Hello there from Alabama! This is Kelly Marshall with information about the 2025 Southern Exposure Film Fellowship program, based in Birmingham, Alabama. The fellowship dates are: June 16 – July 25, 2025.
Now in its 13th year, Southern Exposure Films provides a positive and challenging learning experience to exceptional film students and emerging filmmakers from across the country seeking to explore and develop their talent as environmental advocates through nonfiction storytelling. This innovative summer fellowship equips students with the skills, equipment, content knowledge and community contacts to create authentic, engaging, inspiring films intended to raise public awareness about important issues facing Alabama’s environment -- from the mountains to the coast. The selected fellows will use their skills and talents to serve local communities and the environmental organizations that support them.The selected film fellows will spend the summer working in partnership with Alabama Rivers Alliance’s partner groups and other state environmental organizations, who will guide film topics and crucial community contacts to help the fellows create the short documentaries that will be most useful for raising awareness and advocating for the protection of Alabama’s special places. The Southern Exposure films are screened at events throughout Alabama, and have been featured in film festivals across the country and beyond. Learn more at www.southernexposurefilms.org or on ARA's website at www.AlabamaRivers.org/SE2025
Click here to see the application guidelines and more about the fellowship