• #Grant Environmental journalists, you have one day left to submit a proposal for a report that exposes unsustainable practices in the Mediterranean Sea. The Earth Journalism Network wants to hear issues about the deep sea, illegal fishing and biodiversity loss amongst other things. 🐟🔎Deadline: April 25th, 2023.

• #Pitch The Hollywood Climate Summit Pitchfest for Film and TV is looking for climate-related production ideas! And there’s only three days left to apply. SO, what do you have for ‘em? 🗨️🧍Deadline: April 27th, 2023.

• #Prize Journalists worldwide can submit their eligible stories for the European Commission’s Lorenzo Natali Media Prize and stand a chance to win €10,000. Interested? You have four days left to craft your submission. 🏆 Deadline: April 28th, 2023.

• #Fellowship The Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship is open to early career writers, and provides $35,000 in grant money and access to industry expertise📓. Deadline: April 28th, 2023.

• #Grant The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) is offering financial support to South African filmmakers of all levels for their audiovisual productions or training costs. 📺🇿🇦 Check it out here. Deadline: April 28th, 2023.

• #Grant Apply for the Roy W. Dean short film grant. Submit your cover letter, proposal, social media plan, crew information, cost estimates and sample work before the deadline closes! 🫱Deadline: April 29th, 2023.

• #Mentorship The Prince Claus Fund and Goethe Institut are looking for professionals who are using cultural and artistic responses to environmental change. 👐🌍If that’s you, then apply to their open call - because they want to offer €10.000, intensive lab training and opportunities for collaboration and guided mentorship. Deadline: April 30th, 2023.

• #Award Educators and news media organizations (outlets and NGOs) are eligible to be nominated for the News/Media Literacy Award. This award honors front-line teachers in press, and winners will receive programmatic funding🧑🏻‍🏫. Deadline: May 1st, 2023.

• #Funding The Short Film Fund is still open! Emerging filmmakers and screenwriters looking to get their projects funded and produced can apply here. Not only will you get that cash dollar, you’ll also get mentorship from industry experts and more!💰🫡 ​​Deadline: May 2nd, 2023.

• #Lab The Film Independent is hosting a production lab in the first two weeks of October, and you could be a part of it 😉🥼Apply for the virtual workshop asap! Deadline: May 5th, 2023.

• #Funding Here’s a media professionalization assistance program, with programmatic funding, available for Montenegrin journalists. The program is covering themes of media literacy, investigative journalism and freedom of expression. 🕵️ Deadline: May 10th, 2023.

• #Funding The 2023 Asian Network of Documentary (AND) Fund is open for submissions for Korean and Asian films. Check it now! 🌏Deadline: May 15th, 2023.

• #Funding This is a big one, so you better start early. DRL Investigative Journalism in Europe is offering $1,500,000 to organizational projects that support regional investigative journalism in Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia. Deadline: June 30th, 2023. 🌐

• #Journalists Want to start early planning for your studies next year? The Kamal Adham Fellowship is partially covering tuition costs, particularly for Egyptian grads, who want to pursue a Masters in Television and Digital Journalism at the American University in Cairo. Is that you? Apply! 🇪🇬 Deadline: October 17th, 2023 (for the Spring Semester)

• #Grant The Pulitzer Center invites filmmakers and journalists from around the globe to apply for its International Reporting Grants targeted at in-depth, high-impact reporting. 🌎 Deadline: Ongoing

• #Grant Data journalists, this could be your big break! The Pulitzer Center on crisis reporting is offering grants for projects that place a spotlight on under-reported issues. Apply here. 🔦 📈 Deadline: Ongoing

• #Fellowship Are you interested in learning about video production as a profession? Bridges Fellows will receive an immersive 12-week training in workplace literacy, career readiness, and communication skills while gaining experience in video pre-production, production, and post-production. 🐤 Deadline: Ongoing

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The Video Consortium, by and for documentary filmmakers and visual journalists, is rapidly expanding across the globe. Follow along on social, sign up for our newsletter, attend upcoming events — events are FREE for VC Gold members! — and find collaborators near you. Meanwhile, drop the team a line if you're interested in bringing VC to your own community or if you have ideas for new workshops, initiatives, or the like.

As a 501(c)3-registered nonprofit, VC depends on your generosity and support to keep our programs running; support the future of nonfiction video with your tax deductible donation today. ❤️