Other Grant Resources

There is no one right way to seek funding, as your approach will be dictated by your material and the type/amount of funding required for your project.

This means there is no magic list of funding resources out there waiting to be discovered. However, we do find ourselves recommending certain resources over and over, so we have collected those here for your convenience.

AFS Funding Documents

Grantwriting 101 by Anne del Castillo

Proposal Boilerplate by Elizabeth Peters

Other Funding Resources

"43 Ways to Finance Your Feature Film:
A Comprehensive Analysis of Film Finance"
John W. Cones

"The AIVF Guide to Film & Video Distributors"
by Kathryn Bowser
Co-published by the Association of Independent Video & Filmmakers
and the Foundation for Independent Video & Film.

"Clearance and Copyright"
by Michael C. Donaldson.

"Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out"
by Jed Dannenbaum, Carroll Hodge and Doe Mayer.

"Digital Moviemaking"
by Lynne S. Gross and Larry W. Ward

The Foundation Center, www.fdncenter.org

The Grantsmanship Center, www.tgci.com

Humanities Texas www.humanitiestexas.org
The Independent Film and Video Monthly
published by the Association of Independent Film and Videomakers
212/807-1400, www.aivf.org

Independent Television Service (ITVS), www.itvs.org

Independent Feature Project, www.ifp.org

International Documentary
published by the International Documentary Association
213/534-3600, www.documentary.org

National Endowment for the Arts, http://arts.endow.gov

New York Foundation for the Arts, www.nyfa.org
P.O.V., www.pbs.org/pov

Release Print
published by the Film Arts Foundation
415/552-8760, www.filmarts.org

Rebel Without a Crew:
Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000
Became a Hollywood Player
by Robert Rodriguez.

Regional Foundation Collections:
13 libraries of funding resources (primarily for non-profits) are located across the state of Texas. Call Austin's Hogg Foundation at 512/471-5041 for your local listing, or try www.hogg.lac.utexas.edu/RFL/default.html

Shaking the Money Tree:
How to Get Grants and Donations for Film and Video
by Morrie Warshawski, www.warshawski.com

Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA), www.arts.state.tx.us/

Texas Film Commission, www.governor.state.tx.us/film

A comprehensive line of publications on practical issues of indie production is available from Michael Wiese Productions. Check out FILM AND VIDEO BUDGETS, and THE INDEPENDENT FILM AND VIDEOMAKERS GUIDE at www.mwp.com