Asian Cinema Fund Script Development Fund

The money

Amount

₩10,000,000KRW 10 million per project, three projects a year, paid after the festival in October.

What it is

Grant

To apply

Free

Who can apply

Applicant

A writer alone

Where you write

In India, Indonesia, Philippines and 24 other countries

Rules

Open to a writer-director, or a writer paired with a director, every one of them holding a non-Korean Asian nationality, with an original fiction feature script (a first or second film) still being written; the director has to have made one short or feature before. The producer can be of any nationality. One of the three slots goes to a graduate of the festival's Asian Film Academy.

Stages

Writing

Formats

Feature

Language of the application

English

When to apply

The fund opens once a year. The next cycle's dates are not yet published; we add them when they are. The 2026 round took entries from March 23 to April 13 at 23:59 Korean time; the 2027 dates were not yet published.

Dates are as the funder states them. Check the time of day and the time zone on the official page.

What it gives besides money

A place in the Asian Project Market during the Busan festival, with a formal invitation to take part.