Join our newsletter!

Get Funded

Get Funded

You have a powerful story to tell—let’s bring it to life together. We offer development and co-production funds for short and feature documentaries.

EXPLORE OUR PROGRAMS

Our Funds

Open Call

Open Call

Not currently accepting applications

Up to $400k in funding for features and $50k for shorts in co-production support and creative development.

View Open Call

Development Fund

Not currently accepting applications

Up to $35k in early-stage funding for nonfiction projects 30, 60, or 90 minutes in length, and full funding proposal feedback.
Working With Us
Documentaries
Documentaries

As the leading incubator and funder of independent documentaries, ITVS has co-produced over 1,800 projects since our founding in 1988.

EXPLORE OUR DOCUMENTARIES
Featured Film

The Librarians

The Librarians

Librarians from Texas, Florida, and other states unite to examine how book restriction policies are shaping library collections.

Our Work

Where We Stream
About
About ITVS

We amplify powerful stories and voices that represent the breadth of our communities across America.

Read More About ITVS
Who We Are
Donate
Search

Before the Spring, After the Fall

Three years before the Arab spring, a film crew began documenting Egypt’s small heavy metal community. The young musicians voiced the frustrations of a generation raised under a dictator. Two years into filming, a revolution began ...

Series

Global Voices

Premiere Date

June 29, 2014

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Jed Rothstein

Producer/Director

Jed Rothstein was nominated for an Academy Award for his 2010 film, Killing in the Name. His earlier work includes producing the award-winning documentary Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, and the television documentaries Coma, and Democracy on Deadline, as well as directing God's Next Army. He won a Cine Golden Eagle for his work as co-producer of Pandemic: Facing AIDS, and an Emmy for his work on Kids Behind Bars in 2002.