Our Grants

We are delighted to offer two grant opportunities to the filmmakers in the MNFF community.

Travel Fund Grants

Our Travel Fund is open to all accepted filmmakers who are considering attendance at our annual festival. We welcome requests for travel grants from any filmmakers who seek assistance. Accepted filmmakers will receive instructions for applying for travel funding at the time they are invited to the festival.

Franklin Film Development Fund

The Franklin Film Development Fund awards a $10,000 matching grant in each round to a filmmaker whose narrative script is selected by our review panel.  The submission process is open exclusively to MNFF alumni.

The Film Development Fund’s $10,000 grants are awarded on a matching basis. Selected filmmakers will have up to eight months following the announcement of their grant to raise the $10,000 matching amount. A successful match will trigger the release of the Fund grant.

The MNFF Franklin Film Development Fund originated with a significant donation from Churchill and Janet Franklin, longtime supporters of the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, and is named in recognition of their extraordinary generosity.