These resources are provided by our members, affiliates, business partners, and sponsors. Please do your research to make sure these opportunities haven't expired for the following year when applications are due. Make relationships and join their mailing list to be updated of annual application submissions, etc.
The Prince George’s Film Office Film Grant Program is part of Prince George's County's American Recovery Act Program, and its goal is to support and provide financial and technical assistance to filmmakers and other digital visual artists who plan to film in Prince George’s County using Prince George’s resources, workforce and businesses. Read more about the guidlines and application process at https://www.princegeorgesfilm.org/grants
The Creativity Grant Program strengthens the vitality and sustainability of artists and small organizations to maintain a strong and stable arts infrastructure in the State of Maryland. The Creativity Grant also provides opportunities to serve the growing needs of relevant arts projects and collaborations within Maryland communities. Read more about the different grant opportunities at https://msac.org/programs/creativity-grants
The Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance offers grants and funding resources for Individual Artists and people in the Film Industry. Review the complete list of Regional Grants and Awards, please visit their website at https://www.baltimoreculture.org/list-regional-grants-and-awards-0
The Maryland Film Office is an arm of the Maryland Department of Commerce, our mission is to attract productions to film on-location in the state of Maryland, as well as support the State's local film community. Our goal is to make filming in Maryland as easy as possible. The Maryland Film Office will begin accepting Applications for Qualification and Maryland Small Film - Applications for Qualification for FY 2024 tax credits on a first-come, first-serve basis at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, July 5, 2023. Please note ALL forms have been updated for FY 2024.
Visit our TAX CREDIT page for information on the program, how it works and how to apply. Contact Jack Gerbes, Director of the Maryland Film Office, at Jack.Gerbes@Maryland.gov or 443-865-9002 to discuss your production. Read more about this Tax Credit Program at https://marylandfilm.org/welcome
To further amplify the voices of emerging and diverse/BIPOC content creators across public media, PBS has issued an open call for proposals to support long and short form documentaries produced and created by diverse/BIPOC filmmakers that explore a broad range and collection of experiences, perspectives, and points of view. Proposals may be submitted across a range of genres/themes that resonate with a U.S. audience, including (but not limited to) personal history, arts, culture, science, and democracy/civics. Read more about the application at https://www.pbs.org/about/producing-pbs/open-call/
The Rubys Artist Grants provide direct funding of up to $15,000 to Baltimore-area artists to support innovative projects with significant impact. Grants are offered in four broad discipline categories—Performing Arts, Media Arts, Visual Arts, Literary Arts—for the creation of new artwork. Applications in each discipline category are accepted once per year. Read more at https://www.rwdfoundation.org/rubys
The Baker Artist Awards recognize artists who demonstrate excellence in three areas: Mastery of Craft, Depth of Artistic Exploration and Unique Vision.
In 2024, one artist in each of the six artistic disciplines-- Visual Arts, Film/ Video, Interdisciplinary, Literary Arts, Performance, and Music-- will be awarded the $10,000 Mary Sawyers Baker Prize. One of these six artists will be selected to receive the additional $30,000 Mary Sawyers Imboden prize, for a total of $40,000.
Along with cash awards, selected awardees in the Visual Arts and Interdisciplinary Arts categories are invited to participate in a bi-annual exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Read more about the application and other resources to apply at https://bakerartist.org/awards/about
Championing the humanities across a state as diverse as Maryland requires many contributors and much collaboration. That’s where our Marilyn Hatza Memorial SHINE Grant Program comes in: Strengthening the Humanities Investment in Nonprofits for Equity. Read more about their grant resoureces at https://www.mdhumanities.org/grants/
For our 25th Anniversary in 2025, Creative Capital welcomes innovative and original new project proposals in visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms.
The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants up to $50,000 which can be drawn down over a multi-year period, bespoke professional development services, and community-building opportunities.
Grants are awarded via a democratic, national, open call, external review process. The first round of the application process consists of 6 questions. Our goal is to fund approximately 50 individual artists creating conceptually, aesthetically, and formally challenging, risk-taking, and never-before-seen projects.
Sign up for our newsletter to receive notifications about grants, opportunities, and events at https://creative-capital.org/about-the-creative-capital-award/
Open Call provides documentary funding and co-production support so you can complete your nonfiction work in progress for public media. Diversity Development Fund (DDF) gives directors of color up to $35,000 in research and development funding so you can develop your documentary for public media. Open until February 9, 2024 11:59 PM PST annually. Read more at https://itvs.org/funding/
CPB provides funding for the development of public media television, radio, and digital content as well as multiplatform projects that reflect public media’s mission to educate, inform and inspire the American public by providing stories through diverse perspectives, genres, styles and technologies.
As a steward of federal funds, the vast majority of CPB support—by law—goes directly to local stations through Community Service Grants, which help stations expand the quality and scope of their work. However, CPB offers a limited number of additional grants to producers for Content & Production, and here, additional station support to address specific initiatives and issue areas. Browse below or in CPB’s closed grants archive for examples.
Follow CPB on Linkedin to receive alerts about grant opportunities, or subscribe for email updates at https://cpb.org/grants/grant.php?id=344
From The Heart Productions mission is to help indie filmmakers fund films that are unique and make a contribution to society. To review their full list of grant opportunities visit https://fromtheheartproductions.com/list-of-film-grants/
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