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Helping independent documentary filmmakers develop the skills and resources to tell their story. From funding to development to distribution.

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September 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
#FestivalFriday 🎞️
The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (Feb 13–22, 2026) is one of the top doc festivals in North America....and Oscar-qualifying for shorts!

🗓️ Final Deadline: Oct 3, 2025
📍 Missoula, Montana
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#Documentary #FilmFestival
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival celebrates the art of nonfiction film by giving voice to the powerful ideas that come forth in documentary. The festival is an important international platform,…
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September 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Happening today 🎬
Our Doc Funding Hub workshop is diving into real crowdfunding plans from filmmakers in the room.
Get live feedback on your own plan - or listen in and apply the lessons to yours.
Starts 12pm ET / 5pm PT → buff.ly/ovFnzMo

#Documentary #IndieFilm #FilmFunding
September 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🎬 Looking for a lab that helps your doc do more than just play to an audience?
The Envision Impact Lab by Perspective Fund is now accepting applications. Deadline: September 21, 2025.
🔗 buff.ly/IrzWxM0

#FundingMonday #DocumentaryFunding #ImpactLab
Films — Perspective Fund
Apply to the Envision Impact Lab. Click here to learn more.
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September 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Thinking of crowdfunding your documentary?
This Wednesday, our Doc Funding Hub workshop is dedicated to reviewing real campaign plans. Bring yours for live feedback, or learn from seeing others get workshopped.
Join as a one-off or as a Hub member →
Doc Funding Hub Monthly Webinar
Join our free Live Event for Doc Funding Hub members to discover the key strategies for securing funding and building a solid foundation for your documentary filmmaking projects.
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September 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🎬 #FestivalFriday: The Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival returns April 9–12, 2026! Oscar-qualifying for shorts & mini-docs, it celebrates bold, socially engaged storytelling.
Submit by Sept 30!
👉 sebastopolfilm.org
#FilmFestival #Documentary
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival | Discover, Submit, Engage Now
Join the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival for diverse films, industry panels, and community events. Submit your film and participate in this premier Bay Area event.
sebastopolfilm.org
September 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🌟 #FundingMonday spotlight: The Firelight Fund is open till Sept 18, offering up to $50K in grants for docs by Black, Brown & Indigenous filmmakers in the U.S. & territories. Social-justice storytelling - this is your moment?
👉 buff.ly/0JMOch2
#Docs #Grants #filmfund
Firelight Fund | Programs | Firelight Media
As Firelight Media celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2025, we launch the Firelight Fund to meet this urgent moment. The Fund supports Black, Brown, and Indigenous stories from development through…
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September 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
#FestivalFriday
Documentary storytellers: the Rome International Documentary Festival (RIDF) is open for entries!

Final Deadline: 15 September 2025

Categories: World-Doc, Ita-Doc, Short-Doc - think bold, creative films completed after 1 January 2024.
Home - RIDF
Submissions are open for the fourth edition of the Rome International Documentary Festival. Each year, RIDF brings to Rome a carefully curated selection of films: bold debuts, innovative forms, and…
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September 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
#FestivalFriday
LAST CALL: Submit to DOC LA by Sept 8, 2025!
Shorts, features, experimental & more—all genres welcome. Rolling notifications by Sept 24.
Submit here: buff.ly/UJGt9r9
#documentary #filmmaker
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August 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
#FundingMonday
The Catapult Film Fund is closing soon for applications! Submit for the Development Grant or new Project Accelerator by Sep 8, 2025 (5 PM PT).
Details & apply: buff.ly/cOHo5Ph

#DocumentaryFilm #FilmFunding
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August 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
#FestivalFriday 🎥
The NYC Short Documentary Film Festival returns for it's 11th year on Nov 2, 2025!
Dedicated to nonfiction shorts 20 minutes or less, screened in the heart of NYC.

📅 Final submission deadline: Aug 31, 2025
👉 nycsdff.com
The NYC Short Documentary Film Festival | Come Explore With Us
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August 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
#FundingMonday 🎬
Texas-based filmmakers, take note!
The 2025 AFS Grant for Short Films is now open. Grants support shorts in any style or genre, with a focus on uplifting diverse Texas voices.

📅 Deadline: Sept 4, 2025 (6 PM CT)
👉
2025 AFS Grant for Feature Films Is Now Accepting Applications
The 2025 AFS Grant for Feature Films is now open for submissions and will close on May 21, 2025, at 5:59 PM CT. Since its inception in 1996, the AFS Grant has awarded more than $2.8 million in cash…
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August 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🎬 #FestivalFriday
Submit your doc to Jackson Doc Fest - formerly Lane Doc Fest - in Jackson, Tennessee!

