Closing Dates: November
7 and 21
Will you be the next Micro Budget or Development Film Fund
grantee?
The Durban Film Office has kickstarted their next round of
submissions for their Micro Budget Film and Development Film Fund programmes.
All emerging Durban filmmakers are urged to submit their film projects for
Micro Budget Film Funding before the closing date 7 November 2014 and for the
Development Film Fund the 21 November 2014.
Giving local filmmakers a boost with funding and support,
the Durban Film Office, the eThekwini Municipality’s developmental arm in the
film industry, established the Micro Budget Film and Development Film funding
programmes.
The Micro Budget Film programme, of which submission entries
close on November 7, 2014, has been specially created by the Durban Film Office
to equip five fiction feature projects from new and emerging filmmakers with a
R100,000 grant to assist them in producing their films, as well as provide
invaluable insight into learning how to source any additional funding and
resources through a micro-budget model. The programme is set out to provide
filmmakers with in-depth training on significant production factors such as
marketing, sales support, advertising, product placement and sponsorship deals.
Similarly, the Development Film Fund programme, of which
submissions close on the November 21, 2014, provides filmmakers with adequate
funding and support to produce their films. The Development Film fund programme
was established to grant two filmmakers with projects deemed commercially
viable and locally and globally competitive with R250,000 funding to assist the
production of their projects.
“We encourage aspiring Durban filmmakers to take advantage
of these incredible opportunities, as it could be the very break into the film
industry they have been working towards. With the support of the Durban Film
Office and leading film experts; these programmes will lay the foundations to a
successful film making future and take their projects to the next level,” says
Durban Film Office’s Toni Monty.
For more information on the Durban Film Office’s Micro
Budget Development and Development Film Fund Programmes selection criteria and
application process, visit www.durbanfilmoffice.com
or contact Project Manager, Fezile Peko on email Fezile.Peko@durban.gov.za,
or 031 311 4243 or 311 4788.
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