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The following funders have announced film grant opportunities for Fall 2023. ORCS has compiled this list for School of the Arts and VMA faculty who have expressed interest in finding funding for film and media projects.

Some of these funders make awards to individual artists; some may require a fiscal sponsor. Emerson can serve as a fiscal sponsor many of those cases. Please contact us at orcs@emerson.edu for more details.

Funder Name

Film Type/Topic

Next Deadline

Alfred P. Sloan Episodic Lab Grant

The Episodic Lab is open to any emerging writer applying with a completed draft of a half hour or hour-long television pilot they wish to workshop during the program. The teleplay should have a scientific, mathematical and/or technological theme and storyline or have a leading character that is a scientist, engineer or mathematician.

Application open: 10 November, 2023 – 10 February, 2024

Project: Hatched

Hatched provides support to US-based filmmakers who are nearing completion or have recently completed a documentary film and who have plans to strategize, build, and launch an impact campaign.

Application open: 15 November, 2023 – 17 January, 2024

Climate Story Fund

The Climate Story Fund supports compelling storytelling and impact campaigns from around the world that move us closer to a climate just and biodiverse future. We are looking for creative nonfiction projects that can complete production this year with support from the Fund. Awards will range between $20,000 and $100,000.

Application open: 1 December, 2023 – 1 February, 2024

Panavision’s New Filmmaker Program

The New Filmmaker Program loans digital camera packages (based on availability) to filmmakers for student thesis films and low-budget independent features.

Application open: 20 January, 2023 – 20 January, 2024

Just Films Ford Foundation

The Ford Foundation seeks to reduce inequality in all of its forms, and artist-driven documentary and emerging media projects are crucial to this effort. As part of the Creativity and Free Expression program, JustFilms funds social justice storytelling and the 21st-century arts infrastructure that supports it.

Application open: 5 September, 2023 – 5 September, 2024

National Endowment for the Humanities Funding Opportunities – Fall 2023

By Eric Asetta

On October 5, 2023

In External Funding Opportunities, Federal Agency Announcements, Federal Funding, Scholarship and Research

Dear Faculty:

The National Endowment for the Humanities currently has two open grant opportunities that may be of interest to faculty. Emerson College may submit more than one application to each program, so long as the applications do not contain overlapping activities or costs. If you are interested in applying, please contact Diana Potter or Eric Asetta. All applications must be submitted by Emerson College via ORCS.

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Media Projects (Deadline: January 11, 2024)

The Media Projects program supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films, and documentary film series  that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship and demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical. Media Projects offers two levels of funding: Development and Production.

Development awards (up to $75,000 total funds; $48,077 after overhead) enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop humanities content and other program elements. Awards must result in a script or detailed treatment(s). You may also use a Development award to plan for outreach and public engagement.

Production awards (up to $700,000; $448,718 after overhead) must result in the production and distribution of radio, podcast, television, and documentary film projects.

Projects may include supplementary components such as discussion programs or websites.

All Media Projects proposals should be intended for national or regional distribution, and must:

build on sound humanities scholarship
deepen public understanding of significant humanities questions
approach a subject analytically, presenting a variety of perspectives
involve humanities scholars in all phases of development and production
involve appropriate media professionals
employ appealing and accessible formats that will actively engage the general public in learning

A pre-recorded webinar on the program can be viewed here. Additionally, a draft proposal may be submitted to NEH for feedback by November 29, 2023.

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Public Humanities Projects (Deadline: January 11, 2024)

The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Awards support projects that are intended to reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings in the United States.

Public Humanities Projects supports projects in three categories (Exhibitions, Historic Places, and Humanities Discussions), and at two funding levels (Planning and Implementation). Proposed projects may include complementary components: for example, a museum exhibition might be accompanied by a website or mobile app.

Project topics may be international, national, regional, or local in focus, but locally focused projects should address topics that are of regional or national relevance by drawing connections to broad themes or historical questions.

Planning awards ($40,000 total; $25,641 after overhead) are available only to Exhibitions and Historic Places applicants. These awards provide up to 24 months of support for projects that have completed preliminary work resulting in the identification of possible analytical themes and interpretive methods that you will further explore during the planning period.

