Cultivating a New Generation of Documentary Producers

In 2015, we launched our Documentary Producers Fellowship with the goal of celebrating the documentary producer, and fostering emerging producing talent in the field.

Over the years, we have recognized the essential creative role producers play in the documentary filmmaking process and found that often they are underappreciated and underserved. We created our Documentary Producers Fellowship to do our small part to support and cultivate a new generation of talented documentary producers.

How to Apply

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Frequently Asked Questions

As the workshops are dependent on our guests’ availability, we will not have a confirmed schedule in advance.

Workshops are a combination of virtual and in-person. Stipends are provided to cover travel for the in-person workshops.

While we welcome producers who have worked together to apply for the same year’s cohort, we consider all applicants as individuals. We require individual nomination and application forms for all applicants.

No. Applicants no longer need to be nominated before applying. However, they will be required to have someone submit a recommendation form on their behalf. The recommendation and the application can be submitted in either order.

We only require one recommendation per applicant. However, you are welcome to ask additional colleagues to send in supplementary recommendations and we will take them into consideration when evaluating your application.

No. In order to be eligible, the applicant must have at least one completed feature or series project.

In order to be eligible, the applicant must have at least one completed feature or series project. For the purposes of this application, we consider ‘completed’ to mean that your project has premiered for a public audience (ie. premiered at a festival, been released by a distributor) or is currently prepared to do so (ie. final post production is complete and a premiere is imminent). If you have a nearly completed feature or series project that doesn’t quite meet these qualifications, please provide a thorough explanation in your application.