Film Grant For Woman Directors & casting call

Film Grant for Woman Directors. If you'd like to support me on my journey and be part of my team as mentoring director, producer let me know. I am always open for cast & crew. Writers with great stories are welcome for both TV & Film. Must be low budget and genre based.

The state of things for female directors in Hollywood may be looking bleak, but one organization is looking to make a difference on the indie side. Check out a candidate female director who placed Top 50 in the Project Green Light contest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLFPUzW9YoA

The San Francisco Film Society has just launched the SFFS Women Filmmaker Fellowship, a new suite of services that will support female writer/directors working on their second or third narrative feature with financial backing, programs and events, mentorship services, industry connections and more.

If you'd like to be part of our group please submit today: First Feature Hollywood Group accepting TV & film scripts and actor submissions: We are scouting for a genre film or fan based film. (TV script just let me know) Cast & Crew who want to be part of the group. Email: subject heading role (actor or producer) First Feature Group. submissions; jobsmh@ live dot com  Actors cut/copy paste a photo into the body of text. Do not send attachments. Please list the characters you play well, TV/film credits, training and experience. We do not look at attachments or links only.  If you are a director or producer please contact us.

Backed by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation and facilitated by SFFS' Filmmaker360, this fellowship will provide direct assistance to an underserved group of storytellers and help build sustainable careers for women filmmakers everywhere. Also, the fellowship will give priority to projects in the under-represented genres of sci-fi, comedy, action, thriller and horror.

Participants in the SFFS Women Filmmaker Fellowship must working on a second or third English-language narrative feature screenplay budgeted at no more than $3 million. Fellows must also have had a previous film premiere at a major international festival.

Applications will open in winter 2016. The fellowships will take place from April to October each year, overlapping with the Film Society’s San Francisco International Film Festival (April 23–May 7). Program support includes:

•     A $25,000–$40,000 cash grant, which must be used for living expenses. Individual amounts depend on place of residence and estimated travel costs to participate in Bay Area fellowship components.

•     Placement in FilmHouse Residency program and access to all FilmHouse programs and activities.

•     One-on-one consultation with film industry experts from the Bay Area and beyond regarding casting, 
financing, budgeting, legal issues, distribution and other relevant topics.

•     Weekly one-on-one consultation services provided by Filmmaker360 staff, with feedback on screenplays, verbal pitch strategies and written materials such as synopsis and treatment.

•     Presentations and networking opportunities with Bay Area narrative filmmakers.

•     Expenses covered for one 3-day networking trip with a Filmmaker360 staff member from San Francisco to Los Angeles, for meetings with established industry professionals.

Actors cut/copy paste a photo into the body of text. Do not send attachments. Please list the characters you play well, TV/film credits, training and experience.  If you are a director or producer please contact us. I work in distribution so if it is well done that works in our favor. Email with subject heading: actor (producer) feature film group  jobsmh @ live.com  You must be in LA or the state we shoot in. We are submitting to festivals and grants. It will be Non Union unless we get enough money to be SAG Ultra Low Budget. Seeking great DP, editors, sound, light, crew & cast that wants to work hard & propel their career to the next level. Money raised will go to equipment, crew and festival submissions first. 

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TV Series Concept Submissions Grant

We are accepting submissions for a TV series concept: If you have a smart, cinematic, serialized comedy series for adults. They can even be dark comedies, genre comedies or dramedies as long as they have original and compelling concepts and characters. 

Think high budget, premium shows that that you might see on pay cable (or that might even feel like movies). We tend to like shows that take place in specific, unique worlds.

Pilot scripts can be live action or animated and should be under 30 minutes long. We encourage single-cam scripts to be under 36 single-spaced pages.

$10,000 option extension if we put your project on our Development Slate. $55,000 if we distribute it as a series

Submit TV or film script now: jobsmh at live dot com  subject heading TV (script) submission team

TV Comedy series proposal must include a pilot script. This should be the series at its best, but not necessarily an origin story. We encourage single-cam (single-spaced) scripts to be 36 pages or fewer; multi-cam (double-spaced) scripts, 54 pages or fewer.

TV Children's series proposal must include a mini-bible. This should describe the series in general, and its main characters; tell where the series is going and whether episodes are serial or standalone; and include five or six episode ideas. We encourage mini-bibles to be between two and six pages.

All submissions should be in standard script format, with Courier 12-point font and standard script margins. Here are some general guidelines:

• Page size: 8-1/2 by 11 inches
• Page margins: No less than 1.5 inches (left) and 1 inch (right, top, bottom)
• Scene heading (slugline): 1.5-2 inches
• Action: 1.5-2 inches
• Dialogue: 2.5-3 inches
• Character names: centered

Dialogue should be single spaced for single-camera series or double spaced for multi-camera series. For single-cam, we encourage scripts to be 36 pages or fewer; for multi-cam, 54 pages or fewer.

script submission is between 110 and 135 pages using Courier 12-point font and standard script margins. Here are some general guidelines:

• Page size: 8-1/2 by 11 inches
• Page margins: No less than 1.5 inches (left) and 1 inch (right, top, bottom)
• Scene heading (slugline): 1.5-2 inches
• Action: 1.5-2 inches
• Dialogue: 2.5-3 inches
• Character names: centered

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If you'd like to be part of our group please submit today: First Feature Hollywood Group accepting TV & film scripts and actor submissions: We are scouting for a genre film or fan based film. (TV script just let me know) Cast & Crew who want to be part of the group. Email: subject heading role (actor or producer) First Feature Group. This is sample of indie film project. I know our group can do something just as good. When a group of underachieving 40-something friends gather in Belize to celebrate the early retirement of an old friend, a series of wild, comedic events unfold, exposing dark secrets and a web of lies, deception and murder.

