Apply Now: Made of Truth – BFI Doc Society Short Film Fund (UK)

Benefits

• As well as working with filmmakers prior to and during production, they may also advise awarded filmmakers on:
  • finding screening opportunities, regionally and further afield
  • potential collaborators for the project
  • festival strategies for the finished project
  • other means to gain industry exposure.

Funding Information

• Made of Truth provides grants of up to £25,000 towards the production and post production costs of non-fiction short films or immersive projects.

Eligibility Criteria

• They welcome applications from director-producer teams, but cannot accept applications from a director who is also acting as the dedicated individual producer of a project. In each case, both the individual producer and the director (and, if applicable, any dedicated writer of the project) must be UK resident.
• Applications can be submitted by a project’s dedicated individual producer or, if no producer is attached to the project yet, by the project’s director, who in each case will be considered the ‘project lead’. The project lead will be the main point of contact for Doc Society regarding the application.
• Made of Truth welcomes new talent in the documentary industry. Both the director and producer (and, if applicable, any dedicated writer) of the project can be new to documentary filmmaking, but they will need to be able to demonstrate a broader creative track record as part of the application.
• Immersive work can be produced and experienced using a range of technologies, including but not limited to virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, location based experiences, 360-degree experiences and interactive or web based non-fiction work.

Review Criteria

• They will apply the following six priorities when reviewing applications:
  • Equity, diversity and inclusion: addressing under-representation in perspective and representation, talent and recruitment, agency and opportunities, widening the range of voices and audiences served.
  • Impact and audience: supporting projects with a strong cultural or progressive impact for audiences.
  • Talent development and progression: supporting early career filmmakers (producers, writers and directors) and projects with a reasonable proportion of early career cast and crew.
  • Risk: supporting projects that take creative risks.
  • UK-wide: increasing the number of projects and filmmakers outside London and the South East, looking at location and representation.
  • Environmental sustainability: addressing sustainability both creatively and practically.

For more information, visit Doc Society.