Quality of Offerings: 32

Premise is interesting

Reel linked to CV showed professional PBS style filmmaking

Impact: 32

-film festivals will be applied to

-PBS’s Independent Lens has written a letter of interest 

-Will have closed captioning in multiple languages

-Highlighting St. Petersburg and Manatee County in a national broadcast

Track Record: 28

-3 Letters of Support

-entire crew has a lot of experience and multiple Emmy awards between them

-Has a 501c3 fiscal sponsor in place

-Fundraising a large amount - not listed as secured. (This grant could kickstart the full funding)

The materials submitted are thoughtful and organized.

The proposal would be strengthened if the major contributor (ITVS Open Call Grant), which you are anticipating, has already committed to funding your project. With further respect to the budget, it is not clear why the travel line item is so high. From your project description and activities, it is not clear why four people are required to travel to four cities to carry out the production of this film.

Also, providing a demo that combines video with film footage and features some of the B footage you’re gathering in preparation for this project could help to communicate the look and feel you aim to achieve in this film, strengthening your application.

It is helpful you included letters of interest and support and already have the majority of key creatives involved confirmed.

In the description of impact, you list that a number of youth would benefit; in which case, it would be helpful to be more specific about how this project will have an impact on that group.