WRITERS’ ACCESS SUPPORT STAFF TRAINING PROGRAM
The Writers Guild Foundation
DEADLINE: September 5, 2024 at 11:59pm PT
INFO: The program’s mission is to provide writers who are BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled writers, and writers over the age of 50, with tools and education to become a writers’ assistant and script coordinator, ultimately resulting in meaningful employment opportunities. These positions have historically been an invaluable way to learn the writing process first-hand, with the ultimate goal of getting a writing job.
This program is NOT a writing fellowship. Its purpose is to provide support staff training for emerging writers who are typically excluded from writers’ rooms.
You must be interested in pursuing employment as a Writers' Assistant or Script Coordinator to be considered.
ELIGIBILITY:
This program is designed to support the inclusion and employment of underrepresented groups in the television industry. Writers who are BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled writers, and writers over the age of 50 are encouraged to apply.
To qualify for this program, applicants must be:
At least 18 years of age.
Eligible to work in the U.S.
Able to demonstrate meaningful ongoing efforts to break in as a TV writer.
Interested in pursuing employment in a support staff role.
Able to participate in all program meetings and fulfill all program requirements.
Open to constructive criticism and respectful to all other participants and mentors.
WGF will not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, religion, gender, gender expression, age, marital status, disability, or national origin. Participants who violate this rule will be immediately removed from consideration for the program at the discretion of WGF staff.
Please note: this program is designed for emerging writers who have not previously worked as a writers’ assistant or script coordinator. Applicants who have support staff experience are not eligible to apply.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
If you intend to apply, please be ready to share the following information:
A summary of your writing experience or education
Your preferred genres and creative influences
Essay question responses (prompts will not be disclosed in advance)
A brief personal statement (500 words or less)
Your professional resume
FAQs:
Do I need to have professional writing experience to apply?
No, professional writing experience is not required.
However, we do expect that all applicants are well-versed in the fundamentals of writing for the screen prior to their participation in the program. As previously stated, this program is not a writing fellowship. It is a professional training program that focuses specifically on support staff roles.
What should I consider while selecting my top three genre preferences?
Your choice of genre will influence your area of focus through the program and subsequent hiring outreach upon graduation. If you share equal interest in multiple genres, please make a note of this on your application.
What should I include in my personal statement?
Your personal statement should describe who you are, your interest in writing for the screen, and what you hope to gain from this program. We encourage you to describe how your identity, experiences, culture, or background informs your writing.
Statements are limited to a maximum of 500 words.
How important is my personal statement in the admissions process?
The personal statement is a key component of the admissions process. This is your opportunity to convey who you are as a writer and what makes you unique.
Why have you chosen this path? What challenges have you overcome to get here? Who inspired you? Consider these prompts as you start writing.
Authenticity is strongly encouraged.
Do I need to submit a screenwriting resume?
No, you may submit a standard resume for this program. Previous professional writing experience is not required.
wgfoundation.org/programs/writers-access-support-staff-training-program/apply
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call for submissions: Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Institute
DEADLINES / FEE:
Official - September 6, 2024 / $95
Late - September 23, 2024 / $120
INFO: Submissions to the 2025 Sundance Film Festival are now open. Each year, we select a slate of feature films, short films, episodic projects, and New Frontier exhibition and performance projects to play within each of our Festival programs. Before you begin your submission, please read carefully the eligibility requirements for each category below and select the one that best suits your project:
U.S. Narrative Feature Films
Any narrative or non-scripted work of fiction originating from within the United States with a running time of 50 minutes or more. In order to qualify as a U.S. Narrative Feature Film, the submitted project must be either scripted or improvisational fiction, or a fictionalization of actual events, and at least half of the project’s financing must originate from within the United States. Only films retaining world premiere status are eligible for open submission to this category. Completed films that have been or will have been exhibited theatrically or otherwise made available to the general public, either for free or for purchase, prior to February 3, 2025 are not eligible to submit to this category. This includes, but is not limited to, public theatrical exhibition (festival or otherwise), television broadcast, home video, or any digital or online platform.
