The Jerome Foundation’s MN Film, Video and Digital Production (MN Production) grant provides Minnesota-based early career film directors, working in short and/or long form experimental, narrative, animation or documentary genres, or in any combination of these forms, a production grant of up to $30,000 for all stages of production.
Donor Name: Jerome Foundation
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/13/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $30,000
Details:
The MN Production grant supports early career film directors whose work takes creative risks in expanding, questioning, experimenting with or re-imagining film, video and digital production. Applicants must be film directors in their 2nd-10th year in the field, who have completed a short or full-length film’, but do not have more than two feature-length films (running time of 50+ minutes or more) released and in distribution. This grant supports artists who embrace their roles as part of a larger community of artists and citizens, and consciously work with a sense of service, whether aesthetic, social or both.
Production grants are awarded to either individual filmmakers or co-directing teams applying jointly. Production grants are not for organizations. Funds are issued directly to the applicant filmmaker/s or to their single-member LLCs (if applicable). Applications cannot be accepted from, nor payments made to fiscal sponsors, management companies, producers, multi-owned or Partnership LLCs, S-Corps, consultants or 501(c) 3 organizations.
Funding Information
Production grants of up to $30,000 are available for all stages of production, supporting early career film, video and digital production directors.
Eligible Projects
Eligible projects include new short, episodic, or full-length film, video and digital production projects either in the genres of animation, documentary, experimental, and narrative, or in a combination of these forms.
Eligibility Criteria
- Are residents of the state of Minnesota
- Are early career film directors with at least 2 years, but no more than 10 years, of experience directing their own films or videos, working in documentary, narrative, experimental or animation, or any combination of these genres
- Have completed, released, presented and distributed no more than 2 feature – length films
- Are not at a point in their careers where they receive consistent development and production opportunities, commissions, awards, national or regional prizes for multiple projects, acclaim and commercial success
- Have directed and completed at least 2 films to meet the minimum eligibility requirements
- Are the Director/s of the proposed film
- Create new film works that are innovative
- Have completed or are compliant on all reporting requirements for any direct grant received from Jerome Foundation, including the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Jerome Camargo or a previous Film, Video or Digital Production or Artist Development grant.
For more information, visit Jerome Foundation.