Center for Asian American Media yearly documentary grants

The Center for Asian American Media supports documentaries of interest to Asian American viewers through production and completion grants plus a fellowship.

“With support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CAAM is able to offer funding to independent producers for documentary projects intended for public television broadcast. All projects must conform to standard public broadcasting lengths.  Offered once a year, this round of funding is for applicants with documentary projects at the production and/or post-production stage intended for public television broadcast. Projects in research and development are not eligible to apply. All projects must conform to standard public broadcasting lengths (26:46, 56:46 or 86:46).”

Find out more about grants and funding in the grants and funding category.

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Hubert Balls Fund supports films in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe

“International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (IFFR) Hubert Bals Fund supports remarkable or urgent feature films by innovative and talented filmmakers from developing countries. Since its establishment in 1988, close to 900 projects from independent filmmakers in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe have received support. Approximately 80% of these projects have been realized or are currently in production.”

Find out more about grants and funding in the grants and funding category.

To purchase a download of the Funding Your Dream Documentary seminar, click here.

Alter-Cine Foundation offers documentary grants for Africans, Asians and Latin Americans

“Every year, the Alter-Ciné Foundation will award a grant of 10,000  Canadian dollars to a video or filmmaker to assist in the production of a documentary project. The grant is aimed at young video and filmmakers born and living in Africa, Asia or Latin America who want to direct a film in the language of their choice that respects the aims of the Foundation, as explained above.”

Find out more about grants and funding in the grants and funding category.

To purchase a download of the Funding Your Dream Documentary seminar, click here.

Even More Free B-Roll Sources

Here are some more sources of free b-roll that I have used lately.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has b-roll from their missions in Asia & Pacific, Africa, Americas, Europe & C. Asia and MENA.  http://www.ifrc.org/en/news-and-media/newsroom/

The International Committee of the Red Cross has different video than above also highlighting their activities in Asia & Pacific, Africa, Europe & Americas and the Middle East. http://www.icrcvideonewsroom.org/content/embed.asp?ID=8b56617.5m1352245hn53914.26

The United Nations Offices of Drugs and Crimes has b-roll from around the world highlighting their anti-drug activities.  http://www.unodc.org/unodc/video.html

Bing has a lot of product videos of their product being used on other products such as cell phones, I-Pads and computers.  http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/bing/videoGallery.aspx#channel_contentListTop

Walmart has b-roll of their stores which often show merchandise. I got some good shots of television sets here. http://walmartstores.com/Video/?id=1525

For more b-roll sources and information, visit the B-roll category.