The Open Society Fellowship supports documentaries

“The Open Society Fellowship supports individuals who are developing innovative solutions to pressing open society challenges. The fellowship program seeks applicants eager to communicate original and provocative ideas to a broad audience, as well as to shape policy and inspire critical debate among activists, intellectuals, decision makers, and the public. The program also aims to sharpen the Open Society Foundations’  thinking, question its assumptions, and broaden its understanding of pivotal problems.”

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Latino Producers Academy

“The LPA is an intensive ten-day professional development workshop for Latino/a film and public television documentary producers. It is designed to support both emerging and mid-career professionals with projects in development and pre-production. The purpose of this program is to prepare you for what lies ahead both on your productions and your developing career as a professional producer. It will provide strong and practical information about the components necessary to develop, package, produce and distribute your next project, from development and material acquisition through post-production, marketing and distribution.”

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National Endowment for the Humanities offers up to $800,000 in Development and Program grants

“Grants for America’s Media Makers support projects in the humanities that explore stories, ideas, and beliefs in order to deepen our understanding of our lives and our world. The Division of Public Programs supports the development of humanities content and interactivity that excite, inform, and stir thoughtful reflection upon culture, identity, and history in creative and new ways. Grants for America’s Media Makers should encourage dialogue, discussion, and civic engagement, and they should foster learning among people of all ages. To that end, the Division of Public Programs urges applicants to consider more than one format for presenting humanities ideas to the public.”

Click here for information about the NEH production grant. Click here for intormation about  the NEH development grant.

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Native American Public Telecommunications offers up to $100,000 in documentary grants

Native American Public Telecommincations offers grants from $10,000-$100,000 for documentaries exploring the Native American experience and distributed through public television.   “NAPT shares Native stories with the world through support of the creation, promotion and distribution of Native media.”

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Pacific Islanders in Communications offers Grants for public television programming

“The goal of Pacific Islanders in Communications is to support the development of national public broadcast programming that enhances public recognition of and appreciation for Pacific Islander history, culture, and society. PIC accomplishes this by nurturing and supporting filmmakers through its Research & Development (R&D), Production, and Completion funds. PIC staff is available to help throughout the application process and to provide feedback on all film proposals.”

The next deadline is July 29, 2011.  Click here for more information.

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Center for Asian Americna Media grant information

“The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible. [They] do this by funding, producing, distributing and exhibiting works in film, television and digital media.”

The next deadline for funding is May 19, 2011.  For more information, click here.

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Latino Public Broadcasting Funds Projects for $5,000-$100,000

“Latino Public Broadcasting supports the development, production, acquisition and distribution of non-commercial educational and cultural television that is representative of Latino people, or addresses issues of particular interest to Latino Americans. These programs are produced for dissemination to the public broadcasting stations and other public telecommunication entities. By acting as minority consortium, LPB provides a voice to the diverse Latino community throughout the United States.”

The next deadline is June 6, 2011.  Click here for more information.

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Authur Vining Davis Foundation offers public television grants

The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations offers grants to public television series with lasting educational value particularly in the areas of history and science.  There are no yearly deadlines.

Proposals for “capstone” grants to complete production funding are preferred. Initial research and pre-production funding are seldom supported. Neither multi­year grants nor annual funding of continuing series are normally considered. Recent “capstone” produc­tion grants have ranged from $100,000 to $400,000.

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

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