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Catapult Film Fund is dedicated to supporting nonfiction filmmakers with critical early-stage funding

05/26/2026

Don’t miss these three upcoming panels! Our Co-Director/Chief Program Officer Megan Gelstein will be participating in two panels at the Tribeca Storytelling Summit and a panel at the DC DOX Festival Reality Check Forum:

⭐️ Tribeca:
🎬 Friday, June 5: "From Spark to Structure: Developing Nonfiction That Breaks Through" featuring Tracy Jarrett (director, RETRIEVAL), Reid Davenport (director, LIFE AFTER), Jessica Harrop (Sandbox), moderated by Megan Gelstein
🎬 Saturday, June 6: "Who Gets the Camera? New Voices in Documentary from Inside Institutions" featuring Rahsaan “New York” Thomas (Ear Hustle, San Quentin Film Festival), Nathan Stenberg (director, THE HAUNTING AT PENNHURST), Daniel Forkkio (Represent Justice), Megan Gelstein (Catapult Film Fund), Kevin Nadal, Erika Dilday (American Documentary/POV), moderated by Thomas Allen Harris (Family Pictures Institute for Inclusive Storytelling)

⭐️ DC/DOX:
🎬 Saturday, June 13: "Seed Money: A Funding Case Study" featuring Dawn Bonder (The deNovo Initiative), Megan Gelstein (Catapult Film Fund), Jenni Wolfson (Chicken & Egg Films)

Development funding is among the hardest — and most consequential — support for documentary filmmakers to secure. It comes at the stage when a project is still unproven: before production, before footage, before certainty. Yet the choices made in development often determine everything that follo...

05/22/2026

We are excited to share that six Catapult-supported projects will be screening at this year's DC DOX Festival! Our Chief Program Officer, Co-Director Megan Gelstein will join the forum panel "Seed Money: A Funding Case Study," and 2017 Development Grantee Penny Lane will lead the master class "Ideas are Cheap: What Development Really Means."

🎥 AMAZING LIVE SEA MONKEYS (2017 Development Grant)
Director/Producer Mark Becker, Aaron Schock

🎥 KIDS LIKE ME (2023 Development Grant)
Directors/Producers Cynthia Lowen and Jon Cohrs

🎥 THE OLDEST PERSON IN THE WORLD (2016 Development Grant)
Director Sam Green
Producers Alison Byrne Fields, Josh Penn

🎥 SEIZED (2024 Development Grant)
Director/Producer Sharon Liese
Producers Sasha Alpert, Paul Matyasovsky

🎥 TheyDream (2021 Development Grant & 2025 Rough Cut Retreat)
Director/Producer William D. Caballero
Producers Erin Ploss-Campoamor, Brad Jones, Elaine del Valle

🎥 TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN (2021 Development Grant & 2024 Rough Cut Retreat)
Directors/Producers Tutorov Biljana, Petar Glomazic
Producers Quentin Laurent, Rok Biček
Co-Producer Dijana Cetina Mlađenović

http://www.dcdoxfest.com

DC/DOX is a documentary film festival in the nation’s capital, celebrating bold voices, innovative visions, and dedicated truth-seekers in the art of non-fiction storytelling.

05/16/2026

We’re thrilled to be back as a co-host at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and to spotlight the six Catapult-supported films heading to New York this summer! 🎬

Use code tfcatapult26 for 20% off your ticket at checkout. More news and events in our latest newsletter: https://buff.ly/eK6orbd

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The core of the festival program is our main slate of feature and short films, highlighting politically, culturally and socially relevant films from diverse storytellers.

05/12/2026

The Mountainfilm festival returns this Memorial Day Weekend, bringing together films, storytellers, and audiences to spark meaningful conversations and inspire connection and activism. Two Catapult-supported documentaries will make their world premieres at this year’s festival.

🎥 BURN, SCAR (2023 Development Grant)
🎞️ World Premiere
Director/Cinematographer Hillary Bachelder
Producer Sarah Strunin

🎥 PAPERTOWN (2023 Development Grant)
🎞️ World Premiere
Director Jeremy Seifert
Co-Director Benjamin James Roberts
Producers Chris Pruett, Colby Sexton

Telluride, Colorado (April 23, 2026) – From electrifying adventures and soaring high-peak ascents to gripping investigative stories and urgent environmental issues, audiences attending Mountainfilm’s 48th annual festival will be the first audiences in the world to watch a standout selection of d...

05/07/2026

🎉 Catapult is heading to New York this summer to attend the 25th Tribeca Film Festival. Don’t miss our Co-Director/Chief Program Officer Megan Gelstein who is participating in two panels at the Storytelling Summit! In addition, six Catapult-supported films will be screening at the festival including:

🎥 AMERICAN ZOO (2023 Development Grant)
🎞️ World Premiere | Documentary Competition
Director Tim Travers Hawkins
Producers Julia Nottingham

🎥 Colors of White Rock(2022 Development Grant)
🎞️ World Premiere | Documentary Competition
Director Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig
Producers Tessa Louise Salomé, Chantal Perrin

🎥 CROCODILE (2019 Development Grant)
🎞️ North American Premiere | Viewpoints
Director/Producer Pietra Brettkelly
Co-Directors THE CRITICS
Co-Producer Clan Yujo

🎥 THE HAUNTING OF PENNHURST (2022 Development Grant)
🎞️ World Premiere | Escape From Tribeca
Directors/Producers Nathan Stenberg, Michael Attie, Katarina Poljak
Producer Daniel J. Chalfen

🎥 KIDS LIKE ME (2023 Development Grant)
🎞️ World Premiere | Documentary Competition
Directors/Producers Cynthia Lowen and Jon Cohrs

🎥 RETRIEVAL (2022 Research Grant, 2022 Development Grant)
🎞️ World Premiere | Documentary Competition
Director Tracy Jarrett
Producer Emma Moley

The core of the festival program is our main slate of feature and short films, highlighting politically, culturally and socially relevant films from diverse storytellers.

