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Music on Film-Film on Music (MOFFOM) Documentary Grant

Denver Film Society

Funding Amount

Up to US $20,000

Deadline

Deadline not published

Grant Type

Foundation

Deadline history & next window

Cycle
Rolling — applications accepted year-round
Tracked since
April 2026

From the program guidelines: “Denver Film, a 501(c)(3) cultural arts organization, operates the Sie FilmCenter, the organization’s year-round cinematic home, presents the annual award-winning Denver Film Festival in November and a series of spotlight festivals throughout the year.”

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Required status

  • A fiscal sponsor is required to receive funding.
  • International applicants may apply but must have a U.S.-based fiscal sponsor should a grant be awarded.

Other requirements

  • Guidelines:MOFFOM offers grants to selected feature-length documentary films in post-production.
  • We consider feature-length films as having a run time of 70 minutes or longer.
  • Applicants must be 18 years or older.

Not eligible / not funded

  • Not eligible: Fiction films
  • Not eligible: Docu-dramas
  • Not eligible: Student projects
  • Not eligible: Outreach campaigns

Overview

Note:
Denver Film will accept Letters of Intent (LOI) for prospective MOFFOM funding consideration up to the Letter of Inquiry deadline indicated above.Upon review of LOIs, a select number of projects will be invited to submit full applications with due date as above.
Denver Film
As the only nonprofit theater in Colorado, we’re dedicated to engaging both our members and the general public in a lifelong relationship with film.
Denver Film, a 501(c)(3) cultural arts organization, operates the Sie FilmCenter, the organization’s year-round cinematic home, presents the annual award-winning Denver Film Festival in November and a series of spotlight festivals throughout the year. In addition, Denver Film produces the popular summer movies series, Film on the Rocks at Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
The Music on Film-Film on Music (MOFFOM) Documentary Grant Program Is Designed for Projects That Directly Focus on Music.
The MOFFOM grant provides up to $20,000 annually in finishing funds for scoring, composition, and music licensing efforts for feature-length documentaries directly related to music in post-production.
Guidelines
Competitive applications should include the most complete work sample possible in their initial submission.
Must be able to provide at least a rough cut by the August 3 finalist deadline.Grant recipients and their fiscal sponsors will be asked to sign a grant agreement and to submit progress reports on the project.

Eligibility

Guidelines:MOFFOM offers grants to selected feature-length documentary films in post-production.We consider feature-length films as having a run time of 70 minutes or longer.Applicants must be 18 years or older.A fiscal sponsor is required to receive funding. International applicants may apply but must have a U.S.-based fiscal sponsor should a grant be awarded.

Ineligibility

We do not consider proposals for fiction films, docu-dramas, student projects, or outreach campaigns.

What Denver Film Society actually gave

Source: IRS Form 990, 2026

Grants in 2026
24
Total given
$3.46M
Median grant
$34K
Range
$6,500–$1.29M
  • By dollars: Colorado 50%, California 47%, Texas 1%. Top recipient cities: Denver, CO; Boulder, CO; Austin, TX.
  • 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
  • 48% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.

Example grants

  • Possibilities in America LLC · Beverly Hills, CA

    See part iv

    $1.29M

  • Braiding Pictures LLC · Boulder, CO

    See part iv

    $526K

  • Wonder LLC · Boulder, CO

    See part iv

    $375K

  • I Was Born This Way Production LLC · Redondo Beach, CA

    See part iv

    $309K

  • Exposure LLC · Boulder, CO

    See part iv

    $241K

IRS Form 990, 2026. Amounts as reported by the funder. Full 990 history →

Focus Areas & Funding Uses

Fields of Work

  • Music
  • Arts

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