Following the success of the 2024 Climate and Labour Film Grant, the Pulitzer Centre, Financial Times, and One World Media (OWM) have announced another call for proposals for the 2025 Global Health Film Grant, which should focus on global health, with the selected grantee becoming a part of the 2025 OWM Fellowship.
The Global Health Film Grant is for an experienced filmmaker who wants to explore, through a short documentary, underreported health stories in the Global South. The partnership is interested in ambitious projects about systemic barriers to all sorts of care, as well as promising research, treatment advances, or emerging health threats that merit investigation. The grant aims to amplify new perspectives, stories and voices on global health with a particular focus on solution-oriented reporting.
Through the Pulitzer Centre’s Global Health initiative, journalists have reported on systemic, interconnected health inequities worldwide, such as pandemic preparedness, vaccine access and trust, and rising maternal mortality. The initiative supports accountability reporting that deepens understanding and informs public debate.
The Partnership is especially keen to receive creative, newsworthy proposals that spotlight underreported global health stories across a range of topics, from health inequalities and barriers to basic healthcare, food insecurity and its far-reaching consequences. Stories that examine systemic failures in mental health treatment, explore scientific advances with the potential to prevent disease, reduce maternal mortality, or prepare for future outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics, particularly in overlooked or underrepresented contexts, are welcome.
This grant is for storytellers from the Global South, working in the Global South, and the proposed film must be under 25 minutes and be completed by June 2026.
Selected film will receive up to £20,000 funding, and will be supported by an industry mentor, an Executive Director, and production support. The grantee will receive workshops and peer support as part of the one-year One World Media Fellowship programme, and a membership in the One World Media global alumni network. The final film will be made publicly available on the Financial Times’ platforms and promoted globally by all three partners and associated screenings.
The application deadline is August 20, 2025. The successful grantee will be unveiled in November 2025, while the final delivery will be in June 2026.
Please visit this link for more information and to apply https://oneworldmedia.org.uk/projects/global-health-film-grant/.
