Rooftop Filmmakers Fund” Grants For Past Festival Participants

“So often, filmmakers spend so much of their resources making one film that it’s hard for them to produce another. But unlike festivals which give away awards for filmmakers’ past work, the Rooftop Filmmakers Fund is an opportunity to help deserving filmmakers make their next movie. We’ve been screening films since 1997, and every filmmaker who has ever shown a film with Rooftop is eligible for our grants—now over 1,800 artists. Past grantees have included Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene, Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild and Glory at Sea, Johannes Nyholm’s Las Palmas, Lucy Walker’s The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, and dozens more.

Rooftop Films has seven grants available—four for feature-length films and three for short films. In 2012, Rooftop Films will give away over $23,000 in cash grants, and over $50,000 in equipment and services.”

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Jameson FIND Your Audience Award for Feature Docs

“Film Independent is now accepting submissions for the 2012 Jameson FIND Your Audience Award. The award includes a cash grant of $40, 000 designed to assist the winning filmmaker with a qualifying feature film build the audience for his or her film. All applications are due by December 2, 2011.”

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nextPix offers documentary completion grant

nextPix is offering a $5000 completion grant.

“The firstPix program for 2011 seeks  to foster the best and brightest new talent in digital video, film and animation, and to help promote that talent by providing supplemental post-production funds for selected projects.

nextPix will evaluate rough assemblies OR completed DVDs/films for selection — based in part on the criteria that the project have a positive humanitarian message. We welcome narrative feature/documentaries and animation projects of all subject matter.”

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Roy W. Dean Documentary and Film Grants up to $500,000

The Roy W. Dean Grants: “Our budget ceiling is $500,000. We fund shorts, docs and independent features under this amount. We want films that are unique and make a contribution to society. We fund compelling stories about little known subjects, historical films and films that touch hearts. We like films that expose and bring important information to light, we like films on little known people when there is a good story. We are story-tellers and that is the main criteria for entering and winning our grants, stories that can change and stories that can heal and enrich our lives.”

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