Other Funds and Resources
Besides the Movies that Matter Grant Programme, there are a number of other resources for the organisation of human rights film events, the production and the distribution of your film.
Via the drop-down menu below you can choose between Film Distribution & Film Festivals or Film / Documentary Funds. If you have more updates, please let us know!
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Film Distribution & Film Festivals
- Africalia – Organisation for development in Africa
- Amnesty International – Human rights organisation
- Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) – grants arts and cultural projects in the Arab region
- Art Moves Africa (AMA) – Mobility fund artists in Africa
- Bertha Foundation – Supporting the creation and distribution of social impact media projects
- DOEN Foundation – Providing grant possibilities for sustainable world
- Fledgling Fund – Providing grants that support outreach and audience engagement
- Ford Foundation – Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide
- HIVOS – NGO for a fair, free and sustainable world
- Human Rights Watch – Human rights organisation
- International Media Support – Supports filmmakers who contribute to freedom of expression and socio-political change in developing countries and conflict areas
- Kickstarter – Crowdfunding to support creative projects
- LGBT Funders – Grants that support well-being of gay,economic,racial, gender justice
- Mama Cash– Womens rights organisation providing grant opportunities
- Media Programme – Financial support in the development, distribution and promotion of EU film and audiovisual industries
- Movies that Matter Support Programme – Supports human rights film screenings worldwide
- National Endowment for Democracy – Providing grant opportunities
- Open Society Foundations – Work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies
- OXFAM – NGO to end poverty and injustice
- Pifworld – Crowdfunding, bundles forces for a better world
- Prince Claus Fund – Stimulates the freedom of cultural expression worldwide
- Rockefeller Foundation – Global health organisation providing grant opportunities
- Sigrid Rausing Trust – Grant making foundation to support human rights globally
- Visegrad Fund – Grants for innovative ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in the Visegrad region and Central and Eastern Europe
- Foreign embassies worldwide
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Film / Documentary Funds
- Aide aux Cinémas du Monde – Fund for French co-productions
- Alter-Ciné Foundation – Documentary film grant
- Bertha Britdoc Documentary Journalism Fund – Film fund dedicated to supporting long form feature documentaries of a journalistic nature
- Chicken and Egg Pictures – Films that tackle human rights, social justice, and environmental issues in a nuanced, original, and compelling way
- CineCrowd – Crowdfunding platform for all film genres
- Cinereach – Grants for artistic and social matters
- Cinergia – Film fund for projects in Latin America
- Creative Europe MEDIA Strand – Supporting and promoting Europe’s film and audiovisual sector
- Doc Society – Fund for documentary makers from the European continent
- Documentary Campus – Supporting documentary filmmakers
- Filmmaker Fund – Supporting committed documentary filmmakers at every stage of production and post-production
- Fledgling Fund – Development and execution of outreach and audience engagement campaigns for social issue documentaries
- Ford Foundation – Grants to support filmmakers focusing on reducing poverty and injustice
- Greenhouse – Development programme for documentary filmmakers from the Middle East and North Africa
- Global Film Initiative – Grant for artistic filmmakers
- Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund – Film grant for feature length documentaries
- 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
- 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
- Tipping Point Film Fund – Crowdfunding for documentary filmmakers
- Torino Film Lab – Production support for participants of the TFL training programme
- Visions Sud Est – Film fund for lower developed countries
- Women Make Movies – Sponsoring women filmmakers
- World Cinema Fund – Film support to regions with weak cinema infrastructure.