Films — Perspective Fund Apply to the Envision Impact Lab. Click here to learn more.

🎬 Looking for a lab that helps your doc do more than just play to an audience?
The Envision Impact Lab by Perspective Fund is now accepting applications. Deadline: September 21, 2025.
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#FundingMonday #DocumentaryFunding #ImpactLab

Firelight Fund | Programs | Firelight Media As Firelight Media celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2025, we launch the Firelight Fund to meet this urgent moment. The Fund supports Black, Brown, and Indigenous stories from development through…

🌟 #FundingMonday spotlight: The Firelight Fund is open till Sept 18, offering up to $50K in grants for docs by Black, Brown & Indigenous filmmakers in the U.S. & territories. Social-justice storytelling - this is your moment?
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#Docs #Grants #filmfund

Initiatives About Us

#FundingMonday
The Catapult Film Fund is closing soon for applications! Submit for the Development Grant or new Project Accelerator by Sep 8, 2025 (5 PM PT).
Details & apply: buff.ly/cOHo5Ph

#DocumentaryFilm #FilmFunding

2025 AFS Grant for Feature Films Is Now Accepting Applications The 2025 AFS Grant for Feature Films is now open for submissions and will close on May 21, 2025, at 5:59 PM CT. Since its inception in 1996, the AFS Grant has awarded more than $2.8 million in cash…

#FundingMonday 🎬
Texas-based filmmakers, take note!
The 2025 AFS Grant for Short Films is now open. Grants support shorts in any style or genre, with a focus on uplifting diverse Texas voices.

📅 Deadline: Sept 4, 2025 (6 PM CT)
👉

Willkommen im NEST | MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Unsere neue Entwicklungsförderung

🎥 #FundingMonday
The MOIN NEST development programme from Germany’s MOIN Filmförderung offers:
• NEST Space: €7,500 base + up to €50K for docs
• NEST Classic: €7,500 base grant
Deadline: Aug 25, 2025.
One application - pick your track! Apply here 👉 buff.ly/Xvk29jC
#docfunding #filmmakers

Filmmaking Grants – Southern Documentary Fund Applicants must meet the following criteria to be eligible for our grant:

🎬 #FundingMonday
The Southern Documentary Fund is offering $15K grants to 7 projects with strong Southern roots.
Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
More info 👉 buff.ly/MLYlSgd
#IndieFilm #DocFunding #SouthernDocs

Fondation AlterCiné

🌍 Young documentary filmmakers from the Global South - this one's for you.

🎬The Alter-Ciné Foundation has a $10k CAD grant to support filmmakers born and living in Africa, Asia or Latin America.

🗓️ Deadline: August 15, 2025
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#FundingMonday

AXS Film Fund – How to Apply how to Apply Application Process Letters of Inquiry are not required. Applicants should submit an application through our portal. Starting June 2, 2025, our online portal for submission opens.…

🎬 #FundingMonday
The AXS Film Fund offers $10K grants to support nonfiction creators living with disabilities or chronic illness - or working with someone who is.

⏰ Deadline: July 31
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#AXSFilmFund #DocumentaryFunding #InclusiveStorytelling

Sandbox Films - sundance.org The Sandbox Fund offers grants, engagement events, and other opportunities for independent artists seeking to explore the intrinsic link between science and culture through innovative storytelling.…

🎬🔬 Got a compelling doc idea at the crossroads of science & culture? @Sundance.org Sandbox Fund offers grants up to $100K + mentorship!

⏰ Apply by July 21: buff.ly/q4FLq4N #FundingMonday

#FundingMonday 🎥 Documentary creators: Applications are open till July 16, 2025 for Mountainfilm’s Commitment Grants ($1K–$5K). Project must be in prod or post.

