Grants & Awards
About Grants & Awards
Each year Cinereach grants over $500,000 to well-crafted feature-length films that depict underrepresented perspectives, resonate across international boundaries, and spark dialogue.
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Storytelling, complexity, creativity, visual artistry, character...
Cinereach’s ethos favors good storytelling over didacticism and complexity over duality. It supports films that demonstrate creativity, visual artistry and take a character-based approach.
Grants range from $5,000 – $50,000 and are awarded to films at any stage, including development, production, post-production, audience building and distribution. There are two letter of inquiry deadlines per year (Summer and Winter), after which a selection of applicants are invited to submit full proposals. The Cinereach grants committee meets twice a year to review the proposals. Each cycle, between five and 15 projects are selected to receive support.
Independent of our two yearly grant cycles, the Cinereach Award is a $5,000 prize presented annually to one completed film that exemplifies the Cinereach mission. Traditionally the winners have been selected in connection with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival via an internal nomination process.
Please note: the Cinereach Grants department is not currently accepting letters of inquiry seeking organizational support.
See How to Apply and Priorities and Guidelines for more.