Sacramento Film and Media Grant Program

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Sacramento Film + Media is committed to sustaining and growing film and television production in the City of Sacramento. The Film + Media Grant Program supports this aim by subsidizing permit fees and reducing the costs of safety personnel and qualified expenses for production companies when these activities occur in the City of Sacramento.

Sacramento Film + Media will award four $5,000 grants during each of three grant rounds between the period of October 15, 2021 through May 15, 2022. In each grant round, two grants will be made to applicants with budgets over $100,000 and two grants will be made to applicants with budgets $100,000 or below. One additional grant of $2,500 will be awarded per round for 75% of post-production done
locally. Grant funds that remain available due to a lack of eligible applicants in the prior period will be rolled over to the next round.

Grants will be for:

1. Required services and permitting fees by City of Sacramento staff and/or departments, including police, fire, permit fees, parking fees (inter-department transfer of funds);

2. Reimbursement awards where an applicant has demonstrated a need that exceeds City services support, where qualified expenses occur within the city (i.e., hotel nights, rental cars, rental equipment, location fees, catering, local hires, post-production, etc.); or

3. Reimbursement awards for post-production support

Grants will be awarded in each of three separate rounds. Deadlines and submittal periods for each round are below:

1. Round 1 Deadline: November 30, 2021 11:59pm
2. Round 2 Deadline: February 15, 2022 11:59pm
3. Round 3 Deadline: May 15, 2022 11:59pm

Applicants may submit at any time during the application submittal period, but the submission must be received by the deadline date. Applicants are asked to submit for projects that will begin physical production within 180 days from the award date.

Announcements concerning application period(s) will be made by email, Sacramento Film + Media social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter), and the Office of Arts & Culture and Sacramento Film + Media websites.

Applicants must complete the application in Submittable and attach the following documents:

1. Treatment – This document should include the following components: the story idea, the most important information about the film including title, logline, story summary, and character descriptions and demographics. Panelists will use this treatment to rate the application against the community impact criterion.

2. Budget – This document should include the following components: Overall Budget in each line item as well as a column with the Sacramento spend. The budget will be used to determine eligibility and the group the applicant will be reviewed in.

3. Shooting Schedule – This document should include the following components: total number of filming days, number of Sacramento filming days, locations, scene summary, and characters. Panelists will use this to rate the application against the economic impact criterion of number of locations as well as eligibility.

4. Vendor List – This document should include the following components: all vendors used for physical and post-production denoting which vendors are Sacramento support service companies. Panelists will use this to rate the application against the economic impact criteria of
number of support service companies.

5. Crew List – This document should include the following components: crew member name and contact information, with Sacramento crew notated. Panelists will use this to rate the application against the economic impact criteria of number of local hires and the community
impact criterion of local cast and crew representation.

6. Hotel Nights – This document should include the following components: name of hotels, number of hotel nights, and rate per night. Include short term rental properties. Panelists will use this to rate the application against the economic impact criteria of number of hotel nights.