Apply now!
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Tag a fellow filmmaker 🎬

#FundingMonday 💰
The SFFILM Documentary Film Fund offers $10K–$15K to feature doc filmmakers in post-production.
🎥 Got a bold, cinematic doc?
🗓 Final deadline: July 7
Apply here → buff.ly/1purUku
#DocumentaryFunding #IndieFilm

| 2025 Barbara Hammer Grant — QUEER | ART | Barbara Hammer Grant

🎬 #FundingMonday
Calling all lesbian filmmakers! The Barbara Hammer Grant offers $5,000 to support bold, experimental moving-image work - docs, hybrids, animation & more.
🗓 Deadline: July 2
📍 U.S.-based applicants
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#QueerArt #LesbianFilmmakers #DocFunding #ExperimentalFilm

Documentary & Film Fiscal Sponsorship Program For Filmmakers - The film fiscal sponsorship program helps filmmakers raise money by giving donors a tax deduction for their donations. It is uniquely designed to help independent filmmakers get their films funded.

🎬 #FundingMonday
The Roy W. Dean Grant supports films that are “unique and make a contribution to society".
🎯 Human rights, social justice, and unique POVs welcome
🗓 Summer deadline: June 30
💰 Includes cash + in-kind services
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#IndieFilm #DocFunding #SocialImpact

2025 PUBLIC MEDIA CONTENT FUND GUIDELINES | LATINO PUBLIC BROADCASTING ⇦ BACK to PUBLIC MEDIA CONTENT FUND

#FundingMonday: The Latino Public Media Content Fund is open!
Grants from $10K – $100K (R&D, production, post‑production) for Latino-focused documentary storytelling by US filmmakers
Deadline is June 26, 2025.
🎥 Step up and share Latino perspectives on public media platforms!

BIPOC Filmmaker Grant Fund — Filmed By Bike 2025 Festival Schedule

🛞 #FundingMonday
Docs that celebrate life on two wheels?
The Filmed by Bike grant gives $1,500 to BIPOC filmmakers spotlighting bike culture.
Deadline: June 13.
Details → buff.ly/yHjrZLP
Perfect for works-in-progress or wild ideas.
#DocFunding #BikeDocs #filmedbybike

IDFA Professionals | Funding The IDFA Bertha Fund offers financial support to visionary documentary projects from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Oceania. Learn more about the different grants and…

🎬 #FundingMonday
Got a powerful doc idea from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, or Eastern Europe?

The @IDFABerthaFund Classic supports filmmakers in these regions with up to €25,000 in development & production support.

Deadline: June 10
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#DocumentaryGrants

MOFFOM Grant - Denver Film Music on Film-Film on Music Grant provides up to $20,000 annually to documentary productions for music licensing, scoring, and composition.

🎶 #FundingMonday

Documentary filmmakers: The MOFFOM Grant provides up to $20,000 for music-related post-production costs in feature-length docs. Music-centric projects get priority. Submit your Letter of Intent by June 2, 2025.

Details:

Building Bridges Documentary Fund Building Bridges Documentary Fund Films 2024-25 Our Building Bridges Application is now open through Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM PDT! Please visit our Submittable page to submit your…

🎥 #FundingMonday Spotlight
Creating a documentary about Muslim life in the U.S.? @caamedia.bsky.social ’s Building Bridges Fund supports your vision with grants between $10K–$100K.
Deadline: May 18 → buff.ly/Qa0Xogt
Discover more funds at Doc Funding Hub → buff.ly/MiNVgwe
#DocFundingHub #Docs

Doc Funding Hub Membership Doc Funding Hub Membership provides members-only access to webinars, course materials and email alerts to support you on the essentials for your documentary film fundraising journey

🎬 #FundingMonday
The Miller/Packan Film Fund backs docs that inspire change.
Summer awards deadline: May 15 → buff.ly/aIuBLrQ

Want more grants like this?
Check the Doc Funding Hub → buff.ly/MiNVgwe

#DocFundingHub #IndieFilm #Filmmakers

Documentary Film Grants — The Berkeley FILM Foundation The 2025 Documentary Grant application is now open! Apply now.

