List of the Best Short Film Grants to Launch Your Career

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Here is a List of Awesome Short Film Grants that are accepting submissions for you to fund your short film. The opportunity to establish yourself as a filmmaker has arrived! Just click on the short film funding grants for all the info necessary for your applications.

 

Resolution Filmmakers Student Grant - April 30

It’s our goal to help bring your creative vision to fruition. This is a student grant. We will accept applications from the following: USA – High School Students, USA – University Students – Associates | BA | BFA and International High School or University Students.

Women In Film / Netflix Finishing Fund - June 16

The Women In Film Foundation’s Film Finishing Fund (WIFF FFF) supports films by, for or about women by providing cash grants of up to $15,000 and in-kind services.

The Roy Dean Grant/From the Heart Productions Grant - June 30

The Roy Dean Summer Grant includes over $30k of in-kind services and products is open for shorts, docs, and features films with a budget under $500,000. We fund compelling stories about little known subjects, historical films, and films that touch hearts.

The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation For Documentary Photography & Film - October 31

Mirroring the mission of our foundation and themes covered in our still photography grants, we invite documentary film makers around the globe to share their human interest stories and submit their “Short-Short” documentary film projects highlighting human unrest, forgotten communities, over-expl

The Independent Filmmaker Project - December 1

IFP’s Fiscal Sponsorship program focuses exclusively on documentary films and other works of nonfiction, short films and low-budget fiction/narrative features (50 minutes+). 

National Film Board of Canada Filmmaker Assistance Program - December 4

The National Film Board’s mandate is to reflect Canadian values and perspectives through the production and distribution of innovative Canadian audiovisual works accessible in relevant media of today.

Panavision’s New Filmmaker Program - January 8

Panavision® believes in helping students and beginning filmmakers achieve their dreams.

 Moving Image Grant Funds LEF Foundation - January 14

LEF invests in documentary film and video projects that demonstrate excellence in technique, originality of vision and voice, and creativity in form.

Creative Capital - February 5

Creative Capital is one of the only national nonprofit organizations that awards grants to individual artists through an open application process. We are a premier provider of risk capital in the arts, taking chances to support ideas that are bold, innovative and genre-stretching.

The Jerome Foundation’s Film and Video Grant Program - February 19

The Jerome Foundation’s Film and Video Grant Program is a production grant program for individual film and video artists who work in the genres of experimental, narrative, animation, and documentary production.

The David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists - March 14

The film award consists of a grant of $5,000 to a U.S filmmaker 35 or under at the time of application for the production of a short film that will be shown as a private screening with the filmmaker in attendance at the annual foundation event in Salt Lake City the year the grant is awarded.

Ford Foundation: JustFilms - April 2

As the foundation works to reduce inequality in all its forms, we support artist-driven film and new media projects, and other forms of creative visual storytelling, that explore the rich diversity of the human experience.

Resolution Filmmakers Student Grant - April 30

It’s our goal to help bring your creative vision to fruition. This is a student grant. We will accept applications from the following: USA – High School Students, USA – University Students – Associates | BA | BFA and International High School or University Students.

Women In Film / Netflix Finishing Fund - June 16

The Women In Film Foundation’s Film Finishing Fund (WIFF FFF) supports films by, for or about women by providing cash grants of up to $15,000 and in-kind services.

The Roy Dean Grant/From the Heart Productions Grant - June 30

The Roy Dean Summer Grant includes over $30k of in-kind services and products is open for shorts, docs, and features films with a budget under $500,000. We fund compelling stories about little known subjects, historical films, and films that touch hearts.

 

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