APPLICANT AND PROJECT ELIGIBILITY
Please review all eligibility criteria below before starting your application. Applications that do not meet eligibility criteria will not advance in the review process.
GENERAL APPLICANT ELIGIBILITY
Before you can access the full application, you will be prompted to fill out an eligibility quiz to ensure you meet all AFS Grant qualifications before applying. You will be required to take this quiz before you start putting together your application materials once you’ve created an account in Submittable.
In order to be eligible to apply for an AFS Grant, you must meet the following requirements at the time of application. If selected to receive an AFS Grant, you may be asked to confirm your eligibility at the time of the offer.
- The AFS Grant is intended to support the artistic community in Texas and keep it thriving. You must be a current Texas resident, who spends more than 75% of the year within the state in order to apply.
- You must be the director or co-director of the project to apply. If you have multiple directors, the “Primary Applicant” must meet all eligibility requirements.
- You can only submit one application per grant cycle, even if you’re a director of one film and a co-director of another.
- You cannot apply to the AFS Grant if the primary applicant is:
- attending school full-time outside of the state of Texas or a former Texas resident
- an out-of-state director working on a Texas-based film
- You cannot apply to the AFS Grant if either the director or co-director are:
- AFS full- or part-time staff
- on the AFS board of directors
- a current AFS Creative Careers participant
- A video sample is required for this application. If the applicant does not have at least ONE of the following to include as a video sample, they are not eligible to apply to the AFS Grant for Feature Films:
- Scene(s) from the film you’re requesting funding for
- Scene(s) from previous work(s) directed by applicant
PROJECT ELIGIBILITY
A project is only eligible if it meets the following requirements for the AFS Grant:
- The length of all feature films must be projected to be 40 minutes or more.
- Projects must be in their pre-production, production, or post-production stage at the time of application. (We do not fund distribution as a separate stage of production. Distribution costs can be requested as part of a post-production ask.)
- All genres of film and video are eligible, except industrial or promotional pieces, music videos, and “works-for-hire.”
- All projects must be single, stand-alone works intended to be distributed alone. Television or web series are not eligible at this time.
ELIGIBILITY FOR PREVIOUS GRANT RECIPIENTS
- If you have received a previous AFS Grant for Feature Films for the same project, you can still apply for a second round of funding for a different stage for that project. AFS Grant for Short Films are limited to one award per project.
- If you have received a previous AFS Grant for the proposed project or another project, in addition to all required materials, you must include a written report demonstrating significant progress on your project since the initial AFS Grant was awarded.
