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PRODUCERS' FUNDING RESOURCES
Independent Television Service
Provides funding to independent film and video that would be appropriate for screening on PBS. Grants: $20,000 - $250,000
51 Federal Street, San Francisco , CA 94107-1378
(phone) 415-356-8383
Email: itvs@itvs.pbs.org
Website: http://www.itvs.org
LOCAL:
Pacific Pioneer Fund
CA, WA, OR Documentary Filmmakers only. Grant size: $1,000 - $10,000.
Pacific Pioneer Fund
PO Box 20504
Stanford , CA 94309
(phone) 650-497-1133
Website: www.pacificpioneerfund.com
Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco Bay Area
Film Arts Foundation
346 Ninth Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco , CA 94103
(Office phone) 415-552-8760
(fax) 415-552-0882
(Equipment/Editing Facility) 415-552-6350
Email: info@filmarts.org
Website: http://www.filmarts.org/grants/index.html
Bay Area Video Coalition
San Francisco Bay Area only, though one Phelan Award is available to artists born in California, regardless of current residence.
Bay Area Video Coalition
2727 Mariposa Street , 2nd Floor
San Francisco , CA 94110
(phone) 415-861-4328
(fax) 415-861-4316
Email: awards@bavc.org
Website: www.bavc.org/resources/grants
Columbia Foundation
The foundation gives priority to Bay Area filmmakers; to films or videos that will be used by Columbia Foundation-funded public-interest organizations to further their work in human rights and sustainable communities and economies; and to projects for which a grant of $5,000 to $25,000 makes a difference in getting the project started or completed.
Columbia Foundation
One Lombard Street, Suite 305
San Francisco , CA 94111
(phone) 415-986-5179
Email: carolyn@columbia.org
Website: http://www.columbia.org/index.htm
Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize
Bay Area only. Up to four $12,500 awards for artist's projects on urban and social environmentalism.
Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize
New Langton Arts
1246 Folsom St
San Francisco , CA 94103
(phone) 415-626-5416
Website: http://www.newlangtonarts.org/
Feature Films Only:
The Feature Film Program at the Sundance Institute
Screenwriting and Filmmaking Laboratories, held each year at Sundance, Utah are designed to offer emerging screenwriters and directors the opportunity to develop new work, offering a uniquely creative environment under the concentrated guidance of veteran filmmakers.
The Feature Film Program at the Sundance Institute
8857 W. Olympic Blvd.
Beverly Hills , CA 90211
featurefilmprogram@sundance.org
http://www.sundance.org/film_program/about.html
Independent Feature Project
A wide variety of funding programs for members ($80/year) at each of its locales: New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Minnesota, and Chicago. All sites can be reached through the main web address at: http://www.ifp.org/
Thousand Words Finishing Fund
The Thousand Words Finishing Fund is designed to work with emerging filmmakers to create intelligent, innovative, and challenging film. The fund is available to help a variety of needs such as editing, sound mixing, music rights, blow up costs, as well as numerous others.
Thousand Words Finishing Fund
836 NE Hancock Street
Portland , OR 97212
(Phone) 503-528-8188
Website: http://www.thousand-words.com/
Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
International competition open to screenwriters who have not earned more than $5,000 by writing for film or television.
Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
The Academy Foundation,
8949 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills , CA 90211-1972
(310) 247-3000
Email: nicholl@oscars.org
Website: www.oscars.org
ORGANIZATIONAL RESOURCES:
Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers
Membership organization whose magazine, The Independent, regularly profiles funders of film and video and is considered required reading in the film/video community.
Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers
304 Hudson Street , 6th floor
New York , NY 10013
(phone) 212-807-1400
(fax) 212-463-8519
Email: info@aivf.org
Website: http://aivf.org
New York Foundation for the Arts
Free information service for individual visual artists (including film/video), nationwide. After a phone consultation, they send a hand-out of funding sources and other resources specific to your field.
New York Foundation for the Arts
155 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor
New York , NY 10013-1507
(phone) 212-366-6900
(fax) 212-366-1778
Email: nyfaweb@nyfa.org
Website: www.nyfa.org
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Offers grants for independent filmmakers and digital media producers whose work addresses significant subjects in the humanities; reaches broad public audiences; grows out of sound scholarship; and uses imaginative, engaging formats.
National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W.
Washington , DC 20506
(phone) 1-800-NEH-1121
(fax) 202-606-8400
TDD: 202-606-8282
Email: info@neh.gov
Website: http://www.neh.gov
MediaRights.org
A community website that helps media makers, educators, nonprofits, and activists use documentaries to encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues.
MediaRights.org
104 W. 14th St., 4th Floor
New York , NY 10011
(phone) 646-230-6288
(fax) 646-230-6328
Email: info@mediarights.org
Website: www.mediarights.org
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Provides grants to organizations for the production, public exhibition, distribution, and preservation of film, video, and audio works as art forms themselves. Media Arts organizations also receive funds for services to media artists, media literacy programs, publications, and professional training.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington , DC 20506
(phone) 202-682-5400
(fax) 202-682-5721
Email: webmgr@arts.endow.gov
Website: http://arts.endow.gov
ARTISTS:
The Actors Fund
Provides a list of health insurance and medical emergency resources for artists in all disciplines, organized by state.
Website: www.actorsfund.org/ahirc.individual-st.html
Change, Inc.
Emergency grants for artists in all disciplines needing help with rent, medical expenses, utility bills, fire damage, etc. Grants up to $1000.
Change, Inc.
