Name of the Event: 2025 CatchLight Global Fellowship
Date: May 2025
Last Date of Application: 14 December 2024
Link to Apply:
CatchLight has opened the call for submissions for its Global Fellowship. The program supports innovative visual storytellers seeking to engage broad audiences and amplify the impact of their work through inventive distribution strategies.
The Fellowship emphasizes creative leadership, innovative distribution methods, and meaningful audience engagement—essential components for shaping the future of visual communication. An international jury will select the 2025 Global Fellows, who will be announced at the annual Visual Storytelling Summit in May 2025.
Ideal Candidate:
Long-form storyteller with a specific impact project
Leader with a plan to advance/or grow the field
Educator with innovative approaches to supporting emerging storytellers
Proposals will be assessed on how they employ and strengthen new methods and potential solutions with an eye towards one or more of the following target outcomes:
Innovative Distribution- Testing a new distribution method of an existing project to effectively engage a specific audience through visuals.
Community Activations- Testing how visual storytelling can be leveraged to engage specific audiences and/or address specific community information needs
Field sustainability- building systems and models that push the field of visual storytelling or media ecosystem forward.
Benefits:
$30,000 award
Potential access to additional future funding through the CatchLight Impact Fund
Paid travel and accommodations for the 2025 CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit in San Francisco.
Personal development opportunities, including executive coaching
Impact strategy and networking support from CatchLight staff and our extended network.
A community of like-minded Fellows and industry professionals with opportunities for mentorship, education and speaking engagements.
Documents Requirement:
A fellowship statement that describes how visuals in general, and your work specifically, engage audiences and have a long-term impact. 200 words
A description of the proposed work. 250 words.
A description of how your distribution, engagement and/or impact plan differs from what is happening industry-wide now and that identifies your target audience. 250 words.
A plan to gather impact feedback. 100 words
A timeline for the work which can extend beyond the grant period. (This can be broad or specific)
A budget estimate for the proposed work. This budget can exceed the award amount but please note where CatchLight funds would be used
Three topic ideas for sharing learning with the CatchLight community
10-20 images which, if awarded, CatchLight has the right to use in promotional materials.
Three professional references. Contact information must include email and phone number.
A short bio
A copy of your curriculum vitae.
We are not the official organisers of the program. If you have any queries regarding it, kindly contact the organisers.
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