2022 Black Public Media Residency
Black Public Media / Johnny Carson Center
DEADLINE: July 7, 2022
INFO: Black Public Media (BPM) and the Johnny Carson Center are offering a residency for Black filmmakers, creative technologists, and artists who need access to emerging-tech equipment, studio time, or workspace. This is an in-person residency that will take place on the campus of University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the summer of 2022 or January 2023. There is no remote or online option. On-campus lodging will be provided.
Emerging technologies include, but are not limited to, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, robotics and 3D printing. Candidates may also choose to focus on older technologies, such as projection mapping, multichannel video, VFX, or 3D animation.
FAQ - EXPECTATIONS, KEY DATES & THE FINE PRINT:
The residency runs 1 to 3 weeks in summer 2022 or January 2023.
Project teams and individual filmmakers, artists and creative technologists will be accepted on a rolling basis between now and July 7, 2022. Apply as early as possible, to increase the likelihood of receiving your your first-choice residency window on campus.
Black Public Media seeks to develop the talent of producers of color. Thus we seek projects in which a person of African descent is in a key creative position. Key creative positions include writer, director, and producer roles.
Applicants must be at least age 22 when applying for this program.
Applicants based outside the United States are welcome to apply, although they would be expected to pay for their travel to the United States on their own. The residency will cover up to $500 in round-trip flights, per participant, from a U.S. airport to Nebraska.
Participants may receive on-campus housing during their residency, whether they are participating as individuals or as a part of a two-person team.
Participants must apply with a story- or content-driven project that they have in development. Narrative and documentary projects are both acceptable. Your project may be at any stage of development, from concept to post-production.
Up to 2 people from one project team may be accepted at the same time. The second team member does not need to be Black or of African descent. Team members are required to complete the residency at the same time, and both crew members would be designated Black Public Media & Carson Center Artists-in-Resident.
Each project will receive a $5K to $10K USD grant, which will be delivered in 2 payments. If a project has more than one team member applying for the residency, the team must specify in their application which applicant or company will receive the payment.
Each artist-in-resident is required to give a public lecture or teach a workshop during or immediately after their residency. The second and final residency payment is tied to the completion of this deliverable.
Participants of this joint residency program retain full ownership and IP of their projects.
Both the Johnny Carson Center and Black Public Media will receive executive producer credit on your production, project, or idea, as well as public credit whenever your project is screened, exhibited, presented, pitched or distributed.
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SONY PICTURES ANIMATION + THE BLACK LIST WRITERS PROGRAM
The Black List / Sony Pictures Animation
DEADLINE: July 8, 2022
INFO: The Black List is pleased to announce its very first partnership focused on better identifying and engaging with emerging diverse talent in animation along with Academy Award®-winning studio Sony Pictures Animation (the creative teams behind “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “The Mitchells vs. The Machines,” and the beloved “Hotel Transylvania” franchise). Submissions are now open for the Sony Pictures Animation x The Black List Writers Program!
One writer will be selected to work with Sony Pictures Animation for a six-month period as an in-house writer who will be responsible for crafting dialogue for custom animation pieces, diving into scripts on the development slate, pitching their own ideas, and much more. The selected writer will receive a minimum salary of $50,000, which will be covered under the jurisdiction of I.A.T.S.E..
Submissions will remain open via blcklst.com from April 6, 2022 to July 8, 2022. Eligible writers may submit their scripts any time during that period. For more information about requirements and eligibility, please read the FAQ.
blcklst.com/partnerships/opportunities/117
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FEMME FRONTERA FILMMAKER SHOWCASE
DEADLINES:
Regular: July 15, 2022
Late: August 5, 2022
INFO: The Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase is an annual film festival held in El Paso, Texas, which celebrates short films made by women and nonbinary filmmakers from around the world, most especially women of color from border communities. Created in 2016, the festival is run by a collective of six women filmmakers from the U.S.-Mexico border region. Femme Frontera has been featured in Variety Magazine, Texas Monthly magazine, and Remezcla. In 2018, the Showcase was listed as one of the top film festivals for female filmmakers.
The Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase, a 1.5 hour program, goes on tour each year and has screened at the following locations:
Echo Park Film Center Los Angeles, CA, Relativity School Los Angeles, CA, Southwestern University Georgetown, TX, Indie Grits Film Festival Columbia, SC, UWM Milwaukee, WI, 516 ARTS Albuquerque, NM, Cine Las Americas Austin, TX, San Diego, CA, Art Theater Champaign, IL and Cine Festival San Antonio, TX.
Though priority will be given to filmmakers who were born, live, and/or created their short films in El Paso, TX, Las Cruces, NM, Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico and their surrounding communities, FFFS welcomes short film submissions made by all women and non-binary filmmakers, most especially BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), Migrant, Mexican, Mexican-American, Transfronterizx, and/or LGBTQIA filmmakers from around the world.
RULES:
Open to shorts under 20 minutes in length.
Projects must be DIRECTED by WOMEN and NON-BINARY filmmakers ONLY. Any genre accepted. Priority will be given to stories told by immigrants, people of color, the LBGTQ community, and most especially films that take place along border regions around the world.
filmfreeway.com/FemmeFronteraFilmmakerShowcase
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Loghaven Artist Residency
DEADLINE: July 15, 2022
INFO: Loghaven Artist Residency’s mission is to serve artists by providing them with a transformative residency experience and continued post-residency support. The residency is located on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. Artists live in five historic log cabins that have been both rehabilitated and modernized to create an ideal setting for reflection and work, and they have access to new, purpose-built studio space. All Loghaven Fellows are awarded stipends to support the creation of new work during the residency.
ELIGIBILITY: Practicing artists of all backgrounds and at any stage of their career are eligible to apply for a Loghaven residency. International artists and artists currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program are not eligible. Artists must be at least twenty-one years old and live more than 120 miles away from Knoxville. This distance requirement is designed to ensure that artists are able to be fully immersed in their residency experience and can take advantage of the retreat-style environment. Please note that all eligibility requirements must be met at the time of application.
We invite applicants in the creation stage of their specified project or work cycle to apply in the following disciplines:
Writing (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, and journalism)
Visual Arts
Dance
Theater
Music Composition
Architecture
Interdisciplinary Work
DIVERSITY STATEMENT: Loghaven actively seeks to assemble diverse cohorts. Loghaven does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, religion, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, veteran status, medical conditions including HIV, or sensory, physical, or mental disability.
RESIDENCY SESSIONS:
February 6 – March 3, 2023 (4 weeks)
April 10 – May 5, 2023 (4 weeks)
May 22 – June 16, 2023 (4 weeks)
July 17 – 31, 2023 (2 weeks for teaching artists and faculty artists at the university level)
September 25 – November 3, 2023 (6 weeks)
January 8 – 22, 2024 (2 weeks, preference given to alumni/ae)
APPLICATION TIMELINE & QUALIFICATIONS:
Applications will be accepted starting Wednesday, June 1, 2022, until Friday, July 15, 2022, at midnight Eastern Time. Late applications will not be accepted. The application panel will meet in September, and applicants will be contacted by November 1, 2022.
A national selection committee composed of artist peers and other arts professionals selects artists. Applicants are judged by the same criteria across disciplines. Panelists are looking for artistic excellence, defined by a depth of conceptual content, sustained impact, and boldness of vision. The panel seeks those with sophisticated technical knowledge, whether the applicant displays a high level of traditional skill or, conversely, subverts that knowledge in new or challenging ways. The panel values potential in emerging artists and evidence of commitment and evolution in more established or mid-career applicants.
REFERENCES:
All applicants are required to submit two professional references. Please provide the name, contact information, and a very brief description of the nature of your professional relationship for each reference. Loghaven contacts references only if the application advances. References would be contacted in the fall by either email or phone and would not submit a formal letter.
WORK SAMPLES:
Determine which discipline best fits your work and follow the instructions below to upload the required work samples.
Name all of your submissions using the following naming structure: last name, first name # (Smith, Jane 1).
