PUMA.Creative Impact Award

A major new annual international award to honour the documentary film creating the most significant social impact, a film liable to have a lasting effect on the world and on people’s lives. With a €50,000 prize to acknowledge the filmmakers and help the continuation of the film’s campaign work.

Anyone can put a film forward from any country. Application deadline: May 5, 2013.

How to apply
If you would like to apply for the PUMA.Creative Impact Award 2013, here is how the process works:
Anyone can put a film forward from any country—filmmakers, distributors, film festivals, partner organisations including NGOs and Foundations, film critics and journalists.
Independent creative documentary films on any subject are welcome, from social justice issues to the environment and in any form, from expository to observational.
All applications must be completed in English.
Each filmmaking team must submit data demonstrating evidence of the film’s social impact and if shortlisted additional data and verifications will be requested. Films can be put forward any time up to three years after release (where the release is defined as first film festival screening, TV broadcast, cinema release or internet release)

Logging in & creating a proposal
In order to apply for funding, you will need to click on the button on the right, sign up and choose a password
Once you have signed up, go to My Proposals and login
On the home page you will have the option to 'Create' a new proposal
Working on a proposal is similar to working on a document in Word – you must save your changes each time before logging out – if you don’t, you won’t be able to retrieve your work
You can spend as much time as you like working on your proposal – we can't view it until you submit it.

Submitted Proposals
Once a proposal has been submitted to us for consideration, you will no longer be able to make any changes to it. You may want to print a copy out for your records - you can get a print friendly version by selecting ‘View’.