Women In Film (WIF) is now accepting submissions for its 2019 Finishing Fund. The fund offers grants to female filmmakers who have a rough cut and at least 90 percent of principal photography completed on the submitted project. Short and long-form films of all genres — narrative, documentary, animated, and experimental, etc. — are eligible. Student films and TV/web pilots will not be accepted.
Previous grantees include “Blowin’ Up,” Stephanie Wang-Breal’s documentary about women in criminal justice transforming the way sex workers are indicted, and “The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open,” a narrative feature centering on two Indigenous women from very different backgrounds.
The Finishing Fund is supported in part by Stella Artois. The brand will provide four grants of $25,000 each to “fiction and documentary films that inspire social change, with particular consideration given to films with a water social action theme,” according to WIF. Other Finishing Fund grants will range between $1,000 and $20,000.
You do not need to be a WIF member to apply for the Finishing Fund, but members will receive discounts on application fees. The 2019 deadlines are:
- Early Bird deadline: May 31 (WIF Members $55, Non-Members $80)
- Regular deadline: June 23 (WIF Members $75, Non-Members $100)
- Late deadline: July 14 (WIF Members $125, Non-Members $150)
Recipients will be announced in November.
Find additional details or submit now via FilmFreeway. You can also contact Program Coordinator Whitney Skauge at wskauge@wif.org with questions or for WIF Member Discount Codes.
