Chicken & Egg Pictures Support Women Filmmakers

“Chicken & Egg Pictures is a hybrid film fund and non-profit production company dedicated to supporting women filmmakers who are as passionate about the craft of storytelling as they are about the social justice, environmental and human rights issues they’re embracing, translating and exploring on film.

We match strategically timed financial support with rigorous, respectful and dynamic mentorship, creative collaboration and community-building to nurture women filmmakers whose diverse voices represent a range of lived experience and realities that have the power to change the world as we know it.”

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.

Tribeca Establishes $750,000 in documentary grants for 2011

The Tribeca Film Institute, in partnership with the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms initiative, has announced the launch of the TFI New Media Fund to Support Filmmakers Utilizing Cross-Platform Storytelling to Promote Social Change.

In 2011, the New Media Fund will award grants of $50,000 to $100,000 each to four to eight nonfiction projects. The fund also will provide peer support and expert mentorship for producers.

Proposals accepted April 4, 2011 – May 24, 2011.

Visit the TFI New Media Fund website for more information.

For more information about production financing, visit the Funding and Grants category.

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

$50-million documentary grant initiative from Ford Foundation

The Ford Foundation just launched JustFilms – a documentary initiative to fund independent production for the next 5 years from a well of $50-million.  The purpose is to “support and expand the community of documentary filmmakers whose works focus on urgent social issues.”

There is no deadline for submission.  It is advisable to read the grant guidelines before submitting. Check out more at the Ford Foundation website.

For more information about production financing, visit the Funding and Grants category.

Documentary Grant: $200K from the MacArthur foundation

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur foundation has announced new grant making guidelines for documentary projects.  MacArthur supports U.S.-based independent documentary filmmakers for the production and distribution of social-issue documentary films intended for a broad audience.

The next deadline is June 1, 2011.  Then again on December 1, 2011.

Typical grant amounts range from $100,000 to $200,000.

For more information visit: Visit the MacArthur Foundation.

For more information about production financing, visit the Funding and Grants category.

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