Eddie Bauer Announces $10,000 grants for outdoor filmmakers

Outdoor Enthusiast brand Eddie Bauer is pledging to support filmmakers of color by offering up $10,000 to six selected candidates. In addition to financial support and promotion of the films across Eddie Bauer channels, the company aims to partner with filmmakers to tell stories that help all people feel invited, accepted, and validated in their full range of outdoor experiences.

Eddie Bauer is partnering with The Outbound Collective to assemble a committee of community peers and industry professionals with diverse backgrounds, and who identify as members of BIPOC communities or allies, to select the recipients of the film grants.

“For our 2021 Eddie Bauer One Outside Film Grant we’ll be awarding film grants to filmmakers who identify as part of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities,” the company said on their website. “At Eddie Bauer, we believe that outdoor experiences should be for everyone – regardless of race, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, religion, mental and physical ability or age. In acknowledgement that outdoor spaces are not always a welcoming place for all, it’s our mission to bring the benefits of the outdoors to all communities, particularly those who have been underrepresented.”

Interested filmmakers are eligible to apply for the 2021 Eddie Bauer One Outside Film Grant if:

• You identify as a member of Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities.

• You are a legal resident of the 50 United States, D.C. and Puerto Rico who, as of March 15, 2021, are at least 18 years of age.

• You are a filmmaker, or member of a filmmaking team.

• You pitch your film project and submit further explanation (if required) to a review committee.

• You complete your film before Oct 1, 2021 (date subject to change).

• Your film’s subject matter is relevant to the outdoors or outdoor adjacent topics (such as social topics, access and equality topics, or philanthropic topics– within the context of the outdoors or environment).

• You enter into a non-exclusive license agreement with Eddie Bauer to use, display, and publish the film if your film project is awarded a film grant.

Eddie Bauer invites filmmakers of all levels to apply on their website.