Film Grants

After participating in the 360 Incubator+ accelerators, projects are invited to participate in our pitching forum, PitchBLACK. Winning teams are awarded up to $150,000 in production funding.

Cinereach develops, produces, finances, and supports feature-length fiction, nonfiction and hybrid films crafted for the big screen. We look for projects (at any stage) that create deep and lasting impressions through story, character, or cinematic approach. We seek to work with both unknown and established filmmakers who may face creative, financial or systemic obstacles to realizing ambitious visions.

Each year, 30 filmmakers from diverse backgrounds are given the opportunity to hone skills, form creative partnerships, create short films and gain industry access needed to succeed as working artists.

FILMMAKERS WITHOUT BORDERS (FWB) supports independent filmmakers around the world via grants and other funding initiatives. Supported projects include narrative films, documentary films, and new media projects that align with themes of social justice, empowerment, and cultural exchange.

Catalyst Grants allow a diverse group of young filmmakers to conceive of a short, innovative and original non-fiction digital project to receive funding and mentorship to bring it to life and kickstart their career.

Diversity Development Fund gives producers of color up to $25,000 in research and development funding so you can develop your documentary for public media.

The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. continues to make grants that encourage emerging artists whose works might have difficulty being aired due to their genre and/or social philosophy.

General Support Grants are available for up to $4,000 to support groups who are building movements for justice and liberation and resisting systemic oppression through grassroots/cultural organizing, art-making and resilience building.

Grants are made to non-Unitarian Universalist groups in the U.S. and Canada that meet all 3 of the following criteria:
*uses community organizing to bring about systemic change* leading to a more just society; and
*mobilizes those who have been disenfranchised and excluded from resources, power and the right to self-determination; and
*has an active, focused campaign to create systemic change.