PREPARING THE PROJECT PROPOSAL

Share with us your creative vision and the story behind your next documentary. Your submission should clearly outline what you plan to accomplish with this grant. To apply for the Lab, please compile all required information into a single PDF document.

• Cover Letter (Download here): Place this as your proposal's cover page. The information should give readers a clear overview of your project.

• Project Proposal: Provide details about your project and address the questions below to help us better understand your idea. There's no required format for the proposal, feel free to be creative. Including images will help illustrate your concept more clearly. Submit your proposal to FilmFreeway.

• Description and Objectives of Your Project: What are you going to do? What are you going to achieve?

• Evaluation and Outcome Measures: How will you measure the success of your project?

• Communications: If you are the Grant Award Recipient, how will your project be communicated to the public beyond screening at FIFF?

• FIFF Partnership: How will you utilize the mentoring and other resources offered by FIFF as part of the Grant Award?

• Schedule: What is your project timeline?

• Budget: How will you utilize/allocate the grant award?

• Portfolio: Show us each individual involved in the project your past works and accomplishments. We are interested to know you more.

The project proposal will be reviewed based on the following criteria:

• Creativity and uniqueness of the described Project

• Achievability/Execution (Feasibility of the Project, overall budget size, likelihood the Project will be able to be completed as outlined)

• Applicant documentary background and abilities

Eligibility:

• The Lab is only open to United States residents

• This Lab only supports documentary short films in pre-production, production, or post-production, with a runtime of 42 minutes or less.