Implementation awards support projects that are in the final stages of preparation to “go live” before the public. Activities may include final scholarly research and consultation, design, production, and installation of a project for presentation to the public. The period of performance must include the required minimum exhibition time. Implementation awards range from $50,000 to $400,000 ($32,051 to $256,410 after overhead) with a period of performance from 12 to 48 months.

You can watch the Applying for Public Humanities Projects webinar here. Additionally, a draft proposal may be submitted to NEH for feedback by November 29, 2023.

Announcement of the New ORCS Pre-Approval System for Grant Proposals

By Eric Asetta

On September 11, 2023

In Policies, Procedures

Beginning in September 2023, a faculty or staff member who is planning to submit an application for external funding must first complete and submit a Pre-Approval request using ORCS’s new ORCS Pre-Approval Form. A PDF containing step-by-step instructions on how to do this can be found here.

Developed in collaboration with IT using BP Logix, the new ORCS Pre-Approval Form will replace the hard copy forms that were used for years, as well as the K2 web-based version that many found cumbersome.

The Pre-Approval Form is used to ensure that all relevant administrative leaders are aware of and approve of your intent to submit a proposal, and is required for all grants or contracts which the College will manage and administer, if awarded.

To ensure that ORCS has sufficient time to provide you with the best possible service, it is recommended that you complete the Pre-Approval Form as early as possible, or at least ten business days before the sponsor’s submission deadline.

The 5-Day Rule For Proposals

To effectively manage the review and submission process on behalf of our faculty, the Office of Research & Creative Scholarship will now be adhering to the following proposal submission policy:

A complete proposal, accompanied by the necessary department and school-level approvals –as well as any other attachments or approvals required by the sponsor or the College– must be received by the ORCS office at least five (5) full business days prior to the sponsor’s due date. The proposal components must be in close to final form with the exception of the narrative, which may be submitted in draft form subject to revision.

Proposals received after this date cannot be guaranteed approval and submission. If ORCS does not have sufficient time for a thorough review, the proposal will not be submitted. In cases of extenuating circumstances, a request for exception to this policy must be made to the Executive Director of ORCS. A proposal submitted to ORCS less than 1 business day prior to the sponsor’s due date will not be submitted, and there will be no exceptions granted for same-day submissions.

Thank you in advance for your collaboration on this new system. Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to Eric Asetta, Executive Director of ORCS (eric_asetta@emerson.edu).

Film & Media Funding: AY23–24

By Diana Potter

On August 15, 2023

In External Funding Opportunities

Many Emerson School of the Arts and VMA faculty have expressed interest in finding funding for narrative and documentary film, and media projects. ORCS has prepared a list of film and media funders to get you started.

Some of these funders make awards to individual artists; some may require a fiscal sponsor. Emerson can serve as a fiscal sponsor many of those cases. Please contact us at orcs@emerson.edu for more details.

Funder Name

Film Type/Topic

Next Deadline

Sloan Distribution Grant

narrative fiction feature film related to science, technology or economics in distribution phase

Application open: rolling deadline

LEF Foundation Moving Image Fund

documentary film, new works by New England filmmakers: all stages of production

August 31, 2023: Development/Pre-Production
January, 2024 (expected): Production/Post-production

VMM Public Media Fund

public media film & television projects representing culture & experience of Native Americans

September 30, 2023
December 31, 2023
March 31, 2024
June 30, 2024

CAAM Documentary Fund

documentaries for public television about Asian Americans: production or post-production

October, 2023 (expected)

Roy W. Dean Grant (From the Heart Productions)

documentary; short film; feature film

October 31, 2023
March 31, 2024
June 30, 2024

California Documentary Projects

documentary films related to California: Research & Development, Production

November 1, 2023

CAAM Documentaries for Social Change Fund

social issue documentary films highlighting Asian American narratives: research & development and early production

November, 2023 (expected)

Rogovy Foundation Miller/Packan Film Fund

feature-length documentaries addressing social issues: advanced development, production & post-production

November 15, 2023
May 15, 2024

Puffin Artist Grant Program

small grants to individuals for independent film/media projects focused on environment or climate crisis

December, 2023 (expected)

Filmmakers Without Borders Filmmaking Grants

short films, feature films, new media projects: development, production, post-production

January 1, 2024
June 1, 2024
August 1, 2024

NEH Media Projects Grants

documentary films, radio programs, podcasts that engage with humanities: development, production & distribution

