with budgeting guide, list of the top 100 documentary film grants, ebook with 25 specific. Untitled mccloskey project is a feature documentary about the unconventional relationship between helen, a passionately independent 63yearold woman, and her husband pete mccloskey, an iconic california republican congressman thirty years her senior.
Media used in this effort include radio, documentary film, and nontraditional formats. Parks film grants go to documentary projects that examine civil society, democracy, the environment and animal welfare. With little support, sapiro sues ford in federal court in detroit. Lef invests in documentary film and video projects that demonstrate. Grants to california students and filmmakers in eligible regions to create animation films, short dramatic works, and documentaries. Funding for any filmmaker who has ever screened a film at rooftop films in new york. The top film grants list for every filmmaker in 2020. Film grants 2020 independent, student, documentary. Lisa kleiner chanoff is cofounder of catapult film fund. Documentaries are nonfiction filmmaking with an emphasis on reality, education, or historical record. The sdf emergency research and development grant applicants must reside in one of the following states.
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