Media Organizations
Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF)
The AIVF site offers insight into the industry through its film and video monthly, The Independent. This site also includes discussion boards and information about AIVF's advocacy projects.

Independent Feature Project
The site offers in-depth feature articles about independent film and filmmaking as well as other information and networking resources.

International Documentary Association
The IDA is a membership organization that supports makers of non-fiction film. Their free public site also offers a month-by-month resource for funding application deadlines, as well as information about film events, classes, and more.

MediaRights.org
This site promotes outreach for social issue documentaries. It offers extensive database resources for finding documentaries, non-profit organizations, media makers, and more.

National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture
NAMAC has a huge searchable directory of media organizations and filmmaker-friendly links. The site also offers member-only technical assistance boards and discussion groups.

Sundance Institute
Sundance Institute programs offer financial and creative support for independent screenwriters, filmmakers, composers, and others. Find out more about their "lab" projects and famous film festival.

Printed Industry Publications (also Online)
Cineaste
This quarterly publication focuses on the art and politics of cinema.The site offers a handful of articles online and a brief summary of the archives.

Film Comment
Published bimonthly, Film Comment provides articles on art, entertainment, and the industry of filmmaking. Shortened versions of the print articles are available online.

Filmmaker Magazine
The online version of this print quarterly offers interviews and articles about independent films and filmmakers, it also provides a list of extensive resource links.

The Hollywood Reporter
The industry publication focuses on the business of film, television, and music. The online version includes a message board, resource links, an industry directory, and more.

The Independent
The Web site version provides selected articles about public television, documentaries, productions issues, interviews, and more.

International Documentary Magazine
The monthly periodical covers the current documentary film scene, profiling documentary makers, and funders.

Millimeter Magazine
Specializing in production and post-production of television, film, and commercials. The website provides selected material from the print version as well as a production buyer's guide.

Moviemaker
This magazine covers the art and business of making movies; it also has information on submitting to upcoming festivals.

Variety
A major mainstay of the industry, the website offers breaking headlines and articles about film, television, music, books, and more.

