New York City Film Production Grant supports eligible New York City-based early career film directors whose work takes creative risks in expanding, questioning, experimenting with, or re-imagining filmmaking with production grants of up to $30,000.
Donor Name: Jerome Foundation
State: New York
City: New York City
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 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.
Grant Period
November 13, 2025 – April 2027.
Eligible Projects
- Eligible projects include short, episodic, or feature – length film production projects in the genres of animation, documentary, experimental, and narrative, or a hybrid combination of these forms. The Foundation has no preferences for subject matter or genr e. Panels who review applications and recommend grants are asked to equally consider projects in all film genres. There is no budget cap, but the budget needs to be feasible.
- This program supports film directors who screen work in non – traditional venues in addition to work screened in movie theaters, festivals, or broadcast channels, ranging from public access to screenings within specific communities as well as films that have online distribution/presentation.
- Funds may be used to support all stages of production, but at least 50% of funds must be directed to production
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 five boroughs of New York City 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 New York City or Minnesota in 2024
- To qualify as a resident of New York City, applicants must reside in New York City for at least 183 days in 2025 and 2026
- Producers, cinematographers, screenwriters, editors, actors, or interdisciplinary artists, who are not also primarily film directors, are not eligible
- An editor or actor who wants to make their first film is not eligible
- Choreographers making a dance film, visual artists who want to incorporate video as part of an installation, or technology-centered artists, game creators, or artists doing interactive work are not eligible.
For more information, visit Jerome Foundation.
