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 for Short Films 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.
To be eligible to apply for an AFS Grant for Short Films, 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 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 is:
- 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 Short 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 for Short Films:
- The length of all short films must be less than 40 minutes.
- Projects must be in their pre-production, production, or post-production stage at the time of application. (The AFS Grant for Short Films does not fund development or distribution expenses.)
- 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 previously received the AFS Grant for Short Films for a project, you are not eligible to re-apply for another AFS Grant for Short Films for that same project.
- If you have received a previous AFS Grant for another project, in addition to all required materials, you must include a written status report demonstrating significant progress on your project since the initial AFS Grant was awarded.
