Producers' Post August 2014
The Producers' Post is a regular update intended to keep producers informed on announcements, upcoming deadlines and events and anything else of interest. To be notified when a new post is up, please subscribe to the PIC newsletter. Included in this month's post:
- Announcements
- Events
- Festival Deadlines
- Funding Deadlines
- Job Opportunities
- Trainings
Announcements
- Kumu Hina article: The Film That Charmed Frameline: The Reasons Why Award Winning Documentary 'Kumu Hina' Deserves A Wide Audience Are Precisely Why It Might Miss Out
- Kumu Hina - Asian American International Film Festival Audience Award
- Kumu Hina - Rhode Island International Film Festival Youth Jury Award
Events
- Kumu Hina - Emma Farden Sharpe Hula Festival - screening August 30
- Standing on Sacred Ground - UH Mānoa, Honolulu - screening September 16, 18
- Kumu Hina - UH Mānoa, Honolulu - screening September 17
- Standing on Sacred Ground - Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu - screening September 21
- GETTING REAL Documentary Film Conference - September 30-October 2
- Hawaiian Media Makers Conference - Honolulu, October 29
- Hawaii International Film Festival - Honolulu, October 30-November 9
Festival Deadlines
- CAAMFest 2015 - regular deadline September 15
- Sundance Film Festival - Short Films - late submission deadline September 15
- Sundance Film Festival - Feature Films - late submission deadline September 29
- Full Frame Documentary Film Festival - regular deadline October 15
- SXSW Film - early deadline October 2, official deadline October 30
- San Francisco International Film Festival - early bird deadline October 6
Funding Deadlines
- San Francisco Film Society Project Development Funding - deadline September 8
The Film Society is dedicated to supporting emerging and established filmmakers. The project development and fiscal sponsorship program is designed to help you step by step through the process of getting your documentary film funded, made and seen.
- Jerome Foundation Minnesota and NYC Film, Video, and Digital Production Grant Program - deadline September 26
The Jerome Foundation operates production grant programs for individual film and video artists who reside within five boroughs of New York City and Minnesota. These programs serve artists who work in the genres of experimental, narrative, animation, and documentary production.
- Roy W. Dean Filmmaking Grant - deadline September 30
This grant gives filmmakers a chance to get their films going or completed with an award of $2,500 in cash and $30,000 in film products and services. Films can be documentaries, short films, and features and must be unique and contribute to society.
- Diversity Development Fund (ITVS) - deadline October 10
The Diversity Development Fund (DDF) provides up to $15,000 in research and development funding to producers of color to develop single documentary programs for public television. Funded activities may include travel, research, script development, preliminary production for fundraising/work-in-progress reels, or other early phase activities.
- Tribeca Documentary Fund - deadline November 5
The Tribeca Film Institute Documentary Fund furthers the development of exceptional character-driven, non-fiction works that spotlight contemporary themes with an original focus and bold, creative filmmaking. Grants of at least $10, 000 will be awarded in 2015 to feature-length documentaries with an intended length of at least 70 minutes and should creatively document unique character(s).
Job Opportunities
- Development Coordinator - Vision Maker Media, Lincoln, NE
Training
- Doing Your Doc - Documentary Development Training - September 12-14, San Francisco
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