Documentary Grants 2023
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List of the Best Documentary Grants to Fund Your Film Here is the list of upcoming Film Grants for Documentaries to bring your important story to life. |
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AAAS Science Journalism Awards The AAAS Science Journalism Awards have honored professional journalists for distinguished reporting on the sciences, engineering, and mathematics. |
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AFAC Documentary Program The AFAC Documentary Program supports creative documentary films in the Arab region. The program welcomes submissions of short and medium-length documentary in production and post-production, and feature documentary film projects that are in development, production or post-production phases. |
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Alter-Ciné Foundation The Foundation awards a grant aimed at young filmmakers born and living in Africa, Asia or Latin America who want to direct a film in the language of their choice that respects the aims of the Foundation. |
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Art Moves Africa AMA gives grants to artists and arts professionals (curators, cultural operators and journalists) of all artistic disciplines who live and work in Africa, to travel within the African continent. |
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AXS Film Fund AXS Lab provides funding to documentary filmmakers and nonfiction new media creators of color with disabilities. |
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Berlinale Talents Lab Berlinale Talents is aimed at emerging film actors, audience designers, composers, cinematographers, directors, distributors, editors, film critics, producers, production designers, sales agents, screenwriters, sound designers and digital set designers with an existing portfolio of work. |
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BFI Doc Society Fund The BFI Doc Society Fund aims to develop storytellers from all parts of the UK, backing feature projects with bold cultural and social ambitions. |
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Catapult Film Fund We provide development funding up to $20,000 to documentary filmmakers who have a strong story to tell, have secured access, and are ready to create a fundraising piece to help unlock critical production funding. |
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Climate Story Fund We are looking for creative nonfiction projects that can complete production this year with support from the Climate Story Fund. Awards in this round of the fund will range between $20,000 and $100,000. |
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Creative Capital Creative Capital fund artists in the creation of groundbreaking new work in the visual arts, performing arts, film, technology and socially-engaged work in all forms. |
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CrossCurrents Doc Funds The CrossCurrents Fund is an international fund for filmmakers who are members of or have a deep connection to the underrepresented and marginalized community. |
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DEI Film Grant The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Film Grant Fund provides intentional support and funding to amplify women, BIPOC & LGBTQ+ centered stories that celebrate running across the spectrum of cultural experiences. |
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Diversity Development Fund Diversity Development Fund gives producers of color up to $25,000 in research and development funding so you can develop your documentary for public media. |
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Documentary Development Initiative The program is created for storytellers who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and/or storytellers with disabilities. |
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Eurimages: Co-production Support EURIMAGES supports fiction, animation and documentary feature films of a minimum length of 70 minutes. |
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EuroDoc We accept all documentaries, essays and experimental films that reflect a diversity of genres and different forms of cinematic approaches. |