OpportunityTitle: Romanian-language TV Content Fund
CategoryExplanation: Program Objectives:     The project aims for the following objectives:   1. Facilitate the creation a market for domestically produced television content.    2. Contribute to the creation of Moldovan-made entertainment TV products.    3. Support independent media, production, and dissemination of alternative content through grants and needs-based technical assistance.    4. Support independent voices in the Moldovan media landscape through the development of good quality local production capacity in the Republic of Moldova in the interests of plurality of views and editorial independence.    5. Ensure trainings and mentorship assistance to the content creators with the goal of raising the quality and reach of the final product. This would include storyboarding ideas, testing concepts, scriptwriting, finding the best production techniques, scheduling production, using industry standard TV production software, applying audience retention techniques, integrating social/Internet TV programming, and editing.
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligibility is limited to not-for-profit organizations (NGOs, CSOs, Think-Tanks) and independent mass media (often registered as Limited Liability Companies) that can prove an extensive history of good performance, expertise, and good practices in the project domain. Foreign organizations are eligible to apply for this grant call.
Description: The U.S. Embassy in Moldova seeks a qualified implementing organization that will manage the project entitled &#8220;Romanian-Language Television Content Fund&#8221; and will ensure the achievement of the program activities and objectives described in the current Notice of Funding Opportunity.The grant recipient will be responsible for overall logistical coordination, management of funds, as well as mentoring for the initiatives within this funding award. Most of the funding should be reserved for sub grants for the development of TV series pilots.The grant will consist of one major component:Romanian-language Television Series Pilots: two-year funding for entertainment and fiction programs on Moldovan television, prioritizing co-productions with private-sector and foreign media. The grant recipient must solicit applications from emerging or established Moldovan and/or regional filmmakers, and creative studios based on an open competition, and select participants based on merit, potential and proposed project goals and outcome. Grant recipient will offer mentorship and oversight to the successful applicants through the entire cycle of the project: Planning, Script writing, pitching, etc. Grant recipient will also work with television stations that air the content to implement industry best practices for marketing, scheduling, and monetizing the content.A complete application must contain the following mandatory elements:Application Format in MS Word format (available for download)Detailed Budget in MS Excel format (available for download)Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (including indicators, baselines, targets).For more details see attached Related Documents.
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GrantorContactText: Grants Program Staff