INVITATION TO FILMMAKERS
Deadline to apply is June 7, 2013

We are pleased to announce a call to independent documentary filmmakers who would like to participate in a week long seminar and retreat in southern Vermont, limited to nine filmmakers along with special invited guests.
July 28 – August 4, 2013. Treefrog Farm – Guilford, Vermont.
Imagine: you, your film or work-in-progress, and a week in a bucolic setting with other filmmakers. Enjoy film screenings in the barn, problem solving in the hot tub, networking at the swimming hole, conquering crowdfunding over coffee on the deck…
At a time when you may feel overwhelmed by everything it takes to make your film, this is the week to finally take the time to assess what filmmaking is to you and what it will take to make you succeed on your terms. Join us to explore your own work and the issues you face with your film and recharge your creative battery with a special brand of “radical relaxation: great films, great food and deep discussions on the art, politics and the plain fun of filmmaking.”

More info and how to apply:
http://documentaries.org/newsevents/kopkind2013

Each year the Flaherty offers fellowships
to graduate students and emerging and mid-career filmmakers and media
professionals. The fellowship program is led by an academic who has attended
previous Flaherty Seminars and is designed to further your knowledge of cinema
through participation in an array of unique activities. Besides interacting with
the group at large, Flaherty fellows take part in private meetings and
discussions with the featured artists and other special guests in attendance,
including programmers, writers, and academics and participate in a mentorship
program. The program is rigorous and rewarding; Fellows arrive on campus a day
before the Seminar begins to learn about the history of the Seminar, discuss
pre-assigned readings relating to the theme, and watch and discuss each other’s
films, by way of an informal Fellows’ film screening. Fellows will be able to
return home with creative inspiration, experiences and connections, which will
aid them in furthering their own careers and artistic endeavors. The
deadline for all fellowships: Friday, March 1.

ELIGIBILITY/CRITERIA
We search for
applicants who have demonstrated achievement in their profession or field of
study, or who show potential to be an emerging talent.  In the required essay,
applicants should effectively convey reasons they would like to attend the
Seminar and also how they feel they can contribute to the event. All Seminar
attendees are encouraged to participate in discussions and the overall
discourse, and we want to know what you can add.  Graduate Student fellowships
are only open for graduate-level students and applicants must show proof of
enrollment in a higher educational institution.  In order to receive a
fellowship, you must be available to arrive on campus by
Friday, June 14 at 5 pm for the start of the fellowship program. If
you have received a fellowship to attend the Seminar in the past, you are
ineligible to apply.

2013 FELLOWSHIPS OPPORTUNITIES (March 1
is the deadline for all three fellowships):

Professional Development
Fellowships:
The Professional Development Fellowship is designed for
emerging or mid-career professionals such as filmmakers, programmers, writers,
scholars, archivists, and media professionals, from both the U.S. and abroad.
Awards are partial grants that cover a portion of the registration fee (usually
half). Grants are applied directly towards registration for the
Seminar.

Graduate Student
Fellowships:
Graduate Student fellowships are open to graduate
students only, who are currently enrolled in a degree program. All areas of
study are welcome; we select a diverse array of graduate students from
throughout the U.S., as well as internationally. Awards are partial grants that
cover a portion of the registration fee (usually half). Grants are applied
directly towards registration for the Seminar.

LEF New England
Fellowships:
LEF New England, a regional office of the LEF
Foundation, is supporting the participation of four New England-area filmmakers
to attend the Seminar. The award covers the entire registration fee, which
includes room, board, and all special events throughout the week. The mission of
LEF New England is to fund the work of independent film and video artists in the
region and broaden recognition and support for their work locally and
nationally. If you have previously received a LEF Fellowship you are
not eligible to apply at this time. Sorry, students are not eligible to
apply.

Philadelphia
Fellowships:
The Philadelphia Foundation is supporting the
participation of six Philadelphia-area film professionals and students to attend
the Seminar. The award covers the entire registration fee which includes room,
board, and all special events throughout the week, as well as roundtrip travel
to Colgate University. If you have received a Philadelphia
Foundation Fellowship in the past five years, you are not eligible to apply.
Preference will be given to first time fellows.

Click here for FELLOWSHIP
APPLICATION

Fellowship awardees are asked to
assist with various work assignments during the Seminar, from assistance with
administrative needs and hospitality to audio recording Seminar discussions.
These tasks will be kept to a minimum so as not to interfere with your
participation in the Seminar. At the end of the program all fellowship
awardees are required to submit a final report about their
experience.

The Media Arts Technical Assistance
Fund: Deadline April 1, 2013

Support towards registration fees, in the
amount of $500, is available to New York State nonprofit media arts
organizations. Individuals must partner with an organization, that will serve as
applicant, to be eligible. All questions regarding this grant should be directed
to regrant(at)free103point9.org (do NOT contact the
Flaherty office regarding this grant). Applications should be submitted through
the Conferences & Convening Application link at: GRANT. The Media Arts
Technical Assistance Fund is a regrant program of Electronic Media and Film at
the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency, and administered by
free103point9. You do NOT need to fill in the Flaherty Fellowship
application. DEADLINE FOR THIS GRANT IS APRIL 1.

A program of the Sundance Institute, the Sundance Documentary Fund awards a total of between $1 and $2 million a year in support of U.S. and international contemporary independent documentary film. In funding such work, the fund seeks to encourage the diverse exchange of ideas that is crucial to fostering an open society and public dialogue about contemporary issues.

The documentary fund provides grants to filmmakers worldwide for projects that display artful and innovative storytelling, global relevance, engagement with contemporary social issues, and the potential for social engagement.

The fund accepts submissions twice a year for development grants of up to $20,000, production/post-production grants of up to $50,000, and audience engagement grants of up to $20,000. Audience engagement grants are only available to current Sundance grantees for the support of strategic audience and community engagement campaigns.

The fund provides grants to about forty-five to fifty-five projects a year.

Visit the Sundance Web site for complete program information, application materials, an FAQ, and information on previous grant recipients.

Contact:
Link to Complete RFP

Primary Subject: Arts and Culture
Geographic Funding Area: National

Now entering its thirteenth year, the Pawtucket Film Festival, which is part of the Pawtucket Arts Festival, is an event that celebrates the artists behind the films it shows.  For news on other upcoming Pawtucket Film Festival events, check out their Facebook page.

The Tax Credit panel will consist of:

Anthony Ambrosino -
Producer of the upcoming feature JAR OF FOOLS and Creative Director at The 989 Project;

Bert Crenca – Artist, Artistic Director and Founder of
AS220;

Steven Feinberg – Executive Director of the RI Film & TV Office;

Gary Glassman – Documentary Producer and Founder of Providence Pictures;

Andrew Lund – Associate Professor of Film Production and the Director of the Integrated Media Arts MFA Program at Hunter College, City University of New York

Dr. Edward Mazze – Distinguished University Professor of
Business Administration at the University of RI and former Dean of the College of Business Administration. He is author of the study, THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION TAX CREDIT ON THE RHODE ISLAND ECONOMY FOR THE YEARS
2005-2009;

Kimberly Wyman – CPA, head of film tax audits at Carl Weinberg & Co.

The Tribeca Film Institute Documentary Fund provides grants and guidance to exceptional filmmakers with character-driven nonfiction works-in-progress that sit outside of the social issue landscape. By supporting work that engages in unexplored perspectives, the fund aims to help take audiences into someone else’s environment and spotlight the journey of the individual.

Submissions must be feature-length documentaries with an intended
length of at least seventy minutes and should creatively document one or
more unique characters. Submissions can be in the advanced stages of
development, production, or post-production but must not have aired on
any form of television, been screened publicly, or have been distributed
in theaters or online prior to February 2013. Submitted films must show
enough footage to highlight character, unique access, and storytelling
ability.

Foreign language documentaries are eligible but must be subtitled and suitable for an American audience.
The program is open to filmmakers anywhere in the world. Applicants
must be 18 years of age or older. Student films and documentary short
films are not eligible.

Grants of at least $10,000 will be awarded.

The program will accept submissions beginning September 5, 2012, and close November 5, 2012.

Visit the TFI Web site for complete program guidelines and submission requirements.

Contact: Link to Complete RFP

The Moving Image Fund supports independent documentary filmmakers living in New
England and we’d really appreciate it if you could help us spread the word about
our grants to Rhode Island filmmakers; if there’s a space on your website that
lists funding resources we’d love to be included. Our selection criteria is:

- Quality of cinematic form and technique
- Originality of filmmaker’s voice, vision, and point of view
- Resonance and power of the film’s core idea or story
- Feasibility of production

The application deadline for our $5,000 Pre-production grants is June 8, 2012 at 5pm
(in-house deadline, not postmark). Pre-production funding can be used for research, travel, location scouting, script or storyboard development, experimentation with shooting picture and sound, distribution planning, fundraising, creating a trailer and schedule and budget development.

Guidelines and eligibility:
http://www.lef-foundation.org/NewEngland/MovingImageFundGrants/Guidelines/tabid/162/Default.aspx

How to Apply:
http://www.lefoundation.org/NewEngland/MovingImageFundGrants/HowtoApply/tabid/163/Default.aspx

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Invites Applications for Film Festival Grant Program

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Film Festival Grant program is accepting applications for festivals in
the United States occurring during the 2013 calendar year.

Only film festivals that have completed at least five festivals as of
December 31, 2011, are eligible to apply. Festivals may not receive
grants in consecutive years unless they are a recipient of a multiyear
grant. (Applications for multiyear grants are by invitation only.)
Screening programs, be they periodic screening series or end-of-term
student screening programs, are not eligible to apply. Festivals that do
not screen films in a theatrical setting are not eligible.

Grant requests must target one or more concrete elements within the
festival. Grants are not awarded to proposals that seek support for
programming centered on the screening of an individual new film;
competitions or awards programs; the screening of works produced
specifically for television or any other event or program that primarily
involves work produced for television; parties, hospitality suites,
luncheons, tribute dinners, or any other similar event within a
festival; the development, production, or completion of motion pictures;
programs that take place outside the film festival; capital expenses;
or general festival overhead.

While the grants are awarded for a variety of programs, film
festivals are encouraged to submit proposals that make festival events
more accessible to the general public, provide greater access to
minority and less visible filmmakers, and help strengthen the connection
between the filmmaker and the public.

Festivals with a cash budget of less than $100,000 can apply for a
grant of up to 10 percent of their cash budget or $2,500, whichever is
higher. Festivals with cash budgets from $100,000 to less than $200,000
can apply for a grant of up to $10,000. Festivals with cash budgets from
$200,000 to $600,000 can apply for a grant of up to $20,000. Festivals
with cash budgets greater than $600,000 can apply for a grant of up to
$30,000. Grants totaling $450,000 were awarded to thirty film festivals
in 2011.

Visit the academy Web site for complete program guidelines, the
application form, and a list of past film festival grant recipients.

Contact:

Link to Complete RFP

Princess Grace Foundation-USA Announces New Social Justice Documentary Film
Initiative with the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms Program

The Princess Grace
Foundation-USA has announced the Princess Grace JustFilms Documentary Awards
program, made possible by the Ford Foundation‘s JustFilms program.

Through the new documentary film award program, PGF-USA seeks to identify and
support voices that tell authentic and powerful stories from or about
underrepresented communities. These funds will be awarded to help support social
justice documentary thesis projects of students in undergraduate/graduate
programs and final projects of individuals participating in production programs
at media arts centers. In the inaugural year of the grant, an emphasis will be
placed on filmmakers and films that focus on South Asian and Southeast Asian
communities. Grants will be made in accordance with the applicants’ thesis/final
project budgets.

