UPDATED, July 15, 2025: The Way forward for Movie Is Feminine and Neon have introduced the winners of their current Spring 2025 Quick Movie Fund competitors, which IndieWire introduced in April. You’ll be able to learn extra concerning the filmmakers and their works proper right here.
The winners are:
“Bossanova”
Brittany Younger
“Superfake”
Aphrodite Armstrong, River Gallo
“Alice within the Backyard”
Casey Niccoli, produced by Lanette Phillips
Our unique story from April 8, 2025 follows.
Consideration, Los Angeles-based filmmakers: The Way forward for Movie Is Feminine and Neon need to offer you cash on your brief movies about life within the metropolis. Caryn Coleman’s non-profit group, devoted to amplifying the work of all girls and non-binary filmmakers early of their profession, has teamed up with Neon for its newest brief movie fund, which can supply three monetary grants within the quantity of $4,000 and two post-production in-kind grants from Heard Metropolis and Good Footwear.
The Spring 2025 Quick Movie Fund will supply grants girls and nonbinary LA-based filmmakers making a brief movie within the metropolis. Submissions are open April 18 – Could 2 with a notification date set for June 23, 2025. Submissions are open to brief movies which are beneath 20 minutes, embody all genres, and usually are not a proof-of-concept. Filmmakers are chosen by a no-cost submission course of through FilmFreeway. The FOFIF has a cap of 400 submissions.
Of this newest spherical of grants, FOFIF founder Caryn Coleman advised IndieWire, “The Los Angeles movie group has skilled great hardships lately with COVID, the actors’ and writers’ strikes, rising movie prices, and the current LA fires. Town homes unbelievable filmmakers, cinemas, and programmers; our aim is that this grant spherical will assist, even in a small approach, to help the continuation of manufacturing in Los Angeles. We love LA!”
Launched in 2018, the twice-annual FOFIF Quick Movie Fund presents monetary and in-kind post-production providers to girls and nonbinary filmmakers at any stage within the creation of a brief movie. Since founding, The FOFIF has been in a position to assist help over 70 filmmaker brief movie tasks (half of that are from Los Angeles) and commits to working with these filmmakers all through their careers.
FOFIF-supported brief movies embody Crystal Kayiza’s Sundance award-winning “Relaxation Cease,” and the FOFIF has additionally supported filmmakers like Alessandra Lacorazza, whose debut function, “Within the Summers,” obtained the Finest Director and Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2024.
Final 12 months, Coleman and the FOFIF entered the distribution area, crafting a bespoke rollout for Hannah Peterson’s “The Graduates,” a long-time favourite of the group.
For extra pointers and to submit, head over to FilmFreeway.