5.4: Fellowships

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Steve Shlisky
Laney College, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, Los Angeles City College via ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI)

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Scholarships for Filmmakers

Fellowships are like scholarships for filmmakers nearing the completion of their college degrees. Many fellowship awardees already hold undergraduate or graduate degrees or are working toward a postgraduate degree. Fellowships differ from grants because they may include a service component related to your project or require a residency. A residency means living and working for a set period as specified by the award. A fellowship offers funding to create specific works. Applicants compete for these prestigious positions, often producing highly meaningful and significant works.

A Small Sampling of Fellowships

What follows isn't exhaustive but will give you an idea of what's out there. These options, mostly documentaries, are just some of the opportunities available.

The Bill Lane Center for the American West:

These Western Journalism and Media Fellowships offer opportunities for journalists working across various media — including newspapers, magazines, radio, television, online platforms, multimedia, video, film, data visualization and mapping, and books. The fellowship allows journalists to visit Stanford, engage with researchers, scholars, and students, develop or work on their own projects, and promote new coverage and understanding of the American West.

Boehm Media Fellowship:

The Boehm Media Fellowships offers opportunities for communication, media, and storytelling experts who are dedicated to social impact and sustainable solutions to poverty and injustice to participate as delegates at Opportunity Collaboration. They look for individuals who, either on their own or through their organizational roles, use media in creative and innovative ways to influence culture, work with communities, and engage with new paradigms and ideas to drive change.

Brave New Fellows Program:

Offers activist storytellers from communities of color and/or economically marginalized communities a one-year, paid opportunity to work with Brave New Films and learn how to create and distribute media that makes a difference. As compensation, each fellow receives $800/week for the duration of the fellowship, medical and dental insurance, and paid time off.

Creative Capital Awards:

A long-term partnership between Creative Capital, artists, and a wider artistic community. Creative Capital supports projects over time, providing connections to expert advice on everything from legal issues to finances, as well as insights and expertise from other artists. The aim is not only to develop groundbreaking work successfully but also to establish more stable and sustainable practices that artists can rely on.

CBA Resident Fellowship Program:

The CBA Fellowship Program provides residencies for artists and scholars from various fields to work on projects that challenge our views on the history, practice, and performance of dance. Fellows do not need to be ballet or dance experts but must have an interest in engaging with the art form. The fellowship includes space, a stipend, and time for intensive work. Additionally, fellows connect with new colleagues and a diverse community of artists and scholars—two groups that don't often intersect.

Fulbright/National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship:

This fellowship invites proposals to conduct a detailed study of a globally relevant issue as part of their Fulbright research or arts project. The National Geographic Society’s focus areas include Oceans, Land, Wildlife, Human History & Cultures, and Human Ingenuity. Storytellers can use a variety of tools—such as writing, photography, video, audio/podcasts, maps, or graphic illustrations—to share their stories.

SFFILM/Rainin Filmmaking Grants:

Awards are granted to multiple projects once a year in the fall for screenwriting, development, and post-production. Besides a cash grant of up to $25,000, recipients receive a two-month residency at FilmHouse and access to SFFILM’s comprehensive and dynamic artist development programs. The program is open to filmmakers in the US and internationally who are able to dedicate time to developing their films in San Francisco.

The Sundance Institute Comedy Fellowship:

Provides targeted support to the next generation of diverse and culturally relevant comedic voices. The fellowship supports one artist or project that will participate in either the January Screenwriters Lab or March Screenwriters Intensive and includes an unrestricted grant and personalized mentorship from FFP staff. Writers or writer/directors developing their first or second fiction feature film are eligible for the fellowship.

Soros Justice Fellowships in Media:

The Soros Justice Media Fellowships support writers, print and broadcast journalists, bloggers, filmmakers, and other individuals with unique voices who propose to complete media projects that engage and inform, foster debate and conversation, and drive change on significant U.S. criminal justice issues.

Writing for Justice Fellowship:

PEN America’s Writing for Justice Fellowship commissions writers—whether emerging or established—to create written works, including screenplays, of lasting significance that highlight important issues related to mass incarceration and stimulate public debate.

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