Like every meaningful relationship,
documentary making is deeply transformative.
FILM FELLOWSHIPS
Our Film Fellowships aim to address significant feminist, artistic and public discourse priorities around everyday gendered lives and living, that mandate a greater number and diversity of voices and interpretations, inspired by lived realities, to initiate, expand, intensify and deepen those discourses. We aspire to supporting passionate and evocative films informed by authenticity, those that make other worlds seem possible and those that few others might support.
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The Fellowships are commissioned in response to open calls for proposals. We hope to support first-time artists and those with experience, individuals and groups, those speaking from deeply personal spaces and long-held political commitments, voices that acknowledge privilege and those that question erasure from public cultures, those rooted in the present moment and those that have grown with movements, together representing several intersectional possibilities.
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We hope to offer meaningful creative collaboration and support to centre and nurture the distinctive voices of women, trans and queer artists, across diversities and locations, with a focus on those historically marginalised.
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The commissioned filmmakers have creative autonomy over their films, developed in dialogue with the Rough Edges team, whose support we hope enriches and nuances their pursuits. The exchange we attempt to build, allows for mutual sharing and learning, producing attentively, with intention, joy, courage and vulnerability.
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Creative imagination and expression have historically been mediated by unjust hierarchies, especially of caste, patriarchy, heteronormativity, class, religion, majoritarianism and ableism.
UNCODE FELLOWSHIPS 2022-24
Ten short documentaries created by women, queer, non-binary and gender fluid artists, that explore and visibilise diverse, lived experiences, expressions and reflections on gender, finding and framing the everyday stories of gendered lives – challenging, hopeful, joyous, resilient, often invisiblised, erased or homogenised.
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THE OTHER SIDE FELLOWSHIPS 2025-26
Feminist enquiries, narratives, speculations and reflections on alternative, different, unconventional, unheard and neglected experiences, realities, connections, forms of knowledge, histories, livelihoods, beliefs, practices and routines of life and living.
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