January 10, 2024

Sundance Documentary Film Program

non-fiction projects, priority to raising underrepresented voices

Early 2024

Doc Society Climate Story Fund

long form, shorts or episodic documentaries, podcasts, radio documentaries engaging in climate conversation

February, 2024 (expected)

SFFILM Rainin Grant Program

narrative feature films that address social justice issues: screenwriting, development, or post-production

March, 2024 (expected)

Latino Public Broadcasting Public Media Content Fund

documentaries & limited series on the Latino experience: production & post-production, limited research & development funds

June, 2024 (expected)

Southern Documentary Fund Production Grant

documentary producers with deep roots in southern states: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV. Projects in production only.

August, 2024 (expected)

ITVS Diversity Development Fund

Applicants of color working on standard-length non-fiction projects that have not begun production

August, 2024 (expected)

Limited Submission Funding Opportunity: NEH Summer Stipend

By Eric Asetta

On July 10, 2023

In External Funding Opportunities, Limited Submission Competition

Provost Nomination Requests are Due August 25; Applications due September 20

The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced its annual Summer Stipends fellowship competition for 2023. The NEH deadline for eligible proposal submissions is Wednesday, September 20. The award amount is $6,000 beginning May 1, 2024.

From the NEH web site:
The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication. The program works to accomplish this goal by:

Providing small awards to individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both
Supporting projects at any stage of development, but especially early-stage research and late-stage writing in which small awards are most effective
Furthering the NEH’s commitment to diversity and inclusion in the humanities by encouraging applications from independent scholars and faculty at Hispanic Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and community colleges

Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research.

NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS

For those of you who may be considering applying, please note that Emerson may nominate two tenured and/or tenure-track faculty members to apply for the award. Because of this limitation, it is necessary for Emerson to review all potential submissions in an internal limited submission process. Applications submitted by tenured/tenure-track faculty without a nomination will automatically be rejected by the sponsor.

THE LIMITED SUBMISSION PROCESS
On or before Friday, August 25, potential applicants must complete the Application Form for Provost’s Nomination via Google Forms. Applicants must include a one-paragraph summary of their proposed project for review by the Provost.

By September 1, after review by the Provost, nominations will be announced by the Office of Academic Affairs. The nominees will then have the opportunity to complete their proposals in time for submission to the NEH by its September 20 deadline.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Applications to NEH are submitted via Grants.gov directly by the individual. ORCS will assist the nominees with this process.

FURTHER INFORMATION: To find more information about the program, including a previously recorded webinar in which NEH staff answer questions from potential applicants, click on this link. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Eric Asetta or Diana Potter.

2024 Creative Capital Award Cycle

By Diana Potter

On February 16, 2023

In External Funding Opportunities, Professional Development

Many Emerson faculty artists have been interested in The Creative Capital Foundation’s annual awards. The Foundation will open its 2024 individual grant program on March 1, with letters of inquiry due on March 31, 2023. The Creative Capital Foundation provides awards and advisory services to artists in 34 different disciplines, including visual art, performing arts, film, and literature.

In celebration of their 25th Anniversary, Creative Capital has announced one-time theme for the 2023/2024 grant cycles: “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact.” In the next grant cycle, Creative Capital is seeking proposals for new artistic work that address social, economic, and environmental justice, and advance the global dialogue around the sustainability of artists, our communities, our planet, and beyond.

This year, artists will be able to submit applications for their projects in

Visual Arts: including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture, design, multimedia, installation, video art, new genres, craft, and socially engaged and/or sustainable visual art-based practices

Film & Moving Image: including experimental film, short film, animation, documentary film, narrative film, and socially engaged and/or sustainable film/moving image-based practices

Creative Capital is one of the only non-profit organizations to offer awards to individual artists through an open application process; therefore, it is very competitive, with less than 1% of applicants receiving awards. Creative Capital provides each funded project with up to $50,000 in direct funding, and career development services valued at $45,000.

In recent years, more than 75% of awardees have been artists of color—including Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous artists—of all ages, abilities, and regions across the United States.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.
orcs@emerson.edu
Follow us on Twitter: @Emerson_ORCS

External Funding Opportunities: Spring 2023

By Diana Potter

On January 30, 2023

In External Funding Opportunities

The Office of Research & Creative Scholarship would like to share the following funding opportunities with deadlines this spring that may be of interest to faculty in the School of the Arts, Marlboro Institute and School of Communication. If you are interested in any of these opportunities, please reach out to the ORCS office.