Nominations for film grants are to be submitted by deans/department chairs in
conjunction with the faculty of established colleges and universities in the
United States, or by directors of nonprofit media arts organizations with
structured film production programs that the foundation has invited to apply. (A
current list of accepted schools is available at the PGF-USA Web site.
Additional schools/media arts centers that would like to be considered may
contact the foundation for further information. )

In evaluating an application, primary consideration will be given to the
talent and potential of the filmmaker as demonstrated by the sample work
submitted with each application. The panel also will consider the quality,
originality, and mastery of the subject and approach of the proposed project, as
well as the potential impact the work will have on viewers, the community, and
the film’s subject(s).

For more information about the awards, nomination procedures, and a list of
currently accepted schools/media arts centers, visit the PGF-USA Web site.

Contact:
http://www.pgfusa.org/

Women, Social Justice, Documentary: A 2-Day Symposium at Smith College

March 31st – April 2nd, The Film Studies Program at Smith College invites you to a two-day symposium bringing together some of the major women practitioners of documentary whose aim is social justice.  This weekend of panel discussions, talks, and screenings
is free and open to the public.  http://www.smith.edu/filmstudies

Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund
Grants will be made to up to 5 projects that tell a
compelling story and focus on one of Pare Lorentz’s central concerns-the
appropriate use of the natural environment, justice for all or the illumination
of pressing social problems. Application Deadline: Monday, April 23d. http://www.documentary.org/parelorentz

The Women In Film Foundation’s Film Finishing Fund

Camden International Film Festival
Taking place from September 27th -30th, 2012; The
Camden International Film Festival is open to documentary films of all shapes,
sizes, styles and lengths. “We love a darn good story and are always looking
for new voices and boundary pushers.” Early Deadline: March 16th. Regular
Deadline: May 5th. http://camdenfilmfest.org/submit

Media That Matters Film Festival

MPC is thrilled to announce a brand new Seminar Series starting on March 24th! The 6 Seminars held throughout the year will focus on each stage of creating and producing for film, television, and advertising.

Rhode Islanders will salute their own – Best Actress nominee Viola Davis – at Oscar Night® America, the state’s only Oscar-night gala celebration officially sanctioned by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Sunday, February 26^th at the Vets in downtown Providence, to benefit Flickers: The Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF).

Attendees will be able sign a congratulatory card for Davis, participate in a video greeting and cheer her on.

Said Steven Feinberg, Honorary Chairman of Oscar Night® America, “I cordially invite you to be part of Rhode Island’s film family and attend the gala. I think you will have a great time as we celebrate the motion picture industry and root for our hometown treasure, Ms. Viola Davis, who is nominated as Best Actress for THE HELP. Come join us. Surprises await! It will be a fun evening. Even if you can’t make it for dinner, please show your support by coming down to watch the show with us. Tickets are only $10!”

“We could not be prouder of Viola,” said George T. Marshall, RIIFF Executive Director. “She has brought such enormous credit to her family, our state and those who mentored her throughout her career. Her success should be applauded and proclaimed. This could not have happened to a nicer human being and is so well deserved. We wish her only good fortune and will be on pins and needles during the evening.”

The cost for Providence Oscar Night® America is $125 for those participating in the Red Carpet Gala, which begins at 6:30 p.m. and includes a welcome reception, gourmet dinner, drinks, live music, raffle and screening of the Academy Awards. For those who are not attending the gala but wish to watch the Awards ceremony only on our large screen, tickets are $10, with doors opening at 8:00 p.m. All festivities will be held at The Vets (formerly The VMA Arts & Cultural Center), 1 Avenue of the Arts.

To purchase tickets:  http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2698690857

The Rhode Island Film & TV Office is a government agency and subsidiary of The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

Internship applications for both Summer and Fall 2012 are now available for
the Flickers Rhode Island International Film
Festival (RIIFF). The Festival is seeking motivated, industrious,
self-starting students who care about the community and want to be a part of New
England’s largest film festival and its only Academy Award
qualifier.

