Film Resources
ESSENTIALS
DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVALS
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ADDIS INTL FILM FESTIVAL
ETHIOPIA -
Afghanistan Human Rights Film Festival
AFGHANISTAN -
AFI DOCS
DC -
AFRICANBAMBA HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FEST
SENEGAL -
AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Palm Springs, CA -
WOMEN VOICES NOW
Los Angeles, CA -
ANTENNA DOCUMENTARY FILM FEST
AUSTRALIA -
Bamenda Human Rights Film Festival
CAMEROON -
BERLINALE
BERLIN -
Berlin International Film Festival
GERMANY -
BIG SKY DOCUMENTARY FILM FEST
Missoula, MT -
CAMDEN INTL FILM FESTIVAL
Camden, ME -
CHAGRIN FILM FEST
Chagrin Falls, OH -
CHILE DOC
CHILE -
CINE DROIT LIBRE
BURKINA FASO -
Cine Migrante
ARGENTINA -
CPH:DOX
DENMARK -
Derecho a Ver (The Right to See)
COLOMBIA -
Ditshwanelo Human Rights Film Festival
BOTSWANA -
DOCAVIV INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
ISRAEL -
DOC NYC
USA -
DOC POINT- Helsinki Documentary Film Fest
FINLAND -
DOCS BARCELONA
SPAIN -
DocsDF
MEXICO -
DOCUDAYS UA INTL HUMAN RIGHTS FEST
UKRAINE -
DOCUMENTAL AMBULANTE
MEXICO -
DOCUMENT INTL HUMAN RIGHTS FESTIVAL
GLASGOW, UK -
DocumentarIST
TURKEY -
Dokufest
KOSOVO -
Dubai International Film Festival
UAE -
Durban International Film Festival
SOUTH AFRICA -
EDINBURGH INTL FILM FESTIVAL
Scotland, UK -
Festival Izerfan Human Rights Film Festival
MOROCCO -
FESTIVAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS FILM
SPAIN -
THE FESTIVAL OF LIBERTIES
BELGIUM -
FIFIDHO
NIGER/ France -
FiSahara- Western Sahara Intl Film Festival
ALGERIA -
FLASHPOINT Human Rights Film Festival
INDIA -
Free Your Minds
CAMBODIA -
FREE ZONE film festival
SERBIA -
FULL FRAME FEST
Durham, NC -
Grupo Chaski
PERU -
Guth Gafa Intl Documentary Film Festival
IRELAND -
HOT DOCS
CANADA -
Human Rights Arts & Film Festival (HRAFF)
AUSTRALIA -
Human Rights Film Festival of Barcelona
SPAIN -
Human Rights Cinema
TOGO -
Human Rights Film Festival
San Francisco, USA -
Human Rights Human Dignity Intl Film Festival
MYANMAR -
The Human Rights Human Wrongs
NORWAY -
Human Rights Nights Film and Arts Festival
ITALY -
Human Screen
TUNISIA -
IndieLisboa
PORTUGAL -
IDFA
THE NETHERLANDS -
International Film Festival on Human Rights
ARGENTINA -
FESTIMO
BOLIVIA -
Intl Film Festival of Memory Truth and Justice
GUATEMALA -
Intl Forum on Human Rights Facing the UN
SWITZERLAND -
International Film Festival WATCH DOCS
POLAND -
International Images Film Festival for Women
ZIMBABWE -
INTL MADRID DOCUMENTARY FILM FEST
SPAIN -
Karama HRFF
JORDAN -
Kashish Mumbai Intl Queer Film Festival
INDIA -
KIN International Women Film Festival
ARMENIA -
KOMAS Freedom Film Festival
MALAYSIA -
Llamale H
URUGUAY -
MakeDox
MACEDONIA -
Manya Human Rights International Film Festival
UGANDA -
Mis Me Binga
CAMEROON -
MOMA’s Intl Fest of Nonfiction Film and Media
Ramallah, NY -
MOVIES THAT MATTER
THE NETHERLANDS -
THE NAPLES HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL
ITALY -
Nuremberg Intl Human Rights Film Festival
GERMANY -
One World
CZECH REPUBLIC -
One World Romania
ROMANIA -
One World Slovakia
SLOVAKIA -
Opin Yu Yi Human Rights Film Festival
SIERRA LEONE -
The Palestinian Mobile Cinema
PALESTINE -
Papua New Guinea Human Rights Film Festival
PAPUA NEW GUINEA -
The Paris Human Rights International Film Festival
FRANCE -
Pesaro Film Festival
ITALY -
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA -
Rolling Film Festival
KOSOVO -
Sarajevo Film Festival
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA -
Seoul Human Rights Film Festival (SHRFF)
SOUTH KOREA -
SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST
UK -
Side By Side
RUSSIA -
Stalker Fest
RUSSIA -
Tenemos Que Ver: Intl Film Fes of Human Rights
URUGUAY -
THESSALONIKI INTL FILM FESTIVAL
GREECE -
This Human World
AUSTRIA -
TOPANGA FILM FESTIVAL
TOPANGA, CA -
Tri Continental Film Festival (TCFF)
SOUTH AFRICA -
TRUE/FALSE
Columbia, MO -
Truth Cinema (Sine Totoo) Film Festival
PHILIPPINES -
Unabhängiges FilmFest Osnabrück
GERMANY -
UNAFF
Stanford, CA -
UNHCR Refugee Film Festival (RFF)
JAPAN -
Unspoken Human Rights Film Festival
Utica, NY, USA -
Vermont International Film Festival (VTIFF)