School of the Arts

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Applications due February 25, 2023
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.

NEA Creative Writing Fellowships
Applications due March 8, 2023
The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Applications are reviewed for artistic excellence and artistic merit of the submitted manuscript. In 2023, the program is accepting applications for fellowships in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction). Fellowships in poetry will be accepted in March, 2024.

Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program
Applications due May 17, 2023
The Arts Writers grant supports writers who are writing about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing—these grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. The foundation also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods or experiments with literary styles. As long as a writer meets the eligibility and publishing requirements, they can apply.

Marlboro Institute

National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowships
Applications due April 12, 2023
NEH Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources in the humanities. Award amount ranges from $30,000 to $60,000 for a 6-12 month project period. Faculty may not teach during the grant period.

Boston Athenaeum Fellowship
Applications due April 15, 2023
The Boston Athenaeum (next to campus at 10-1/2 Beacon St) offers short-term fellowships to support the use of Athenaeum collections for research, publication, curriculum and program development, or other creative projects. Each fellowship pays a stipend for a four-week residency and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenaeum. Scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, teaching faculty, and professionals in the humanities as well as teachers and librarians in secondary public, private, and parochial schools are eligible to apply.

NEH Humanities Initiative at Colleges and Universities
Applications due May 9, 2023
The NEH Humanities Initiative at Colleges & Universities strengthens the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new humanities programs, resources (including those in digital format), or courses, or by enhancing existing ones. Projects must be organized around a core topic or set of themes drawn from such areas of study in the humanities as history, philosophy, religion, literature, and composition and writing skills. The project period can be between 1-3 years and the total award is up to 150,000.

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Rolling Deadline
The Delmas foundation intends to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized. Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy; ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The Foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship.

School of Communication

Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program
Applications due early April, 2023
The Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program is nurturing a new generation of serious and enterprising journalists. This year-long program allows writers early in their careers to pursue projects they otherwise would be unable to research and report. Applicants should have less than 10 years’ experience as professional journalists and must be U.S. citizens. There are three tiers to the program: Fellowships provide up to $35,000 in grant money and expense assistance. Full Fellowships, which require that recipients devote their full-time efforts to their project, provide up to $75,000. Alumni Fund Fellowships provide support for recipients to write one in-depth, major essay on their topic.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation Clinical Research Grant
Applications due April 19, 2023
The ASHA Clinical Research Grant advances knowledge of treatment efficacy and assessment practices.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation New Century Scholars Grant
Applications due April 19, 2023
The ASHA New Century Scholars Grants supports innovative studies that foster new research ideas and directions for investigators, and that will advance knowledge, tools, and techniques in communication sciences and disorders.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation New Investigators Research Grant
Applications due April 19, 2023
The ASHA New Investigators Research Grant supports new investigators by funding preliminary studies that could launch larger-scale research investigations.

The Society of Environmental Journalists Fund for Environmental Journalism
Applications due in May, 2023

The SEJ offers a small grant for journalism story projects on a particular environmental topic. Proposals that support multiple journalists are encouraged. Award includes a $2,000 stipend per journalist and other travel or project costs up to a total of $5,000.

Film & Media Funding

By Diana Potter

On January 24, 2023

In External Funding Opportunities

Funder Name

Film Type/Topic

Next Deadline

Sloan Distribution Grant

narrative fiction feature film related to science, technology or economics in distribution phase

Application open: rolling deadline

Doc Society Climate Story Fund

long form, shorts or episodic documentaries, podcasts, radio documentaries engaging in climate conversation

February 1, 2023

SFFILM Rainin Grant Program

narrative feature films that address social justice issues: screenwriting, development, or post-production

March 24, 2023

VMM Public Media Fund

public media film & television projects representing culture & experience of Native Americans

March 31, 2023

Roy W. Dean Grant (From the Heart Productions)

documentary; short film; feature film

March 31, 2023

Creative Capital Award

2023 call for new Visual Arts & Film/Moving Image projects that push boundaries

April 1, 2023

Sundance Documentary Film Program

non-fiction projects, priority to raising underrepresented voices

April 17, 2023

Rogovy Foundation Miller/Packan Film Fund

feature-length documentaries addressing social issues: advanced development, production & post-production

May 15, 2023 November 15, 2023

FWB Filmmaking Grants

short films, feature films, new media projects: development, production, post-production

June 1, 2023

LPB Public Media Content Fund

documentaries & limited series on the Latino experience: production & post-production, limited research & development funds

June, 2023 (expected)

Southern Documentary Fund Production Grant

documentary producers with deep roots in southern states: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV. Projects in production only.

