The funding is available for youth film-making or adventure skills courses, the purchase of adaptive sports equipment or environmental projects.
Festival director Mark Sedon, of Lake Hāwea, estimates the festival’s charitable trust will have close to $6000 to give away in grants this year.
Winners have included para alpine skier Jayden Glentworth and the Kahu Youth Trust.
The funds were raised through a silent auction during the festival in June.
More will be added from the proceeds of a national film tour.
Entries close on August 31.
Meanwhile, the People’s Choice Award, Inshallah, has just been announced.
It went to Wānaka-based journalists Georgia Merton and Isobel Ewing, who documented their bike tour through the mountains of Pakistan.
They also won this year’s festival prize for best self-filmed film.
Next year’s festival is from June 20-27 in Wānaka and Queenstown.
MORE INFO: mountainfilm.nz/grants/
