The Dart Documentary Film Fellowship is a week-long immersive program designed for senior and mid-career filmmakers.

The fellowship aims to deepen their understanding of emotional trauma and psychological injury, delve into documentary ethics and craft challenges, and enrich their professional engagement with violence, conflict, and tragedy.

The fellowship will take place from February 9-15, 2025, in Orlando, Florida, bringing together 12 filmmakers with leading experts on trauma science and documentary practice.

Scope of Work

The fellowship will provide a platform for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and challenges in the documentary filmmaking profession.

Seminars will focus on ethical documentary reporting, engagement of vulnerable people, narrative and craft challenges specific to documentary film, duty of care to subjects and sources, self-care and resilience, and organizational and peer support.

Eligibility

The fellowship is open to professional documentary filmmakers from all over the world.

Applicants should have a strong desire to deepen their knowledge of emotional trauma and psychological injury, delve into documentary ethics and craft challenges, and enrich their engagement around violence, conflict, and tragedy.

Budget and Duration

The fellowship covers round-trip travel, seven nights of lodging, meals, and expenses directly related to participation, such as ground transportation in Florida.

The program does not cover health or travel insurance, visa costs, additional nights of lodging beyond the program's duration, or ground transportation in fellows' home cities.

Additional Information

The program will equip filmmakers with the knowledge and skills to approach victims and survivors with sensitivity and depth, understand the complexity of trauma survivors' experiences, tell more insightful, multi-dimensional, and nuanced stories about those impacted by trauma, make more informed, ethical choices when covering traumatic events, and create self-care and peer support plans.

Key Dates

The application deadline is October 16, 2024. The deadline for recommendations is October 23, 2024. The fellowship will take place from February 9-15, 2025.

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