The Gucci Tribeca Fund provides finishing funds to feature-length documentaries which highlight and humanize issues of social importance from around the world. For films that are in production or post-production with the intended premiere exhibition in late 2012 or 2013. Deadline is March 6th, 2012. http://www.tribecafilminstitute.org/filmmakers/gucci_documentary/about

April 28 – 30, 2012, Hosted by American University’s Center for Social Media in Washington D.C.
This interactive three-day workshop is designed to develop the skills required to be a community and audience engagement coordinator for social issue documentaries and cross-platform media projects.
The Deadline to Apply is March 9th. http://workingfilms.org/reelchange

Offers  support to filmmakers through completion, premiere, marketing and  distribution of their first feature film.
Documentary Deadline: March  9th, Narrative Deadline: April 6th. http://www.ifp.org/programs/labs

New England’s largest film festival, RIIFF has been repeatedly cited by Moviemaker Magazine as one of
the “Top 25 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee,” and has earned the respect of
domestic and foreign industry, filmmakers, filmgoers and trend-watchers. True to
its reputation, RIIFF’s program is largely built from submissions, and not from
the programs of other festivals. New and seasoned filmmakers alike present their
work to audiences passionate about indie film at RIIFF annually. The Festival
also honors exceptional screenplays and teleplays in its Screenplay
Competition.

Five films that premiered at RIIFF have won Academy Awards, and another 16 have been nominated, while many have garnered distribution from companies like HBO, Cinemax, Sundance, Showtime
and IFC. Alum Karen Price (HOUSEQUAKE) emphatically states, “I wanted to reiterate what a nice experience we had screening at the RIIFF. The enthusiastic audience and attention by reporters, along with the award I received, made the trip and screening most gratifying. I have only the most positive reviews to share with others about our experience.” And to quote Chris Gore, RIIFF is “one
of the best international film festivals and top 10 short film festivals in the
United States. RIIFF provides the kind of intimate festival experience that will
change your life. Don’t miss it.”

Types of  Submission — Feature Narrative (40
min or longer), Documentary, Shorts (under 40 min), Animation, Experimental,
Music Videos, Public Service Announcements (PSA) and Rhode Island-made: Early Deadline: January 15, 2012. Deadline: May 15, 2012. Final Deadline: June 1, 2012.
Withoutabox.com Extended Deadline:
June 15, 2012.

For details and to download an application, visit http://www.film-festival.org/enterafilm2.php
or call 401.861.4445.

THE FLICKERS’ BACKSTORY & MISSION:

The mission of the Flickers, the Newport Film Society & Arts Collaborative – now in its 30th
year – has been to serve as a creative partner in the arts by uniting various media and arts disciplines that nurture the artistic process and support a vital part of our community. This includes multi-disciplinary art presentations; artistic and cultural activities; performance festivals; video
and television productions; audio recordings and broadcasts; educational
outreach programs; and the FLICKERS: Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF).

ABOUT THE RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL:
The FLICKERS: Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF), has secured its place in the global community as the portal for the best in international indepedent cinema, earning the respect of domestic and foreign filmmakers, filmgoers and trend watchers. This confluence of art and commerce brought together world-class celebrities, award-winning filmmakers, new talent and audience members in record numbers last year. Ranked as one of the top 12 Festivals in the United States, RIIFF is also a qualifying festival for the Short Film Academy Award through its affiliation with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. There are 65 film festivals worldwide which share this distinction and RIIFF is the only festival in New England. The Festival takes place every August. For more information about the festival, please visit www.rifilmfest.org.

LEF Foundation’s MOVING IMAGE FUND for Production and Post-Production support. All LOI’s need to be over the LEF transom by 5pm on Friday, January 27th. You can find the information you need about our guidelines, how to apply, FAQs, etc., on our website here: http://www.lef-foundation.org/NewEngland/MovingImageFundGrants/tabid/160/Default.aspx.