U.S. Documentary Feature Films
Any nonfiction film originating from within the United States with a running time of 50 minutes or more. If your documentary contains re-enactments or other fictionalized depictions of actual events, you may submit it to this category, but we will ultimately decide which of our Festival programs is best suited for your project, if accepted. In order to qualify as a U.S. Documentary Feature Film, at least half of the submitted project’s financing must originate from within the United States. Only films retaining world premiere status are eligible for open submission to this category. Completed films that have been or will have been exhibited theatrically or otherwise made available to the general public, either for free or for purchase, prior to February 3, 2025 are not eligible to submit to this category. This includes, but is not limited to, public theatrical exhibition (festival or otherwise), television broadcast, home video, or any digital or online platform.
International Narrative Feature Films
Any narrative or non-scripted work of fiction originating from outside of the United States with a running time of 50 minutes or more. In order to qualify as an International Narrative Feature Film, the submitted project must be either scripted or improvisational fiction, or a fictionalization of actual events, and at least half of the project’s financing must originate from outside of the United States. Only films retaining international premiere status are eligible for open submission to this category. Completed films that have been or will have been exhibited theatrically (festival or otherwise) outside of the film’s country or countries of origin prior to February 3, 2025 are not eligible for open submission to this category. Films that have been or will have been made available to the general public in a non-theatrical form, either for free or for purchase, prior to February 3, 2025 are not eligible to submit to this category. This includes, but is not limited to, television broadcast, home video, or any digital or online platform in any country or countries.
International Documentary Feature Films
Any nonfiction film originating from outside of the United States with a running time of 50 minutes or more. If your documentary contains re-enactments or other fictionalized depictions of actual events, you may submit it to this category, but we will ultimately decide which of our Festival programs is best suited for your project, if accepted. In order to qualify as an International Documentary Feature Film, at least half of the submitted project’s financing must originate from outside of the United States. Only films retaining international premiere status are eligible for open submission to this category. Completed films that have been or will have been exhibited theatrically (festival or otherwise) outside of the film’s country or countries of origin prior to February 3, 2025 are not eligible for open submission to this category. Films that have been or will have been made available to the general public in a non-theatrical form, either for free or for purchase, prior to February 3, 2025 are not eligible to submit to this category. This includes, but is not limited to, television broadcast, home video, or any digital or online platform in any country or countries.
U.S. Short Films
Any film or video project originating from within the United States with a running time of less than 50 minutes, including credits. This includes scripted or improvisational fiction, nonfiction or documentary, experimental film or video, animation, music video, or any other short-form film or video project. In order to qualify as a U.S. Short Film, at least half of the submitted project’s financing must originate from within the United States. Short films have no premiere requirements or prior screening restrictions that impact Festival eligibility and may have been screened at any number of festivals or other public theatrical exhibitions, broadcast or streamed on television or the Internet, and/or released via any home video or other public distribution platform anywhere in the world.
International Short Films
Any film or video project originating from outside of the United States with a running time of less than 50 minutes, including credits. This includes scripted or improvisational fiction, nonfiction or documentary, experimental film or video, animation, music video, or any other short-form film or video project. In order to qualify as an International Short Film, at least half of the submitted project’s financing must originate from outside of the United States. Short films have no premiere requirements or prior screening restrictions that impact Festival eligibility and may have been screened at any number of festivals or other public theatrical exhibitions, broadcast or streamed on television or the Internet, and/or released via any home video or other public distribution platform anywhere in the world.
sundance.org/festivals/sundance-film-festival/submit/
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2025 Screenwriting Lab
Film Independent
DEADLINE: September 9, 2024
INFO: The 2025 Screenwriting Lab is a full-time, two-week program that will take place in April of 2025. The program is designed to provide individualized story and career development for emerging screenwriters with a fiction feature screenplay.
Please complete and submit the following electronic application form. You will be able to save your application and add documents or information until the application deadline.
Once you click "submit," the application will be considered final and no additional information will be accepted. If you do not click "submit," the application will not be considered.
At the end of the submission form, you will be asked for your payment information.
PLEASE BE ADVISED: the application may time out if you keep it open for a long time. It is recommended that you keep a backup of your answers in a separate document. Save early and often. You can verify that your application has saved by logging out and logging back in.
Applicants will be notified 3-4 weeks before the start of the program. If you don't receive a notification, please check your spam folder.
ACCESSIBILITY: Film Independent is committed to hosting events that are accessible. For inquiries regarding accessibility, or to request an accommodation, please contact us at accessibility@filmindependent.org or 323 556 9305.
