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Bertha BRITDOC Fund
for Journalism
(also: Bertha Britdoc Documentary Journalism Fund)
Objective
The Bertha BRITDOC Fund for Journalism is an international film fund dedicated to supporting
long form feature documentaries of a journalistic nature. We are looking for films that break
the important stories of our time, expose injustice, raise attention to unreported issues and
introduce cameras to regions unknown or unseen beforehand. This new fund recognizes that
such films are often delicate and protracted, hence difficult to be funded.
Funding Amount
Grants from £5,000 to £50,000 are available (approx. USD 7.000 to 77.000 in early 2012). Despite
being called grants by the fund, those grants are in fact loans which are recoupable in a pro
rata pari passu position (equal rights of payment or level of seniority) with other funders where
applicable and up to the amount of the grant only. The fund does not seek to make a profit on the
grants and it does not look to recoup until the full budget deficit is made up.
Special
There are no deadlines. Funding is awarded on a rolling basis and funding decisions will be
made within 4 weeks of application, unless the project is an urgent response to events.
The fund is initiated by
The Bertha Foundation and the Channel 4 Britdoc Foundation.
The Bertha Foundation is a private foundation with a strong belief in philanthropy. In the field of
media, they support institutions such as The Sundance Institute, Democracy Now and Link TV
(www.berthafoundation.org).
The Channel 4 Britdoc Fund, also called The BRITDOC Foundation is an independent, non-profit
organization, created at Channel 4’s documentary department, with a mission to create new funding
and distribution models for independent documentary films (www.britdoc.org).
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As we aim at enabling in-depth analysis of issues through long-form investigative filmmaking,
we are particularly looking to work with filmmakers who have a journalistic background
or are collaborating with or connected to journalists. It is a major turning key that the journalistic
intent should be embedded within the film itself rather than the film simply being
about a journalist or journalistic institution.
Conditions
When the fund invest in a film, it will give both, a grant and the benefit of BRITDOC and Bertha’s
editorial experience, network and input. The Bertha BRITDOC Documentary Journalism
fund does NOT take any rights in the film and is ready to provide legal advice during production
and postproduction.
The Bertha BRITDOC Documentary Journalism Fund does require acknowledgement in both
front and back end credits of the finished film in the form of a written credit or logo where
appropriate.
information and contact
Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation, 50 Frith Street, London, W1
Contact: Elise McCave – Email: elise@britdoc.org
http://britdoc.org/real_funds/documentary_journalism_fund