Apply for Doc Society Climate Story Fund

• Eligibility criteria:
  – Applicants and projects from all over the world
  – Both new and established artists
  – Creative nonfiction projects, including long form, shorts or episodic documentaries as well as podcasts and radio documentaries in production
  – Completed creative nonfiction and fiction projects of any medium looking to implement an impact pilot
  -Applicants who agree to attend the required virtual Impact Lab programming
• Type of Funding: Programmatic
• Target Countries: Global
• Application Language: English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish

The Doc Society Climate Story Fund is seeking to support compelling storytelling and impact strategies from around the world that can help them envision and realize a just transition. How can the just transition leave no one behind? How can past harms be repaired? How are communities today exploring new pathways for a more safe and just future for all?

The fund is looking for creative nonfiction projects including long form, shorts or episodic documentaries as well as podcasts and radio documentaries that can complete production with support from the Climate Story Fund. The Fund also supports completed creative nonfiction and fiction projects of any medium looking to implement strategic impact activities to engage audiences who are not typically included in the climate conversation.

Funding Information
The Fund will support 6-8 projects with grants ranging between $50,000 to $100,000 per project.

Eligible Projects
The selection process will give preference to:

• climate stories centring the most affected, the unengaged and the underrepresented, and puts them at the centre of the story
• storytellers working in and from those communities, sharing narratives that resonate deeply with new and unengaged audiences, bringing them into critical conversations around climate justice
• projects that embody inclusion and diversity across team and subject matter
• projects that exercise responsible practices when engaging story participants and communities

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