Peng Zhao and Cherry Chen Fund for AAPI Voices

Two documentary projects will receive a $50,000 grant and a co-production agreement.

Funding will be competitive and project applicants must:

• Be AAPI-identifying;
• Be working on a high-impact story that reflects the varied experiences of AAPI communities based in the US;
• Be in production;
• Be based in the Midwest at least part-time; be working with a top-level crew member (director or producer) who based in the Midwest at least part-time; or be telling a story that is at least partially based in the Midwest;
• Be working on a feature length documentary project (no shorts or series);
• Be prepared to enter into a co-production agreement with KTQ; and
• Complete an Inquiry Form + Values Assessment + Supplementary Questions Form.

For this Fund, we are looking to support:
* Projects by filmmakers who have meaningful connections to the communities on which their project focuses;
* Projects by emerging filmmakers, to expand the pool of those we’re in formal relationship with;
* Stories that are struggling to secure funding or may not be clearly “commercially viable”; and/or
* Projects that are either by Midwest-based directors or producers, or telling a Midwest-based story.