PROGRAM QUESTIONS? Please contact the Artist Development team at artistdevelopment@filmindependent.org.
filmindependent1.submittable.com/submit/299409/film-independent-screenwriting-lab-2025
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MACDOWELL FELLOWSHIP
MacDowell
DEADLINE: September 10, 2024
INFO: About 300 artists in seven disciplines are awarded Fellowships each year and the sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence. There are no residency fees, and need-based stipends and travel reimbursement grants are available to open the residency to the broadest possible community of artists.
MacDowell encourages applications from artists of all backgrounds and all countries in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts. Any applicant whose proposed project does not fall clearly within one of these artistic disciplines should contact the admissions department for guidance. We aim to be inclusive, not exclusive in our admissions process.
macdowell.org/apply/apply-for-fellowship
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PRINCETON ARTS FELLOWSHIPS
Lewis Center for the Arts
DEADLINE: September 10, 2024 at 11:59pm ET
INFO: Princeton Arts Fellowships, funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, David E. Kelley Society of Fellows in the Arts, and the Maurice R. Greenberg Scholarship Fund, will be awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching. Applicants should be early career visual artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors and performance artists—this list is not meant to be exhaustive—who would find it beneficial to spend two years teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community.
Princeton Arts Fellows spend two consecutive academic years (September 1-July 1) at Princeton University and formal teaching is expected. The normal work assignment will be to teach one course each semester subject to approval by the Dean of the Faculty, but fellows may be asked to take on an artistic assignment in lieu of a class, such as directing a play or creating a dance with students. Although the teaching load is light, our expectation is that Fellows will be full and active members of our community, committed to frequent and engaged interactions with students during the academic year.
A $92,000 a year stipend is provided. Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree. One need not be a U.S. citizen to apply. Holders of Ph.D. degrees from Princeton are not eligible to apply.
Past recipients of the Hodder Fellowship and individuals who have had a sustained and continuous relationship with Princeton University are not eligible to apply. Those who have had an occasional and sporadic relationship with Princeton may apply.
To apply, please submit a curriculum vitae, contact information for three references (should the search committee choose to contact references, please do not request letters or have letters sent in advance of a request from the search committee), and work samples (i.e., a writing sample, images of your work, video links to performances, etc.). Please also submit a 750-word proposal that includes how you would hope to use the two years of the fellowship to develop your work, how you would contribute to Princeton’s arts community through teaching and/or production, and how you have encouraged diversity and inclusion and furthered accessibility in your artistic practice, teaching, and/or research.
Applicants can only apply for the Princeton Arts Fellowship twice in a lifetime.
arts.princeton.edu/fellowships/princeton-arts-fellowship/
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2024 AFS GRANT FOR SHORT FILM
Austin Film Society
DEADLINE: September 12, 2024 at 6pm CT
INFO: The AFS Grant awards funds annually to film and video artists in the state of Texas. Grants are provided to artists whose work shows promise, skill, and creativity. AFS is committed to fostering diverse and underrepresented voices in independent film with the intention of focusing on communities of color through an intersectional lens.
Since its inception in 1996, the AFS Grant has awarded more than $2.6 million in cash grants and more than $340,000 in-kind goods and services to 500+ Texas filmmakers to date, creating life-changing opportunities for artists traditionally underrepresented in the film industry and working outside large industry centers. In addition to grants for development, production, and post-production, we provide cash stipends to Texas filmmakers traveling to prestigious film festivals through its AFS Travel Grant program.
Note: Each filmmaker can only apply for funding with one project.
austinfilm.org/afs-grants/afs-grants-overview/
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Silver Lake Shorts Fellowship (For la-based artists)
Silver Lake Shorts
DEADLINE: September 15, 2024 by midnight PST
INFO: The Silver Lake Shorts Fellowship is designed to support Los Angeles-based artists making bold, distinct, and personal work. Our intention with this fellowship is to provide filmmakers with the financial resources to fund short films (animated or live action) that they otherwise would not be able to make.
Though the Silver Lake Shorts Fellowship will be highlighted within the film, the work created will be entirely owned by the creator. We will screen it, help get it seen by our industry partners and contacts, and assist with the submission process to other festivals.