🎥 #FundingMonday:
The Berkeley Film Foundation Grant Cycle is CLOSING SOON!
East Bay filmmakers — apply by May 5 for a chance at funding 🎬
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Want more opps? Join our new Doc Funding Hub! 🚀 buff.ly/MiNVgwe
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Doc Funding Hub Membership Doc Funding Hub Membership provides members-only access to webinars, course materials and email alerts to support you on the essentials for your documentary film fundraising journey

Welcome to another wonderful #FundingMonday!

We're excited to unveil our Doc Funding Hub, a members-only area designed to equip you with the tools, support, and latest info to successfully secure funding for your documentary.

For further details, visit:

About This Program | Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film | Programs | Library of Congress In 2019, the Library of Congress partnered with The Better Angels Society and the Crimson Lion/Lavine Family Foundation to establish an annual award recognizing excellence in American history…

This #FundingMonday we're bringing you one of the OGs 😎

The Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize Fund

With a top prize of $200k, they're looking for films focussed on American historical subjects, that have a rough or fine cut.

Deadline: 1 May 2025

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Chicken & Egg Films Chicken & Egg Films champions women and gender-expansive documentary filmmakers around the globe with funding, mentorship, and access so they can tell stories that ignite change.

Welcome to the start of the week and #FundingMonday!

The Chicken& Egg Films team are taking applications for their 2026 (Egg)celerator Lab.

$40k USD, mentoring, retreats and much more is up for grabs!

The application deadline is Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 11:59pm ET.

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Asian Cinema Fund ACF - Asian Cinema Fund

Welcome to #FundingMonday!

Asian Cinema Fund’s Asian Network of Documentary (AND) Fund provides support to Asian indie doc filmmakers to finish their feature-length documentary film projects that are aimed for theatrical release.

Submit by April 10th

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IDFA Professionals | Funding The IDFA Bertha Fund offers financial support to visionary documentary projects from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Oceania. Learn more about the different grants and…

The IDFA Bertha Fund supports visionary documentary projects from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Oceania. Their Europe Minority Co-Producer fund deadline is April 14th.

For more info and to apply: buff.ly/5AH0EVN
#FundingMonday

The deadline for the 2026 Open Call is nearing for both the Creative Capital Award ($50k) and the State of the Art Prize ($10k per US state) fro @creativecapital.bsky.social

Apply by April 3rd. #FundingMonday

Please share this opportunity with your documentary peers!

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Points North Fellowship Points North Fellowship Points North Fellowship

🚀 The Points North Fellowship is a launching pad for up-and-coming nonfiction storytellers, wrapped around the Camden International Film Festival.

Final closing date for applications is 14 March.

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#FundingMonday #documentaries

Sandbox Films - sundance.org The Sandbox Fund offers grants, engagement events, and other opportunities for independent artists seeking to explore the intrinsic link between science and culture through innovative storytelling.…

☕ Start your day with a nice cup of #FundingMonday ☕

Today's brew is the @sundance.org Sandbox Fund, aimed at independent artists exploring the link between science and culture through innovative storytelling.

Apply before the March 10th deadline.
#documentary

😄 Happy Morning to you all on #FundingMonday!! 😀

🌍 Today we're highlighting the Doc Society Climate Story Fund, with grants of up to $125k for stories that meet their brief 🌎

📅 There's an Information Webinar for applicants on 26 Feb, and Applications close on 10 March 📅

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Production Support Berlin International Film Festival - official website

For #FundingMonday, we're highlighting the World Cinema Fund from the @berlinfilmfestival.bsky.social team

🌎 Targeted at filmmakers from regions with weaker film infrastructure 🌍
🎬 For Production Support 🎬
📅 Deadline: 27 February 2025 📅

More info at: www.berlinale.de/en/wcf/fundi...