Deadline: 15 March 2024
Applications are now open for the Out on Film Filmmaker Fund to support emerging and established LGBTQ+ filmmakers with a focus on Georgia and Southeastern storytellers.
This fund provides financial assistance to queer artists who often struggle to secure funding to complete their project.
The Filmmaker Fund was established to promote LGBTQ+ storytellers through grants, programs, and awards. Submissions are accepted for documentary, narrative, experimental, animated, or episodic projects about the LGBTQ+ experience.
The Fund also seeks to support work of traditionally under-represented voices in film; we encourage applications from queer, southern artists, Lesbians, people of color, transgender and gender expansive people, disabled people, and other underrepresented people and communities. They especially seek to fund projects with production teams comprising LGBTQ+ cast and crew.
Funding Information
- Grants up to $2,500 are available for the completion of films that tell the stories of LGBTQ+ life in all its humanity and complexity.
Eligibility Criteria
- Out on Film will consider applications for
- Narrative Feature films over 70 minutes;
- Documentaries over 60 minutes,
- Funding will be given to projects;
- in need of finishing, marketing or accessibility inclusion (i.e. closed/open captions, audio description) funds, and
- have already completed the development and production (at least 85%) phase and are in post-production stage or ready to begin post
- projects by, for, and about LGBTQ+ people and their communities.
Review Criteria
- Out on Film’s Programming team will review all applications, preview sample works, and select semi-finalists to be recommended to Out on Film programmers, staff, and industry representatives reflective of the Out on Film queer community.
- Awards will be based on a demonstration of the following:
- Quality of LGBTQ+ subject matter with an emphasis on telling stories of the Southern queer experience;
- Strength, originality and distinctiveness of story;
- Evidence of directorial skill displayed in the provided rough cut/edit;
- Authentic representation of LGBTQ+ individuals on the creative and production teams.
For more information, visit Out On Film.