Part of the fellowship will also include connecting the recipients with a mentor who will help guide them through the filmmaking process from pre-production to post-production. Each filmmaker will receive $5,000 per film. The $5,000 must go towards the full completion of the work with the Silver Lake Shorts Fellowship serving as the sole financing of the work. The film must be no shorter than one minute in length and no longer than five minutes in length. All films must be completed within a year from the date of receiving the grant money.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
Please take a moment to review the criteria and eligibility requirements for the Silver Lake Shorts Fellowship.
Filmmaker must be living and legally able to work in the United States.
Filmmaker must be a resident of California (preferably the Los Angeles area).
Proposed project must be for an independent animated or live action short film.
Proposed projects must be able to be completed within 1 year.
Filmmaker may not be enrolled in an academic institution.
Filmmaker must have at least one completed film to show.
Filmmaker must be at least 18 years of age.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Phase 1:
Fill out the following form with all of your personal info.
Include attachments to your previous work, budget breakdown, script/storyboard, and impact statements.
Phase 2:
Interview Process - You will be interviewed by Jared Corwin, Kat Ball, and Benjamin Sharpe of Silver Lake Shorts. The interview serves as a way of building effective communication, trust, and collaboration between the fellowship recipient and Silver Lake Shorts.
FAQs:
1. Can I pay myself for my work?
Yes, if there is room in your budget to pay yourself (or others) that is perfectly acceptable. Your time and labor is integral to your production.
2. How long should the film be?
We ask for a minimum of a 1 minute film and a maximum of a 5 minute film.
3. Do you accept applications for a short with mature themes or graphic content?
We are happy to assess applications for all kind of shorts!
4. Do you accept applications for for kids/family-friendly shorts?
We are happy to assess applications for all kind of shorts!
5. Will you accept proposals for music videos?
We would prefer narrative shorts, however we are open to narrative music videos.
silverlakeshorts.com/filmmaker-fellowships
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VCCA RESIDENCY
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
DEADLINE: September 15, 2024
APPLICATION FEE: $30
INFO: Residencies can be transformative to an artist’s process and the effect on an artist’s career profound. A residency at VCCA gives artists the time and space to explore and go deeper into their work. Away from the constraints of “the real world” and in an accepting environment of talented peers, one can dream and create with the feeling that anything is possible.
VCCA’s Mt. San Angelo location in Amherst, Virginia, typically hosts 360 artists each year in residencies of varying lengths (no minimum; up to six weeks) with flexible scheduling. A residency at Mt. San Angelo includes a private bedroom with private en-suite bath, a private individual studio, three prepared meals a day, and access to a community of more than 20 other artists in residence.
Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, VCCA is surrounded by natural wonders and hiking trails. Many local sites and additional inspiration can be found in short drives to Lynchburg (20 minutes), Charlottesville (1 hour), Roanoke (1.5 hours), or Richmond (2 hours).
SELECTION PROCESS: VCCA Fellows are selected by peer review on the basis of professional achievement or promise of achievement in their respective fields. Separate review panels are created for each category (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, playwriting/screenwriting, children’s literature, performance, film/video, book arts, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, installation art, music composition, etc.). Panelists undergo periodic review and rotate regularly to ensure VCCA admission decisions are guided by high caliber artists who represent a diversity of styles and tastes.
All VCCA residency and fellowship applications are accepted online via SlideRoom. The standard application fee is $30. If the application fee presents a significant barrier to application, artists should reach out to Artists Services at vcca@vcca.com to request an application fee waiver at least five days before the deadline.
FELLOWSHIPS / FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE: A variety of fully-funded fellowship opportunities are available at each application deadline. In addition, significant financial assistance is available throughout the year.
vcca.com/apply/residencies-at-vcca/
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2025 Guggenheim Fellowships
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
DEADLINE: September 17, 2024 by 11:59pm ET
INFO: Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for mid-career individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors.
Fellowships are awarded through an annual competition open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada. Candidates must apply to the Guggenheim Foundation in order to be considered.
The Foundation receives approximately 3,000 applications each year. No one who applies is guaranteed success in the competition and there is no prescreening; all applications are reviewed. Approximately 175 Fellowships are awarded each year.