Box 54
Tapiva , FL 33924
(phone) 212-473-3742
Chicago Underground Film Fund
Cash grants of between $500 and $2,000 awarded to selected film or video makers for post-production on works-in-progress that are in keeping with the festival's mission to promote works that push boundaries, defy commercial expectations and transcend the mainstream of independent filmmaking.
Chicago Underground Film Festival
3109 North Western Ave.
Chicago , IL 60618
(phone) 773-327-FILM
(fax) 773-327-3464
Email: info@cuff.org
Website: http://www.cuff.org
The Roy W. Dean Grant
Grants offer awards annually to short films, documentaries and other projects which are unique and benefit society.
From the Heart Productions
Attn. Roy W. Dean Film Grant
20 Waterside Plaza, Suite 33A
New York City , NY 10010
(phone) 866-689-5150
Email: caroleedean@worldnet.att.net
Website: www.fromtheheartproductions.com
Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media
Film/video projects that will reach a broad audience with an organizing component and can demonstrate that the production will be used for social change organizing.
Grants: Up to $15,000; most $3-6,000
Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media
The Funding Exchange
666 Broadway, Suite 500
New York , NY 10012
(phone) 212-529-5300
(fax) 212-982-9272
Email: trinhh.duong@fex.org
Website: http://www.fex.org/2.3_grantmakingindex.html
Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
Grants provide partial support for major educational series assured of airing nationally by PBS. Consideration given from time to time to single stand-alone programs. Grants to $500,000.
Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
111 Riverside Avenue, Suite 130
Jacksonville , FL 32202-4921
(phone) 904-359-0670
Email: arthurvining@bellsouth.net
Website: http://jvm.com/davis/
Ford Foundation
Supports high-quality productions that enrich public dialogue on such core issues as building democratic values and pluralism.
Ford Foundation
320 East 43 Street
New York , N.Y. 10017
(phone) 212-573-5000
(fax) 212-599-4584
Email: office-secretary@fordfound.org
Website: http://www.fordfound.org/
Creative Capital
Provides grants (to $20,000) to individual artists for specific projects, with an emphasis on experimental work. Disciplines rotate, meaning that media grants are given every other year.
Creative Capital
65 Bleeker St 7th floor
New York NY 10012
(phone) 212-598-9900
(fax) 212-598-4934
Email: info@creative-capital.org
Website: www.creative-capital.org
Sundance Documentary Fund
Formerly the Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Institute, the Sundance Documentary Fund supports international documentary films and videos focused on current and significant issues and movements in contemporary human rights, freedom of expression, social justice, and civil liberties. In supporting such works, the Sundance Documentary Fund hopes to give voice to the diverse exchange of ideas crucial to developing an open society, raise the public consciousness about human rights abuses and restrictions of civil liberties, and engage citizens in a lively, ongoing debate about these issues. Development funds up to $15,000 and Production/Post-Production to $50,000, though most will be around $25,000. No deadline. Guidelines and application form on the website.
Sundance Documentary Fund
Sundance Institute
8857 West Olympic Blvd.
Beverly Hills , CA 90211
Email: sdf@sundance.org
Website: www.sundance.org
The Puffin Foundation
Grants that encourage emerging artists whose works, due to their genre and/or social philosophy might have difficulty being aired. Grants: Up to $2,500
The Puffin Foundation
20 East Oakdene Avenue
Teaneck , NJ 07666-4198
(phone) 201-836-8923
(fax) 201-836-1734
Email: puffingrant@mindspring.com
www.puffinfoundation.org
The Lucius & Eva Eastman Fund
Supports film/video on social issues.
The Lucius & Eva Eastman Fund
Jennifer Eastman, Attorney at Law
P.O. Box 470
Westwood , MA 02090
(phone) 781-329-2473
OR Contact:
Lucius R. Eastman, Pres.
5926 Fiddletown Pl.
San Jose , CA 95120
(phone) 408-268-2083
The Sister Fund
Support for programming that fosters women's and girls' economic, social, political, and spiritual lives with a primary emphasis on national advocacy and media strategies to heighten public consciousness around issues affecting women and girls.
The Sister Fund
116 East 16th St. , 7th Floor
New York , NY 10003
(phone) 212-260-4446
(fax) (212) 260-4633
Email: sisterfund@aol.com
The Hermes Foundation
Especially interested in gay/lesbian issues. Grants up to $1,000
The Hermes Foundation
13600 Shaker Blvd. #802
Cleveland , OH 44120
(phone) 216-751-1100
Email: senex@msn.com
Unitarian Universalist Funding Program/Fund for a Just Society
Funds film/video only if it is an integral part of a strategy of collective action for social change. Grants to $10,000; most in the $5,000 to $7,000 range. Unitarian Universalist Funding Program/Fund for a Just Society
P.O. Box 40
Boston , MA 02117
(phone) 617-247-6600
(fax) 617-247-1015
Email: uufp@aol.com
Website: http://www.uua.org/uufp/
Dance Film Association, Inc.
Members may apply for DFA¹s annual postproduction grants up to $2,000 for films about dance.
Dance Film Association, Inc.
48 West 21st Street, #907
New York , NY 10010
Phone/Fax: 212-727-0764
Website: http://www.dancefilmsassn.org
A. J. Muste Institute
Funds film/video ONLY as part of projects organizing for social change.
A. J. Muste Institute
339 Lafayette Street
New York , NY 10012
(phone) 212-533-4335
(fax) 212-228-6193
Email: ajmusteinst@igc.org
Website: www.ajmuste.org
Courtesy of Entertainment Law Offices of Svetlana V. Couture
svet@attbi.com
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