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PDS-BOG-FY23-SG2: Promoting the Ethnic Chapter of the 2016 Peace Accord in Colombia through Documentary Film

Closed Closed August 30, 2023 Opportunity PDS-BOG-FY23-SG2 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Austrian-American Partnership Fund (AAPF) (OFOP0002825). Status: Closes January 1, 2099 (26353 days left). It is in our archive of U.S. Mission to Colombia notices from 2023.

• Award ceiling$100,000
• Award floor$80,000
• Total funding$100,000
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

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Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits, colleges and universities and individuals.

• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Private institutions of higher education
• Individuals
• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Public Diplomacy Programs awards averaged $26,570; this notice allows up to $100,000 per award.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The Public Diplomacy Section at U.S. Embassy Bogota (PDS Bogota) seeks an implementing partner with experience in documentary film to train young people interested in filmmaking and/or digital storytelling in La Guajira, Choco, and Cauca/Nariño, with the ultimate goal that participants work with implementing partner to produce a documentary film about the importance of the Ethnic Chapter of the 2016 Peace Accord in Colombia. Proposals should cover a period of 12-18 months, starting from the time the funding is disbursed. Priority Region: This program is designed to engage young filmmakers in the following regions: · La Guajira · Choco · Cauca or Nariño Program Objectives: In October 2022, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken joined Colombian Vice President Francia Marquez at a ceremony in which the United States became the first International Accompanier to the Ethnic Chapter of Colombia’s 2016 Peace Accord. Over five decades, 38 percent of Afro-Colombians and 27 percent of Indigenous people registered as victims of Colombia’s conflict. By 2017, nearly a million had been forcibly displaced. The Ethnic Chapter sets out a vision for an inclusive peace that addresses the history of inequity and ensures the rights of Afro-Colombians and Indigenous people. In the United States’ role as international accompanier, PDS Bogota seeks to implement a grant to promote documentary filmmaking to showcase the importance of the Ethnic Chapter of the 2016 Peace Accord—especially for Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Colombian communities across Colombia. We seek proposals in which the implementing partner leads filmmaking workshops, combining theory and practical sessions, and ensures high-quality interviews and b-roll for the films in three locations: in Choco, in La Guajira, and in Cauca or Nariño. Each session will train pairs of young citizens interested in filmmaking (18-35 years old) in audiovisual capacities and storytelling. These teams will then conduct interviews in their home communities and share that footage with the grantee. The grantee will choose a select group of trainees to travel to continue their training on editing and postproduction skills in a central location. In conversation with the Embassy and the communities and guaranteeing their vision is reflected, the grantee will edit the footage together to create a final documentary film to screen in at least three theaters in Choco, La Guajira, and Cauca/Nariño.

Category: Other.

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This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, OFOP0002825, which is open now.

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