Resources for Filmmakers
Here you will find a number of resources for the production and the distribution of your film.
- Aide aux Cinémas du Monde – Fund for French co-productions
- Alter-Ciné Foundation – Documentary film grant
- Chicken and Egg Pictures – Films that tackle human rights, social justice, and environmental issues in a nuanced, original, and compelling way
- Close-up – Development programme for documentary filmmakers from the Middle East and North Africa
- Cinereach – Grants for artistic and social matter
- Creative Europe MEDIA Strand – Supporting and promoting Europe’s film and audiovisual sector
- DocA – Documentary Africa – pan-African initiative that supports the African documentary film industry
- Doc Society – multiple funds for documentary makers
- Docubox – East African Documentary Film Fund
- Documentary Campus – Supporting documentary filmmakers
- Filmmaker Fund – Supporting committed documentary filmmakers at every stage of production and post-production
- Ford Foundation – Grants to support filmmakers focusing on reducing poverty and injustice
- Hubert Bals Fund – Fund for filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe
- IDFA Bertha Fund – Supporting documentary filmmakers in developing countries
- ITVS – Grants for filmmakers who bring untold stories
- LPB Funding Cycle – Fund for film projects that celebrate and reflect the diverse Latino experience and bring new audiences to public media
- MacArthur Foundation – Grant for documentary production
- PBS – Grant for public television broadcasting
- Programa IBERMEDIA – Film fund for projects in Latin America
- Project Development Fund – Film fund to promote better understanding of the developing world
- Screen Australia – Grant for documentary filmmaking in Australia
- Sundance Documentary Fund – Film grant to creative filmmakers
- Torino Film Lab – Production support for participants of the TFL training programme
- Visions Sud Est – Film fund for lower developed countries
- Voordekunst – Crowdfunding platform for all film genres
- Women Make Movies – Sponsoring women filmmakers
Check their resources page to discover more women’s film funders, distributors, and festivals - World Cinema Fund – Film support to regions with weak cinema infrastructure
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