Production Fund:
Sponsored by the
Columbia College Chicago
Department of Film & Video
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Got the Independent Spirit?
The Production Fund of the Columbia College Chicago Film and Video Department
is a resource
dedicated to assisting advanced film and video projects that are being produced
by undergraduate
and graduate students. Over the past decade, it has awarded as much as
$100,000 per year to
worthwhile productions.
A wide range of high quality films and videos have benefited from Production
Fund awards. Recent
examples include Samantha Sanders’ film, Gypsy Blood (which was
a regional finalist for the
Student Academy Awards, Catherine Crouch’s drama, One Small Step (which
has shown at numerous
film festivals), Shanra Kehl’s Paradise Lounge, also showing at
a number of national film festivals and
Merrin Trantum’s graduate thesis, Plain and Simple, which is the
first student film in the country to be
shot on HD 24, the same digital video system used by George Lucas for his latest
Star Wars project.
Awards are given for projects in development, pre-production, production and
post-production.
The maximum award per project is $3,000.
Please allow three to six weeks after the deadline for notification of awards.
Go to instructions and FAQs • checklist • application
The deadlines for the Production Fund are November 1, March 1 and May 1 .
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