Garrett Scott Documentary Grant offers mentorship and film festival accommodations

The Garrett Scott Documentary Grant provides mentoring and film festival accommodations along with other support to emergine documentary filmmmakers.
“This grant funds first time documentary makers for travel and accommodations at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, April 4-7, 2013. For four days, grant recipients will be given access to films, participate in master classes and be mentored by experienced filmmakers. TWO filmmakers will be chosen for the grant in its sixth year.” Visit the website in subsequent years to find out about future deadlines.

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

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Oprah starts “Documentary Film Club” on OWN

Oprah Winfrey has announced that her cable network OWN will air at least one original documentary per month in what is termed the Documentary Film Club.

According to the press release on her website, “The Oprah Winfrey Network is producing five OWN original two-hour documentaries with Julia Roberts, Forest Whitaker, Goldie Hawn, Gabriel Byrne and Mariel Hemingway, OWN announced today.

The films will be presented as part of OWN’s monthly documentary film club, along with the original acquisitions Life 2.0 and Sons of Perdition. The documentary club will spotlight these films and the previously announced Family Affair, focusing on cinematic documentaries that encourage emerging creative voices to bring their stories to a mainstream television audience on OWN. ”

Some documentarians who do not have celebrities attached to their projects have questions how this series will help “emerging creative voices.” 

What do you think?  Does the Documentary Film Club bring much-needed attention to the documentary genre? Or, is the OWN documentary project just another vehicle for the famously established?