Roy W. Dean Short Film Grant

Regular Deadline: Apr 29, 2025

The newest entry in our Roy W. Dean Grants for independent filmmakers is specifically for narrative fiction shorts, live action or animated, that are 40 minutes or less in length.  

As with their other other Roy W. Dean Film Grants, the films need to be unique and make a contribution to society.

Winner of the Grant Will Receive $3,000 in Cash and Donated Services

Our wonderful donors to the other grants have become donors for the short film grant as well.  Among the donations the winner will receive are:

• $3,000.00 in music and audio services from well-known composer David Raiklen
• $6,000.00 in animation from Emmy award winner Charlie Canfield. This is 1/3 off normal price for 6 weeks of animation
• $500 in grip, lighting or expendables from Filmtools
• Tom Malloy of Glass House Distribution donates an hour of consultation on distribution of your film
• $1,400 value (4 hours of sound mix session) from Silver Sound
• $600.00 for your Free Closed Captioning by NetCaptioning (elliot@netcaptioning.com)
• and more from heartfelt donors

Click here to see all donations for grant. 

Deadline for submission to the Roy W. Dean Short Film Grant is April 29th, 2025 at 11:59 PM PT – Applications open on January 1st, 2025.

Filmmakers can apply at https://fromtheheartproductions.com/grant-application-form/.  

For More Information

For more information on the grant, please email info@fromtheheartproductions.com or call 805-984-0098. 

For more information, visit https://fromtheheartproductions.com/roy-w-dean-short-film-grant/.

Call for entry posted February 27, 2025