About the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund

2010-09-15

submissions closed

The Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund provides finishing funds to feature-length documentaries which highlight and humanize issues of social importance from around the world. Funded films are driven by thoughtful and in-depth storytelling, bolstered by a compelling visual approach. As mainstream media moves away from in-depth coverage of world affairs, domestic issues and social conflicts, the documentary has become an important and much needed tool to draw attention to the serious issues facing our world today. At the same time, the craft of the documentary is expanding in exciting directions, merging diverse points-of-view with new technologies and responding to the immediacy of the internet.

Funding

In 2012, the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund, through the Tribeca Film Institute, offered grants totaling $150,000. Eight projects from a record 697 submissions from 56 countries were selected by a jury consisting of Marshall Curry, Jesse Dylan, James Franco, Barbara Kopple, Andrea Meditch and Robin Wright. The committee chose the recipients from finalists selected by TFI. In addition to funding, grantees will each receive year-round support from TFI, including one-on-one guidance and consultation, helping each film to reach completion and enter the marketplace in the best possible position.

The grantee projects for the 2012 Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund are:

(Directors Katy Chevigny & Ross Kauffman)
God Loves Uganda (Director Roger Ross Williams)
First to Fall (Director Rachel Anderson)
Mercy Mercy (Director Katrine W Kjaer)
Two Children of the Red Mosque (Director Hemal Trivedi)

In its second year, the PPR Corporate Foundation for Women’s Dignity & Rights has once more joined the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund for the Spotlighting Women Documentary Award, which annually provides funding of $50,000. Three film projects that illuminate the courage, compassion, extraordinary strength of character, and contributions of women from around the world have been chosen for the award.

The projects for the 2012 Spotlighting Women Documentary Award are:

Alias Ruby Blade (Director Alex Meillier)
Stargazing (working title) (Director Berit Madsen)
The Supreme Price (Director Joanna Lipper)

Read more about all eight projects.

Guidelines

The Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund seeks feature-length documentaries that are in production or post-production with the intended premiere exhibition in late 2013 or 2014. Eligible films highlight the most critical, important stories affecting the world we live in today told in a humanizing, illuminating way. We are looking for films which challenge the status quo not just as it pertains to subject matter but also in form. Films should be able to exist on multiple distribution platforms and should resonate with a wide audience.

Questions

For more information about the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund, please visit our Rules and Regulations and FAQs, or contact us at contact us at documentary@tribecafilminstitute.org or 212.274.8080 x28.