If the attached work sample is longer than the limits laid out for your discipline, please indicate the section of video or audio you would like the panel to review. If you do not indicate a section, the panelist will review from the start until the time limit is reached.
Note if any submitted work sample is more than four years old.
Provide all submissions in English or accompanied by a translation.
VISUAL ART - Submit eight JPEG images that best represent your work. They can be no more than three MB per image. Each image should contain only one artwork. Two additional optional submissions: Installation documentation (either images or video) or detail shots. If your work is based in video, please submit up to two or three works totaling no more than fifteen minutes of video. Video can be submitted in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link.
MUSIC COMPOSITION - Submit two or three audio samples of representative work. Each should be no more than 30MB each and should be in MP3 format or in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link. The work samples should total no more than fifteen minutes of video or audio. If available, please include a score submitted as a PDF.
DANCE - Submit two or three works totaling no more than fifteen minutes of video. Each work sample should be submitted in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link.
THEATER - Submit either two or three videos or PDFs. If you submit via video, they should total no more than fifteen minutes together in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link. If you submit via PDF, they should total no more than 250MB or two or three PDFs of scripts or librettos, totaling no more than twenty pages.
POETRY - Submit eight to ten short poems or excerpts of poems. The total should not exceed 15 pages and should be in PDF format.
FICTION, NONFICTION, & SCREENWRITING - Submit two to three work samples in the genre that you wish to work in during your residency. The total should not exceed 20 pages, be double-spaced, and be in PDF format.
ARCHITECTURE - Submit two to three examples of previous design-based architecture projects in the form of PDFs, video, or a combination of the two. The applicant may submit work samples including but not limited to models, drawings, and images of completed work. The applicant may submit multiple pages for each project, but the total number of pages submitted should not exceed ten and should be in PDF format. If submitting video, work samples can be in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link. The total length should not exceed ten minutes. The applicant should include a brief, 250-word description of each project with the other submitted materials. In this description, please include whether this project was ever constructed. Please review the FAQs before applying in the discipline of Architecture for additional application guidelines.
INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK - Submit three to five work samples. The work samples can be in one type of media or a mixture of media including images (jpegs should be no more than three MB each), PDFs, video (MP4/MOV should be no more than 250 MB), Vimeo link, YouTube link, or audio (MP3 should be no more 30MB each).
loghaven.org/residencies/apply/
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Documentary Development Initiative
The Gotham / HBO Documentary Films
DEADLINE: July 26, 2022
INFO: The Documentary Development Initiative is a new partnership between The Gotham and HBO Documentary Films. The program is created for storytellers who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and/or storytellers with disabilities. The program’s intent is to provide resources to develop thought-provoking, character-driven contemporary ideas for documentary films and limited series.
Through this initiative, up to 10 selected filmmakers will be given grants of $50,000 for research and creative development at an early stage. HBO and The Gotham will provide resources and mentorship to support the development of documentary projects. Initial funding may be used for creative development and ideation, research, treatment development, securing access, initial shooting and the production of work samples, trailers, etc.
A grant from the fund would usually be the “first money in” from an outside source, though in some cases it could be a supplement to another initial small grant. The opportunity will exist for select grantees to receive follow-up grants for additional development. Grantees will also be paired with an established documentary filmmaker who will serve as their mentor for the duration of the program.
Ideas generated through the initiative will be offered to HBO on a “first-look” basis, giving HBO the first opportunity to make an offer to develop them further. Funding for this grant is sponsored by: HBO Documentary Films, OneFifty, and WBD Access.
ELIGIBILITY:
Filmmakers must be 18 years of age or older.
Filmmakers must submit two films they’ve directed – either two short films OR one short film and one feature film. Filmmakers who have directed more than one feature film are not eligible.
Filmmakers must be allowed to work in the United States.
Applicants who advance in the application process may be asked for a letter of recommendation from a TV/film director, producer, writer, or professor.
Projects should not have funding in place from any broadcast or digital platforms or any other US distribution entity.
TIMELINE:
Program Begins: October 2022
Monthly Meetings: October 2022 – March 2023