Professional Finish Line Grants

What is the professional finishing grant and is it right for your project?

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Does this sound familiar:

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• You’re almost done with your project. Except you need to go back and do ADR...and you’re out of budget so you just have to wait until you can pick-up some extra shifts, freelance to cover the costs...which may take another six months.​

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• To save costs, you’re doing your own color correction. It’s okay but you’d rather hire a professional colorist who would nail it, go ‘above-and-beyond’ in an afternoon but you don’t have the funds. So you’re wasting time and energy on a ‘meh’ outcome

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• You really should hire an experienced marketing creative/designer to develop the concept for posters, key art and marketing materials but are cobbling something in Canva that’s ‘good enough.’

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This grant offers financial support to filmmakers in need of small funding to complete a project in late production phase at a professional level. In other words, stop settling for ‘good enough.’

 

Grants are given for completion or near end phase completion; therefore, projects must have 80% of production finished and be in the post-production phase or ready to begin post as soon as funding is in place.

 

Grant funds may be used for ‘professional-level finishing’ costs such as closed captioning and audio descriptions, editing, special effects, graphics, music licensing, and photo licensing.

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Note: Projects in development, script development, pre-production will not be considered.

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SLFW is accepting applications until midnight of Friday 3/8/25. Do to limited volunteer hours and resources, SLFW will limit the number of applications at 20 entries.

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Click here for Professional Finishing Grant guidelines.

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Click here for last year's winners.