These grants are made twice a year, and details on the funds award guidelines can be found on the sundance institute website, the thirteen sundance institute documentary fund grant recipients are. Sundance institute builds multifaceted collaborations with leading brands to engage with a creative community of artists and audiences. Sundance 2020 momentum fellows and launch grant fund. The sundance institute documentary fund provides grants to filmmakers worldwide for featurelength projects that display artful and innovative film language and techniques, rigorous research, originality, project feasibility, contemporary cultural relevance, and the potential to reach and connect with its intended audience. Brannum was selected as a sundance instituteford foundation fellow and has been awarded grants from the sundance institutes native initiative, national geographic, women in film, itvs, the oklahoma humanities council, vision maker media, and the sundance documentary fund for her public television documentary ladonna harris. Conscience point international documentary association. She has been awarded grants from sundance institute, creative capital, cinereach, tfi documentary fund, jerome foundation, catapult film fund, lef foundation, nysca, and many other organizations. Sundance institute announces 2020 momentum fellows and. The sundance institute today announced the 25 nonfiction films that will receive documentary fund and stories of change grants. The sundance institute luminate fund provides nonrecoupable grants to independent artists working across documentary, narrative, episodic, and emerging media projects that address the following four areas in which luminate strives to have impact. The documentary fund was established at sundance institute in 2002 with a gift from the open society institute and is supported by a leadership grant from the ford foundation. The grants, which include specialized grants administered by the kendeda fund and the stories of change fund, support films across development, production, postproduction and audience engagement.
Sundance institute documentary fund ongoing no deadline the sundance documentary fund provides grants to filmmakers worldwide for projects that display. With the documentary core application project, a small but growing group of documentary funders have made a commitment to a more filmmaker friendly way of grantmaking. Sundance institute documentary fund vision maker media. Please note that we do not fund ngo, advocacy, or educational films. Filmmakers globally asked us to be more flexible and responsive in how we fund. Represent the documentary film program and sundance institute nationally and internationally at industry events to build ongoing relationships, scout projects and position sundance as. Sundance institute supports documentary fund grantees from nigeria, myanmar, qatar. We support independent nonfiction films that display artful film language, effective storytelling, originality and feasibility, contemporary cultural relevance, and. Sundance institute supports documentary fund grantees from. Sundance institute covid19 respond and reimagine plan. The open society institute, founded by george soros, works in over 60 countries to promote vibrant and tolerant democracies.
The sundance documentary film program supports nonfiction filmmakers worldwide in the production of cinematic documentaries on contemporary themes. For more information and to purchase tickets, see the film forum website. Sundance institute documentary fund frequently asked. The grants span all the way from initial project development to audience building, and the list includes custom grants from the kendeda fund, which supports projects dealing with environmental themes as well as gun violence. Sundance doc fund chooses 20 projects international.
If you have feedback on any of our contests, prizes, or anything whatsoever, please let us know. Submissions to the sundance institute documentary fund are accepted year round, and we indicate three deadlines per year that correspond to our three grant. Macarthur foundation, sundance institutes documentary film and native american and indigenous programs have partnered on a short film fund aimed at finding, nurturing and elevating documentary stories from native and indigenous storytellers from around the world. Justfilms supports a regrant fund and labs at the sundance institute documentary film program and fund as resources for independent documentary filmmakers around the world who are working on films focused on human rights and contemporary issues. The sundance institute documentary film programs mandate is to. The committee meets to make recommendations regarding which projects are funded. The sundance institute has announced the 23 recipients of its documentary film funds latest round of grants. Submissions are accepted yearround, and they indicate three deadlines per year that correspond to the grant cycles. Sundance institute sundance mountain resort, ut the documentary creative producing lab and fellowship is a yearlong program designed to nurture emerging producers with projectspecific support through the creative producing lab, sundance film festival attendance, yearround mentorship from industry mentors, and ongoing support from sundance. In addition to foundations and broadcast license agreements, you might include private donations, inkind support, crowdfunding, producer investment, and fundraisers.
The sundance institute documentary fund supports the work of nonfiction. Different grants are offered depending on the production stage of a film. The two organizations announced the grant program at last years sundance film festival. Sundance documentary film program filmmaker magazine. The fund seeks to provide funding for projects that display artful film language, effective storytelling, originality and feasibility, contemporary cultural relevance, and potential to reach and connect with its intended audience. In addition, each grantee will receive unique guidance and consultation from the tribeca film institute. Sundance institute luminate fund sundance institute. Thirtythree nonfiction works from seventeen countries comprise the latest sundance institute documentary fund and stories of change grantees, announced today. The documentary core application project international. The sundance institutes documentary fund provides grants to short and featurelength documentary film projects through a highly competitive open call, and.
Foundation giving foundation grants provide stability for existing programs and seed the launch of new initiatives. The sundance documentary film program assists nonfiction filmmakers from around the world with a series of workshops in editing, storytelling, and scoring for documentary films as well as providing grants to nonfiction film projects through the sundance documentary fund. In a changing media landscape, the fund has been a stable, progressive force in supporting work that has expressed the world in creative, complex, beautiful, and provocative ways, and has created real cultural and social impact around some of the most pressing issues. Sundance institute announces documentary film fund grantees. Proposals to the sundance institute documentary fund are evaluated on artful, innovative film language, clear storytelling, originality, feasibility, contemporary cultural relevance, and potential to reach and connect with its intended audience. Award decisions take approximately four to six months from the deadline. The group includes six firsttime feature documentary filmmakers as well as familiar names such as thomas allen harris, pamela yates, edet. The sundance institute has named its documentary fund grantees which includes specialized grants administered by the kendeda fund and the stories of change fund.
Established in 2002 with founding support from open society foundations, the program is a vibrant global resource for independent nonfiction. Sundance institute announces documentary fund grantees. Sundance institute hiring yearround labs and artist. Launching the sundance institute short documentary fund. In response, sundance institute and the ida joined forces to create and disseminate a common funding application to the field. Documentary film program sundance documentary fund. The sundance institute documentary film program has announced its latest round of grantees.
Sundance institute unveils roster of documentary fund. Sundance institute documentary film program announces. The sundance institute provides financial and creative support to filmmakers, and provides a highprofile platform for films, shorts and interactive media at its annual film festival. Sundance documentary fund the sundance institute supports nonfiction filmmakers yearround. Sundance institute is accepting proposals for the stories of change soc content fund to support the development and production of independent storytelling projects produced in collaboration with skollawarded social entrepreneurs sases. Sundance institute announces documentary fund and stories. Welcome to the application for the sundance institute documentary fund. Your written proposal should include a fundraising strategy for raising funds for your film, irrespective of a sundance institute documentary fund grant. Sundance institute unveils roster of documentary fund grantees. Sundance film grants documentary, non fiction, emerging.
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