10/25/2025
Why we are so slow on output? FUNDRAISING. It takes a village to work on a film and TIME. endless time.
Fundraising for independent documentaries in the U.S. has always been difficult. As the manager of the IDA Fiscal Sponsorship Program, I have a unique vantage point on what’s working for the many documentary projects in our program. On average, projects have budgets between US$30k–$100k for shorts and US$250k–$1 million for features. Raising that amount often involves equity investments and non-recoupable funds—grants, donations, or crowdfunding. Read more here, https://www.documentary.org/blog/5-tips-documentary-fundraising-2025