July, 2023 (expected)

NEH Media Projects Grants

documentary films, radio programs, podcasts that engage with humanities: development, production & distribution

August 9, 2023

LEF Foundation Moving Image Fund

documentary film, new works by New England filmmakers: all stages of production

August 31, 2023: Development/Pre-Production
January, 2024 (expected): Production/Post-production

ITVS Diversity Development Fund

Applicants of color working on standard-length non-fiction projects that have not begun production

September, 2023 (expected)

CAAM Documentary Fund

documentaries for public televison about Asian Americans: production or post-production

October, 2023 (expected)

CAAM Documentaries for Social Change Fund

social issue documentary films highlighting Asian American narratives: research & development and early production

November, 2023 (expected)

California Documentary Projects

documentary films related to California: Research & Development, Production

November 1, 2023

Puffin Artist Grant Program

small grants to individuals for independent film/media projects

December, 2023 (expected)

National Science Foundation Update: Enhancements to the NSF biographical sketch and current and pending (other) support fillable PDF formats

By Eric Asetta

On January 20, 2023

In Federal Funding, Grantsmanship & Proposal Writing, Procedures

NSF has recently made enhancements to the biographical sketch and current and pending (other) support fillable PDF formats. The updated formats are consistent with the Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 23-1) and are available on the NSF biographical sketch and current and pending (other) support websites. NSF made the following enhancements in response to feedback received from the research community:

Current and Pending (Other) Support

Corrected the Status of Support radio button
Corrected fonts and margins for compliance with NSF policy
Included the revision date (rev. 01/19/2023) at the bottom of each page

Biographical Sketch

Corrected margins for compliance with NSF policy
Included the revision date (rev. 01/19/2023) at the bottom of each page

Staff from NSF and NIH conducted a webinar to discuss the revised formats and demonstrate the SciENcv system. A recording of the webinar will be made available in the coming days at: https://nsfpolicyoutreach.com/.

NSF appreciates the feedback from the research community. Additional feedback and questions may be submitted to: policy@nsf.gov

Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowships for Higher Education of Present and Prospective Teachers- Applications Due January 6, 2023

By Eric Asetta

On November 1, 2022

In External Funding Opportunities, Fellowship Opportunities, Professional Development

The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation recently issued its 2023 call for applications for Fellowships of Higher Education of Present and Prospective Teachers.

The primary purpose of the fellowship is to enable teachers (with an emphasis on present teachers at the college or university level) to study abroad or at some location other than that with which they are most closely associated. The aim is to stimulate and broaden the minds of teachers so as to improve and enhance the quality of their instruction. Grants are primarily for travel and related expenses (salary, scholarships, and equipment are not allowable on these grants).

If you intend to apply, please complete and submit an ORCS pre-approval form (which can be accessed via your Emerson ID and PIN) no later than Friday, December 9 (instructions for using the pre-approval form can be found here). The final application documents must be delivered to ORCS at least three business days before the sponsor deadline of January 6, 2023.

Forms and templates for the program can be downloaded here. The application consists of the following:

Project Description (three pages maximum)
Curriculum Vitae showing the application to be a university or college teacher
Detailed budget indicating the estimated travel expense to be incurred in carrying out the project
Completed Candidate Information Form (see attached document)
Two letters of recommendation from fellow faculty members or professors. One of these must be from your department chair The supporting letters must be on official letterhead.

Award winners will be notified by email on Monday, April 3, 2023. Grants typically do not exceed $6,000 and may begin as early as the Summer of 2023. Projects must be completed no later than May 31, 2025. Applications received after January 6, 2023 will not be considered by the Foundation.

If you have any questions about this opportunity or the application process, please contact Eric Asetta or Diana Potter.