Program: Grants for Media Program: Informational Cinema

U.S. Department of State

Embassy of the United States of America in Chisinau, Moldova

Public Affairs Section

Funding Opportunity Number: PAS-CHISINAU-FY18-03

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.900

CFDA Title: AEECA PD Programs

Program: Grants for Media Program: Informational Cinema

Announcement Type: Opened Competition

Announcement Date: 2018-01-29

Deadline for submission of proposals: 11:59 PM, Moldova Time, March 01, 2018

The U.S. Embassy seeks a qualified implementing partner that will select, mentor and monitor a series of sub-grantees from the Moldovan creative community. The project will include two major components:

  1. Planning and administration of sub-grantees applying for production related initiatives. The grant recipient must solicit applications from emerging or established Moldovan filmmakers, NGOs and creative studios based on an open competition, and select participants based on merit, potential and proposed project goals and outcome.
  2. Mentorship of filmmakers, studios and NGOs that successfully pass the selection stage for film production, film festivals, and other non-news production projects. Grant recipient need to mentor the funds recipients in all the cycles of the projects: Planning, Script writing (where necessary), Pitching, Production, Distribution, Fundraising etc. The funding competitions to be announced by the grant recipient of this funding opportunity should be opened to individuals and entities from/registered in the Republic of Moldova and can include different formats, i.e. documentary, narrative, animation, or experimental formats. The themes and goals shall be discussed together with the U.S. Embassy team and the grant recipient.

Announcement details: PAS-CHISINAU-FY18-03 (PDF 194 KB)

Application packagehttps://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=300316