The Building Bridges Documentary Fund provides funding for independent documentary films about the Muslim experience in the United States.
Donor Name: Center for Asian American Media
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/18/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Fund’s goal is to support filmmakers and works that contribute to a fuller spectrum of narratives that need to be told in the context of what it means to be Muslim in the United States.
Center for Asian American Media encourages filmmakers at all levels – emerging, mid-career or veteran–to apply with projects that are feature-length (60 minutes and over), shorts and episodic series. Center for Asian American Media funds the following project phases with the stated range of possible funding:
- Research & Development ($10K to $25K)
- Production ($50K to $100K)
- Post-production ($50K to $100K).
Funding Information
Awards will range between $10,000 to $100,000.
Eligibility Requirement
- To be eligible, applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Project must be about the U.S. Muslim experience. Note: There is no percentage of footage requirement that must be filmed in the U.S., but if your project is filmed predominantly overseas you must explain in your story summary why and how your international elements widen the aperture of the U.S.-Muslim point-of-view.
- Applicants must hold artistic, budgetary and editorial control and must own the copyright of the proposed project.
- Applicants must be 18 years of age, be citizens or legal residents of the United States or its territories.
- All projects in the post-production phase or further must have a full-length rough or fine cut to be considered. All projects must include a maximum 15-minute sample of the project that is being submitted, with the exception of post-production projects that require a rough cut.
- If this is your first media project, you must provide a video sample that demonstrates your ability to tell a story well through a visual medium.
- In some cases, CAAM may require a Fiscal Sponsor, which is a non-profit 501(c)(3) IRS tax-exempt entity. Your sponsor would agree to accept funds from CAAM on your behalf and is responsible for redistributing funds to the project accordingly.
- Only one proposal per applicant will be accepted.
- Projects NOT eligible:
- Projects that do not center the U.S. Muslim experience.
- Your project already has distribution and/or has been accepted into a festival.
- Thesis projects or student films which are co- or solely-owned or copy-written, or otherwise editorially or fiscally controlled by the school.
- Projects or production entities which are foreign-based, owned or controlled.
- Industrial or promotional projects.
For more information, visit Center for Asian American Media.
