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.

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Berkeley Film Foundation for Berkeley filmmakers

“The mission of the Berkeley Film Foundation is to nurture, sustain and preserve the thriving Berkeley Film
community and focuses on supporting the ideals reflected in Berkeley culture by providing
grants for social, historical and innovative documentary and dramatic works.”

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Film Independent Grants and Fellowships

“Each year, Film Independent awards a number of grants and fellowships to help filmmakers with their current projects, as well as to recognize them for past accomplishments. Since 1995, we have given out over $860,000 in cash grants to our Fellows.”

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Catapult Film Fund Provides Development Grants

“Catapult Film Fund provides development funding to documentary filmmakers who have a compelling story to tell, have secured access to their story and are ready to shoot and edit a piece for production fundraising purposes. Our mission is to enable filmmakers to develop their film projects to the next level at a moment where funding is hard to find. We support powerful stories, and moving storytelling, across a broad spectrum of issues and perspectives.”

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75% of USA Projects Receive Full Funding

“USA Projects is a program created by United States Artists (USA), a nonprofit grantmaking and artist advocacy organization that has awarded over $17 million to America’s finest artists in the last six years. USA Projects hosts an online community where artists can post projects for funding and connect with those who love and support artists.

At USA Projects, our goal is to help artists successfully navigate the challenging world of online fundraising for their projects. Our expert team provides educational services, from fundraising 101 to case studies and best practices to project development and outreach support. A total of 75% of all artists who have turned to USA Projects have succeeded in funding their projects. USA Projects offers a patent-pending matching fund program, the only one of its kind, which encourages and leverages contributions to help artists succeed faster. All donations are tax deductible because they simultaneously support artists’ projects and the nonprofit mission of United States Artists: to invest in America’s finest artists and to illuminate the value of artists to society.”

Check out the USAProjects.org website to learn about who they fund and they types of projects that they fund.

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Creation Grants support Vermont Artists and Filmmakers

“Creation Grants support the creation of new work by Vermont artists. Applicants to this category must demonstrate that the primary component of their proposal is the funding of time, supplies, facilities (rehearsal or studio), etc. for their work. Projects may be at various stages of completion. There must be strong potential for public presentation of the work either during or after the grant period. Wherever possible, projects should strive to stimulate greater public understanding of the art form.

Examples of fundable projects include:

• A writer who wishes to complete the first draft of a novel and will conduct a series of readings of the new work at local libraries, OR
• A dance ensemble that will choreograph a piece to be available wholly or in part for touring to area presenters.”

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Loreen Arbus Disability Awareness Completion Grant for Female Filmmakers

“Through the generosity of Loreen Arbus, New York Women in Film and Television has established the Loreen Arbus Disability Awareness Grant. The film completion grant for $7,500 will be awarded to a woman filmmaker for a film on physical or developmental disability issues. Directors and producers are eligible to apply.”

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Academy Flim Scholars supports film scholarship

To stimulate and support new and significant works of film scholarship, the Academy Film Scholars program awards grants of $25,000 to two individuals each year.

Established scholars, writers and historians are awarded grants to research topics that may include cultural, educational, historical, theoretical or scientific aspects of theatrical motion pictures.”

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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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Princess Grace Awards film, theater and dance grants

“Working in conjunction with nominating schools and non-profit companies, the Princess Grace Awards recognize the talent of individual artists in theater, dance, and film.

This unique collaborative process fills vast voids in the artistic community: scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships give emerging artists the financial assistance and moral encouragement to focus on artistic excellence; monetary support for the nominating organizations eases fund raising challenges, directing resources toward the creative process.

All applicants must be US Citizens or have obtained permanent resident status, and each grant must be completed in the United States.  All nominating organizations must have 501(c)(3)  status.  Each category has unique guidelines specific to the discipline.  To read more about discipline-specific guidelines, please visit the Applications and Questions sections.”

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