Artist Entrepreneurial Grants recognize the importance of the creative workforce to New Hampshire’s economy. Artist Entrepreneurial Grants support opportunities that will benefit artists’ careers, including the development of business skills, participation in programs to raise the level and quality of their art, and participation in programs that will bring their art to the widest possible markets.

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The Sandbox Fund offers grants, engagement events, and other opportunities for independent artists seeking to explore the intrinsic link between science and culture through innovative nonfiction storytelling. Submissions are accepted at any production phase, from development through post-production.

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The Jewish Film Institute (JFI) Completion Grants support independent film and media arts projects that probe nuanced and surprising corners of Jewish life, history, culture, and identity.

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This year the Climate Story Fund will support 6-8 projects with grants ranging between $50,000 to $100,000 per project. The Fund supports creative nonfiction projects including long form, shorts or episodic documentaries as well as podcasts and radio documentaries, that can complete production with support from the Climate Story Fund. The Fund also supports completed creative nonfiction and fiction projects of any medium looking to implement strategic impact activities to engage audiences who are not typically included in the climate conversation.

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The Sundance Ignite program identifies and supports new voices and talent from the next generation of filmmakers by providing artistic and professional development to advance filmmakers to the next stage in their filmmaking. The yearlong Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship is open to emerging documentary and fiction filmmakers between ages 18 and 25. The fellowship begins with a weeklong lab orienting filmmakers to the fellowship and year ahead. 

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MacDowell provides time, space, and an inspiring residential environment to artists of exceptional talent. A MacDowell Fellowship, or residency, consists of exclusive use of a studio, accommodations, and three prepared meals a day for up to six weeks. There are no residency fees.

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The Points North Fellowship invites up to six teams of early- and mid-career filmmakers to Maine to accelerate the development of their feature documentary, culminating in the public presentation of works-in-progress at the Points North Pitch, where each team pitches their project to leading funders, broadcasters, producers and distributors before a live audience – both in-person and streaming online.

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Six Indigenous artists, scholars, organizers, cultural workers, researchers, or educators will each receive $25,000 and more.

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Long Meadow Art Residency awards solo residencies three months in duration with a stipend of $3,000 per month, and an art supply/transport budget of up to $2,500, provides the use of a car, a house and art studio in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. The residency offers mentoring, support, interaction from the local community and collaboration from a Board of Directors that includes successful artists, gallerists, art historians, and collectors.

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This partnership between Netflix and NewFest supports emerging LGBTQ+ filmmakers. Four filmmakers with documentary, narrative, animated or episodic projects by and about the LGBTQ+ community will each receive a $25,000 grant.

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Each year NXTHVN welcomes up to seven artists and two curators to participate in its paid 10-month intensive Fellowship Program. Each Fellow will receive studio or office space, a stipend, and subsidized housing. Selected from an international pool of applicants, Fellows relocate to New Haven to participate in NXTHVN’s mentorship-driven curriculum which includes professional development sessions led by visiting artists, curators, scholars, and practitioners. Selected Fellows are also matched with a high school Apprentice, for focused one-on-one mutual learning.



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The Bissell Foundation seeks to support the local film community, local film festivals, and generally educating Vermonters about the value of film in our lives and culture. Proposals are accepted between February 1 and March 1 each year.



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The Artist Project Grant ($2,500) and Artist Springboard Grant ($1,500) are designed to support individual Maine artists in various stages of their career. This includes the creation of new or existing work, activities that enhance an artist’s skills or process, participation in programs to raise the level and quality of their work, and supporting ways to bring their art to the public.



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The Chicken & Egg Pictures Research & Development Grant supports women or gender expansive filmmakers from around the world who have directed at least one feature-length documentary and are in the research & development stage of their next feature-length film. Research grants are awarded at $10,000 and Development grants at $20,000.

Project: Hatched will provide grants of $30,000 each to 10 women or gender expansive directing teams from around the world, who have plans to strategize, build, and launch an impact campaign for their film. 

The film must have been completed and premiered between April 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024.

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The Studios is MASS MoCA’s artist and writers residency program situated within the museum’s factory campus and surrounded by the beautiful Berkshire Mountains. Operated by MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists department, the residency runs year-round and hosts up to 10 artists at a time. Artists of any nationality can apply for stays of 2 or 4 weeks.

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Artists in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island can still sign up for free Winter/Spring 2024 Assets 4 Artists workshops.

Documentary filmmakers and producers are invited to pitch their projects in late development at Sunny Side of the Doc 2024 in La Rochelle from June 24-27. This event offers a platform for diverse documentary categories, with access to international decision-makers and expert mentoring.

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Make Art Grant (MAG) provides grants of up to $3,000 for Rhode Island artists to create or continue specific artwork in any discipline.

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Creative Capital welcomes innovative and original new project proposals in visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms. The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants up to $50,000 which can be drawn down over a multi-year period, bespoke professional development services, and community-building opportunities.

Applications open March 4.

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The Vermont Arts Council is now accepting applications for its annual Creation Grant, which supports artists or artist groups in creating new work. Grant funds may be used to compensate artists for time spent creating new work, to purchase materials, or to rent equipment or space for the process.

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