Dig Deep and Create Grant Program (United States)

Funding Information

• The maximum grant amount is $5,000 per selected project.
• They plan to fund between 6 and 8 projects.

Costs Covered

• Pre Production:
  • Research
  • Transportation
  • Other
• Shoot:
  • Production crew
  • Studio crew
  • Equipment rental/Purchase
  • Transportation
  • Food and Lodging
  • Interviewees
  • Other
• Post Production:
  • Personnel
  • Music scoring
  • Titles and Graphics
  • Color Correction
  • Audio
  • Voiceover
  • Food and lodging
  • Other

Eligibility Criteria

• Filmmaker: NMDIG’s highest priority is to support emerging and early-career documentary filmmakers living and working in New Mexico.
• Core applicant requirements:
  • are legal resident(s) of the state of New Mexico and have been residents for a least one year prior to application.
  • are generating and creating entirely new work (rather than interpreting, arranging, remixing pre-existing work or the work of others or film projects made for a client).
• Applicant is in one of the following key creative roles in the proposed project:
  • Director
  • Producer
  • Writer
• Documentary Project:
  • The program is open to documentaries on any topic however, there is a preference for projects that focus on the current social issues and/or community challenges of New Mexico. For purposes of these grants, the expected run time is between 5 and 26 minutes:
    • Original short form documentary;
    • Well thought out, imaginative, and executed with attention to craft and with technical proficiency, that communicate unique perspective(s), and invite viewers to question, discover, explore new ideas in new ways.

For more information, visit NMDIG.