The Film + Media Grant Program supports this aim by subsidizing permit fees and reducing the costs of safety personnel and reimbursing qualified expenses for production companies when these activities occur in the City of Sacramento.
Donor Name: Sacramento Film + Media
State: California
City: Sacramento
Type of Grant: Grant | Reimbursement
Deadline: 05/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Sacramento Film + Media is committed to sustaining and growing film and television production in the City of Sacramento.
Sacramento Film + Media will award up to six $10,000 production grants and up to two $5,000 postproduction grants during fiscal year 2025 in two grant rounds. Grant funds that remain available due to a lack of eligible applicants in the prior period will be rolled over to the next round. Grants will be for:
- Required services and permitting fees by City of Sacramento staff and/or departments, including police, fire, permit fees, parking fees (inter-department transfer of funds); Reimbursement awards where an applicant has demonstrated a need that exceeds City services support, where qualified expenses occur within the city (i.e., hotel nights, rental cars, rental equipment, location fees, catering, local hires, post-production, etc.); or
- Reimbursement awards for post-production support when they occur within the city of Sacramento.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Sacramento Film + Media Grant program is open to productions filming at least 50% of the project in the Sacramento region with at least two locations in the city of Sacramento. It is also open to productions where 75% of post-production is done in the city of Sacramento. Eligible productions include feature length films, short films, episodic television, television pilots, television movies/miniseries, documentaries, docuseries, commercials, music videos, and unscripted television. Production companies may only apply for one grant per round. Production companies may apply for multiple rounds but may only be awarded two grants in a twelve-month period, including a postproduction grant. Applications must be submitted prior to physical production commencement in Sacramento to be considered eligible (documentaries excluded), and post-production applicants must have 75% of physical production completed to be considered eligible.
- Funding support for a grantee may be revoked at any time if it is determined that the production does not fit within the criteria of the Guidelines, or the applicant provided false or misleading information to the City.
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