1. Academy Film Scholars Program
   Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences sponsors this $25,000 grant for established film scholars. Download the application.
2. The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Society Foundation
   Offers grants to individual visual artists through two programs: an annual Individual Support Grant and a separate program to assist visual artists in cases of catastrophic events through an Emergency Grant program.
3. Alabama Humanities Foundation - Grants Program
   Non-profit organizations are applicable for grants from this foundation, this site provides the guidelines for the application process.
4. American Antiquarian Society (AAS)
   Call for applications for visiting fellowships for historical research by creative and performing artists, writers, film makers, journalists, and other persons whose goals are to produce imaginative, non-formulaic works dealing with pre-twentieth-century American history.
5. Animating Democracy Initiative
   Read about grants offered by this arts advocacy program sponsored by Americans for the Arts.
6. Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
   Arthur Vining Davis Foundations are dedicated to strengthening America through education.
7. Astrea National Lesbian Action Foundation
   Grants and philanthropic advocacy programs help lesbians and allied community challenging oppression and claim human rights.
8. Ben and Jerry's Foundation
   The Ben & Jerry's Foundation offers competitive grants to not-for-profit, grassroots organizations throughout the United States which facilitate progressive social change by addressing the underlying conditions of societal and environmental problems.
9. Carnegie Corporation
   Many areas of funding includes: education, international peace and security, international development, United States democracy.
10. Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)
    Asian films, articles and filmmaker resources - A non-profit organization dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible by funding, producing, distributing and exhibiting works in film, television and digital media.
11. Center For Independent Documentaries
    CID is a non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to collaborating with independent filmmakers, offering assistance and support in bringing their films to completion.
12. Chicken and Egg Pictures
    Chicken and Egg Pictures are a “hybrid film fund and non-profit production company dedicated to supporting women filmmakers who are as passionate about the craft of storytelling as they are about the social justice, environmental and human rights issues they’re embracing, translating and exploring on film.” Chicken and Egg Pictures has given our over 1 million dollars to filmmakers in the last five years.
13. Cinereach
    Cinereach supports feature-length nonfiction and fiction films that are at the intersection of engaging storytelling, visual artistry, and vital subject matter.
14. Corporation for Public Broadcasting
    Grants open to individuals or institutions in television, research and consulting.
15. Creative Capital Foundation
    Organization provides grants to film, video, and new media artists. Learn how to apply and get profiles of grantees.
16. Fleischhacker Foundation
    The Foundation has two grant making programs: Arts & Culture and Precollegiate (K-12) Education.
17. Ford Foundation
    Broad grants database includes asset building, community development, knowledge, creativity, freedom, peace and social justice areas.
18. The Foundation Center
    Grantseekers, funding research, training and tutorials.
19. Fractured Atlas
    Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists and arts organizations.
20. Frameline
    Frameline's Filmmaker Support Program seeks to provide grants, awards and training to insure that new LGBT films make it to the screen.
21. The Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking
    The Fund is designed to support the creation of original documentary films and videos that promote thoughtful consideration of Jewish history, culture, identity, and contemporary issues among diverse public audiences
22. Funding Exchange/Paul Robeson Fund
    Funding Exchange (FEX) is a leader in the social justice movements. The Activist-Advised Funds of the Funding Exchange directly involve community activists and leaders in philanthropic decision-making.
23. Greenhouse Fund
    The Greenhouse Fund competitively awards grants for industry training and professional development projects for public television professionals.
24. Independent Television Services (ITVS)
    ITVS is looking for proposals that increase diversity on public television and present a range of subjects, viewpoints and forms that complement and challenge existing public television offerings.
25. Indie Gogo
    IndieGoGo, works to enable you to get your ideas funded.
26. International Film Seminars - Scholarships
    Organization sponsors several grants and fellowships for filmmakers interested in the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. Download applications.
27. John D, and Catherine Mac Arthur Foundation
    Foundation fosters the development of knowledge, nurtures individual creativity, strengthens institutions, helps improve public policy, and provides information to the public, primarily through support for public interest media.
28. Kickstarter
    Kickstarter is the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world.
29. Latino Public Broadcasting
    Latino Public Broadcasting supports the development, production, acquisition, and distribution of non-commercial educational and cultural television that is representative of Latino people, or addresses issues of particular interest to Latino Americans.
30. McCormick Foundation
    NMWE is a unique initiative addressing opportunity and innovation, recruitment and retention for women in journalism by spotlighting their ingenuity and entrepreneurial abilities.
31. Native American Public Telecommunications
    NAPT fosters the creation of authentic Native American programming for public television.
32. National Black Programming Consortium
    NBPC seeks projects from producers and directors whose work have the potential for airing on the national or regional public television schedule.
33. National Endowment for the Arts
    The National Endowment for the Arts is committed to encouraging the artists and organizations that participate in advancing and preserving the media arts, and to supporting the production of media art works that celebrate the arts -- visual arts, music, dance, literature, design, theater, musical theater, opera, folk & traditional arts, etc. -- in an engaging and creative manner
34. National Science Foundation
    The National Science Foundation promotes and advances scientific progress in the United States by competitively awarding grants and cooperative agreements for research and education in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
35. NEFilm
    Funding opportunities and links.
36. New York Foundation for the Arts
    Offers financial and informational support to the artists in New York State and throughout the United States.
37. Nextpix
    Mission: produce and distribute quality media content in both traditional and digital formats for theatrical, video/DVD and Internet release.
38. The Open Society Institute's Youth
    The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grant making foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform including youth initiatives.
39. Oppenheimer Camera New Filmmaker Equipment Grant Program
    The Oppenheimer Cine Rental New Filmmaker Equipment Grant Program is a grant to support new filmmakers in producing their first serious film project.
40. POV American Documentary
    Point of View is filmmaker-focused; intent on supporting and presenting the work of today's best contemporary storytellers.
41. Roy W. Dean Film and Video Grants
    From the Heart Productions is dedicated to funding films that are "unique and make a contribution to society".
42. Solaris Entertainment
    Solaris offers a "Finishing Fund" to support fellow indie filmmakers who seek the resources necessary to complete their films. In addition to financing the completion of these films, Solaris offers the expertise necessary to help navigate the post-production waters, enabling filmmakers to get the film they envision to the market in the most effective way. They will assist in the films' promotion, festival strategy, and sales strategy.
43. Sundance Institute Documentary Fund
    The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund is made possible by Open Society Institute. Films supported by the Fund have received widespread distribution to their intended audiences via broadcast and theatrical release.

IFP Independent Feature Film Project
IFP is 29 year-old organization serving filmmakers and film industry members by providing seminars, workshops, screenings and grants.

NALIP - National Association of Latino Independent Producers - Signature Programs
The National Association of Latino Independent Producers offer the Latino Writers Lab for members who aspire to work as professional writers. NALIP also invite applications for the Latino Producers Academy, a ten-day intensive seminar for feature film and documentary projects that are in advanced stages. NALIP also sponsor documentary workshops called Doing Your Doc held in various cities throughout the country.

NAPTE National Association of TV Program Executives
This global, non-profit organization is dedicated to the creation, development and distribution of televised programming in all forms across all mature and emerging media platforms. Projects include NATPE TV Producers Boot Camp and NextGenTV Competition.

PBS Public Broadcasting Service - The Producers Workshop
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in conjunction with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) conduct The Producers Workshop, a competitive seminar that covers a range of production skills open to independent filmmakers.

Sundance Institute Labs
The Sundance Institute offers unique and intensive programs in their Screenwriters, Directors, Theater and Filmmakers Labs.

Tribeca Film Institute
Tribeca All Access (TAA), a program designed to help foster relationships between film industry executives and filmmakers from traditionally underrepresented communities. The TAA Creative Promise Awards come with a prize of $10,000 for narrative and documentary and $5,000 for screenwriting.

WIF Women In Film
Women In Film empowers, promotes and mentors women in the entertainment and media industries. WIF's programs include a Fulfillment Fund Summer Internship Program and Pilot Mentoring Program.