
Applications are now open for the Hot Docs-Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund’s 2012 funding cycle. Created to help enable more African documentary filmmakers to tell their own stories and to contribute to a new generation of the African documentary community, the Fund awards development grants of $3000 - $8000 and production grants of $5000 - $40,000 to four to 10 projects annually.
In addition to financing, the program offers filmmakers valuable resources to support production and professional development, and provides filmmakers opportunities to access the international documentary community and market.
Applications are open to professional filmmakers who are citizens and residents of continental African countries who live and work in the region.