Open Call (Government, Public, and Private Foundations)
Armed With A Camera Fellowship (public + community-specific)
CPB (Corporation For Public Broadcasting) (public)
Creative Capital (private)
ITVS (Independent Television Services) (public)
LA-CAD (Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs) (government)
Pacific Pioneer Fund (private - currently not accepting applications)

By Nomination (Private Foundations)
Herb Alpert Awards
MacArthur Foundation Fellow Program (AKA "Genius Award")
The Program for Media Artists (Discontinued in 2008)

Completion Grants
Center For Cultural Innovation ARC grant
Experimental Television Center (see Residencies)
Frameline Completion Fund (community specific)

Community Specific
CAAM (Center for Asian American Media)
Frameline Completion Fund (see Completion Grants)
Armed With A Camera Fellowship (see Open Call)

Activist/Community-Based Projects
California Community Foundation
The Funding Exchange (Dissolved in 2018)


Many of these are administered through non-profit (501C3) organizations

Residencies & Travel Grants
Banff Center
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Experimental Television Center
The Fulbright Program (CIES)

Other Resources
Alliance of Artist Communities
Atlantic Center for the Arts
California Arts Council
Center for Independent Documentaries
The Durfee Foundation
Ford Foundation Media, Arts, and Culture Grants
Candid (formerly The Foundation Center)
Freewaves
NAMAC (National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture)
Sundance Institute
RES ARTIS
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Womenarts.org
Women in the Director's Chair

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