Many opportunites offered - updated listing from IFP website + Archival Listings
 

San Francisco Filmmaking Society (SFFS) announces landmark grants totaling $3 million for SF Bay Area narrative feature films. As part of the Film Society's new filmmaker services programs, and thanks to the generosity of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, SFFS is pleased to announce the new San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants, which, over the next five years, will disburse a series of annual grants totaling $3 million for narrative feature films being made in the San Francisco Bay Area. The grants, which run 2009-13, will be awarded in the spring and fall of each year.

The first winner will be at the Golden Gate Awards during the San Francisco International Film Festival.

More info at: www.SFFS.com

 KQED's Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories

In the spirit of expanding its commitment to diverse voices and viewpoints about our Golden State - California, KQED's Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories reaches out to the independent film community to find feature-length documentaries about California. Now in its fifth season, KQED is looking for 4 completed films and 1 nearly completed film. For more information, please visit the Truly CA web site at www.kqed.org/trulyca

 The Going Green Film Festival wants your script!

FINAL DEADLINE: AUGUST 15, 2010

Submit script if it is: a SCREENPLAY, a script written for TELEVISION, or SHORT with TOPIC/THEME
related to third world issues, nature, wildlife, environment, OR features a HYBRID vehicle, bicycle, public transportation, etc.

PRIZES:
* Two (2) Tickets to a Red Carpet Hollywood Movie Premiere, After-Party
* Inktip: Free listing in Executive Index, Placement of Logline in Magazine and Newsletter to over
4500 Executives
* Studio-style notes from TheScriptLab.com
* Screenwriter 6 Software
* Segway of Santa Monica tour for 2! Drive your Segway along the beach or take a guided tour!
* VIP Gift Bag
* Industry Exposure

HURRY, FINAL DEADLINE IS AUGUST 15, 2010
www.GoingGreenFilmFestival.com

 

Chicken and Egg Pictures: Open Call for Submissions
Chicken & Egg Pictures is a hybrid film fund and non-profit production company dedicated to supporting women filmmakers who are as passionate about the craft of storytelling as they are about the social justice, environmental and human rights issues they’re embracing, translating and exploring on film. We match strategically timed financial support with rigorous, respectful and dynamic mentorship, creative collaboration and community-building to nurture women filmmakers whose diverse voices represent a range of lived experience and realities that have the power to change the world as we know it. Since founding in 2005, Chicken & Egg Pictures has provided approximately $1M in funding to over 50 women-made films. This open call is for non-fiction projects (unless otherwise solicited) - that are dedicated to progressive social change -- both short and feature length, "webisodes", animation, experimental and multiplatform new-media hybrids. Click here for more information and to apply.
 

IDA Documentary Awards - Early Deadline June 11, Final - July 7
The IDA Documentary Awards honoring outstanding non-fiction work in 2009 will be presented in Los Angeles on December 4. Submissions are now being accepted in the categories of Feature, Short, Limited Series, Continuing Series, Student Film, and four additional Special Recognition Awards. Submissions accepted at Withoutabox.com.
 

The Jesse Thompkins III Foundation for Young People in the Arts 
JT3 Art is seeking aspiring screenwriter/directors who demonstrate talent, passion, work ethic, and a deep-seated need to make art, but have room to grow and need this grant to help make that growth possible. Applicants must be residents of Brooklyn, NY. At least one $2,000 JT3 Artist Award, and one or more grants under $2,000 will be awarded.
 

Cinereach Funding 
July  is the deadline to submit an application for The Reach Film Fellowship, a program through which Cinereach provides a $5,000 grant, sponsorships, mentorship and industry exposure to four young filmmakers making socially conscious short films. The program is for recent film school grads and self-taught filmmakers at an early stage in their careers.
 

The  Annual Urbanworld Film Festival
Film Submissions: June 
Urbanworld Film Festival, presented by BET, is the leading showcase for urban, ethnic, and multicultural cinema. Over the past 12 years, the festival has presented over 700 features, shorts and documentaries, with annual attendance reaching 15,000. Urbanworld is one of the world's largest competitive film festivals, whose mission is to redefine and enhance the roles of multicultural constituents in contemporary cinema. T

Ultimate Filmmaker Competition
Regular Submission Deadline: June  
Get your film produced and distributed with this dynamic, all-inclusive filmmaking competition that will launch and/or establish your life as a filmmaker. The winning entrant will have their feature film produced and distributed and will receive a minimum $200,000 cash grant along with resources for a total value of more than $500,000. And it doesn’t stop there. The film will be distributed on multiple platforms simultaneously – theatrical, cable and online - for maximum global exposure.

Woodstock Film Festival
Final Deadline: June
The annual Woodstock Film Festival (Sept) is currently accepting submissions in all categories. Maverick Awards are presented for Best Feature ($5000 cash), Best Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Best Short Film, Best Student Film, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Animation. Cash, prizes and/or services are given out in each category. Audience Awards are presented for Best Feature and Best Documentary. Award sponsors have included The Lee Marvin Estate, the late James Lyons, Lowel-Light, Apple Computers, Final Draft, Post Factory, A&E Indie Films, Docurama, Kodak, Baseline, Markertek, and others.
 

Annual Hamptons International Film Festival
Late Deadline: June 
The Hamptons International Film Festival was founded to celebrate Independent film - long, short, fiction and documentary - and to introduce a unique and varied spectrum of international films and filmmakers to our audiences. The Festival is committed to exhibiting films that express fresh voices and differing global perspectives, with the hope that these programs enlighten audiences, provide invaluable exposure for filmmakers and present inspired entertainment for all.
 

POV's 2010 Call for Entries
Deadline: June 
P.O.V., public television's premier showcase for independent, nonfiction film seeks programs from all perspectives to showcase in its annual national PBS series. All subjects, styles and lengths are welcome.