List of the Best Documentary Grants to Fund Your Film

The Points North Fellowship early- and mid-career filmmakers to Maine to accelerate the development of their feature documentary.

The Media Projects program supports the development, production, and distribution documentary film  that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways.

The BFI Doc Society Fund aims to develop storytellers from all parts of the UK, backing feature projects with bold cultural and social ambitions.

The program is created for storytellers who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and/or storytellers with disabilities.

We seek non-fiction stories celebrating adventure, activism, social justice, culture, environment and indomitable spirit. 

We accept all documentaries, essays and experimental films that reflect a diversity of genres and different forms of cinematic approaches. 

The Fund supports the realisation of minority co-production feature films, long animated films and documentaries.

Roy W Dean Film Grants fund independent feature films, documentaries, web series, and short films with budgets of $500,000 or less that are unique and make a contribution to society.

The Miller / Packan Film Fund supports documentaries that Educate, Inspire and Enrich. The Fund is financed through the Rogovy Foundation.

The Film & TV Funding Award is awarded annually to an emerging filmmaker from anywhere in the world with the most promising pitch for a director-led documentary.