For filmmakers around the world, the documentary grants directory guides you to opportunities on how to fund your documentary.
Points North Fellowship
The Points North Fellowship early- and mid-career filmmakers to Maine to accelerate the development of their feature documentary.
NEH Media Production Grant
The Media Projects program supports the development, production, and distribution documentary film that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways.
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.
Documentary Development Initiative
The program is created for storytellers who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and/or storytellers with disabilities.
Mountainfilm Commitment Grant
We seek non-fiction stories celebrating adventure, activism, social justice, culture, environment and indomitable spirit.
EuroDoc
We accept all documentaries, essays and experimental films that reflect a diversity of genres and different forms of cinematic approaches.
Nederlands Filmfonds
The Fund supports the realisation of minority co-production feature films, long animated films and documentaries.
Roy W. Dean Film Grants
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
The Miller / Packan Film Fund supports documentaries that Educate, Inspire and Enrich. The Fund is financed through the Rogovy Foundation.
Whickers World 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.