Cinereach supports feature-length nonfiction and fiction films that are at the intersection of engaging storytelling, visual artistry, and vital subject matter.

Grant amounts can range from $5.000 – $50.000 per project and can be awarded to support any stage of production, including development, production and post-production. Within each cycle, between five and fifteen projects are typically selected to receive support.

The Cinereach Award is occasionally presented to completed films that exemplify the Cinereach mission.

Funding Priorities

Through cinematic artistry and storytelling, Cinereach-supported films favor story over message, character over agenda, and complexity over duality, explore emergent topics, themes or ideas, possess an independent spirit, depict underrepresented perspectives, resonate across international boundaries, spark dialogue, challenge preconception and bias, champion humanity and hope.

In addition to making grants, Cinereach seeks to form lasting and meaningful relationships with the talented, dedicated, and creative people they support. They invite a continuing dialogue, maintain an open-door policy, and help to rally a community in which their grantee films and filmmakers can flourish.

The Cinereach staff casts a wide net in their search for stories, talent, projects and partners. Members of their staff attend events and film festivals in the US and abroad. Cinereach accepts also film submissions through this online submission portal.

Projects eligible for consideration must be feature-length (over 60 minutes), and intended for theatrical exhibition.