Applications open for Frameline Completion Fund

Submissions are accepted for documentary, narrative, experimental, animated, or episodic projects about LGBTQ+ people and their communities. The Fund also seeks to bring new work to under-served audiences; with this in mind, they especially encourage applications by women, people of color, transgender people, intersex people, asexual people, non-binary people, disabled people, and other underrepresented people and communities.

Funding Information 

• The standard Completion Fund grant ranges from $1,000 to $5,000 although the panel can recommend a higher or lower amount.

Eligibility Criteria 

• Beginning this season, Frameline can only consider applications that provide a full working cut of the film. It’s perfectly acceptable if the cut has temporary sound, color, visual effects, music, etc. If the film is missing a scene or two, or animated sequences, feel free to inform specifics in the application. It is required that the applicant provide a cut that features at least 90% of the completed film. With the number of applications increasing dramatically each year, Frameline will no longer consider a project that provides a clip, sample, or demo:
  • Grants are given only for completion; therefore, projects must have 90% of production finished and be in the post-production phase or ready to begin post as soon as funding is in place.
  • Projects in development, script-development, pre-production, or production will not be considered.
  • Grants will only be given to projects about LGBTQ+ people and their communities.
  • Grants are given to individuals with creative and financial control of the project. In the case of collaboration, a sole project director must be designated as the applicant.
  • Grants will be given to projects in any film/video format, of any length, genre, or nationality.
  • Student projects are eligible as long as the student maintains artistic and financial control of the project.
  • International productions are accepted.
  • Members of the staff and Board of Directors of Frameline are ineligible.
  • Frameline reserves the right to deem ineligible, or alter a project’s award status at any point prior to the disbursement of funds.
  • Projects may be deemed ineligible for perceived violations of Frameline’s code of conduct and or projects that could harm the organization.

For more information, visit Frameline.