Oppenheimer Cine Rental New Filmmaker Equipment Grant for Students

“The Oppenheimer Cine Rental New Filmmaker Equipment Grant Program is a grant to support new filmmakers in producing their first serious film project. The grant awards the use of our Grant Program Arriflex 16SR2 camera package to senior and graduate thesis students and to independent filmmakers for a scheduled period of time. This specific package, which we have set aside for the grant program, should meet the needs of most 16mm projects. Proposed projects may be of any non-commercial nature: dramatic, narrative, documentary, experimental, etc. Our expectation is that you are working from your own vision, your own creativity and not for someone else (solely for a profit motive). The program does not support commercials, industrials, PSA’s, music videos, or pornography. In order to keep the package available for the largest number of filmmakers, feature length film projects will not be considered. The length of time the equipment will be available to any one project will depend on each project and on the pressures of the program. You should plan your schedule realistically. Practically, most grant projects will be expected to use the package for one to two weeks. We have only one Arri 16SR2 camera in the program; your compliance with the program requirements assures access for the most filmmakers.”

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Frameline Completion Fund for LGBT Films

“The Frameline Completion Fund provides grants to emerging and established  filmmakers. The program seeks to provide a much-needed source of financial contributions to artists who often struggle to secure funding to complete their works. Grants ranging from $1,500 to $5,000 are available for films that represent and reflect LGBT life in all its complexity and richness.

For two decades Frameline has provided over 100 grants totaling $343,000 to help ensure that LGBT films are completed and viewed by wider audiences. Films finished with assistance from the Frameline Completion Fund include LAST CALL AT MAUD’S, GO FISH, BROTHER TO BROTHER, MAGGOTS AND MEN, THE COCKETTES, IT CAME FROM KUCHAR, FREEHELD, WE WERE HERE, GUN HILL ROAD and PARIAH.

Submissions are being accepted for documentary, educational, narrative, animated or experimental projects about LGBT people and their communities. The Fund also seeks to bring new work to under-served audiences; with this in mind, we especially encourage applications by women, people of color and transgender persons.”

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