Miami Film Festival Launches The Louies, A $100,000 Filmmakers Fund

The Miami Film Festival, in collaboration with the Lynn & Louis Wolfson II foundation created The Louies—a documentary-based share funding project that will award $100,000 to six local filmmakers. 

Winners will be granted the funds to create a short or feature-length documentary. 

Three short documentary winners will receive $10,000 to create an eight to 12-minute film and the feature-length documentary winner will receive $50,000 to make a 50-minute film. 

Two additional winners will receive $10,000 each to go toward the post-production phase of their feature-length documentaries.

“I think there’s so many wonderful ideas and so many wonderful stories to be told and that people just don’t have the money to tell these stories,” said James Woolley, executive director of MFF.

Applications are open until Nov. 3. Prospective winners must be 18 years old, full-time residents of Miami-Dade County, and a United States citizen or permanent resident.

For more information or to apply, go to https://miamifilmfestival.com/thelouies/.