05/01/2026

Sheffield DocFest, the leading documentary festival and market in the UK, returns this June with four Catapult-supported titles in the lineup!
For more details: https://buff.ly/f01OtGc
Check out the projects below 👇

🎥 COLORS OF WHITE ROCK (2022 Development Grant)
🎞️ International Competition
Director Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig
Producers Tessa Louise Salomé, Chantal Perrin

🎬 CROCODILE (2019 Development Grant)
🎞️ Youth Jury Award
Director/Producer Pietra Brettkelly
Co-Directors THE CRITICS
Co-Producer Clan Yujo

🎥 QUERIDA FÁTIMA (2023 Development Grant)
🎞️ Rebellions
Directors Rodrigo Reyes, Dawn Valadez, Davi Merchan
Producers Ike Rofe, Su Kim, Inti Cordera

🎬 THEYDREAM (2021 Development Grant, 2025 Rough Cut Retreat)
🎞️ People & Community
Director/Producer William D. Caballero
Producer Erin Ploss-Campoamor, Brad Jones, Elaine Del Valle

3 Lost In Towers After a real estate collapse in a small Chinese city, a man who took his own life lingers as a ghostly presence among the unfinished buildings. Jingyuan Liang, Shizhao Ye 2026 Film Programme Film

04/21/2026

Check out the four Catapult-supported films headed to Toronto for Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival :

🎥 (2022 Development Grant)
Director Sidney Fussell
Co-Director Samantha Knowles
Producers Geeta Gandbhir, Ann Shin, Tara Jan

🎥 A FOX UNDER A PINK MOON (2022 Development Grant)
Director/Producer Mehrdad Oskouei
Co-director Soraya Akhalaghi

🎥 THE OLDEST PERSON IN THE WORLD (2016 Development Grant)
Director Sam Green
Producers Alison Byrne Fields, Josh Penn

🎥 TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN (2021 Development Grant & 2024 Rough Cut Retreat)
Directors/Producers Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić
Producers Quentin Laurent, Rok Biček
Co-Producer Dijana Cetina Mlađenović

The documentary fest also booked the SXSW Doc Spotlight winner ‘Ceremony’ and a world bow for Kim Nguyen’s ‘Saigon Story: Two Shootings in the Forest Kingdom.’

04/09/2026

We are so pleased to share that 4 Catapult-supported films have received nominations for the 47th News & Documentary Emmy® Awards.

🎬 BLACK SNOW (2020 Development Grant)
⭐️ Nomination: Best Documentary
Director Alina Simone
Producer Kirstine Barfod

🎬 DRIVER (2019 Development Grant)
⭐️ Nomination: Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary
Director/Producer Nesa Azimi
Producers Ines Hofmann Kanna, Nicolas Borel

🎬 LIFE AFTER (2021 Research Grant)
⭐️ Nomination: Best Documentary
⭐️ Nomination: Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary
⭐️ Nomination: Outstanding Direction: Documentary
⭐️ Nomination: Outstanding Editing: Documentary
Director/Producer Reid Davenport
Producers Jessica Devaney, Colleen Cassingham

🎬 UNION (2021 Research Grant)
⭐️ Nomination: Best Documentary
Directors Brett Story, Stephan Maing
Producers Samantha Curley, Marianne Verrone

The awards will be presented on May 27 and 28 in New York.

04/07/2026

Don't miss these five Catapult-supported films screening at this year's Full Frame Documentary Film Festival! The lineup includes the US Premiere of A FOX UNDER A PINK MOON and a tribute screening of Dawn Porter's TRAPPED. Congratulations to the filmmakers and teams behind these amazing projects!

🎥 A FOX UNDER A PINK MOON (2022 Development Grant)
Director/Producer Mehrdad Oskouei
Co-director Soraya Akhalaghi

🎥 SEIZED (2024 Development Grant)
Director/Producer Sharon Liese
Producers Sasha Alpert, Paul Matyasovsky

🎥 THE OLDEST PERSON IN THE WORLD (2016 Development Grant)
Director Sam Green
Producers Alison Byrne Fields, Josh Penn

🎥 TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN (2021 Development Grant & 2024 Rough Cut Retreat)
Directors/Producers Tutorov Biljana, Petar Glomazic
Producers Quentin Laurent, Rok Biček
Co-Producer Dijana Cetina Mlađenović

🎥 TRAPPED (2013 Development Grant)
Director Dawn Porter
Producer Marilyn Ness

Aloné Watts, a young woman in New Orleans, contemplates marrying her boyfriend, who has been incarcerated for a year and is still awaiting sentencing. What…

04/02/2026

📣 As announced in an exclusive with Deadline, we are excited to unveil our 2026 Catapult Research filmmaker cohort and advisor! Now in its sixth year, the program champions Catapult’s mission to provide essential early-stage support when funding is hardest to find and considered riskiest to give.

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The Catapult Film Fund has named its 2026 Research Fellows and announced Oscar winner Diane Becker will serve as an adviser to the filmmakers.

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