Doc Society – Climate Story Fund
The Climate Story Fund supports compelling storytelling and impact campaigns from around the world that move us closer to a climate just and biodiverse future. The fund will support 6-8 projects with grants ranging between $50,000 to $100,000 per project.
We can support:
- Projects from all over the world, these can be localized stories serving local communities, or projects suited to a global audience
- Projects from both new and established artists
- Creative nonfiction projects, including long form, shorts or episodic documentaries as well as podcasts and radio documentaries in production
- Completed creative nonfiction and fiction projects of any medium looking to pilot an impact campaign
We cannot support:
- Stories looking for development funding or in the pre-production stage
- Fiction stories looking for production funding
Requirements
- Applications must be submitted online via the Doc Society applications portal here
- All projects must be climate themed with an intention to implement an impact campaign. We don’t need you to be an impact expert but open to the idea
- To qualify for production funding, projects must complete production in 2023
- To qualify for impact funding, projects must pilot an impact campaign in 2023
- As part of our grant making for this fund, we require all grantees to attend an Impact Lab to connect with impact producers and climate experts, to help develop impact strategies and to craft impact campaigns that are built upon existing expertise and advocacy efforts to engage their intended audiences. Project teams must be able to attend our virtual Impact Lab during the week of 5-9 June 2023
For more information: https://docsociety.org/climate-story-fund/
Call for applications closes 1 February 2023 at 11:59 PM PST
