Budget
The following spreadsheet represents the costs of Development, Pre-Production, Production, and Post-Production for the Citizen Wong feature documentary project.
Fundraising Strategy and Grant Impact
Fundraising Strategy and Grant Impact
a. Fundraising Strategy - Due to its complex storyline, numerous location shoots, and a large number of required interviews, the producers are seeking additional grant opportunities with many funders. Our goal is to leverage the CAAM production grants to attract more sponsors to the project that are familiar with sponsoring PBS programs such as NEH-National Endowment for the Humanities, ITVS Open Call, Roy W. Dean Grant, Sundance Documentary Fund, and the American Documentary Fund.
Citizen Wong producers have made inquiries with the director of PBS Programming and Development in Arlington, VA about assisting the project with funding from leading corporate and non-corporate underwriters and sponsors such as the Park Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, Perspective Fund, Wyncote Foundation, NYC Cultural Affairs, National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Council on the Arts.
Funding to Date / Submitted Grant Applications
c. Amount Requested / Grant Impact - The funding to date shows that several grants that have been awarded to fund the theater play, Citizen Wong. Excerpts from the play will be used within the documentary. As more funds are awarded to the project, we have been accepted by the International Documentary Association, a 501(c) 3 organization to act as our Fiscal Sponsor to control the personnel payroll, work/travel costs, and general expenses.
We are seeking funds to start conducting on-camera interviews with experts, capture location B-roll footage, and collaborate with scholars to enhance the project’s humanities content. We must purchase archive footage and photos; cover travel costs and payroll for the production team and coordinate with the post-production team of editors, SFX animators, and compose original music. Because of the project’s broad reach and scope with its promise to bring important historical points and humanities topics to audiences, we seek the production award of $1,392,000.00.
