Other Funds and Resources
Global
- Alter-Ciné Foundation (for young filmmakers born and living in Africa, Asia or Latin America)
- Catapult Film Fund (development funding for international projects)
- CNC Aide aux cinémas du monde (French co-producer required)
- Claims Conference Grant (film grants as part of their ongoing support for Holocaust education, documentation and research)
- CrossCurrent International Doc Funds (supports doc projects by filmmakers from, and telling stories of, underrepresented and marginalized communities around the world)
- Doc Society Climate Story Fund (production and impact grants to creative storytelling projects; feature docs, shorts, web series, animations)
- Doha Film Institute (post-production grants)
- Francophonie (companies or individuals from OIF member states only)
- Hubert Bals Fund (curatorial fund dedicated to supporting filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe in every stage of the filmmaking process; part of IFFR and mainly focused on fiction films)
- International Television Service (ITVS) grants (documentary funding and co-production support)
- Impact Films (funding independent documentary storytelling worldwide)
- JustFilms by Ford Foundation (supports artist-driven film and new media storytelling projects that explore aspects of inequality, as well as the organizations and networks that support these projects)
- Perspective Fund (production grants, impact planning & campaign grant and film participants grant)
- The Redford Center (supports environmental filmmakers and frontline stories that drive solutions for people and the planet)
- SCAM Brouillon d’un rêve (development fund, applications in French only)
- Sundance Institute Documentary Fund (supports the work of nonfiction filmmakers from around the globe)
- SFFILM Documentary Film Fund (supports engaging documentaries in post-production)
- Sorfond Norwegian South Film Fund (Norwegian co-producer required)
- Visions Sud Est (supports film productions from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe, aims at making them visible worldwide and guarantees their distribution in Switzerland)
- World Cinema Fund by Berlinale (supports exclusively the production and distribution of feature films and feature-length documentaries; focused on the following regions and countries: Latin America, Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Caucasus as well as Bangladesh, Nepal, Mongolia and Sri Lanka)
Africa
- Africalia (supports creative projects across the African continent)
- Africa No Filter (grants to African storytellers and content creators with a goal to give space to voices that are historically misrepresented and under-represented across the continent)
- AFAC (supports creative documentary films in the Arab region)
- Documentary Africa (development, production, post-production and impact of documentary films grants to filmmakers and producers from the African continent)
- Doha film Institute (development, production and post-production grants for MENA filmmakers)
- Docubox (supports East African filmmakers)
- Hot Docs-Blue Ice Docs Funds (provides development grants and production grants to four to ten projects annually)
Asia
- Asian Cinema Fund (post-production, script development and documentary grants for Korean and Asian films)
- Doha film Institute (development, production and post-production grants for MENA filmmakers)
- SGIFF Southeast Asian Documentary Grant (supports Southeast Asian documentary filmmakers with four mid-length or feature documentaries grants annually)
- Purin Pictures (supports independent cinema in Southeast Asia)
Europe
- BFI Doc Society Fund (supports creative and hybrid feature documentaries films by diverse, emerging voices from all over the UK)
- DOKweb (supporting creative documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe)
- Ji.hlava Film Fund (provides in-kind grants for visual and sound post-production of documentary and hybrid films at the stage of production or post-production)
- Creative Europe Media Programme (MEDIA strand of the Creative Europe programme is designed to support European film and other audiovisual industries)
Latin America & the Caribbean
- Programma IBERMEDIA (supports co-production projects by companies from Latin America, Spain and Portugal)
- William Greaves Fund (for mid-career nonfiction storytellers from racially and ethnically underrepresented communities in the United States, as well as filmmakers from Mexico, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Colombia with a particular interest in those who identify as being of Indigenous and/or of African descent)
North America
- CrossCurrent Canada Doc Fund (supports short and feature-length documentaries from emerging and sophomore Canadian filmmakers who are Indigenous, Francophone, Deaf and/or have a disability, racialized and/or persons of colour)
- Catapult Film Fund (research grant for US based filmmakers only)
- Canada Media Fund (Canada only)
- Center for American Asian Media (supports Asian American film and media projects from independent producers through two funds, the CAAM Documentary Fund and the CAAM Documentaries for Social Change Fund)
- Doc Society New perspectives Fellowship (US-based directors, including Puerto Rico and U.S. territories, who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and/or as members of historically underrepresented communities including race, religion, geographic region, physical ability, or citizenship status)
- Indigenous Screen Office (Canada only)
- Rogers Group of Funds (Canada only)
- Telefilm (Canada only)
- William Greaves Fund (for mid-career nonfiction storytellers from racially and ethnically underrepresented communities in the United States, as well as filmmakers from Mexico, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Colombia with a particular interest in those who identify as being of Indigenous and/or of African descent)
Women, non-binary & LGBTQ+
- Chicken & Egg Pictures (supports women and gender nonconforming filmmakers, worldwide)
- Frameline Completion Fund (awards grants to emerging and established filmmakers to complete projects that represent and reflect LGBTQ+ life, worldwide)
- New Voices Filmmaker Grant (supports documentary, narrative, animated or episodic projects by and about the LGBTQ+ community, US only)
- Inside Out RE: Focus Fund (provides direct financial support to LGBTQ women and non-binary filmmakers, worldwide)
Crowdfunding
- Indiegogo
- Kickstarter
- We Make It
- Zoomaal (Arabic projects)
- See and Spark
