Mountainfilm Commitment Grant & Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship 2025 (up to $5,000) – YOA

Deadline: July 16, 2025

Applications are open for the Mountainfilm Commitment Grant & Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship 2025. Mountainfilm is dedicated to supporting documentary filmmakers in telling tales that assist their mission to encourage audiences to create a greater world. They search non-fiction tales celebrating journey, activism, social justice, tradition, atmosphere and indomitable spirit.

The Commitment Grants are centered on supporting documentary filmmakers within the manufacturing or put up-manufacturing levels. Mountainfilm promotes and encourages range behind the digital camera. They welcome candidates from any nation. Funding for this program is supplied by Mountainfilm’s Filmmaker Fund, Borsecnik/Weil Family and Jess Stevens and Stephen Pollard in honor of the lifetime of Isabella de la Houssaye.

The Emerging Filmmaker fellowship gives one filmmaker with a yearlong mentorship, together with edit and story session, networking alternatives and a money award. In addition, the fellowship features a journey to Telluride throughout the pageant over Memorial Day weekend, overlaying journey, lodging and a Mountainfilm go.

Grant

• The Grant Awards will vary from $1,000 to $5,000.

Eligibility

• They settle for candidates from any nation, nevertheless, you have to be presently residing within the United States.
• You are REQUIRED to embody a video pattern or trailer of your present challenge, not than 10 minutes. They favor password-protected Vimeo hyperlinks as an alternative of file uploads.
• They contemplate initiatives in manufacturing or put up-manufacturing solely. Projects which are accomplished, have already been launched, or have screened at festivals is not going to be thought-about. 
• If you’ve beforehand obtained Commitment Grant funding for this challenge, don’t re-apply. If you’ve already utilized for funding with this challenge previously and weren’t granted, you could re-apply provided that there have been substantial modifications.
• They don’t fund accomplished initiatives or influence campaigns.

Expectations

If you’re the recipient of a Mountainfilm Commitment Grant, they anticipate the next:

• Regular updates on progress, 2–3 instances yearly.
• The Mountainfilm brand or identify recognition in movie or challenge credit that corresponds with the extent of assist. 
• A dialogue of premiere consideration with the Mountainfilm programming crew, if the movie is chosen for inclusion on the pageant.
• Depending on the extent of assist and size of movie, they could require premiere standing (Colorado or U.S.) and request the best to display on Mountainfilm on Tour.

Application

Applications shut at 11:59 PM MDT on the final day of the application interval. Incomplete or late purposes is not going to be accepted.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Mountainfilm Commitment Grant & Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship.