National fund Austria, Vienna
Run by BMWKMS, Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport, Filmabteilung (Austrian federal ministry for arts and culture, film department)
Development grants from the arts ministry for the experimental and documentary side of Austrian film, where an individual filmmaker can apply without a company. Features above 70 minutes come through a producer and top out at EUR 25,000.
Grant up to €25,000Open to writers in AustriaA writer alone or a production company
Submission Jan 31, 2027 (closes in 91 days)
That closing date has passed. We check the funder's page every day and add the next dates once they are published.
The next closing date is Jan 31, 2027. The dates below are the current cycle's, as the funder states them.
| Round | Closes |
|---|---|
| Submission | Jan 31, 2027 |
| Submission | May 31, 2027 |
| Submission | Sep 30, 2027 |
Dates are as the funder states them. Check the time of day and the time zone on the official page.
BMWKMS, Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport, Filmabteilung (Austrian federal ministry for arts and culture, film department)
For the stage before a project can even apply for development: a few months of paid time to turn a rough idea into a treatment or concept.
BMWKMS, Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport, Filmabteilung (Austrian federal ministry for arts and culture, film department)
The federal arts ministry's screenplay stipend for the independent, low-budget end of Austrian cinema: features whose production the same department might later fund.
ÖFI, Österreichisches Filminstitut (Austrian Film Institute)
The selective production round of the Austrian Film Institute, where the finished screenplay, cast and budget go in together.
BMWKMS, Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport, Filmabteilung (Austrian federal ministry for arts and culture, film department)
Production grants for the small, uncommercial film that the ÖFI would not fund: shorts, experimental and avant-garde work, documentaries and features under EUR 750,000.
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…