Vision Maker Media is partnering with GBH to support all filmmakers at any stage of their career to produce a short documentary digital film exploring the effects of climate change in their own Native community with a solution-based approach.
Donor Name: Vision Maker Media
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territory: American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/30/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $10,000
Details:
Requests for funding in the Climate Change Short Film Project should be a proposal to film, record, and produce a documentary digital short film (6-8 minutes in length) to completion. The project supports 6-8 Native filmmakers living in the U.S. territories.
Filmmakers will be selected to create documentary short films to accompany Sea Change: The Gulf of Maine, a three-hour documentary special that is expected to air on PBS July 2024.
Sea Change: The Gulf of Maine looks at life in the water and on the shores of this sea within the sea through a climate lens. Climate change is impacting oceans profoundly, but it’s also having a big effect in lots of other places. So what’s happening in your Native community? How are folks where you live coping? What fascinating, illuminating, solution-oriented stories would you like to share with a wider audience?
Strong candidates will place emphasis on powerful stories, the kind you can’t wait to tell someone about. Selected filmmakers will begin production as early as October 2023, with post-production concluding in May 2024. The series of Climate Change Short Films will be published to a national audience in summer 2024.
Category
Production and Post (up to $10,000).
Eligibility Criteria
- Native filmmakers must hold artistic, budgetary and editorial control and own the copyright of the proposed short film.
- The proposed project must be a short film of 6-8 minutes.
- Topics and genres accepted are to be short film documentary. Topic ideas are to be within Indigenous climate change.
- The proposed project must be ready to be published to a national audience in June 2024.
- All applicants must be over 21 years of age, and a U.S. citizen or legal U.S. resident.
- Proposals must show significant Native American involvement on their production, whether Above the Line, Below the Line or both.
- Eligible Proposals should meet Vision Maker Media’s mission of empowering and engaging Native people to share stories.
Ineligible
- Commercial Programs.
- Industrial or promotional films and videos.
- Student productions of any sort, such as thesis films.
- Programs intended solely for theatrical release.
- Filmmakers or production entities that are foreign-based, owned or controlled.
- Programs funded in part by a government entity or group featured in the content of the program.
For more information, visit Vision Maker Media.
