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Application Now Open: SFFS/KRF Filmmakers Grant

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KRF Filmmaking Grant Posting Default:


The Fall 2012 SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grant Round is now open. More information on how to apply can be found here: http://www.sffs.org/content.aspx?catid=938,1006&pageid=3076

Deadlines:

  • - Letter of Inquiry period opens September 7, 2012 and closes September 29, 2012, late deadline is October 4, 2012.
  • - Finalists are invited to submit additional materials October 22, 2012
  • - Additional materials deadline for finalists is November 14, 2012
  • - Winners will be announced December 2012

The San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants support feature narrative films that through plot, character, theme or setting explore human and civil rights, anti-discrimination, gender and sexual identity and other social issues of our time. This is NOT a documentary grant.

The grants, which run 2009–13, are awarded in the spring and fall of each year. The SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants provide tangible encouragement and support to meaningful projects nationally that benefit the Bay Area filmmaking community in a professional and economic capacity. In addition to the cash grant, recipients receive various benefits through the Film Society’s comprehensive and dynamic filmmaker services programs.

Eligibility:

  • - Applicant must be in a key creative role for the film: screenwriter, producer or director.
  • - Applicant must be an SFFS member at the Filmmaker Pro level or above or must pay the $25 (early deadline) or $45 (late deadline) fee.
  • - Applicant must be at least 18 years old.
  • - Applicant must be actively engaged in a narrative feature film project in one of the following phases: Screenwriting, Development, Preproduction, Production, Postproduction
  • - Film must significantly feature a plot, character, theme or setting that reveals or explores human and civil rights, antidiscrimination, gender issues, sexual identity and other social justice issues of our time.
  • - Total Project budget shall be $3 million or under.
  • - Projects must be consistent with SFFS’s mission and represent an imaginative contribution to the moving image art form.
  • - Projects and applicants may reapply for additional funding.
  • - Applicants or project must have a Bay Area filmmaking connection and uplift the community in a professional or economic capacity. Please ask if you are not sure how this might relate to your project.

Restrictions:
  • - Applicants must apply for the phase of production they expect to reach within three months of receiving SFFS/KRF funds.
  • - If requesting Screenwriting or Development: you must reside in the Bay Area during the writing phase or development phase. If applying for screenwriting: you may apply if you are co-writing a screenplay.
  • - If requesting Production Funds: 60% of grant monies must be spent in the Bay Area or on Bay Area crew, talent, equipment or services.
  • - If requesting Pre- or Postproduction funds: 80% of grant monies must be spent in the Bay Area or on Bay Area personnel or services.
  • - Filmmaker may not be a SFFS or KRF employee or member of any SFFS or KRF board.
  • - Filmmaker may not be a full-time student.
  • - Project is not work for hire.
  • - Project is not a documentary.

For further information, visit http://www.sffs.org/Filmmaker360/Grants/sffskrf-filmmaking-grant.aspx
 
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