The Doc Society Climate Story Fund 2023

The Climate Story Fund encourages captivating storytelling and global impact initiatives that advance a fair and biodiverse future. The fund will provide awards of $50,000 to $100,000 to assist 6–8 initiatives.

The Climate Story Fund gives priority to climate stories that put the most impacted, disengaged, and underrepresented people at the center of the narrative. The Fund also gives priority to storytellers who are active in and from those areas and who share experiences that have a profound impact on unfamiliar and disinterested audiences, therefore engaging people in important discussions about climate justice.

Eligibility:

• Applications must be submitted online via the Doc Society applications portal.
• All projects must be climate themed with an intention to implement an impact campaign. We don’t need you to be an impact expert but open to the idea
• To qualify for production funding, projects must complete production in 2023
• To qualify for impact funding, projects must pilot an impact campaign in 2023
• As part of the grant making for this fund, Climate Story Fund requires all grantees to attend an Impact Lab to connect with impact producers and climate experts, to help develop impact strategies and to craft impact campaigns that are built upon existing expertise and advocacy efforts to engage their intended audiences. Project teams must be able to attend our virtual Impact Lab during the week of 5-9 June 2023

Supported Projects:

• Projects from all over the world, these can be localised stories serving local communities, or projects suited to a global audience
• Projects from 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 pilot an impact campaign

Timeline:

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