February 2011 Blog Posts (7)

Application Deadline - All application materials, including work samples, must be received by 5:00 PM PST on Monday, April 25, 2011.



Mission and Objective - The 2011 Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund will provide production grants totaling $75,000 to be used in the creation of original, independent documentary films that illuminate pressing issues in the United States. Grants will be made to up to 5 projects that tell a compelling…

The LPB funded program SPEAKING IN TONGUES is screening in Bridgewater, MA, and Berkeley, CA. Don’t miss this award winning documentary about bilingual education in America!



SPEAKING IN TONGUES

Producers: Marcia Jarmel/Ken Schneider

Documentary/60 Minutes



In a…

POV - DIVERSE VOICES PROJECT – Extended Deadline: February 18, 2011



Diverse Voices Project is supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private non-profit corporation funded by the American People. POV's Diverse Voices Project will provide co-production funding, mentorship, and a national broadcast on POV to documentary directors and producers from communities typically underrepresented in the mainstream broadcast…

The LPB funded GRANITO is an official selection of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana and the Documentary Edge Festival in New Zealand.



The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is a unique setting for filmmakers to premiere new work and for audiences to see…

The Tribeca Film Institute is currently welcoming feedback and open collaboration on their submission guidelines for their New Media funding initiative. The submissions will open on April 2, 2011.

About TFI New Media Fund - The TFI New Media Fund provides funding and support to non-fiction, social issue film projects which go beyond traditional screens – integrating film with content across media platforms, from video games and mobile apps to…

The MARIACHI HIGH trailer was posted on the Working Films Channel on YouTube. Here's the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Eav9QvOnc

Produced and directed by Ilana Trachtman, MARIACHI HIGH captures a year in the life of competitive high school mariachi musicians in the top-ranked ensemble Mariachi Halcon in Zapata, Texas – a flash point for the complex issues…

Do you have a personal documentary idea, or social change community project that needs development?

Are you considering public television funding sources or need R&D $$?? 

Join us in Chicago – Feb. 25-27 – Friday night through Sunday at 5 pm

NALIP, CPB, the NEA, Instituto Cervantes of Chicago, and the Full Frame…