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Find similar grantsVision Maker Media Public Media Fund is sponsored by Vision Maker Media / Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Funds public media film and television projects representing Native American and Alaska Native cultures, experiences, and perspectives. Includes acquisitions fund for completed projects and Creative Shorts Fellowship for emerging Native filmmakers.
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Vision Maker Media Submission Manager Vision Maker Media’s mission is empowering and engaging Native people to share stories. We envision a world changed and healed by understanding Native stories and the public conversations they generate.
THE PREMIER SOURCE OF PUBLIC MEDIA BY AND ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS SINCE 1976 Vision Maker Media works with VMM funded producers to develop, produce, and distribute programs for the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). We support training to increase the number of Native Americans and Alaska Natives producing public broadcasting programs.
A key strategy for this work is in partnerships with Native Nations, organizations, and Native communities. Welcome! Below you will see all of our current opportunities.
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Native Youth Media Project Guidelines for Native Youth Media Project to Native Youth Media Project Creative Shorts Fellowship Guidelines for Creative Shorts Fellowship to Creative Shorts Fellowship The Creative Shorts Fellowship supports Emerging Native filmmakers to produce a short film: documentary, drama, experimental, or animation piece; and supports a mentorship with a career professional film producer or director.
Emerging Native filmmakers find their own mentor for their project. Film professionals, Native or non-Native, may also submit a proposal—following criteria and eligibility—to mentor an Emerging Native filmmaker in the production of that emerging filmmaker’s short film. Emerging Native filmmakers must choose their mentor prior to applying and film professionals must choose their mentee prior to applying.
Topic ideas may be about Native cultures, values, histories, contemporary life, environmental justice, youth, elders, and/or Native empowerment. All applications must additionally have a social justice theme. Guidelines: https://drive.
google. com/file/d/1dkFInhRD_vv9pLvDgTZC0mtbBJ-j_3WQ/view? usp=sharing Vision Maker Media (VMM) invites proposals for the Creative Shorts Fellowship.
We are seeking creative short film format proposals by and about Native Americans and Alaska Natives for production funding that nurtures and encourages new and creative innovative storytelling. We want you tell your story in a uniquely imaginative, inventive, and artistically experimental way to represent the cultures, experiences and values of American Indians and Alaska Natives.
At VMM, we empower and engage Native People to tell stories. Founded in 1976, Vision Maker Media, a nonprofit 501(c)(3), receives major funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. All aspects of our programs encourage the involvement of young people to learn more about careers in the media—to be the next generation of storytellers.
For more information or questions, contact info@visionmakermedia. org or 402-472-3522.
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Native American and Alaska Native filmmakers; projects must be appropriate for public media broadcasting including PBS platforms Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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