Funding Resources and Other Opportunities
Teri Rogers Filmmakers Fund
Teri Rogers Filmmakers grants are for self-identifying women and gender nonconforming early-career directors creating new film, video, and digital production work in the short film, narrative genre (non documentary). The purpose of these grants is to support ambitious projects of risk, growth, and change for the filmmaker that also make a positive impact on the community. This funding is meant to support the process of production (filming) or post-production.
ArtsKC will award one director with $10,000, a five-year membership to Film Independent, a subscription to Movie Maker Magazine, and mentorship opportunities with professionals in the field.
Teri Rogers Filmmakers grants are for self-identifying women and gender nonconforming early-career directors creating new film, video, and digital production work in the short film, narrative genre (non documentary). The purpose of these grants is to support ambitious projects of risk, growth, and change for the filmmaker that also make a positive impact on the community. This funding is meant to support the process of production (filming) or post-production.
ArtsKC will award one director with $10,000, a five-year membership to Film Independent, a subscription to Movie Maker Magazine, and mentorship opportunities with professionals in the field.
Inspiration Grants
ArtsKC Inspiration Grants are an investment in human capital, providing direct support to individual artists and arts professionals for projects and activities that have the potential to advance their careers and build their capacity for future work. These projects exemplify risk, growth, and change. Visual, music, theatre, literary, dance and interdisciplinary projects are the primary focus of Inspiration Grants.
WIFKC Finishing Fund
To apply for the Finishing Fund, the filmmaker must have completed 90% of principal photography and have a rough cut at the time of application. Please note that student projects are not eligible to receive Finishing Funds for their film.
You MUST be a member of a WIFTI chapter in good standing in order to be eligible. If you are not, you can join KCWIFT (for just $35 annually). If you are already a member of a chapter OTHER than KCWIFT, please email president@kcwift.com for a discounted application fee.
WIFKC Fiscal Sponsorship
KCWIFT wants you to make time for your art, not the paperwork necessary to fund it. With their fiscal sponsorship, you can solicit tax-deductible donations and apply for grants without going through process of launching a 501(c)(3). KCWIFT’s fiscal sponsorship program is open and accessible to all of their members, no matter their artistic discipline, and sponsorship is not contingent upon our judgment regarding projects’ artistic quality or merit of your work.
WIFKC Short Screenplay Contest
KCWIFT has partnered with Kansas City FilmFest, to host this annual short screenwriting competition. The goals are to support female screenwriters, as well as to encourage all writers to create strong female protagonists. The contest winners will be eligible to receive prizes that support these goals.
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MoStories Scriptwriting Fellowship
The Missouri Stories Scriptwriting Fellowship is an international competition for screenplays and television pilot scripts with story lines set in Missouri. Submissions for our next session will open Nov. 1 – 15, 2022
Film Society KC Grants / The Robert Altman Emerging Filmmakers Fund
Every year the Altman Fund sends up to 4 qualified candidates through Kansas City’s Artist INC program, which seeks to give artists the tools to better fulfill their creative business goals. The Film Society pays for these classes in the form of education grants so the recipients can go for free. Additionally, the Film Society seeks to raise money through fundraisers and events to give cash grants to filmmakers in the KC and surrounding area so they can better realize their cinematic visions.