During the rigorous selection process, applicants will first be pooled with others working in the same field, and examined by experts in that field. The work of artists will be reviewed by artists, that of scientists by scientists, that of historians by historians, and so on. The Foundation has a network of several hundred advisers, who either meet at the Foundation offices to look at applicants’ work, or receive application materials to read offsite. These advisers, all of whom are Guggenheim Fellows from previous years, then submit reports critiquing and ranking the applications in their respective fields. Their recommendations are then forwarded to and weighed by a Committee of Selection, which then determines the number of awards to be made in each area. Occasionally, no application in a given area is considered strong enough to merit a Fellowship.
We guarantee our advisers and Committee of Selection members, as well as those who submit letters of reference, absolute confidentiality. Therefore, under no circumstances will the reasons for the rejection of an application be provided.
The Committee of Selection then forwards its recommendations to the Board of Trustees for final approval. The successful candidates in the United States and Canada competition are announced in early April.
FAQs:
What are Guggenheim Fellowships?
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants awarded to around 175 selected individuals every year. The purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is to provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible. As such, grants are made freely, without any special conditions attached to them; Fellows may spend their grant funds in any manner they deem necessary to their work. The United States Internal Revenue Service, however, does require the Foundation to ask for reports from its Fellows at the end of their Fellowship terms.
How does the Foundation define “advanced professional”?
The Foundation understands advanced professionals to be those who as writers, scholars, or scientists have a significant record of publication, or as artists, playwrights, filmmakers, photographers, composers, or the like, have a significant record of exhibition or performance of their work.
How does the Foundation define “performing arts”?
The Foundation understands the performing arts to be those in which an individual interprets work created by others. Accordingly, the Foundation will provide Fellowships to composers but not conductors, singers, or instrumentalists; choreographers but not dancers; filmmakers, playwrights, and performance artists who create their own work but not actors or theater directors.
What is the amount of a grant?
The amounts of grants vary, and the Foundation does not guarantee it will fully fund any project. Working with a fixed annual budget, the Foundation strives to allocate its funds as equitably as possible, taking into consideration the Fellows’ other resources and the purpose and scope of their plans. Members of the teaching profession receiving sabbatical leave on full or part salary are eligible for appointment, as are those holding other fellowships and appointments at research centers.
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Call For Artists; The Voodoo (Album) Experience
Black Girl Saturday School
DEADLINE: September 21, 2024
INFO: The Voodoo (Album) Experience is an immersive experience that honors D’Angelo’s second album, the era that gave birth to the album, and the sensual and transformative power of music. Spread across (1-3) venues, it features visual art installations, community conversations and reflections, a dinner party, panel discussions, film screening, and jam session, where attendees can participate in the collective act(s) of remembering, celebrating, reliving, and re-imagining D’Angelo’s Voodoo album, 25 years later.
Inspired by the 13 tracks on the Voodoo album, we invite your proposals for the artistic interpretation of a single song or the entire album to be exhibited at The Voodoo (Album) Experience in January 2025! Artists of all genders are encouraged to apply.
CRITERIA: As you listen to the album and craft your vision, please consider how your work will honor the album, the era that gave birth to the album, and/or the sensual and transformative power of D'Angelo's music.
TIMELINE:
Announcement: October 2024
Opening Ceremony: January 24th - 25th - 26th, 2025
LOCATION: Baltimore, MD
VENUE: TBA
SELECTION PROCESS:
Jury Panel: Comprising experienced artists and curators.
Criteria: Originality, thematic relevance, and technical skill.
Interested artists should submit an application as soon as possible, up to September 21, 2024.
ABOUT BLACK GIRL SATURDAY SCHOOL®:
Founded in 2020 as the place where the study of Black girls’ and women’s lives is valued, appreciated, cultivated, immersive, healing, restorative, grounding, available, continual, fun, and more. We host Jam Sessions, Studies, and Workshops using art and our lives as the study guide. Black Girl Saturday School® is a space for Black Women:
to safely and with care, journey back to their Black Girlhood with the expectation of finding brilliance
to freely explore and reflect on our sensual lives through language, history, art, music and culture
to cultivate a personal wisdom that we can activate in our day-to-day lives
If you have any questions, please email: principal@blackgirlsaturdayschool.com
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STARZ #TakeTheLead Writers' Intensive
NALIP / NFMLA / STARZ
DEADLINE: September 25, 2024 at 3:59pm PT
APPLICATION FEE: $0
INFO: NALIP and NFMLA are excited to once again partner with STARZ to launch the STARZ #TakeTheLead Writers' Intensive. This program offers a unique platform for emerging writers to develop their skills and refine their spec scripts with the help of esteemed mentors, executives, and established writers.
