
For filmmakers around the world, the documentary grants directory guides you to opportunities on how to fund your documentary.
Funding for Documentary Filmmakers
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Nederlands Filmfonds The Fund supports the realisation of minority co-production feature films, long animated films and documentaries. |
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Movies that Matter We offer a start-up grant for new human rights film festivals / events and an impact grant for existing events that want to increase their impact or want to add new activities to their programmes. |
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Investigative Journalism for Europe IJ4EU’s Investigation Support Scheme provides grants of between €5,000 and €50,000 to support cross-border investigative projects in Europe. |
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Humanities for All Humanities for All is a grant program that supports projects from Californians, encourages greater public participation in humanities programming, particularly by new and/or underserved audiences. |
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Hot Docs-Slaight Family Fund This documentary fund is dedicated to filmmakers telling engaging, high-quality stories that embrace music artists in all its forms and that demonstrate Canadian music’s role in the world. |
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Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists The IWMF’s Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists supports the production of ambitious projects and underreported, globally important stories. |
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William Greaves Research and Development Fund The William Greaves Research and Development Fund resources talented, mid-career nonfiction storytellers from racially and ethnically underrepresented communities in the United States, as well as filmmakers who identify as being of Indigenous and/or of African descent. |
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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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Documentary Development Initiative The program is created for storytellers who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and/or storytellers with disabilities. |
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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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Project: Hatched Hatched provides support to US-based filmmakers who are nearing completion or have recently completed a documentary film and who have plans to strategize, build, and launch an impact campaign. |
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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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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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Follow Focus Grant The ScreeningRoom / Jigsaw Productions Follow Focus Grant provides $10,000 finishing fund for a cinematic documentary short in post-production |
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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. |