Frameline LGBTQ+ Film Grant Completion Fund

The Frameline LGBTQ+ Film Grant Completion Fund provides grants up to $5,000 to emerging and established filmmakers and is a source of financial contributions to artists who often struggle to secure funding to complete their works. Films submitted should represent and reflect LGBTQ+ life in all its complexity and richness.

The Fund supports documentary, narrative, experimental, animated, and episodic projects about LGBTQ+ people and their communities.

The Fund also seeks to bring new work to under-served audiences; with this in mind, we especially encourage applications by women, people of color, transgender people, intersex people, asexual people, non-binary people, disabled people, and other underrepresented people and communities.

For over a quarter century, Frameline has provided more than 140 grants to help ensure that LGBTQ+ film/video projects are completed and viewed by wider audiences.

Annual Submission Deadline: October

More Info: https://www.frameline.org/year-round/filmmaker-support/completion-fund

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Film Grant Deadlines Rolling/Various Application Deadlines

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Festival Grants
• Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) Film Grant
• British Film Institute Film Grants
• Canada Council for the Arts
• Conservation Media Group Film Grant
• Film Independent Filmmaker Grants and Awards
• Independent Production Fund Canadian Film Grant
• Independent Television Service (ITVS) Film Grant, TV and Documentary Funding
• Michigan Council for Arts, Culture And Film Affairs
• New York Foundation for the Arts Film Grant
• New York State Council of Arts Film Grants
• Rooftop Films Filmmaker Grants NYC
• Roy Dean Film Grant Awarded by From the Heart Productions
• San Francisco Film Society Film Grant
• Screencraft Film Grant (Jan/March/June)
• Film in Singapore Film Grant (FSC)
• Sundance Film Grants
• Tribeca Film Institute Grants
• Women In Film | Film Finishing Fund Grant (WIFF FFF)

Film Grant Deadlines Spring

• Austin Film Society Film Grants
• Chicago Digital Media Production Fund (April)
• Derek Freese Documentary Fund (April)
• Filmmakers Without Borders Filmmaking Grants (June 1)
• Intercept Documentary Film Grant (June 1)
• Shore Scripts Short Film Fund (May)
• Princess Grace Film Awards (May)
• Miller Packan Documentary Film Fund (May)
• Women In Film | Film Finishing Fund Grant (WIFF FFF) (May/June/July)

Film Grant Deadlines Summer

• Filmmakers Without Borders Filmmaking Grants (Aug 1)

Film Grant Deadlines Fall

• Frameline LGBTQ+ Film Grant Completion Fund (Oct)
• NYC Womens Fund for Media, Music and Theatre (Oct)
• Miller Packan Documentary Film Fund (Nov)

Film Grant Deadlines Winter

• Filmmakers Without Borders Filmmaking Grants (Jan 1)
• JDC Archives Documentary Film Grant (Feb)
• Creative Capital Film Video Grant (Feb)
• UK Jewish Film Grants (Jan)