The Nexus Grant offers $5,000 grants for new and emerging local small organizations, individual artists, and small arts businesses to produce creative public projects. Applications are open January 28, 2025 to March 6, 2025
The Asian American Documentary Network and Asian American Futures are looking for fellows with documentary films they are currently working on and actively engaged in an impact campaign. Each fellow is awarded $17,000. There is an info session February 14th and application deadline is February 28th.
Dream State: Awakening Visions is an Artist Development Program for Bay Area Youth. The in-person program runs from April 5th- Sept 5th. The program is partnered with Edge on the Square and the Asian Art Museum.
The AAPI Fund has their Creative Catalyst Fellowship Open until March 6th at midnight HST / 4:00AM CST. Up to 8 artists will receive $30,000 to produce work to engage in Asian American and Pacific Islander issues. Work should fit in one of three themes: In it Together, Belonging, and Voting Together
The Sandbox Fund provides grants that support creative non-fiction work that highlights diversity in science. The grant can support $40k for development, $100k for production, and $100k for post-production. Applications are from Feb 10 to March 10 @ 1:00 PM PST/3:00 PM CST.
Austin PBS is awarding one documentary filmmaker $15,000 for assistance with repackaging for public media distribution. Application due on March 21st @ 4:00 PM CST. Click here to learn more details!
OTV Atlas Fund is providing a rolling-basis $2,000-$15,000 grant for intersectional storytellers. The grant will be for post-production, exhibition, or impact campaigns for short form content.
The Voices With Impact Film Production Grant offers filmmakers $7.5k USD to filmmaking teams making transformative 5 minute films on the topic of mental health. We will accept film proposals from August 8 until the deadline September 26.
The AFS Grant awards funds annually to film and video artists in the state of Texas. Grants are provided to artists whose work shows promise, skill, and creativity. AFS is committed to fostering diverse and underrepresented voices in independent film with the intention of focusing on communities of color through an intersectional lens.
The Nexus Grant offers $5,000 grants for new and emerging local small organizations, individual artists, and small arts businesses to produce creative public projects. Applications are open July 30 through August 27
AAAFF wouldn’t be here without you! We’ve put together a special filmmaker bundle for our local industry friends to join us during our Sweet 16 fest year for $25. This includes a special invite to our 2024 AAPI Filmmakers Happy Hour.
The Tasveer Film Fund (TFF) is an initiative established in 2020 with the goal of supporting underrepresented North America based South Asian filmmakers and elevating their voices and stories through the medium of film. The Tasveer Film Fund plays a crucial role in the talent development of South Asian filmmakers, supporting, nurturing, and providing them with financial support, resources, and mentorship needed to bring their stories to the screen.
The AFS Grant for Feature Films is once again open for filmmakers throughout Texas! This cycle of the AFS Grant funds feature-length narrative and documentary films and includes the North Texas Pioneer Film Award (for filmmakers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area) and the New Texas Voices Award (for first-time features by a filmmaker of color in Texas) as well as in-kind awards from both MPS Camera and Lighting Austin and Stuck On On.
The Nexus Grant supports local small organizations, individual artists, and small arts businesses. The program offers $5,000 grants to new and emerging applicants who are passionate about creating innovative public projects.
Register now for the Getting Down to Business webinar series!
Filmmakers Collaborative SF and Re-Present Media are presenting a three-workshop webinar series dedicated to helping emerging and mid-career filmmakers develop strategies for the producing and business side of independent films to ensure they are effectively moving their project forward.
Learn to write about scenes on film, map a performer’s work onto the narratives of our own lives, and create characters worth the reader’s emotional investment in Mayukh Sen’s (@senatormayukh) 4-week workshop.
✨ Apply for the A-Doc Impact Fellowship! ✨ Do you have a passion for social justice and filmmaking? The Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc) Impact Fellowship is searching for impact-focused leaders and storytellers with ideas for impactful projects that support AAPI communities.
In April, WE LUV VIDEO is going to start a weekly series where they curate and screen local films.