For the 2024 edition, 4 talented writers will be selected for both phase 1 and phase 2 of the program. During phase 1 of the program, writers will have the invaluable opportunity to hear from 15 seasoned industry professionals with an array of backgrounds in the television ecosystem while developing a spec episode treatment. In phase 2 of the program, writers will be paired with mentors as they work to draft a full spec episode script of a current STARZ series.
TIMELINE: Participants announcement October 9th, 2024
2024 PROGRAM DATES:
Selected participants must be available for the duration of the following dates:
Phase 1: October 14th, 2024 to October 18th, 2024
Phase 2:October 21st, 2024 to November 4th, 2024
BENEFITS:
A $5,000 USD grant will be awarded to writers selected for the program
An opportunity to connect with industry professionals and creatives.
Obtain feedback on your spec episode script from top executives
writers.coverfly.com/competitions/view/starz-writers-intensive
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2025 Impact Kickstart
Working Films
DEADLINE: September 26, 2024 at 11:59 am ET
INFO: Thank you for your interest in Impact Kickstart, a program that has helped underrepresented filmmakers create strategic goals for impact and specific plans to engage future partners, funders, and audiences in meaningful ways. Impact Kickstart will work with two filmmakers to receive in-kind support from Working Films for the planning, facilitation and a report out from a day-long strategy summit with potential partners and key collaborators. This summit will leave filmmakers well positioned to carry out an impact campaign with a clear strategy, goals, partners and a report that can be used for engaging supporters. Impact Kickstart recipients will also receive impact campaign funding of $60,000 and be provided with 1:1 mentorship support.
We are accepting applications from underrepresented filmmakers with feature length documentaries in post-production or recently completed (within the last two years) that hold great promise to catalyze action to address important and current social issues.
For full information on eligibility and program details please visit:
To be considered for Impact Kickstart 2024/2025, please complete the application below. The deadline is Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 11:59 am ET.You’ll need to create an account/login so that you can work on your application and have your information saved. Before you get started you can find a preview of the application questions in this PDF. Please also check out this document of frequently asked questions.
If you have any questions, feel free to email us at gleonard@workingfilms.org.
workingfilms.submittable.com/submit
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BIPOC Women Filmmaker Grant
BendFilm
DEADLINE: September 27, 2024
INFO: BendFilm’s Black, Indigenous, Person of Color (BIPOC) Women Filmmaking Grant will support a woman BIPOC artist with $10,000 toward making their short or feature film. The grant supports storytellers who are working to tell creative and complex stories told from a point of view that is unique and authentic.
GRANT APPLICATION PROCESS:
BendFilm to notify finalists by late November
Live pitch to a panel of judges before the end of 2024. (exact pitch date TBD)
bendfilm.org/education/bendfilm-production-grant/
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BPM Open Call – Production Funding
Black Public Media
DEADLINE: September 30, 2024
INFO: As proven by films that BPM has supported over the years, stories have a unique ability to amplify voices, foster cultural transformation and promote societal shifts. We look to our community of talented media makers to produce compelling, nuanced stories that add the point of view, experiences, and concerns of the Black community to the larger public discourse. In this year's Open Call, we are accepting nonfiction projects only. However, all subject areas are accepted.
Open Call Funding Awards –
Production funding will be awarded to:
Up to five (5) nonfiction projects will receive a $5,000 stipend as well as an invitation to attend a talent development fellowship that prepares you for the opportunity to pitch for additional funding at PitchBLACK in April 2025. At PitchBLACK, one (1) nonfiction project will receive up to $150,000 in production funding.
Awards will be announced in December 2024.
For More Information–
Please go HERE to review the eligibility requirements, application details and FAQs.
BPM is committed to making our programs accessible. Our application which follows the IDA's Common Application is an online form that requires written responses. If alternative means of applying are needed please email funding@blackpublicmedia.org or call (212) 234-8223 x1002 no later than September 15, 2024.