Open Call: Canon Video Grant for Short Film Documentary

Funding Information

• The recipient will be awarded a grant of €8,000 plus the use of pioneering Canon professional video equipment to be made available on loan.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Canon Video Grant – Short Film Documentary is presented to a videographer/photojournalist who wishes to cover a social, economic, political or cultural subject in a journalistic manner, on presentation of a dossier, including the documents and works stipulated.
• The Grant will be given to an individual videographer/photojournalist and not to a group, without any consideration of their nationality.
• The Grant is given in order to allow the winner to carry out the short film documentary reportage which has been presented for the Grant. This short film documentary should not exceed 8 minutes.
• Organisation:
  • Entry is free.

Application Requirements

• The conditions are as follows:
  • Applicants must have completed at least one video reportage (broadcast or not)
  • Applicants must be professional photojournalists/documentary/ video makers
  • Applicants must be able to write and speak in French or English
  • Applicants will offer clear indication of the participation of each co-producer in the financing of the project
• The application dossier will include the following items:
  • A signed application form,
  • A copy of the applicant’s identity card or passport,
  • An affidavit stating that the candidate is a professional photojournalist (attestation of honor written by the photographer/videographer or from an agency, production company, media)
  • A curriculum vitae and/or a biography plus a summary of the main contributing professionals.
  • A note of intention and treatment of the application including a synopsis with a description of the video-reportage project (maximum 2 typed pages). This letter must remain anonymous and must not contain anything that would allow the candidate to be identified.
  • A projected budget for the video-reportage project for which the Grant is to be used if obtained as well as a complete financial estimate of its realization.
  • A video report completed.

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