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TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund; Aug 1 Deadline!

FINAL DEADLINE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 1

TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund

Where Great Films Meet Great Science

Overview

The TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund will provide up to $140,000 in support of innovative and compelling filmmaking that explores scientific, mathematical, and technological themes and storylines, or a leading character who is a scientist, engineer, innovator or mathematician in fresh ways.

We are seeking exceptional narrative work of all genres (except science fiction or fantasy) with scientifically accurate themes or characters.
The TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund does not offer funding to short films or documentaries.

Past projects that have received funding for screenplay development through the TFI/Sloan Partnership include outstanding screenplays about Rosalind Franklin, Hedy Lamar, Richard Feynman, Edwin Hubble and Ramanujan, as well as many comedies.

Funding

The Tribeca Film Institute will award multiple annual grants ranging from $10,000 - $40,000 in 2008, totaling $140,000.

Financial support is given with the goal of helping a film at any stage progress towards completion, and is available in three categories:

1. FINISHING FUNDS
This category will award up to $40,000 in finishing funds towards post-production, to help the filmmaker complete specific post-production processes on the film. These processes can include sound editing, negative cutting, transfer to film, printmaking costs, and other items necessary to the film's post-production deliverables. This award is meant for films that are close to completing post-production with the goal of completing it for distribution.

2. DISTRIBUTION FUNDS
This category awards up to $30,000 in distribution funds towards self-distribution and promotion of a completed feature length film, with an emphasis on creative and innovative distribution models.

3. DEVELOPMENT FUNDS
This category awards up to $40,000 towards project development, to help the filmmaker commission a screenplay based on a treatment idea, option literary material for adaptation, commission a rewrite of an earlier draft, retain a casting director to attach talent to help secure funding or similar areas that will bring the project closer to production.

Projects & Eligibility

The TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund is seeking feature-length narrative film projects that creatively question the role of science and technology in everyday lives, and depict the lives of scientists, engineers and mathematicians in new ways.

Projects can be at any stage of development, production or post-production, and we will consider treatments, finished screenplays, works-in-progress (films that have commenced production) as well as completed films seeking distribution.

Student projects or films in the science-fiction genre will not be eligible, although prior award recipients from the Sloan Foundation's Film School or Film Festival Programs are encouraged to apply.

Selection Process

Feature-length narrative projects are accepted through an open-call for submissions on withoutabox.com. Projects will be judged for their quality and accuracy in portraying scientific ideas.
Selections will be decided by an Award Committee comprised of notable filmmaking talent; technical experts in the fields of science and technology; and Tribeca Film Institute staff.

Grantees will be announced no later than October 1, 2008.

If you have any questions as to the eligibility of your project, please email program staff at tfisloanfund@tribecafilminstitute.org.

Visit http://www.tribecafilminstitute.org/sloan/fund/17388354.html for Submission Rules & Regulations.

Entry Deadlines & Fees

Submissions open June 2, 2008
Submissions close August 1, 2008 (postmark)