Join us for this in-person workshop at NOVAC on Wednesday January 11th from 6-9 PM

  • The documentary funding landscape, including realistic budget numbers, pathways to funding and options to be wary of

  • The core documentary app for grant funding

  • Labs, fellowship programs and pitches

  • Fundraising materials: treatments, sizzles, decks

  • Key concepts in funding - hard vs soft money, equity, donations, fiscal sponsorship, rights, co-productions

  • Responsible fundraising and donor relationships, crediting and follow up

Instructor

Documentary Instructor

Darcy McKinnon

Darcy McKinnon is a documentary filmmaker based in New Orleans. McKinnon’s recent work includes the upcoming docuseries Algiers, America (NOFF22 Audience Award Winner, Hulu), Sundance 2023 short Under G-d (dir. Paula Eiselt), Hulu’s Look at Me! XXXTENTACION (dir. Sabaah Folayan, SXSW 2022 ) and the Emmy nominated The Neutral Ground (dir. CJ Hunt, Tribeca 2021, POV). McKinnon is currently in production on Nailah Jefferson’s Commuted, Katie Mathews’ Roleplay, Jason Fitzroy Jeffers’ The First Plantation and Suzannah Herbert’s Natchez. Her prior work (A Fine Girl, Animals, Maquilapolis and Live Nude Girls, UNITE!) has screened and been broadcast internationally, and has been supported by SFFILM, CAAM, Chicken and Egg, Firelight Media, ITVS, Black Public Media, Sundance Institute and the Tribeca Film Institute.

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NOVAC members get a discount on all Indie Filmmaker Courses.