📔The Work-In-Progress Support Grant 2025 offers $5,000 in flexible funding to a midcareer, underrepresented documentary filmmaker with a socially relevant feature-in-progress.
Benefits:
👉🏾 $5,000.
Deadline: 30 April.
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📸The Global Peace Photo Award 2025 invites photographers of all ages and backgrounds to visually explore the question: What does peace look like? This prestigious international competition honors powerful images that capture the essence of peace, non-violence, equality, and human dignity.
Benefits:
👉🏾 $7,900.
Deadline: 18 May.
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🎥Are you a filmmaker? As director and producer, you’ll shape the creative vision, oversee post-production—from editing to final cut—and ensure the documentary delivers a powerful, polished story ready for festivals and distribution.
Benefits:
👉🏾 $20,000.
Responsibility:
👉🏾 Deliver a 10-minute scene-based work sample and a detailed post-production budget that showcase the project’s artistic vision, narrative direction, and visual innovation.
Deadline: 7 July.
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🎥Film Independent’s Documentary Story Lab (Spring) and Producing Lab (Fall) are a week-long intensive programs that support nonfiction filmmakers at key career stages. The Story Lab helps directors in late production or early post with creative feedback, editing support, and mentorship, ending with a pitch to industry execs.
Benefits: N/A
Deadline: 5 May.
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📸The 2025 Poetry London Prize is open to poets around the world writing in English, welcoming original, unpublished poems of up to 80 lines in any style or subject. Whether emerging or established, poets are invited to submit their best work for a chance to be judged by acclaimed poet Victoria Kennefick and win significant cash prizes. Entry is via Submittable, with reduced fees for subscribers and free entry available for writers from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds.
Benefits:
👉🏾 $9,000
Key Responsibility:
👉🏾 Submit one original, unpublished poem (max. 80 lines) in English, uploaded as a separate document in .doc, .docx, or .pdf format.
Deadline: 30 June.
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📝The Andrée Blouin Prize is seeking powerful, original nonfiction manuscripts by African women (cis or trans) writing from a leftist perspective on history, politics, or current affairs. Writers must be over 18, based on the African continent, and submit unpublished, English-language manuscripts of up to 50,000 words. Benefits:
👉🏾 $2,000
Deadline: 30 April.
The Landmark Creativity & Innovation Event 2025 invites daring creators, visionaries, and changemakers to showcase bold, original projects that push boundaries and spark new possibilities. Selected participants will pitch live at the “Dare to Create” event, competing for ecosystem prizes, visibility, and investment opportunities.
Benefits:
👉🏾 ₦1,000,000
Key Responsibility:
👉🏾 Submit a bold, original creative or innovative project ready to be pitched live to a panel of judges and investors at the Landmark “Dare to Create” event.
Deadline: 30 April.
O Rumo do Fumo is offering a month-long residency in Lisbon for emerging artists working in dance and/or performance. Selected residents will receive a €1,000 grant, four weeks of studio space, partial logistical reimbursement, artistic guidance, and the opportunity to present a work-in-progress to the public.
Benefits:
👉🏾 $1,100.
Deadline: 2 May.
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As a resident or associate artist at Triangle-Astérides, you will embark on a journey of research, creation, and professional growth within a vibrant contemporary art center in Marseille. With access to a dedicated studio, curatorial support, peer collaboration, and interactions with visiting art professionals, you will have the opportunity to develop new work or further enrich your existing practice.
Benefits:
👉🏾 $1,100.
Deadline: 9 May.
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As a resident at A4 Residency Art Center in Chengdu, China, you’ll take part in a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary experience—collaborating with local communities, institutions, and global artists to create and showcase original work. You’ll explore ideas at the intersection of art, community, and commerce, while engaging in public events and cultural activities.
Benefits:
👉🏾 $1,300.
Deadline: 31 October.
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Circolo del Design is inviting young designers under age 35 to apply for the Earthrise 25 Residency in Turin, Italy—a program exploring design’s role in reshaping democracy amid global change. Guided by curator Vera Sacchetti, the selected resident will collaborate with local experts and receive a €1,500 fee, travel and accommodation, up to €4,000 in production funding, and a workspace at Circolo del Design.
Benefits:
👉🏾 $6,200.
Deadline: 5 May.
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