The Film Study Center offers fellowships to both internationally eminent and emerging filmmakers, video artists, sound artists, and photographers whose creative projects seek to interpret the world, especially the fabric of human existence and cultural difference, through moving and still images and sounds.

It supports fellows with grants, with the use of its film, video, and photographic equipment and facilities, and with technical assistance.

Fellowships at the Film Study Center are of various kinds, of which some are by nomination only and some by application.

Harvard Film Study Center Fellowships as well as Radcliffe Fellowships are by application, with annual deadlines.

McMillan-Stewart and Robert Fulton Fellows are selected by a distinguished committee of practitioners and theorists and are by nomination only.