Production

National Endowment for the Humanities
Planning and Scripting Grants
NEH supports television documentary programs or historical dramatizations that address significant figures, events, or developments in the humanities and draw their content from humanities scholarship. Projects must be intended for national distribution during prime time hours, whether on public television, commercial television, or cable networks. There are a number of funding opportunities available in this discipline such as the NEH PLANNING GRANTS which can be used to draft a treatment and the SCRIPTING GRANTS which can be used to prepare a script or detailed treatment.

http://www.neh.gov/grants/grants.html

The National Endowment for the Arts
Media Arts
The media arts -- film, radio, and television -- encompass a variety of genres including narrative, documentary, experimental, and animated film as well as video and audio art. The National Endowment for the Arts is committed to encouraging the artists and organizations that participate in advancing and preserving the media arts, and to supporting the production of media art works that celebrate the arts -- visual arts, music, dance, literature, design, theater, musical theater, opera, folk & traditional arts, etc. -- in an engaging and creative manner.

http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/Media.html

The Roy W. Dean Film and Video Grants
Film and Video Grants
The foundation want films that are unique and make a contribution to society. They fund compelling stories about little known subjects, historical films and films that touch hearts. They like films that expose and bring important information to light; they are story-tellers and that is the main criteria for entering and winning our grants, stories that can change and stories that can heal and enrich our lives.

http://www.fromtheheartproductions.com/grant-guidelines.shtml

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Digital Innovation Fellowships
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Digital Innovation Fellowships program supports digitally based scholarly research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. Projects may involve development of new digital tools that further humanistic research (such as digital research archives or innovative databases), research that depends on or is greatly enhanced by the use of such tools, the representation of research that depends on or is greatly enhanced by the use of such tools, or some combination of these features. ACLS does not support creative works (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translations, or purely pedagogical projects.

http://www.acls.org/difguide.htm

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
Academy Film Scholars Program
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) established the Academy Film Scholars Program in 2000 to stimulate and support the creation of innovative and significant works of film scholarship about aesthetic, cultural, educational, historical, theoretical, or scientific aspects of theatrical motion pictures. Each applicant must propose a new work in the English language encompassing some aspect of theatrical motion picture art, science, commerce, history, or theory. Proposed projects may be books, multimedia presentations, curatorial projects, DVD-ROMs, or Internet sites.

http://www.oscars.org/grants/filmscholars/index.html

California Council for the Humanities
California Documentary Project Production Grant
The PRODUCTION GRANT of California Documentary Project supports the work of experienced radio producers and filmmakers that bring to light compelling stories and explore issues related to California's past, present and future. The Council is particularly interested in projects that can be used to spark community discussion.

http://www.calhum.org/guidelines/guidelines_main.htm

California Council for the Humanities
California Documentary Project Research and Development Grant
The RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GRANT of the California Documentary Project enables experienced film makers and radio producers to develop projects that explore issues related to California's past, present and future. California Documentary Project Research and Development Grants cover a wide range of activities, including meetings and individual consultation with humanities scholars, field and archival research, preliminary interviews, and preparation of program treatments.

http://www.calhum.org/guidelines/guidelines_main.htm

California Council for the Humanities
California Story Fund
The mission of the California Council for the Humanities is to foster understanding between people and encourage their engagement in community life through the public use of the humanities. The CALIFORNIA STORY FUND is an on-going grant program that awards competitive grants twice a year for public humanities programs that bring to light compelling stories from California's diverse communities and provide opportunities for collective reflection and public discussion.

http://www.calhum.org/

California Council for the Humanities
Youth Digital Filmmakers
The mission of the California Council for the Humanities is to foster understanding between people and encourage their engagement in community life through the public use of the humanities. The YOUTH DIGITAL FILMMAKERS PROGRAM will involve teens from a variety of communities in making short films about what they see and experience. Award-winning filmmakers and humanities scholars will guide the teens’ efforts.

http://www.calhum.org/

Creative Capital Foundation
Visual Arts and Film/Video
Founded in 1999, Creative Capital acts as a catalyst for the development of adventurous and imaginative ideas by supporting artists who pursue innovation in form and/or content in the performing and visual arts, film and video, and in emerging fields. FILM/VIDEO may include experimental documentary, animation (including vector animation), experimental film/video, non-traditional narrative (in all formats), and interdisciplinary projects. VISUAL ARTS may include painting, sculpture, works on paper, installation, photo-based work, contemporary crafts, public art and interdisciplinary projects.

http://creative-capital.org/application/