Yeti Launches a $200,000 Documentary Fellowship

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Addie Morfoot Contributor Yeti has launched a $200,000 grant to support emerging documentary filmmakers. The global outdoor brand’s Pretty Wild fellowship will support four directors as they create short docs that give a fresh perspective on the beauty, grandeur, and vulnerability of the outdoors and the people and stories that live there.

Fellows will be offered mentorship, $50,000 unrestricted grants, and guidance throughout the development of their films. Applications for the Fellowship will open on Sept.

26.The fellowship was developed in partnership with Little Monster Films, the production company founded by Academy Award-winners Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, and the Points North Institute, a nonprofit organization that supports the next generation of nonfiction storytellers.

Vasarhelyi and Chin will serve as mentors for the inaugural crop of grant recipients Yeti has produced more than 75 films focused on stories from the wild since launching Yeti Presents in 2015.