Carole Fielding Student Grants

For over a decade, the Carole Fielding Student Grants have supported work by undergraduate and graduate students in film and video. Each year, more than $4000 is competitively awarded for production proposals in five categories. Up to $1000 is awarded for research projects. Every year, the UFVA allocates money from dues and scholarship donations to fund the entire budget of the Carole Fielding Student Grants.

Criteria

Applicant must be sponsored by a faculty member who is an active member of the University Film and Video Association. Applicant must submit a one-page project description, one-page resume, statement by sponsoring UFVA member, and budget. Production applicants must submit a 30 minute narrative, 60 minute documentary, and an experimental/animation/multimedia treatment or script, and/or storyboard (not to exceed 8.5 X 11 inches). Research applicants must submit a description of methodology and a statement indicating the relationship of proposed study to previous research in the field.

Eligibility:

An applicant must be a student (undergraduate/graduate) at the time the application is made. A faculty member who is an active member of the University Film & Video Association or staff at a UFVA member institution must sponsor the applicant.

Legal

Grant winners are required to include UFVA/UFVF in the project or production credits, and present completed work at a UFVA Conference. (Conference fees may be waived at the discretion of the Conference Host, but travel, hotel, and meals are the responsibility of the presenter.) The UFVA reserves the right to publish funded work in UFVA journals, conferences, and online at the UFVA website. The judges reserve the right to refrain from awarding grants, or to fund more than one project per year, if quality or quantity of submissions so justify. Recipients receive 50% of funding at completion of project. Additional materials may be requested from applicants prior to final judging. Judges will not comment on the results of their deliberations except to announce the awards.

Download the current Application Form as a Microsoft Word document
Past Recipients
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