PERMISSION GRANTED: SIFTMedia 215 Grantwriting Workshop

SIFTMedia 215 Collective

Grants are a great way to jumpstart a film project and garner support for your work. Learn how to navigate the process and get the money!

Never leave free money on the table. Grants are an excellent way to jumpstart a film project and garner support for your work. But many independent filmmakers are reluctant about the process. Have you applied for grant? Do you hate asking people for money? If you answered YES or NO, to the previous questions, this workshop is for you!How do you describe an unusual project to a potential funder? How do you decide how much to ask for? How do you determine which fund to apply to, or who to ask for support? In this SIFTMedia 215 Live Grantwriting Workshop, we will explore these issues.If you are interested in taking the workshop, please send your name, a brief project description, and general budget overview to siftmedia215@gmail.com, with SIFTMedia 215 Live Grantwriting Workshop in the subject header.SIFTMedia 215 Live Grantwriting Workshop:<ul><li>Learn Your Own Story by Practicing Your Elevator Pitch (for Individual and Institutional Funders)</li><li>Researching potential funders</li><li>What is a fiscal conduit and why you should have one</li><li>Outline for creating a proposal</li><li>Meet your peers, learn from them, and create community</li><li>Create strategies for laying the groundwork to know your funders</li></ul>If time permits, these are other topics we will cover:<ul><li>How to make a timeline for your project and a grant cycle calendar</li><li>Making a low, medium and high budget for your project</li><li>Crafting a bio and work sample that showcases your talent</li><li>Creating a team that appeals to funders and works well for you and your project</li><li>Keys to writing a proposal that is engaging</li><li>How to assemble the elements you need to apply for grants</li>About the Instructor: Nadine Patterson has been making independent films through Harmony Image Productions since 1995. She has received grants for projects and fellowships from The Philadelphia Foundation, The Independence Foundation, The National Black Programming Consortium, The Bartol Foundation, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Leeway Foundation, the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and Independence Public Media Foundation. Her most recent film project We Are Free Because of Harriet Tubman screened at the 9th Edition of BlackStar and the 2020 SF Doc Film Festival.</ul>

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