Film Florida Friday- Navigating the Film Grant Process (12/13/2024)

Film Florida Friday featuring a discussion about Navigating the Film Grant Process. Panelists will discuss best practices for submitting for grants, finding the best grants for your project, how to stand apart from others, and more.

Film Florida Fridays are free interactive conversations about current topics, initiatives and relationship-building in Florida's screen production industry. These conversations take place one Friday each month at 9:30am EST on Zoom, where industry professionals and up-and-comers are encouraged to gather with a cup of coffee, ask questions and speak directly with industry leaders. Registration is free but required.

CHAT BOX:
From Andrew Bowen : Carole, what is your website?
https://fromtheheartproductions.com/
From John Lux : Don Davis Finishing Fund
https://filmflorida.org/don-davis-fund/
Florida Emerging Filmmakers Fund
https://filmflorida.org/resources/flo...
The Sara Fuller Scholarship
https://filmflorida.org/the-sara-full...
From Jennelle Jordan : Jennelle Jordan
[email protected]
https://womeninfilmfl.org/page-18096
From Carole Dean : www.fromtheheartproductions.com/dashboard will give you an idea of our sponsorship info and links to the 5 grants a year we give
From John Lux : Join Film Florida at https://filmflorida.org/reasons-to-join/
From John Lux : Help us reach our fundraising goal by donating $20.24 for 2024 at https://bit.ly/DonateFilmFL
From John Lux : Listen to the Film Florida Podcast:
https://linktr.ee/filmfloridapodcast
From Ella Helton & Lee Nessel : Are there any resources to learn basic film budgeting/formatting, if there are industry format standards, etc.
From Jon Hodson : Studio Binder has free downloadable templates you can alter for your production.
From John Lux : Next Film Florida Friday
Friday January 31, 2025 at 9:30am ET
Navigating the Film Festival Circuit
https://bit.ly/FFF013125
From Jennelle Jordan : Replying to "Are there any resour..."
WIFT will be hosting a production management and coordinator workshop which will include budgeting - learning Showbiz, Hot Budget, Move Magic, etc.
From Carole Dean : grant list is on www.fromtheheartoroductions under resources tab.
From Jon Hodson : https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/fil...
From Wendy Keeling : IDA has a great list for docs according to date: https://www.documentary.org/grants-di...
From Jon Hodson : Film Miami and other funding sources
https://library.fiu.edu/c.php?g=84254...
From Jon Hodson : Paula, check out A I program Sora just introduced you should investigate AI programs that can help you.
These are very time consuming, and never produce anything over 3 seconds that don’t morph. That’s why the impressive ones like this:
  / ddcbqmsmgyx  
Look great, but the shots aren’t held.
They involve full time prompting and are very derivative. Original work is difficult. They also have terms of use severely limiting what you can produce (horror extremely difficult to generate).
I will say they can be good for proof of concept.
From Yanatha Desouvre : https://valenciacollege.edu/future-st...
From Carole Dean : A wonderful place for finding grants is Candid.org. it costs but you can buy it for $50.00 a month and put your attention on it and you can find scores of grants.
From Amber Nolan : I found this to be a helpful community for discussing film funding: https://www.skool.com/film (Short Film Support)
From Jorge Barba :   / oiforlando  
From Monica Fish : I’m a full sail grad
From Jon Hodson : OIF website https://independentfilmmakers.org/
From Carole Dean : The secret to winning grants is tenacity. Get feedback from your application and do what they suggest then apply again, They will see your intention. Keep applying, some of my winners applied 3 times before they won the grant.
From Yanatha Desouvre : https://igg.me/at/staywithmeshort/x/4...
From Jorge Barba : Specifically for Orlando: https://oifstudio.com/
From John Lux : Join Film Florida at https://filmflorida.org/reasons-to-join/
Help us reach our fundraising goal by donating $20.24 for 2024 at https://bit.ly/DonateFilmFL
Listen to the Film Florida Podcast:
https://linktr.ee/filmfloridapodcast
From Yanatha Desouvre : www.yanatha.com
From John Lux : Next Film Florida Friday
Friday January 31, 2025 at 9:30am ET
Navigating the Film Festival Circuit
https://bit.ly/FFF013125
From Yanatha Desouvre : https://fromtheheartproductions.com/e...