Feature and Short Film Funding
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For shorts, answer these two questions.
What is the premise of your project?
How will you use some of the funding to make it happen?
Would you rather spend weeks on a ten page grant application or thirty seconds writing a single pitch sentence? Would you rather spend $100 and write an entire screenplay that might not get made, or would you rather spend $35 and write a one-sentence pitch? The Film Fund mimics the minimum viable product approach to product development: create something so simple that can still be used to test your business assumptions. Well, we feel there's no need to limit that philosophy to what most people consider product development or business. After all, filmmakers produce creative "products" every day. So why not get started on the creative process by starting with a simple sentence?
Refine your project.
If you've already got a project started for which you'd like to submit for funding, that's great, too. It's always a helpful exercise to distill your vision into a simple, easy-to-pitch concept. It's like an elevator pitch, but way shorter. Trust us, having this sentence will help you when producing your project. It's like a logline, but it also makes you think about how your use of funding will strengthen your project's producibility. You can even use The Film Fund for post-production funds for a film you've already shot.
The Film Fund offers our short film contest at $25 per submission. You can enter as many times and as many pitches as you'd like. We see different entries in each contest period, so if your sentence didn't win in the contest period you entered before, if you enter again, it will be judged against different entries.
