Deadline: 7 February 2024
The Doc Society Climate Story Fund is seeking to support compelling storytelling and impact strategies from around the world that can help them envision and realize a just transition. How can the just transition leave no one behind? How can past harms be repaired? How are communities today exploring new pathways for a more safe and just future for all?
They are looking for creative nonfiction projects including long form, shorts or episodic documentaries as well as podcasts and radio documentaries, that can complete production with support from the Climate Story Fund. The Fund also supports completed creative nonfiction and fiction projects of any medium looking to implement strategic impact activities to engage audiences who are not typically included in the climate conversation.
Funding Information
- The Fund will support 6-8 projects with grants ranging between $50,000 to $100,000 per project.
Eligible Projects
The selection process will give preferences to:
- climate stories centering the most affected, the unengaged and the underrepresented, and puts them at the center of the story
- 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
- projects that embody inclusion and diversity across team and subject matter
- projects that exercise responsible practices when engaging story participants and communities
Eligibility Criteria
The fund can support:
- Applicants and projects from all over the world
- 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 implement an impact pilot
- Applicants who agree to attend the required virtual Impact Lab programming
Requirements
- All projects must be climate themed with an intention to implement impact activities
- They don’t need you to be an impact expert but open to the idea
- To qualify for production funding, projects must complete production within a year from being awarded the grant
- To qualify for impact funding, projects must implement an impact pilot within a year from being awarded the grant
- All sample materials in languages other than English must have English subtitles
Ineligible
- Stories looking for development funding or in the pre-production stage
- Fiction stories looking for production funding
- Purely historical, biographies or student projects
- Branded or organizational communication content.
For more information, visit Doc Society.
