Digital Media Fund is an open invitation to independent filmmakers to submit proposals for digital short form programs, fiction or nonfiction (no longer than 15 minutes), for distribution online via an existing public television platform, and can be in the form of a short film, web series, or other mixed digital media content.
Donor Name: Latino Public Broadcasting
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/26/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Content Priorities
Programs applying to the Digital Media Fund can be in the genres of the arts, history, science, biography, health, personal storytelling, cultural documentary, mixed genre and narrative. Projects should be designed to bring new audiences to public media and present a range of subjects, issues and viewpoints that complement and challenge existing public media offerings. Programs should integrate strong storytelling techniques that give voice and provide a lens to the diverse Latino community. While projects can take creative risks and reflect personal or individual experience, they must ultimately have resonance for a national U.S. audience.
Funding Category
- Digital Media $10,000 – $30,000
- Digital Media: Funding to produce and complete “short form” (no more than 15 minutes) programs for primary distribution over the Internet or another public television platform, and can include short films, web series and other mixed digital media content. Eligible activities include: (i) clearance of rights necessary to produce, complete and distribute the program; and (ii) all standard production and post-production and packaging activities.
Eligibility Criteria
- An independent filmmaker or a production entity (i.e., a partnership or organization owned by the individual filmmaker or filmmakers) operating independently from a film studio, commercial broadcast or cable entity.
- Applicants must have knowledge, experience, and/or significant connection to the specific Latino issues(s) and/or community on which the film is based.
- Applicants must retain the copyright, artistic, budgetary and editorial control over the proposed project.
- Applicants applying to the Digital Media Fund are not eligible to apply to the PMCF with the same or different project.
- Applicants must agree to create only one version of the program/film. A re-edited version of the LPB-funded program cannot be re-packaged for another network.
- Applicants must be at least 18 years of age, be citizens or legal residents of the United States or its territories, and have previous film or television experience demonstrated by detailed personnel bios or resumes.
- Applicants are only allowed to submit one application for a project per review period.
- First time, full-length media makers who move forward to phase two will be required to submit a video sample of a shorter finished work that demonstrates their ability to tell a story using the visual medium. Media makers must have been producing other short format productions for at least three years.
- All funding requests must be submitted in accordance with LPB’s guidelines.
- Applicants must shoot and deliver films in HD format.
- Applicants must have produced at least 2 short films.
- Applicants must agree to work with a mentor or script consultant assigned to the project by LPB, when deemed necessary.
- Applicants are required to add General Liability Insurance during the production phase, as well as the E+O insurance upon delivery for the film for PBS distribution.
For more information, visit Latino Public Broadcasting.