Watch. Rate. Review Mad Dogs: http://amzn.to/1IMdP8G I have access to grant funds to submit. It will be for Gofundme film raise. Actors cut/copy paste a photo into the body of text. Do not send attachments. Please list the characters you play well, TV/film credits, training and experience.  If you are a director or producer please contact us. I work in distribution so if it is well done that works in our favor. jobsmh @ live.com  You must be in LA or the state we shoot in. We are submitting to festivals and grants. It will be Non Union unless we get enough money to be SAG Ultra Low Budget. Seeking great DP, editors, sound, light, crew & cast that wants to work hard & propel their career to the next level. Money raised will go to equipment, crew and festival submissions first. 

Film Grant for Under 35 Filmmakers: The Davey Foundation

If you are a young emerging filmmaker or playwright with a great story to tell this is a great grant for you to explore.  I know. I know. You are over 35 years of age so this one isn't for you.! I posted for Teens and under represented grants as well. Please check out my other blogs. Subscribe so I post for good stuff.  2015 Film Grants open January 15, 2015 closes March 15, 2015.

The Davey Foundation honors the life of David Ross Fetzer and his love of film and theater arts. The foundations provides a mentoring environment that allows young artist to bloom. Do you have a innovative film or unique play?  Then fill out a application today and apply. Let us know and join our Film & TV casting board group in Los Angeles. We have cast and crew waiting to be part of this exciting journey.

Two $5000 grants  for writer/directors nationwide.  You must be 35-or-under on April 30,  fill out the 2015 Film Application, and pay a $10 reading fee per script (see below). Grant winners must deliver a Bluray copy of his/her film by December 1.  Films will premiere at the December 17, 2015 Davey Foundation Film Showcase.  You  also agree to attend the Showcase on December 17 and Filmmaker Forum on December 18.  The Foundation will provide airfare for your travel to Salt Lake City. The winners will be assigned a mentor.

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Sloan Filmmaker Fund Grant

The Sloan Filmmaker fund is a grant for innovative and narrative features. They must integrate science, math and technology themes in the film.. Films can be in any phase and based anywhere.
Grants: $10,000 -$75,000 range.  Directors and filmmakers start with a great story. Is your story ready?

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Tribeca Film Festival: Young Filmmakers Film Contest

Tribeca Film Festival: Young Filmmakers Film Contest.
If you are a young #filmmaker with a #documentary, #film, #narrative or #experimental film you are encouraged to apply. It is the Our City, My Story program. The selected projects will be screened during the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival in #NewYork. It all starts with a story and a dream.

Hurry and enter before February 23, 2105
Make your dreams happen. Sample short film placing Top 5 for CBS & top 50 director in the
Project Green Light contest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLFPUzW9YoA

What story do you have to share about your city?
Make sure you sign the agreement and release form.
See rules and submission guidelines.
Application and URL video link from YouTube or Vimeo
Include a tag line and brief synopsis of your project
Parent or Guardian
School
Role
Cast
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Tribeca Film Festival $200,000 film grant

The $200,000.00 Grant from the MacArthur foundation includes story tellers. Scripted and documentary filmmakers.

If you are interested in submitting a project let us know. We are looking for a film team to enter

together with.

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Rules must apply on line with a proposal.

If you have edited footage apply with URL form YouTube or Vimeo.

Student projects not eligible and you must be 18 years or older.

English or English subtitles.

Bio of filmmakers.

Under represented community based directors, producers, writers wanted.

Links to websites.

USA or Puerto Rico residents only

ENTRY DEADLINES FOR INTERACTIVE PROJECTS

January 8, 2015 – Submissions Open

February 9, 2015 – Submissions Close

ENTRY FEES

This is no entry fee to apply to the Tribeca All Access Program.

I met Quentin Tarantino and he is amazing in person. He was super nice to me and encouraged me. He was with P.T. Anderson. He got his start by working in a video store. He made wrote screenplays and found his team. The rest is history.
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Tribeca Film Festival: Mobile Film Story Telling Contest

If you can tell a story using your mobile phone or smart table then this contest is for you. It must have a narrative component and speak about the environment. Story tellers, artists, designers, developers and designers get ready for the Hackathon during the Tribeca Film Festival. They have a documentary grant as well. $10,000.00

Hurry deadline is now. Feb 18 2015
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Documentary Grant

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Submission for Gucci Documentary & Latin Funds

TAA alumni grants are open all year so submit your project today.

Submissions for the Gucci Documentary & Latin Funds. This is the first time
producers are allowed to submit TAA fund

, as well.
Hurry before February, 2105

TFI Latin America Fund

Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund

New Media Fund is open from March 5  to May 5.

TFI New Media Fund

Don't forget, submissions for Gucci Doc and Latin America Funds close on Feb 5. Start your application here: http://ow.ly/HqYSz

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