Producers' Post October 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
- Resources
Announcements
- POV Hackathon 7 - nonfiction media lab - November 8-9
- US INPUT - international television screening conference - submission deadline November 7
- Independent Lens - seeking film submissions for 2015-16 season
Events
- Hawaiian Media Makers Conference - Honolulu, October 29
- Hawaii International Film Festival - Honolulu, October 30-November 9
- ʻŌiwi Film Festival - Honolulu, November 7-12
- San Diego Asian Film Festival - San Diego, CA, November 6-15
- Kumu Hina - Outrageous Film Festival, Santa Barbara, November 7
- Kumu Hina - ArcLight Documentary Series, Los Angeles, November 10
- Pitching Skills Workshop - Raindance/Union Docs, New York City, November 11
- Socially Engaged Documentary Art - Union Docs, New York City, December 6-7
- Kumu Hina - JustFilms/Philanthropy New York Documentary Film Series screening - December 10
- Full Spectrum Storytelling Intensive 2014 - Union Docs, New York City, December 15-19
- Fishing Pono - Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Nevada City, CA, January 15-18, 2015
Festival Deadlines
- SXSW Film - early deadline October 2, official deadline October 30
- San Francisco International Film Festival - early bird deadline October 6
- Big Sky Documentary Film Festival - late deadline October 14, final deadline October 25
- Full Frame Documentary Film Festival - regular deadline October 15
Funding Deadlines
- Tribeca All Access/TFI Documentary Fund/New Media Fund/Sloan Filmmaker Fund - deadline November 5
The Tribeca Film Institute champions storytellers to be catalysts for change in their communities and around the world. The deadlines for Tribeca All Access, TFI Documentary Fund, TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund, and TFI New Media Fund are November 5th.
- CAAM Documentary Fund - deadline November 14th
CAAM is now accepting applications for the 2015 CAAM Documentary Fund. Documentaries are eligible for production or post-production funding and must be intended for national public television broadcast. We are now accepting proposals twice a year.
- ITVS LINCS Fund - rolling deadline
LINCS (Linking Independents and Co-producing Stations) provides matching funds to producer-station partnerships. Up to $100,000 in matching funds is available for a single broadcast program. LINCS accepts single public television programs of standard broadcast length, that include both broadcast and transmedia components, programs that can be completed within one year of contract, and will engage national as well as regional audiences, revealing universal themes through the lens of local perspectives and realities
- Ford Foundation Grants - rolling deadline
Our grant making focuses on reducing poverty and injustice; promoting democratic values; and advancing human knowledge, creativity and achievement. Requests are accepted in categories such as project planning and support; general support; and endowments. Types of support include grants, recoverable grants, loans and loan guarantees.
Resources
- Campfire Film Foundation - Short film acquisitions, awards, resources
- Center for Independent Documentary - Filmmaker services, fiscal sponsorship
- POV - Over 50 documentaries from POV series free to watch online
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