APPLICANT INFORMATION Name(Required)
First
Last
Address(Required)
Email(Required) Your Role(Required) Your Biography(Required) (Limit: 500 words)
What is your gender identity?(Required) Do you identify as transgender?(Required) or any other non-cisgender identity.
Do you think of yourself as(Required) Please select all that apply
What is your racial or ethnic identity?(Required) Please select all that apply
Do you have a disability such as a physical, mental health, sensory, learning, cognitive or other disability that impacts daily living?(Required) You are considered to have a disability if you have a physical or mental impairment or medical condition that substantially limits a major life activity, or if you have a history or record of such an impairment or medical condition.
Do you have a co-applicant?(Required)
CO-APPLICANT INFORMATION [Co-Applicant] Name(Required)
First
Last
[Co-Applicant] Address(Required)
[Co-Applicant] Email(Required) [Co-Applicant] Role(Required) [Co-Applicant] Biography(Required) (Limit: 500 words)
[Co-Applicant] What is your gender identity?(Required) [Co-Applicant] Do you identify as transgender?(Required) or any other non-cisgender identity.
[Co-Applicant] Do you think of yourself as(Required) Please select all that apply
[Co-Applicant] What is your racial or ethnic identity?(Required) Please select all that apply
[Co-Applicant] Do you have a disability such as a physical, mental health, sensory, learning, cognitive or other disability that impacts daily living?(Required) You are considered to have a disability if you have a physical or mental impairment or medical condition that substantially limits a major life activity, or if you have a history or record of such an impairment or medical condition.
PROJECT DETAILS Please choose the type of project you are applying with(Required) Project Status(Required) What is the current status of your project?
Select... Development Pre-Production Production Post-Production
Project Format(Required) Select... Feature Short Other
Genre(Required) Check all that apply.
Story Summary / Synopsis(Required) What is your story and structure? Give an overview of your story, introducing the main characters and potential plot points. Describe the anticipated story structure and narrative trajectory, or potential character arcs for your project. (Limit: 500 words)
Topic Summary(Required) Describe the topic and themes you are exploring in your story. Things to consider: Why are you the best person to make a film about this? Why is this topic important to you? If applicable, how are the themes in your story timely or relevant? (Limit: 500 words)
Artistic Approach(Required) How are you going to tell this story? Describe your creative vision for the finished project – its visual look and feel. Explain your intended use of cinematic language or any particular artistic approach that informs the storytelling. If applicable, mention any creative elements and assets, interactive elements, new technologies or non-traditional mediums that you intend to utilize. Explain how these elements will enhance the experience and interaction between viewers and the world of the story. (Limit: 500 words)
Project Stage and Timeline(Required) Explain the current status of the project. Outline the projected production timeline from the project's current state to the anticipated completion date. Your timeline should cover both the creative and production processes and should detail major project activities, production schedules, and anticipated post-production and release dates. (Limit: 500 words)
AUTHENTICITY Why you?(Required) Why is the core creative team uniquely positioned to make this film? (Limit: 500 words)
Connection(Required) What is the creative team’s connection to the story? What is your creative team’s personal connection to the specific communities your story is about? (Limit: 500 words)
Access(Required) Describe your access to the story and characters. Explain the collaboration with the protagonists and reflect on the film team’s engagement with the community. (Limit: 500 words)
AUDIENCE AND DISTRIBUTION Distribution and Marketing Strategy(Required) Characterize the intended distribution life for your film. Specify plans for festival, theatrical, and/or community screenings, as well as your plans for securing broadcast and/or distribution. (Limit: 500 words)
Intended Audience(Required) Describe the anticipated audience for your project, including any underserved audiences. How do you plan to reach your target audience? How have you addressed the needs and interests of this audience in your film? What is your relationship and access to this community? (Limit: 500 words)
Audience Engagement and Social Impact(Required) Audience Engagement is a strategy designed to activate audiences and constituencies toward specific goals. Not all films are suited for social engagement, but if yours is, what actions do you hope for viewers to take after seeing your film? Potential activities could include organizational partnerships, educational guides, targeted stakeholder/community screenings, social media strategies, multi-platform activity, or social change campaigns. Do you have partnerships with organizations in your issue area already, and if so, how are these relationships informing your project development? (Limit: 500 words)
FUNDRAISING STRATEGY Fundraising Strategy(Required) Describe the strategy for raising the funds necessary to complete the project. Be specific. (Limit: 700 words)
KEY CREATIVE PERSONNEL Bios of Key Creative Personnel Provide brief biographies for the director(s), and if attached, the producer(s), cinematographer, and/or editor. Include notable credits and/or major recognition or award information. For each key creative team member, include information about relevant expertise and the individual's role in the project. Bullet list names and titles of any attached advisors/consultants.
