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Award for Excellence in Animation
Eligible: Class of 2025 3D or VFX students
Funds applied to: 2024-2025 academic year, Senior 3D or VFX Thesis production
Applications open: Monday, April 1, 2024
Applications close: Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 11:30 p.m.
Frame 48 is a boutique 3D and VFX house founded by Tom Teller, a Dodge alumnus who has offered opportunities to many of AVE graduates since founding the company eight years ago. This year, Frame 48 is offering three grants of $1,000 to three Class of ’25 AVE Senior Thesis projects that include 3D or VFX emphasis AVE majors. The funds can be used to pay for expenses related to Senior Thesis I, II and III that are approved as part of the budget submissions at the end of Thesis I this Spring. Please complete this form before April 21 to be considered for this fantastic opportunity.
Winners will be announced on May 7, 2024 at the end of the Senior Thesis Screening.
Submit your application using the Award for Excellence in Animation Application form.
Jim Deck Memorial Award
Eligible: Producer-initiated Undergrad Thesis Projects
Funds applied to: Thesis production
Applications open: Monday, Sept. 25, 2023 (2023-24 academic year)
Applications close: 8:00 a.m., Friday, Oct. 20, 2023
The Jim Deck Memorial Award is a need and merit-based award available to undergraduate students to be used towards production costs related to their producer-initiated narrative senior thesis project. The purpose of this grant is to provide the valuable resources needed for production in the amount of $3,000.
Submit your application using the Jim Deck Memorial Application form.
Jeff Dolen ’04 Social Issue Documentary Award
Eligible: Undergraduate/Graduate Documentary students
Funds applied to: Thesis production
Applications open: Application for the 2023-24 academic year TBA
This award is open to applications for undergraduate and graduate thesis documentaries that focus on social and political injustice. Applications will be evaluated for quality of story as well as production need and/or merit. One student production will receive $1,500 that can be used to offset production costs, including, but not limited to travel costs, equipment rental, location costs, and post-production fees.
Leo Freedman First Cut Fellowship in Film Grant
Eligible: Graduate & Undergraduate filmmakers (Narrative and Documentary)
Funds applied to: Thesis production
Applications open: Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023 (2023-24 academic year)
Applications close at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023.
This grant provides funding for unusual or special production-specific expenses incurred in the making of a Graduate Thesis or Senior Thesis (Narrative and Documentary) production. A special expense is defined as an expense that is out of the ordinary in relation to usual production costs. In the past, grants have been awarded to offset the cost of a process trailer, an unusual location, accommodations and per diem for a distant location shoot, cast airfare, and stunt coordinator among others.
Grants range from $500-$3,000 and will be awarded to a limited number of projects. Projects can submit retroactively for funds, but will be considered alongside all project submissions at that time.
Though the deadlines below list a specific cycle number, this is just a recommendation for each cycle. Projects can also submit retroactively for funds, but will be considered alongside all project submissions at that time.
Awarded funds will be disbursed in the first week of Spring Semester 2024.
Submit your application using the Leo Freedman Application Form.
Senior Thesis Producer Initiated Award
Eligible: Undergraduate Filmmakers
Funds applied to: Senior thesis production
Applications open: 2023-24 applications are now closed. Applications open annually during the Spring semester as part of the Senior Thesis Script Submission Process. Prospective Seniors should monitor their student email accounts for detailed notices of submission deadlines in Spring.
The Senior Thesis Producer Initiated Award provides funds for senior thesis projects originated by a producer. Producers must be Creative Producing majors with junior standing who are eligible to enroll in Senior Thesis the following fall. The final story idea submitted must have originated from the producer, whether it be an original concept/script or an underlying property discovered by/originated with the producer. The script cannot be written by the director. The producer maintains creative control of the project, has final cut, and is financially responsible for the project. At the time of submission the producer must have a senior thesis eligible director attached to the project in order to be considered. Directors attached to a producer initiated project will not be permitted to direct a second senior thesis project. This award submission process is administrated by Production Management as part of the yearly spring semester senior thesis script submission process for the following academic year. Award funds are tied to the specific project submitted, and should the project be abandoned, access to the funds will be surrendered. In the past awards of up to $7,500 were awarded to projects.
Women of Chapman Endowed Student Filmmaker Award
Eligible: Undergraduate Narrative filmmakers
Funds applied to: Thesis production
Application open: Applications are currently open
Application close: 8:00 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023
Application Form
The Women of Chapman Endowed Student Filmmaker Award is a need and merit-based award available to undergraduate students to be used towards production costs related to their upcoming senior thesis project. This award provides the valuable resources necessary for productions that have a unique concept and/or distinctive opportunity intrinsic to the development of the story. Selection process requires an application, an in-person pitch to the donors, and attendance to their summer luncheon.
Zonta Awards
Eligible: All student filmmakers
Funds applied to: Thesis production
Applications open: Monday, February 19, 2024 (2023-24 academic year)
Applications close: 8:00 a.m. on Friday, March 8, 2024
Application Form
The Zonta Awards are open to all graduates and undergraduates including narrative and documentary filmmakers. Award One is given to a female student who shows exemplary skills to be successful in the film industry. Note: this is to the individual, not any project. Award Two is given to a thesis production that helps raise awareness of women’s issues. This award is retroactive to the beginning of the Fall semester. The Zonta Awards are handed out during the annual Women in Focus Conference.
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