Hear from funders that have upcoming deadlines for NY filmmakers - New York State Council on the Arts, Wavefarm and the Jerome Foundation!  Note: If you are a current student, you cannot apply yet - but you will as soon as you're out of school! Get to know who the funders are!

The NYS Council on the Arts supports the visual, literary, media and performing arts and includes dedicated support for arts education and underserved communities - and for 2025, gave out 84 million in grants. TWN was the sponsor of 11 independent filmmakers and artists who were awarded. Their grant application will be available shortly. We will hear from Arian Blanco, program dIrector for the Individual Artist program. nysca.org

Wavefarm is an international transmission arts organization, and also cultivates creative practices in radio and supports artists and nonprofit organizations in their cultural endeavors. Wave Farm provides fiscal sponsorship, consultation, and grants to artists and organizations. They administer a regrant program with NYSCA support, and they have a grant deadline of March 1st. Bianca Felix Biberaj, Wavefarm assistant director will join us. wavefarm.org

Jerome Foundation has a production grant available to NYC early career film directors whose work takes creative risks in expanding, questioning, experimenting with, or re-imagining filmmaking, with a deadline of April 3rd. TA (Truc Anh) Kieu, program officer and Nell Augustin, program strategist will talk about the program. jeromefdn.org

Join us online to find out about these funders, what they are looking for and what constitutes a good proposal for them. Your RSVP will give you a ink to the Zoom meeting on Thursday, February 13th at 6:30 PM ET.

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