(Limit: 200 words each)
Cinematographer Biography
Additional/Other Biography(s)
WORK SAMPLE/ROUGH CUT A work sample of the current or previous work is strongly recommended.
Briefly describe the sample you are submitting for consideration. What should reviewers be looking for in your sample? If relevant, explain what is present or absent in the sample, and how it will differ as a finished film. How is it representative of the intended story, style, subject, or another aspect of the project? If you submitted a rough cut, what changes or additional material are planned?
Description (Limit: 200 words)
FILE UPLOADS Please upload the documents below. One file per field only. (Note: If you Save and Continue Later, you will have to select your files to upload again before submitting)
Comprehensive Line Item Expense Budget(Required) Please provide a breakdown of your project's projected expenses, from development through release, in U.S. dollars, including a budget total. Provide budget notes for any areas that may be viewed as out of the ordinary or which requires further explanation.
Funding to Date(Required) Provide a list of all sources and amounts raised to date. Distinguish between potential sources of funding and secured amounts. List the status of other sources of funding currently under consideration, whether to be applied for or pending.
Certificate of Good Standing(Required) If you recently formed an LLC then we will accept a copy of you filing with the State.
Project Description(Required) Why is your project needed and what does it do?
Key questions to address include: What is your project’s charitable purpose and mission?
What community do you serve and how? How does the project impact and benefit that community?
What are the specific need(s) the project was created to address?
What are your project’s specific activities? Who carries them out? Where and how often do they take place?
When was your project started and who was involved? (Limit: 700 words)
Project Goals(Required) What are you hoping to achieve?
What do you realistically hope to accomplish by the end of your first year under fiscal sponsorship. Please include a brief status and timeline for the major work you hope to accomplish during your first year of sponsorship.
What are some of your long-term goals?
What are some of the specific challenges your project faces (time or financial constraints etc.) It’s okay to be candid. We understand that new projects face lots of challenges in getting off the ground and we just want to know that you have thought about them! (Limit: 700 words)
Funding Strategies(Required) How will you fund your project’s activities?
What is your overall strategy for raising the funds required to implement the project as described. Who do you plan to approach for funding?
What are your specific short and long term plans for raising funds from sources such as individual donors, foundations, businesses/corporations, government, special events, earned revenue and/or other sources?
What non-financial resources, such as in-kind donations or volunteer support, have you identified? (Limit: 500 words)
Project Leadership(Required) Who will carry out your project and its mission?
Provide a bio for all project leaders. Bios should describe work-related, volunteer or other experiences you and other key people have had that will help you lead your project.
If the key leadership and personnel have already been working on the project in question, what have been their contributions to date?
Your project should have an advisory board or advisory committee. Unlike a nonprofit board, the advisory board does not have legal responsibility for your project (that is the role of the FilmNorth board of directors), however the advisory board members will fulfill some of the roles usually held by a board of directors including resource development, serving as ambassadors for the project and providing oversight and guidance in the project’s activities and dealings. We recommend a minimum of 2 advisory board members in addition to the project director.
Names and descriptions of any additional people who will be working with you closely as volunteers and/or staff. (Limit: 700 words)
Budget(Required) Provide a comprehensive budget for the first year of operations under fiscal sponsorship. Include estimates of all revenue sources and amounts, and all expenses to be paid for with funding received through fiscal sponsorship. We do not require any specific software or format, but the budget should be typed and broken down on a line item basis in the form of a spreadsheet. A budget cover sheet or narrative budget summary alone is not adequate. The budget is a working document and we expect that it will change frequently. It’s okay to use estimates and to update it after your project’s acceptance in the fiscal sponsorship program.
Budget Notes Provide notes or explanation for any unusual line items or budget areas that require further explanation.
Certificate of Good Standing If you recently formed an LLC then we will accept a copy of you filing with the State.
