Are you making a film for the Open Frame Film Fest this year? If so, you're probably eligible for a production grant (or mini-grant) from the Communication Arts Department.
We've moved our grant request deadline to November 30th at midnight, so there's still time for you to apply.
Because there are so many (meritorious) films in the mix this year already, we’re planning on funding projects ranging from $100 mini-grants to (potentially) $1000 grants. This year, the Open Frame Film Fest will fund projects based on similar criteria to previous years.
This year, we are asking students to pitch their projects to us by making their own KICKSTARTER projects. The amount of funding you request from the Communication Arts Department grant should only be HALF (or less) of the total funds you try to raise for your kickstarter project.
Whether or not your kickstarter project is successfully funded will NOT affect your funding from our department, but in order to apply for funding at all, you MUST prepare and submit a kickstarter project.
We believe that crowd-sourcing and developing an audience for your short film across the lifecycle of your production process will be an important part of media production regardless of context in the new-media environment where we live, so we view this new step in pre-production to be a key part of your educational experience.
So get started! Review the criteria we'll use to judge the projects, check out a bunch of kickstarter pages (you may want to check out indiegogo pages too, though we recommend kickstarter because of their fee structure) , and then go ahead and make your own.
Production mini-grant and grant applications will be due on November 30th by midnight.
