Film Study Center-Harvard Fellowships

Film Study Center-Harvard Fellowship are open only to Harvard faculty, staff, postdoctoral and research fellows, teaching assistants and graduate students. Applicants may be affiliated with Harvard either at the time of the application, or during the fellowship year, or of course both.

The application deadline for 2008-09 fellowships is 1 February 2008.

Fellowships include funds as well as access to production equipment, postproduction facilities, and technical support. During the fellowship year, fellows are strongly encouraged to participate in monthly or bimonthly meetings of the Nonfiction Workshop, where fellows have the opportunity to present works in progress (anything from rushes to rough cuts to fine cuts) and receive feedback and critiques from other fellows.

Fellowship awards are intended to help defray production or postproduction expenses, and typically range between $1,000 and $7,500, and may not exceed $15,000 for faculty and post-doctoral fellows, and $5,000 for graduate students. Equipment and facilities available to FSC-Harvard fellows is summarized here. In general, production equipment is available summer through spring, and postproduction fall through summer, of the fellowship year.

Fellowships are made annually, for an academic year's tenure, although they may in exceptional circumstances be extended for up to a total three-year affiliation with the Film Study Center.

Harvard fellows awarded fellowships for less than the maximum amount may reapply for additional funding, up to the above limits, in the following year.

Harvard fellows may also apply to the Center for support on a new project after a period of three years from the initial tenure of their previous fellowship.

Film Study Center-Harvard Fellowship applications should consist of the following materials (numbers 1-5 in quintuplicate):

[1] A completed cover sheet
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[2] A 2-3 page written treatment of the project, including a statement of purpose, a production and/or post-production schedule, and a summary of its theoretical orientation, including its relationship to the applicant's previous and prospective research.

[3] A detailed, itemized budget, detailing alternative or additional possible sources of financing.

[4] An explicit, itemized description of what FSC equipment or facilities use is requested, and the anticipated time frame for such use.

[5] The applicant's curriculum vitae.

[6] Two copies of an example of the applicant's previous work in film, video, photography, or sound, preferably on DVD, VHS, or CD, including a cover note describing the applicant's role in the work. Please either cue the work to, or indicate in a note, a 10 minute section that the committee may review.

[7] All applicants other than continuing Harvard faculty must also submit two signed and sealed letters of recommendation. In the case of graduate students, one of these should be from the applicant's advisor. The letters of recommendation should be included with the application itself.

[8] Graduate student applicants must also submit a university transcript of their graduate studies.


Complete applications, including all letters of recommendation, must be received by
1 February 2008, and should be sent to:

The Film Study Center
Harvard University
24 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Applicants will be notified of the status of their application by 21 March 2008.

For further information, please email fsc [at] fas.harvard.edu or call +1 617 496 2714.