🗓 Final deadline: 30 Aug 2025 | Gala & awards: Oct 11, 2025

Details: buff.ly/l0kHUaq
#docfestival #DocumentaryFilm #JacksonDocFest
Jackson Doc Fest – LANE DOC FEST is an award and theatrical screening event that screens international independent documentary films that focus on special emphasis on social culture and consolidating democracy, peace, and freedom.
IN JACKSON, TENNESSEE
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August 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
⏳ Last chance!
Join serial-doc funder Hank Rogerson tomorrow for Part 2 of our doc crowdfunding series - how to keep your campaign alive + thriving once it’s live.
📅 Aug 13 | 12–1pm ET
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#DocFunding #Crowdfunding #Documentary
August 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🎥 #FundingMonday
The MOIN NEST development programme from Germany’s MOIN Filmförderung offers:
• NEST Space: €7,500 base + up to €50K for docs
• NEST Classic: €7,500 base grant
Deadline: Aug 25, 2025.
One application - pick your track! Apply here 👉 buff.ly/Xvk29jC
#docfunding #filmmakers
Willkommen im NEST | MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
Unsere neue Entwicklungsförderung
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August 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🎯 Crowdfunding your doc?
Join serial-doc funder Hank Rogerson for Part 2: keeping momentum once your campaign is live.
📅 Aug 13 | 12–1pm ET
Bonus: Replay of Part 1 included!
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#DocFunding #Crowdfunding #Documentary
Doc Funding Hub Monthly Webinar
Join our free Live Event for Doc Funding Hub members to discover the key strategies for securing funding and building a solid foundation for your documentary filmmaking projects.
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August 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🎬 #FestivalFriday
The Turkish World Documentary Film Festival is now accepting submissions.
🗓 Final deadline: Aug 30, 2025
📍 Open to global docs focused on Turkish culture or communities
Find out more: buff.ly/EmanFlI #IndieDocs
August 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🎬 #FundingMonday
The Southern Documentary Fund is offering $15K grants to 7 projects with strong Southern roots.
Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
More info 👉 buff.ly/MLYlSgd
#IndieFilm #DocFunding #SouthernDocs
Filmmaking Grants – Southern Documentary Fund
Applicants must meet the following criteria to be eligible for our grant:
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August 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
🎬 #FestivalFriday
Final deadline for DOC LA is Aug 21!
Showcase your doc in Los Angeles this fall - they love bold, global, and emerging voices.
🔗 Submit:
DOC LA Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival
DOC LA — Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival — presented by Parajanov-Vartanov Institute
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August 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Reposted by Desktop Documentaries
We’re live! Introducing Disability Media Alliance, a global nonprofit building infrastructure to resource disabled nonfiction media makers!Learn more about our work to support disabled perspectives in nonfiction media making: disabilitymedia.org
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#DisabilityMedia #DisabilityJustice
July 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🌍 Young documentary filmmakers from the Global South - this one's for you.

🎬The Alter-Ciné Foundation has a $10k CAD grant to support filmmakers born and living in Africa, Asia or Latin America.

🗓️ Deadline: August 15, 2025
🔗 buff.ly/HKqkx2h
#FundingMonday
Fondation AlterCiné
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July 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🎥 #FestivalFriday
Got a doc with Italian roots?
Documentaria in Sicily is calling! 🌿

📍 In the stunning town of Noto
🗓 Final deadline: Aug 10
🎬 Italian shorts + features
🏆 Multiple awards, live events & more

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#DocumentaryFilm #FilmFestival
July 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
🎬 Final class is TODAY - but you can still join!

Learn how to use Midjourney to create stunning AI visuals for your doc:
🎥 B-roll
📽️ Reenactments
🌀 Abstract scenes

✅ All replays available for 1 year!

Join now → buff.ly/h39Cfel
#DocumentaryFilm #Midjourney #AIinDocs
July 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🎬 TODAY! Talking all things CROWDFUNDING at our live Doc Funding Hub session for documentary filmmakers.

✅ Pre-launch tips
✅ Platform picks
✅ Real campaign lessons

🕓 9am PT, 12pm ET, 4pm UTC
👉 buff.ly/7LVp37X

#CrowdfundingDocs #DocFunding #DocumentaryTips #FilmFunding
July 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎬 #FundingMonday
The AXS Film Fund offers $10K grants to support nonfiction creators living with disabilities or chronic illness - or working with someone who is.

⏰ Deadline: July 31
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#AXSFilmFund #DocumentaryFunding #InclusiveStorytelling
AXS Film Fund – How to Apply
how to Apply Application Process Letters of Inquiry are not required. Applicants should submit an application through our portal. Starting June 2, 2025, our online portal for submission opens.…
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July 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM