The Climate Entertainment Development Grant

About this program

**The Climate Entertainment Development Grant**

Film Independent and Plot Shift Media offer a $25,000 grant to support filmmakers accepted into Film Independent’s Screenwriting Lab or Fast Track with a climate-focused fiction feature. The grant prioritizes stories that inspire agency and possibility around climate solutions, particularly through non-traditional characters and genres, with $5,000 earmarked for project packaging.

**Eligibility Criteria**

Applicants must be filmmakers accepted into Film Independent’s Screenwriting Lab or Fast Track, with a screenplay featuring climate themes or a lead character grappling with climate issues. Projects must take an entertainment-first approach to climate storytelling.