The Minnesota Film Production Grant supports eligible Minnesota-based early career film directors whose work takes creative risks in expanding, questioning, experimenting with, or re-imagining filmmaking.
Donor Name: Jerome Foundation
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/03/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Jerome Foundation’s MN Film Production Grant provides Minnesota-based early career film directors production grants of up to $30,000 for short or long-form film projects in the ever-expanding creative genres of experimental, narrative, animation, or documentary genres or in any hybrid combination of these forms.
Funding Information
Up to $30,000.
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.
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
- Filmmakers who receive consistent development and production opportunities, commissions, awards, acclaim, commercial success, national or regional prizes for multiple projects are beyond early career. Filmmakers who have received any of the following are not eligible:
- Academy Award (“Oscar”) (feature-length film)
- American Film Institute Award
- Herb Alpert Award
- MacArthur Fellowship
- Spark Fund
- A significant award defined as mid-career or established.
For more information, visit Jerome Foundation.
