The IDFA Bertha Fund supports documentary filmmakers in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Oceania by offering them financial contributions, assistance, and coaching to complete their projects. The Fund is looking for creative documentaries that use strong visual treatments to tell compelling stories and have the potential to reach a global audience. Applications have to be submitted by a director or producer from a country on the IBF Classic Country List and the contribution must be spent in a country on that same list.

Up to approximately $25,000 as grant

Projects that have finished the shooting phase are considered as Post-Production applications. In this case applications have to be accompanied by an edited sequence or a selection of the rough cut of around 20 minutes. In case your material is longer than 20 minutes, please indicate which part we need to watch or make a selection of 20 minutes which you think is most representative and/or complementary to the end result.

All applications have the possibility to submit a short video of the director introducing himself/herself and explaining his/her motivation behind the project instead of in writing. If the previously mentioned is preferred, the link can be pasted in the entry form.

IDFA, and financed by Bertha Foundation The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) was founded in 1988 in order to stimulate national and international documentary culture. The Bertha Foundation is a private foundation established in 2010 by Lisa Tabatznik and operating internationally. It has a strong belief in philanthropy. Four pillars support Bertha Foundation's mission to create more progressive and just societies; Activism, Media, Law and Enterprise. In the field of media they support e.g. The Sundance Institute, Democracy Now, Link TV.