Applications Invited for Climate Story Fund Grant

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About the Organization

We are a non-profit founded in 2005 committed to enabling great documentary films and connecting them to audiences globally. Based in London and New York we work with filmmakers and partners all over the world.

We bring people together to unleash the transformational power of documentary film. We stand in solidarity with filmmakers and work to unite them with new friends and allies, building new models globally. We aim to innovate, share and innovate again.

About the Grant

The Climate Story Fund supports compelling storytelling and impact campaigns from around the world that move us closer to a climate just and biodiverse future. The fund will support 6-8 projects with grants ranging between $50,000 to $100,000 per project.

The Climate Story Fund prioritizes climate stories centering the most affected, the unengaged and the underrepresented, and puts them at the center of the story. The Fund also prioritizes storytellers working in and from those communities, sharing narratives that resonate deeply with new and unengaged audiences, bringing them into critical conversations around climate justice.

The selection process will be guided by such principles. In addition, it will give preference to projects that embody inclusion and diversity across team and subject matter, and exercise responsible practices when engaging story participants and communities.

We are looking for creative nonfiction projects including long form, shorts or episodic documentaries as well as podcasts and radio documentaries, that can complete production in 2023 with support from the Climate Story Fund. The Fund also supports completed creative nonfiction and fiction projects of any medium looking to pilot an impact campaign in 2023 to engage audiences who are not typically included in the climate conversation.

Eligibility

• Projects from all over the world, these can be localised stories serving local communities, or projects suited to a global audience
• Projects from both new and established artists
• Creative nonfiction projects, including long form, shorts or episodic documentaries as well as podcasts and radio documentaries in production
• Completed creative nonfiction and fiction projects of any medium looking to pilot an impact campaign

How to Apply

• Applications must be submitted online via the Doc Society applications portal here
• All projects must be climate themed with an intention to implement an impact campaign. We don’t need you to be an impact expert but open to the idea
• To qualify for production funding, projects must complete production in 2023
• To qualify for impact funding, projects must pilot an impact campaign in 2023
• As part of our grant making for this fund, we require all grantees to attend an Impact Lab to connect with impact producers and climate experts, to help develop impact strategies and to craft impact campaigns that are built upon existing expertise and advocacy efforts to engage their intended audiences. Project teams must be able to attend our virtual Impact Lab during the week of 5-9 June 2023

Deadline: February 1st at 11:59 PM PST

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