Humanities Montana serves communities through stories and conversation, nurturing imagination and ideas by speaking to Montanans’ diverse history, literature, and philosophy. The organization acknowledges the Indigenous homelands it operates on, showing respect for their history and culture, while aiming to provide programs that tell diverse stories, facilitate pressing conversations, support cultural institutions through grants and partnerships, and offer humanities education.
The Film + Video Grants by Humanities Montana support multi-year media projects with broad distribution goals, aimed at engaging Montanans in meaningful discussion about the human condition and enriching civic discourse among the state's diverse cultures and geographical distances. These grants are intended for major projects that require multiple stages of research, development, production, and post-production. Projects can receive funding at different stages: up to $8,000 for research and script development, up to $10,000 for production, and up to $10,000 for completion of the product, with a maximum of $28,000 in total funding per project. Each stage requires satisfactory evidence of development for the project to be considered for further funding.