Funding Sources for Documentaries on Social Justice Issues
grants
We at Que Sera Sera Films want to do all we can to ensure important stories get covered. Towards that goal, we have built the following lists of grants available for environmental and social justice documentaries. Please let us know if you are aware of other sources not listed. We will work to update these periodically.
Funding for Docs on the Environment
Funding Sources for Documentaries about the Environment
Pare Lorenz
$15,000 – $25,000
Deadline June
Gucci Tribeca
$10,000 – $30,000.
Deadline: Spring
Herbert Bals
Fund producers from developing countries
€10,000.
Deadline: Rolling
Visions Sud ed
For producers in Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa
Deadline: February and July
Miller packan
up to $25,000
Deadline: Spring and Fall
Mountainfilm
Deadline: Summer
Puffin Foundation
Deadline: December
Redford Center
$20,000
Deadline: June
National Geographic
Environmental (Multiple Grants, topic funded may vary)
Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation
https://munsonfdn.org/guidelines.html
$10,000 to $50,000
$10,000 to $50,000
Deadline: 1st Friday in April or the 2nd Friday in September
SFFILM Vulcan Productions Environmental Fellowship
$25,000
Fledgling Fund
$15K-$25K
Deadline: August
Park Foundation
$2K-$50K
Deadline: 4 times a year
Funding for Docs on Social Justice Issues
ORGANIZATIONS THAT SPECIFICALLY FUND DOCUMENTARIES COVERING SOCIAL JUSTICE STORIES
Ford Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Wallace Global Fund
Deadline: See website
Surdna Foundation
Manuel rivera-ortiz foundation
$5000
Documentary photographers working on social justice
Princess Grace Foundation
$15K-$30K
For student projects
Park Foundation
$2K-$50K
Deadline: 4 times a year
Open Meadows Foundation
$2000
Deadline: Twice a year
Reva and David Logan Foundation
$10K-$100K
Deadline: Rolling
Jonathan Logan Family Foundation
Leeway Foundation
$2500
Deadline: Multiple times for various grants
Greenbaum Foundation
Doesn’t accept unsolicited proposals, but they do have an address 🙂
The yip Harberg Foundation
$500-$5000
Deadline: May be rolling
Filmmakers without borders
$250-$5000
Deadline: Three times a year
Doc Society
$5K to $20K
Multiple grants
A blade of grass
Fellowship program
$20,000
Deadline: October
AMERICA REFRAMED
Pare Lorenz
$15,000 – $25,000
Deadline June
Gucci Tribeca
$10,000 – $30,000
Deadline: Spring
Miller packan
up to $25,000
Deadline: Spring and Fall
Puffin Foundation
Deadline: December
SANAD Abu Dhabi Film Fund
Deadline: Rolling
ORGANIZATIONS THAT FUND DOCUMENTARIES IN REGIONS OF THE US THAT NEED COVERAGE ON SOCIAL JUSTICE
Mississippi Arts Commission
$5000
Deadline: March
Artists in Mississippi
South arts fund
$2000
For southern artists
Southern Documentary Fund
$5K-10K
For southern documentary filmmakers working on southern stories
ORGANIZATIONS THAT FUND SPECIFICALLY FILMMAKERS THAT ARE
MINORITIES OR GROUPS NOT COVERED HEAVILY IN THE MEDIA
Up to $150,000
Diversity Development Fund
https://itvs.org/funding/diversity-development-fund
Up to $25,000
Up to $25,000
Center for Asian American Media
$20,000 to $30,000
Latino Public Broadcasting
$20,000 for research and development and “New Media” and up to $100,000 for production and/or post-production.
AlterCine Foundation
Deadline: August
Filmmakers born and living in Africa, Asia or Latin America
Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
Deadline: Multiple grants, Multiple times of the year
$15K-$50K
Asian Cinema Fund
(note: you can get the website in English)
Funds Asian documentaries
Hot Docs: Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund
$10K to $40K (Canadian dollars)
Deadline: November
Funds African documentary filmmakers
Jack G. Shaheen Mass Communications Scholarship
For Arab-American students of media
$2500