The MN Filmmaker Mentorship Grant supports early career film directors with an active ongoing commitment to filmmaking.
Donor Name: Jerome Foundation
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/03/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Foundation seeks to fund filmmakers who take creative risks, seek innovative approaches, have a clarity of purpose and vision for imaginative storytelling, are engaged directly with those involved in their filmmaking, and work to build relationships with and impact their creative community and the field.
Funding Information
Up to $10,000.
Grant Period
Grantees must accept all grant funds between November 13, 2025 and April 2027 but are not expected to complete the project by April 2027.
Eligible Activities
The below list includes examples of types of mentorship activities supported by this grant:
- Eligible costs include fees for working with a director or studying with instructors to acquire or further develop new artistic or technical filmmaking skills, including but not limited to:
- Travel costs to attend filmmaking conferences, residencies, study artistic film practice and/or engage with other filmmakers or mentors, networking with producers or doing pitch sessions at festivals (including related transportation, lodging, per diem and/or childcare costs)
- Fees related to supporting business skills (e.g., accounting, marketing, legal consultation, distribution, fundraising, website design for promotion, etc.)
- Equipment and/or software purchase (up to 25% of the award).
Eligibility Criteria
- V Jerome Foundation-Aligned Focus
- Eligible filmmakers are aligned with the Foundation’s focus on artists who take creative risks, seek innovative approaches, have a clarity of purpose and vision for imaginative storytelling, are engaged directly with those involved in their filmmaking, and work to build relationships with and impact their creative community and the field
- The Foundation considers risk broadly through the ways filmmakers are expanding, questioning, experimenting with, or imagining film forms, practices, and approaches in unique ways.
- Geographic Location
- Eligible applicants are residents of the state of Minnesota who have been residents for at least one year at the time of application and plan to be residents (for at least 183 days of the year) during the grant period of November 2025 through April 2027
- Jerome does not require citizenship but does require residency and a Social Security Number or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) for tax purposes
- An indicator of eligible residency status is filing US federal taxes as a resident of Minnesota or New York City in 2024
- To qualify as a resident of Minnesota, applicants must reside in Minnesota for at least 183 days in 2025 and 2026.
For more information, visit Jerome Foundation.
