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The Anthony Radziwill Documentary Fund, administered by IFP/New York, provides seed/development grants for independently produced documentary projects by U.S. resident filmmakers. Deadline for Fall 2004 cycle is September 1, for grants to be awarded in late January 2005. Five grants up to $10,000 will be given in this cycle for documentary projects in development. On-line applications, submission requirements, and complete guidelines for proposals are available at www.ifp.org/docfund. For further questions write docfund@ifp.org or call 212-465-8200, ext 830.

The Anthony Radziwill Documentary Fund provides grants to emerging and established documentary filmmakers in the form of development funds (seed money) for specific new projects. Administered by IFP/New York, the Fund seeks to provide an additional much-needed source of funding for independent non-fiction filmmakers at the earliest stage of new work, traditionally a difficult point at which to secure funding.
The Fund is named in memory of the late Anthony Radziwill, an Emmy Award-winning documentary producer, and was originally established in 2000 by Lee Radziwill and Carole Radziwill to provide a single unrestricted stipend annually to an emerging documentary filmmaker for an outstanding completed documentary feature as part of the IFP Gotham Awards. As of 2004, grants will now be given only to projects at the development stage.

Eligibility
• Grants are given to individuals with creative and financial control on the project.
• Grantee must be a legal resident of the U.S., 18 years of age or older.
• Grants are for non-fiction projects intended to be feature length (over 50 minutes)
• Grants are for projects intended for general audiences and for projects that are intended primarily for wide distribution via theatrical, television and festival markets.

Not Eligible
• International projects for which neither the producer nor director is a legal U.S. resident
• Projects by students in undergraduate or graduate degree programs, or for fulfillment of any course requirement by non-matriculated students
• Projects intended primarily for the educational or industrial markets or for promotional purposes
• Projects for which film or video is not the primary artistic component (work designed to accompany a larger theater piece or multimedia installation
• Individuals & immediate family members who are employees of any IFP chapter, or currently serving as evaluators, panelists, or on the fund Advisory Committee.
• Grantees who have received funding from the Anthony Radziwill Documentary Fund for any grant cycle within the previous two-year period.

• Deadline for receipt of proposals for next grant cycle: September 1, 2004
• Grant recipients for this cycle will be announced late-January 2005

Ongoing deadlines are September 1 and March 1 of each calendar year, with grantees traditionally announced in January and June.