Here is a List of Awesome Short Film Grants that are accepting submissions for you to fund your short film. The opportuńity to establish yourself as a filmmaker has arrived! Just click on the short film funding grants for all the info necessary for your applications.
Short Film Funding
National Film Board of Canada Filmmaker Assistance Program
The National Film Board’s mandate is to reflect Canadian values and perspectives through the production and distribution of innovative Canadian audiovisual works accessible in relevant media of today.
The Film Fund
The Film Fund serves as an alternative to film industry funding platforms such as screenwriting contests, time-intensive grant applications, and crowdfunding campaigns found on websites such as Kickstarter.
Filmmakers Without Borders
Filmmakers Without Borders supports independent filmmakers around the world via grants and other funding initiatives. Supported projects include narrative films, documentary films, and new media projects that align with themes of social justice, empowerment, and cultural exchange.
Panavision’s New Filmmaker Program
Panavision® believes in helping students and beginning filmmakers achieve their dreams.
Moving Image Grant Funds LEF Foundation
LEF invests in documentary film and video projects that demonstrate excellence in technique, originality of vision and voice, and creativity in form.
The Jerome Foundation’s Film and Video Grant Program
The Jerome Foundation’s Film and Video Grant Program is a production grant program for individual film and video artists who work in the genres of experimental, narrative, animation, and documentary production.
The David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists
The film award consists of a grant of $5,000 to a U.S filmmaker 35 or under at the time of application for the production of a short film that will be shown as a private screening with the filmmaker in attendance at the annual foundation event in Salt Lake City the year the grant is awarded.
Women In Film Finishing Fund
The Women In Film Finishing Fund gives grants to filmmakers working in both short and long formats, in all genres — narrative, documentary, animated and experimental.
The Roy Dean Grant/From the Heart Productions Grant
The Roy Dean Summer Grant includes over $30k of in-kind services and products is open for shorts, docs, and features films with a budget under $500,000. We fund compelling stories about little known subjects, historical films, and films that touch hearts.
The Independent Filmmaker Project
IFP’s Fiscal Sponsorship program focuses exclusively on documentary films and other works of nonfiction, short films and low-budget fiction/narrative features (50 minutes+).
To Raise Film Funding from Grants and Investors, you always need a Film Business Plan
