Firelight Media is excited to announce that we have opened the call for proposals for season 3 of In the Making, our documentary short film series produced in partnership with PBS’ AMERICAN MASTERS about emerging masters in the fields of art and culture.
International Documentary Association’s (IDA) largest fund is now accepting applications! The Enterprise Documentary Fund production grant supports feature-length documentaries taking on in-depth explorations of original, journalistic stories.
Thank you to BADWest member, director Elizabeth Gray Bayne for her generous "End of Year 2022" donation.
Black Public Media's annual Open Call is our chance to celebrate the complexity of the Black experience through story. This year we will support projects in two key ways: (1) production funding and (2) 360 Incubator+, a workshop opportunity with peers in the field.
Submissions for the 38th Annual IDA Documentary Awards are open until Wednesday, July 20, 2022!
Entries are open to any film, series or audio documentary completed or scheduled to premiere between September 1, 2021, and December 31, 2022. Series entries are eligible for the awards year in which the majority of their episodes were broadcast or uploaded/premiered.
This year’s IDA Documentary Awards will feature all of last year’s categories, plus this year’s new category: Best TV Feature Documentary or Mini-Series. More updates available here.
More info on the Awards: documentary.org/awards/enter
International Documentary Association’s (IDA) largest fund is now accepting applications! The Enterprise Documentary Fund production grant supports feature-length documentaries taking on in-depth explorations of original, journalistic stories. Apply by June 10, 2022 to receive up to $100,000 for your film.
The application for the ITVS Humanities Documentary Development Fellowship for pandemic-affected filmmakers is open as of today, October 15th, and runs until Friday, November 12th.
MIT/BPM Fellowship The application for the 2021 MIT & Black Public Media Fellowship is now open. The fellowship gives Black creative technologists who work in film, TV, tech, and/or academia to join MIT Open Documentary Lab for one academic year to develop a specific, nonfiction, emerging-tech project. Now that MIT's campus will reopen, Fellows may participate in the fellowship either remotely or in person (if they have the means to move to the Boston area). Apply by August 8th.
The DocX initiative at the Center for Documentary Studies is entering its next stage of evolution: to support BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color) artists and thought leaders working across the nonfiction landscape.
Since 1984, the International Documentary Association (IDA) has recognized the best nonfiction work from a diverse range of emerging and established documentarians each year.
