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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Call for short films by female filmmakers

From Women and Film and Video

Take Your Short Film On A World Tour! Are you a female filmmaker with a short film you want the WORLD to see? Then submit your film to the Women in Film and Television International (WIFTI) Short Film Showcase! Your film could be seen around the world as part of the Women in Film and Television International Short Film Showcase on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2012. Local film communities around the globe will gather to celebrate women in film and watch films by the winning international submissions. There will also be a second, DC-based screening on SWAN Day, March 31, 2012. We are looking for narrative and documentary films made by WIFV Members that feature at least two females with lead crew responsibilities (producer, director, etc.). More information here. Submit your films today, and be featured among the international film community! Films should not exceed 15 minutes. Submission deadline is September 28, 2011. Mail two DVD copies of your films with contact information to: Women in Film & Video WIFTI Showcase 3628 12th Street, NE Washington, DC  20017 WIFTI is a global network comprised of some 30 Women in Film chapters worldwide and over 10,000 members dedicated to advancing professional development and achievement for women working in all areas of film, video and other screen-based media.

Women in Film & Video 3628 12th Street, NE Washington, DC 20017 www.wifv.org

DIGITAL OPEN CALL: $20K for Black Digital Projects from NBPC

From the National Black Programming Consortium
http://www.blackpublicmedia.org/for-producers

Your support and engagement with our summer of original content brought us a very fulfilling season. We hope you enjoyed Mondo Black, and Black Folk Don’t, and we hope you continue to engage with them, leave your comments, and join the conversation via Twitter and Facebook!

Both series were funded through our annual Digital Open Call; an interactive call for original web content focused on stories about the global black diaspora. Stories can be narrative, documentary, audio, video, etc, as  long as they present a unique opportunity for our audience to interact  around engaging subject matter.

And for the very first time this year we are opening up the call to include “serious games.” So come on down developers of mobile and web-based  games; an innovative new way to get audiences discussing truly important issues.

So are you a producer? Are you a  game developer? Do you want to see your own series on  BlackPublicMedia.org? Be sure to get your applications in, our deadline for the $20,000 digital grant is approaching on September, 26th!

Two projects will receive $20,000 each to make their ideas a reality, and  these projects will launch on BlackPublicMedia.org in the summer of  2012! Don’t waste any time, download the guidelines, and submit your online application.

http://www.blackpublicmedia.org/for-producers/

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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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Sundance & Sloan Commission partner for science and technology film grants

Sundance/Sloan Commissioning Grant & Fellowship:

“Established in  2005, the Alfred P. Sloan Commissioning Grant is an annual cash award for a  science- or technology-related narrative project that is at an early stage,  such as full treatment or early screenplay draft. This grant also includes a  small stipend for a science advisor to provide support through consultation and  feedback, as well as the possibility of inclusion in a Screenwriters Lab.”

The grant  includes the following:

• A cash grant of up to $20,000 to provide support during the writing period
• A stipend of up to $5,000 for a science advisor
• Creative support during the writing process from a select group of Creative       Advisors
• The possibility of a Fellowship to a Screenwriters Lab
• Strategic and practical support from the Feature Film Program staff

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