Vermont, USA -
Verzio
HUNGARY -
VISIONS DU REEL Intl Film Festival
SWITZERLAND -
ZagrebDox
CROATIA
DOCUMENTARY FILM FUNDS
- J. Muste Institute
- Alabama Humanities Alliance
- Alaska Humanities Forum
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Alter Cine Foundation
- American Documentary Film Festival
- America’s Media Makers (AMM) Development Grant
- America’s Media Makers (AMM) Production Grant
- Annie E Casey Foundation
- Antarctic Artists and Writers Program (National Science Foundation)
- ARRI Film Independent Camera Grant
- Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
- Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers
- Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice: U.S. General Fund
- MacArthur Foundation
- Bay Area Video Coalition
- BRITDOC Documentary Journalism Fund
- BRITDOC Connect Fund
- BRITDOC: Puma Catalyst Awards
- British Council Travel Grant Fund
- The California Documentary Project (CDP) — (NEH)
- Catapult Film Fund
- Creative Capital
- Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)
- Center for Independent Documentary
- Chicago Underground Film Festival
- Chicken & Egg Pictures
- Film and Television Charity
- Collabor8te
- Connecticut Humanities Fund
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
- CPB: The Greenhouse Fund
- Creative England
- Creative Europe
- Creative Europe
- Delaware Humanities Forum: Opportunity Grants
- Eurimages
- Film Council
- Film London: Microwave
- Filmmaker Support Program (FSP)- National Film Board of Canada
- The Fledgling Fund
- Fritt Ord
- Ford Foundation
- Ford Foundation Justfilms Initiative
- Frameline Completion Fund
- Fulbright U.S. Student Program
- Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund
- Hartley Film Foundation
- Herbert Bals Fund
- Hot Docs-Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund
- iFeatures
- Illinois Arts Council: Artstour Grant
- Impact Partners Funds
- Indiegogo
- International Documentary Association (IDA)
- International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA): BERTHA Fund
- ITVS Commissioned Funding
- ITVS Diversity Development Fund
- Japan Foundation New York office (JFNY): Grant for Arts and Culture
- Jerome Foundation
- John D. Rockefeller Foundation
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- Latino Public Broadcasting
- LEF Foundation Moving Image Fund
- Maine Humanities Council
- Maine Humanities Council: General Humanities Community Outreach Grants
- Maryland Humanities Council Opportunity Grants
- McKnight Fellowships for Media Artists
- Media Alliance
- Miller Packan Film Fund
- Movies that Matter
- Naked Edge Films (NEF): Capital Investment
- NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA)
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Black Programming Consortium
- Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT): Producer Opportunity Fund
- New Mexico Humanities Council
- New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
- Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
- North Carolina Humanities Council
- One World Media
- Oppenheimer New Filmmaker Grant Program
- Oregon Production Investment Fund
- Pacific Pioneers Fund
- Pacific Islanders in Communications: Media Fund
- Pare Lorentz Doc Fund (IDA)
- Public Media Content Fund (PMCF)
- The Puffin Foundation
- Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
- Rooftop Films: Filmmaker Fund
- Rhode Island Council for the Humanities
- The Roy W. Dean Grant
- San Francisco Film Society
- Screen Australia: Documentaries International Program
- Screen Institute Beirut: Film Fund
- Scottish Documentary Institute
- Shaw Media-Hot Docs Funds
- HLH Family Foundation
- Sundance Institute Documentary Fund
- Swiss Visions Sud Est
- Telluride Mountainfilm: Commitment Grant
- Tribeca Film Institute (TFI): Documentary Fund
- Tribeca Film Institute (TFI): Latin America Media/Arts Fund
- TFI: New Media Fund
- TFI: All Access
- Unitarian Universalist Funding Program: Fund for a Just Society
- Virginia Foundations for the Humanities
- Vision Maker Media: Public Media Content Fund
- Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
- Welcome Trust
- Women in Film
