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GENDER AND THE DOCUMENTARY

artistic research fellowships

Rough Edges, with support from the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation, is delighted to announce its Subtext Artistic Research Fellowships that aim to facilitate in-depth and insightful explorations of myriad complex and intimate relationships and connections between gendered realities and varied forms of documentary film practice, storytelling, politics, histories and spectatorship. This is an opportunity to research and create material on the Indian documentary film, from the lens of gender.

This Call for proposals is now closed.

We thank everyone who has shared their ideas and proposals with us, for such an enthusiastic response. 

The proposals are currently being reviewed. 

We expect to announce the selections by the end of January 2026.

For any queries, please write to info@roughedgesfoundation.org

research outcomes and deliverables

  • The outcomes of these fellowships could be artistic projects of your choice – from short and long form creative writing pieces, video works, photo-essays, podcasts, installations and exhibitions to mixed media work, blogs, sites and digital art work, among others.

  • Applicants can propose stand-alone pieces or a series.

  • Project-specific deliverables across all stages of the fellowship will be delineated upon commissioning.

  • Please note that this is not a film production fellowship.

fellowship notes

  • The Fellowships are open to women, trans and queer researchers and practitioners, resident in India, as individuals, teams and collectives. We especially encourage voices belonging to groups marginalised on the basis of their caste, class, dis/ability, religion, ethnicity, work and/ or region. 

  • We seek innovative formats and treatments that best complement your vision and voice.

  • The outcomes could be in any language of your choice, but will need to additionally be produced in English, in the interest of access and outreach.

  • We aim to award four fellowships of Rs 75,000/- each.

  • Please propose ideas and budgets commensurate with the size of the Fellowship.

  • An Applicant/ team of Applicants can submit only one proposal under this Call.

  • Those who have submitted proposals for consideration under The Other Side Fellowships are eligible to apply for these fellowships. Only one of the two fellowships will be awarded to a selected applicant/ team.

  • Applicants commit to completing their projects in a period of six-seven months, in case their proposal is selected for commissioning.

  • These will be mentored fellowships, developed in dialogue with Rough Edges.

proposal submission terms

  • Rough Edges is not bound to honour incomplete proposals, those that do not reach us or reach us after the submission deadline.

  • Rough Edges will not be responsible should multiple proposals explore similar ideas. We may select any or none of them.

  • Decisions on the selection of proposals, by Rough Edges, will be final.

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