Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund has four grants available: two for short films and two for feature-length films. Filmmakers whose films have been shown at Rooftop Films, a New York-base nonprofit, are eligible. The Rooftop Filmmakers' Fund Short Film Grant helps finance short film projects by giving recipients one dollar from every regularly priced ticket sold at Rooftop Films and every submission fee received for the Filmmakers’ Fund every grant cycle. The Rooftop Films/Chicken and Egg Short Film Grant for Women Filmmakers is open to amateur and professional filmmakers working in fiction or nonfiction films that address contemporary social issues.
The Rooftop Eastern Effects Equipment Grant awards 30 days' use of lighting and grip equipment for a feature-length film. The Rooftop Films and Edgeworx Post-production Grant offers one to two weeks of post-production services to a grantee making a feature-length film.
Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund
232 3rd St. Suite D-101
Brooklyn, NY 11215
718-417-7362
rooftopfilms.com
Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Sloan Producers Grant awards an independent film producer a $25,000 development grant and admission to the Film Independent's Producers Lab. Film Independent, a collective of filmmakers, film leaders and film lovers in the United States, also offers year-round support to a grantee's varying production needs for the project.
Applicants must be the project's producer and have rights to the script presented for the application. As the grant seeks to create and develop scripts and films about science and technology, the Sloan Grant requires the script to have a scientific, mathematical, or technological theme or story, or the leading character must be a scientist, engineer, mathematician or professional in a related field.
Sloan Producers Grant
630 Fifth Ave. Suite 2550
New York, NY, 10111
310-432-1275
sloan.org
The Sundance Documentary Fund is Sundance’s key documentary film program that provides seed money to films discussing human rights issues, freedom of expression, social injustice, civil liberties and other critical contemporary issues. It supports documentary film projects by filmmakers in the United States and elsewhere.
The fund considers projects in four categories: Development; Production and Post-Production; Engagement; and Impact. Development grants award funds to filmmakers in the early research or pre-production stage of their projects. The Production and Post-Production grants award funds to filmmakers in various stages of shooting and editing. Engagement grants are open to former Sundance Documentary Fund grantees. They fund innovative distribution and audience engagement strategies for documentary films. Impact grants are by invitation and support selected filmmakers' ongoing productions.
Sundance Documentary Fund
California Office, Sundance Institute
8530 Wilshire Blvd. 3rd Floor
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
310-360-1981
sundance.org
Utah Office, Sundance Institute
1825 Three Kings Dr.
Park City, UT 84060
435-658-3456
sundance.org