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Make It Happen Monday

December, 2022: Upcoming workshops, fellowships, jobs, and opportunities from around the 🌎.

Video Consortium

The Video Consortium December 4th, 2022
Make It Happen Monday

As the year draws to a close, we've curated a list of journalism and documentary filmmaking opportunities just for you. Here's to starting 2023 off strong.


Job Opening alert! ⚠️ The New York Amsterdam News (AmNews) is looking for a full time science reporter to join its Blacklight Investigative Unit.

Deadline: Dec. 5th 2022


📰 The Al Jazeera Fellowship is designed to give journalists and scholars the opportunity to write a 7,000-word research paper on selected fields of journalism.

Deadline: Dec. 7th 2022


The AACR June L. Fielder Prize for Cancer Journalism offers $5,000 to professional journalists who have produced compelling stories to educate the public about cancer.

Applications close soon! 💕

Deadline: Dec. 7th 2022.


🏋🏽 Global Short Docs Forum

16 documentary filmmakers from all over the world will be selected to attend this intensive online training program. Apply today if you’re looking for invaluable training, workshops and masterclasses to help you refine your craft.

Deadline: Dec. 13th 2022


📑 Deutsche Welle (DW) is looking for young international journalists to join their full-time 18 month training program.

Candidates should be interested in switching from journalism to law, science, IT or technology.

Deadline: Dec. 14th 2022


🌤️ The Big Sky Pitch program includes one-on-one pitch training to help you refine your pitch and connect with industry leaders.

Selected projects will receive an All-Access pass to Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and DocShop. Only documentary feature-length works-in-progress are eligible to apply.

Deadline: Dec. 31st 2022


New York Festivals's Television & Film Awards celebrates innovative storytelling from around the globe.

The competition’s 65-year legacy provides a showcase of exceptional work across all genres of entertainment media. Enter the 2023 Television & Film Awards competition and stand a chance to win! 🏆

Deadline: Dec. 31st 2022


BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship: BAVC Media members who are working on their first or second documentary feature can apply for the 2023 MediaMaker Fellowship, which provides 1 year of funding, training and workshops. 🎬

Deadline: Jan. 3rd 2023


ReelAbilities: Submissions for the 2023 ReelAbilities Film Festival Toronto are now open! RAFFTO accepts narrative or documentary shorts or feature films. What’s more, RAFFTO is also looking to showcase Canadian and international films from deaf/ disabled filmmakers 🧏

Deadline: Jan. 3rd 2023


Jewish Story Partners is now accepting applications! 📃

For U.S. citizens in need of funding for a feature-length documentary film.

Deadline: Jan. 13th 2023


The Diane Weyermann Fellowship at Points North is offering documentary filmmakers $100,000 in unrestricted grants, mentorship, a festival retreat, and ongoing professional development.

For filmmakers producing a documentary that highlights stories of moral and ethical urgency.

Deadline: Jan. 13th 2023


Chicken and Egg: Project Hatched 2023 is now calling all nonfiction filmmakers looking for funding. 💵

Deadline: Jan. 17th 2023


U.S-based journalists can still apply for the 2023-2024 Nieman Fellowship programme if they’re interested in pursuing their work at Harvard. 👨🏽‍🎓

Deadline: Jan. 31st 2023 (for U.S. Citizens)


Women, NB and GNC doc filmmakers: get your documents in order because applications for the WIF’s Financing Intensive are opening on Dec.12th 2022. 📝

Deadline: Feb. 13th 2023


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: Unspecified


Kickstarter Long Story Short

Kickstarter is inviting emerging and established filmmakers, film students, and other enthusiastic cinephiles to start thinking now about what they want to launch into the world for the Long Story Short showcase, Kickstarter’s annual celebration of short films. Winners will join an amazing cohort of filmmakers. 🦵🏼🏁

Deadline: March 1st - 31st 2023


Impact Coordinator course in South Africa

Sunshine Cinema and the University of Cape Town have partnered to deliver an online course on impact coordinating for filmmakers. ⬅️ Apply.


🌎 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

The Marshall Project is Hiring!

Check out these vacancies:

Multimedia editor: https://www.themarshallproject...

Audience Director: https://www.themarshallproject...

KXLY 4 News Now is hiring a Director of Streaming and Digital

Apply here: https://careers.journalists.or...

The International Women's Media Foundation is recruiting 👀

Apply for the job as Development Director: https://www.idealist.org/en/no...

Black Start Fest is hiring

Apply for the full-time role as communications coordinator.

https://www.blackstarfest.org/...

The History Channel is hiring a publications manager

Based in the USA. Apply here:

https://aenetworks.wd1.myworkd...

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. ❤️

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