- Company
The Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation - Occupation
Funding Representative - Country
United Kingdom
Mosses Sarah
50 Frith Street
W1D 4SQ London The Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation empowers documentary filmmaking. We do this by enabling great films with global ambition, by brokering new partnerships and by building new business models for filmmakers to deploy. We deliver these goals thanks to our founding sponsor Channel 4, major sponsor PUMA.Creative and a number of innovative Foundations and organizations in the UK, Europe and US who support our work. *AT WHAT STAGE DO YOU INVEST IN A PROJECT/FILM?* Presently we have two funds available: The main Channel 4 BRITDOC fund - this is a production and completion fund for British and British-based filmmakers. The PUMA.Creative Catalyst is a development fund for filmmakers based anywhere in the world. *WHAT TYPES OF PROJECTS/FILMS DO YOU SUPPORT?* Independent, one off films and unique creative developments. *WHAT IS THE AVERAGE AMOUNT GRANTED?* PUMA.Creative Catalyst Award is for 40 projects per year, each receiving €5000. With the main fund, on average, we invest between £10,000 and £30,000 per film. *AVERAGE NUMBER OF TITLES SUPPORTED ANNUALLY:* 40 development awards, 7/8 Main fund grants. *EXAMPLES OF RECENTLY SUPPORTED DOCUMENTARY PROJECTS/FILMS:* PUMA.Creative Catalyst Award - 30 awarded so far: Heralds from a Big World - Tatyana Soboleva Cal Summits - Luis Ilizarbe, Dragonslayer - Tristan Patterson, Armenia Wants A Piece of the North Pole, and the South Pole too - Vardan Hovhannisyan. BRITDOC Main Fund recently completed titles: Hell and Back Again, Bengali Detective, Self-Made, Calvet, Up in Smoke








