emerging educational filmmaker grant

The LearningTimes Foundation (TLTF) is thrilled to announce the Spring 2024 round of applications for our Emerging Educational Filmmaker Grant. This novel initiative aims to bolster budding filmmakers determined to make educational films by granting them financial support. Through this grant program, we are enabling and empowering emerging filmmakers with the resources they require to develop excellent educational films that resonate with viewers across the globe.

The LearningTimes Emerging Educational Filmmaker Grant is our way of helping to fund those furthering the conversations we have as a society about education, teaching, difference, sameness, value(s), community and the power of learning. The grant provides US-based emerging filmmakerspre-production stages of filming with up to $10,000 to create projects with an education theme.

We know it can be hard to get a filmmaking career off the ground, but with an TLTF grant filmmakers have access to funding that will help them achieve their immediate production goals. The grant program was created to add more voices to the topic of education which is broad, yes, and intentionally so. We’re looking forward to hearing your point of view.

What do we mean by “education theme?”

The LearningTimes Emerging Educational Filmmaker Grant supports projects across genre and type - short films, animation, features, documentaries, and more - which seek to connect people to educational ideas and movements that have lasting positive impact.

Some examples of projects with an “education theme”:

• An animated short explaining an educational topic
• A documentary about a public school board hearing
• A comedy short or feature about teachers (think: Abbott Elementary)
• A short film about an underrepresented historical figure
• A children’s program focused on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics)

LearningTimes prioritizes outside-the-box innovators whose work is focused on growing community and sharing knowledge. We are especially looking for projects that connect to a specific learning community - whether that be a school district, a classroom, a museum, a union movement, immigration scenario, community center or program or more - with a plan to engage with that community through the making of and/or finished product.