ITVS Humanities Documentary Film Fellowship for Pandemic-Affected Filmmakers and Humanities Scholars

FAIN: ZIN-283373-21

Independent Television Service (San Francisco, CA 94107-1535)
Tamara Gould (Project Director: May 2021 to October 2023)
Eric Martin (Project Director: October 2023 to January 2026)
Sreedevi Sripathy (Co Project Director: January 2022 to January 2026)

A grant program resulting in 20 individual awards to provide relief from the coronavirus pandemic to un/underemployed independent documentary filmmakers in the humanities through stipends and mentoring by specialized humanities content advisors.

ITVS Humanities Documentary Film Fellowship for Pandemic-Affected Filmmakers will provide 12-month stipends to 20 independent documentary filmmakers and 10 content advisors who work in the humanities, have been unemployed or underemployed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and represent diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, and points of view. The goals of this fellowship program are to: 1) remedy pandemic-driven impacts that threaten to derail the careers of diverse documentarians working in the humanities; 2) address pandemic-driven disruption to the pipeline of essential humanities documentaries from this filmmaking community; and 3) support the advancement of a new generation of underemployed and underrepresented filmmakers who are telling important missing stories in the humanities documentary field at a time when more inclusive, supported, and sustainable voices are needed.