Their goal is to give the Austin Film Community a venue to consistently showcase their work (old or new). If you know anyone who might be interested in screening their films, please reach them at events@weluvvideo.org.
CALLING FOR PROPOSALS: The Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc) is looking for proposals for their 2024 Storytelling Initiative: Our Stories, Our Voices. Eligible AANHPI filmmakers can apply by 11:59 PM PT on January 26, 2024. More details on the open call HERE.
The Digital Accelerator provides funding, expert technical assistance, and leadership development over two years to strengthen the digital infrastructure of nonprofit cultural organizations with the principal goals of growing revenue, increasing fundraising, engaging audiences, improving operations, and developing programming opportunities.
Austin Film Society’s workforce development program, Creative Careers, is now accepting Applications for Its spring cycle.
Applications will remain open from January 22–February 9, helping emerging creatives break into the film industry
A partnership with Riz Ahmed and Left Handed Films and sponsored by Netflix and Amazon MGM Studios, the Pillars Artist Fellowship offers mentorship, networking, and monetary support to 10 Muslim directors and screenwriters living in the U.S. or U.K.
At Pillars, Muslim artists are the past, present, and future of entertainment and they’re excited to invest in storytellers who are telling joyful, honest stories about the community!
We’re back with Season 4 of Rising Voices – Indeed’s initiative to build a new future of Hollywood.
The initiative aims to discover, invest in, and share stories created by BIPOC filmmakers & storytellers around the power and meaning of work. Partnering with Lena Waithe, HillmanGradProductions and 271Films to help fund and support 10 BIPOC filmmakers as they create short films based on the theme “the future of work”, which will premiere at a major US film festival.
Austin Film Society’s Creative Careers is a workforce development program for new creators that offers paid internships, training, and job opportunities.
They are accepting applications for the fall 2023 cycle now through August 18.
The Austin Film Society is now accepting applications for the AFS Grant for Short Films. This grant is part of our renowned AFS Grant Fund and is a unique opportunity for Texas filmmakers to make a career leap and join our vibrant and dynamic community of AFS Grant funded filmmakers.
Austin Film Society is committed to expanding the opportunity for filmmakers all over the state of Texas and will be holding three info sessions on Zoom.
The Economic Development Department is sharing two exciting programs aimed at supporting Austin’s creative professionals and community.
Artist Career Training is a six-week program to advance your creative business.
The Economic Development Department is sharing two exciting programs aimed at supporting Austin’s creative professionals and community.
The Nexus Grant supports local small organizations, individual artists, and small arts businesses. The program offers $5,000 grants to new and emerging applicants who are passionate about creating innovative public projects.
Tasveer is excited to present the Tasveer Film Fund (TFF) 2023 for US-based South Asian Diasporic filmmakers.
It aims to support and empower filmmakers to bring their scripts to life with monetary grants ($10K-$25K) and mentorship access. They offer awards in Short Narrative, LGBTQIA+ Short, and Documentary (under 40 min) categories.
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), in partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, has announced the newest cycle of its Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program. The program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies, and is open to artists in need who are practicing in the disciplines of visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts and choreography and living in the U.S., Tribal Nations, District of Columbia, and U.S. Territories.
Asian American Futures and Gold House are proud to launch the 2022 Gold Futures Challenge, an exciting, online model for philanthropy that will award ten prizes ranging from $25,000 to $100,000 to Asian American and Pacific Islander (“AAPI”) organizations for projects that ensure our communities are Seen, Heard, Empowered, and United.
The application cycle for the 2022 AFS Grant for Features is now open. Apply here by June 6 at 5 PM. Since its inception in 1996, the AFS Grant has awarded over $2.2 million in cash grants and more than $400k in-kind goods and services to 425+ Texas filmmakers, creating life-changing opportunities for artists traditionally underrepresented in the film industry and working outside large industry centers.
The Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film is a $200,000 cash award presented annually to an independent film project for post production and finishing costs, including outreach and marketing, associated with an original, feature length U.S. historical documentary. (For purposes of this prize, feature length is considered 50-minutes or longer.)
