What We Do
The Producers' Circle
Where Visionary Creatives Shape the Future of Documentary
The Producer's Circle is Video Consortium's invitation-only group of creative leaders and innovators who support our mission — through both funding and strategy — to grow our global impact and shape the future of storytelling.
Contribution opportunities range $4,500 — $250,000.
Your tax-deductible involvement has a dual impact:
- 50 percent directly supports VC’s on-the-ground work: connecting, training, and uplifting nonfiction video storytellers across the globe.
- 50 percent goes into VC's Circle Fund: a grant program for innovative short-form video storytelling, distributed with your optional input and insight.
You’ll join a circle of peers from around the world who believe in the vital power of story to connect and inform, who are committed to supporting the next generation — and the media that shapes our world. You'll also get:
- A Seat at the Table: Influence how the Circle Fund is allocated.
- Philanthropic Recognition: Align your name (if you’d like) with a new wave of support for global storytelling and VC’s future.
- Exclusive Invitations: Access to seasonal private dinners and VIP seating at VC's events and screenings.
- Ambassador Status: Elevate your profile as a leader in a fast-growing international media community.
- Global Community: The chance to build real, cross-border solidarity within VC’s global network of nonfiction visual leaders.
The Circle Fund offers grants for innovative short-form documentary journalism with wide reach. Stakeholders play a key strategic role (if they'd like) in shaping the Fund’s vision and priorities, helping to identify and champion projects that align with the mission and values of VC. This grant program is designed with a streamlined, accessible submission process to ensure that applying is straightforward and manageable for filmmakers at all levels of experience and from all corners of the world.
Our society needs more bold, urgent, and risk-taking stories that wake people up — and the visionary storytellers behind them need community, resources, and solidarity. The Circle is a unique and powerful way to stand shoulder to shoulder with a global community of nonfiction storytellers, pay it forward, and ensure that our field remains innovative, vibrant, diverse, and supported. Join Us.
Legacy isn’t in the climb — it’s in the ladder you leave behind.
Join the Producers’ Circle and lift the future.
Our Reach + Impact
VC is a local-first, global nonprofit network dedicated to supporting thousands of nonfiction video creators producing critical work from within their own communities. We operate across the United States, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and have creative representation across 700+ cities and 80 countries, where we connect and support the people who tell the stories that shape public knowledge, elevate diverse voices, and reimagine the possibilities of filmmaking from the ground up.
