National fund Colombia, Bogotá
Run by Proimágenes Colombia, for the Fondo para el Desarrollo Cinematográfico and the CNACC
Funded by a levy on tickets and distribution, Colombia's FDC is the one national fund in the region with a plain screenwriting modality a writer can enter alone, beside development, production, post-production and distribution modalities. Each year's call is split into phases with its own calendar.
Grant, amount not statedOpen to writers in ColombiaA writer alone, a writer with a producer or a production company
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. The 2026 call runs in phases; its calendar is published as an image on the call site and could not be read as text.
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