International fund Lebanon, Beirut
Run by AFAC, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
The main independent fund for Arab fiction features, and one a director can apply to alone with a development ask of up to USD 10,000; up to 30 percent of any grant may pay the director's and producer's own fees. Applications in Arabic or English, one call a year with a June deadline.
Grant up to $50,000Open to writers in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt and 15 other countriesA writer alone or a writer with a producer
Next dates not yet published
That closing date has passed. We check the funder's page every day and add the next dates once they are published.
The fund opens once a year. The next cycle's dates are not yet published; we add them when they are. One call a year, opening in mid-April and closing in June at 5 PM Beirut time; results in December. The 2027 dates were not yet published.
| Round | Closes |
|---|---|
| 2026 call (closed) | Jun 19, 2026 passed |
Dates are as the funder states them. Check the time of day and the time zone on the official page.
AFAC, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
AFAC's documentary strand runs on the spring call, two months ahead of the fiction one, with the same ceilings: USD 10,000 to develop a feature documentary, up to 50,000 to shoot it.
Culture Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy)
A first-film grant for young Arab directors, paid for the production or finishing of a short, medium or feature film, fiction or documentary.
A small Montreal foundation, named for the documentary maker Yvan Patry, that has given about 90 grants since 2001 to filmmakers from the global South making documentaries about rights and…
World Cinema Fund, Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlinale's fund for features from regions without a working film industry: up to EUR 60,000 that must be spent in the film's home region, with a German producer as the formal recipient.
Artist Trust
Small, fast and plentiful: 65 Washington artists a year receive USD 2,500 toward a specific project, from research travel to a first draft.
ITVS, Independent Television Service
ITVS's development door, replacing its earlier diversity development fund: a small first payment to shape a nonfiction feature or web series for PBS streaming, with a few months of…
Latino Public Broadcasting
Documentaries and limited series about Latino life for national public television, funded from first research through the final mix.
Film Independent, with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Science on screen pays here: three cash grants a year for fiction projects about scientists or technology, awarded inside Film Independent's Episodic Lab, Producing Lab and Fast Track…