Screenwriting grants and film funding in Bosnia and Herzegovina

34 funds a writer based in Bosnia and Herzegovina can apply to: 1 at home and 33 from Europe and the world. 9 take an application from the writer alone.

34 listed.

Based in Bosnia and Herzegovina

National and regional funds, broadcasters and foundations at home.

WritingProductionBosnia and HerzegovinaNational fund

Konkurs za sufinansiranje filmskih projekata (co-financing of film projects: screenplay development, production, minority co-productions)

Fondacija za kinematografiju Sarajevo (Cinematography Foundation, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Bosnia's federal film foundation runs one call a year that bundles everything, from a small screenplay development line a writer can claim as a natural person (BAM 3,000 to 6,000) to…

Next dates not yet publishedA writer alone or a production companyFeature, Documentary, Animation, Short

rangeBAM600kGrantbetween rounds

Also open to writers in Bosnia and Herzegovina

European and international funds, and funds from other countries that take applications from here.

ProductionCanadaInternational fund

Alter-Ciné Foundation documentary film grants

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…

Annual deadline Aug 15, 2027A writer aloneDocumentary

rangeCA$10kGrantcloses in 287 days

ProductionCompletionGermanyInternational fund

WCF Europe

World Cinema Fund, Berlin International Film Festival, with Creative Europe MEDIA

WCF money for European producers, including those in Eastern Europe and the Balkans with little co-production funding at home, who partner with a filmmaker from the fund's regions.

Next dates not yet publishedA production companyFeature, Documentary, Animation

up to€60kGrantbetween rounds

ProductionCompletionGermanyInternational fund

World Cinema Fund (WCF Classic)

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.

Next dates not yet publishedA production companyFeature, Documentary, Animation

up to€60kGrantbetween rounds

ProductionNetherlandsInternational fund

HBF+Europe: Minority Co-production Support

Hubert Bals Fund, International Film Festival Rotterdam, with Creative Europe MEDIA

Production money that follows a European producer into a co-production with the global South. Only 25 percent of the grant needs spending in Europe; the rest can go where the film is made.

Next dates not yet publishedA production companyFeature

up to€60kGrantbetween rounds

CompletionNetherlandsInternational fund

HBF+Europe: Post-production Support

Hubert Bals Fund, International Film Festival Rotterdam, with Creative Europe MEDIA

Finishing money for co-productions that reached the edit, from the Rotterdam fund's European strand. Thirteen films since 2023, one of them the Tiger Award winner of 2026.

Next dates not yet publishedA production companyFeature

up to€60kGrantbetween rounds

WritingDevelopmentNetherlandsInternational fund

Hubert Bals Fund Development Support (Script and Project)

Hubert Bals Fund, International Film Festival Rotterdam

One of the few international grants a writer-director can take alone and spend on writing: research, drafts, translation, a script consultant or a trip to pitch.

Next dates not yet publishedA writer alone or a writer with a producerFeature

up to€10kGrantbetween rounds

DevelopmentProductionCompletionNetherlandsInternational fund

IDFA Bertha Fund Classic (IBF Classic)

IDFA Bertha Fund, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

A documentary development grant the director applies for alone, with research, writing and a teaser all allowed costs, from the fund of the world's largest documentary festival.

2027 round Feb 10, 2027A writer alone or a writer with a producerDocumentary

up to€25kGrantcloses in 101 days

ProductionCompletionNetherlandsInternational fund

IDFA Bertha Fund Europe: Minority Co-production Support (IBF Europe)

IDFA Bertha Fund, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, with Creative Europe MEDIA

The European side of the IDFA Bertha Fund: a minority producer in Europe brings a documentary from the global South to the finish.

2027 round Jan 15, 2027A production companyDocumentary

up to€40kGrantcloses in 75 days

ProductionNorwayInternational fund

Sørfond

Norsk filminstitutt with Stiftelsen Festivalkontoret, financed by Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Norway's fund for films from the developing world, aimed at freedom of expression and independent producers where both are under pressure.

Next dates not yet publishedA production companyFeature, Documentary

up toNOK1MGrantbetween rounds

DevelopmentProductionCompletionSaudi ArabiaInternational fund

Red Sea Fund

Red Sea Film Foundation

A young fund with deep pockets covering the Arab world, Africa and Asia, with a development window each May for features and series.

Next dates not yet publishedA writer with a producer or a production companyFeature, Series, Documentary, Animation, Short

VariesGrant or repayablebetween rounds

DevelopmentInternationalEU programme

European Co-development (CREA-MEDIA-2027-CODEV)

Creative Europe MEDIA, European Commission

Money for one project developed jointly by producers in two or more European countries, so a writer whose story crosses a border can be paid while two companies share the work.

2027 call Mar 2, 2027A production companyFeature, Series, Documentary, Animation

VariesGrantcloses in 121 days

DevelopmentInternationalEU programme

European Mini-slate Development (CREA-MEDIA-DEVMINISLATE)

Creative Europe MEDIA, European Commission

The smaller sibling of slate development: two or three projects on one grant, which suits a young company with a couple of writers attached rather than a studio.

Next dates not yet publishedA production companyFeature, Series, Documentary, Animation, Short

VariesGrantbetween rounds

DevelopmentInternationalEU programme

European Slate Development (CREA-MEDIA-2027-DEVSLATE)

Creative Europe MEDIA, European Commission

The largest development pot in Europe, paid to production companies rather than writers: a company develops three to five projects at once on one grant, which keeps writers employed across…

2027 call Dec 1, 2026A production companyFeature, Series, Documentary, Animation, Short

VariesGrantcloses in 30 days

ProductionInternationalEU programme

TV and Online Content (CREA-MEDIA-2027-TVONLINE)

Creative Europe MEDIA, European Commission

Series and television films draw their EU production money here, paid to the producer once broadcasters in more than one country are on board.

First cut-off Feb 10, 2027A production companySeries, Feature, Documentary, Animation

VariesGrantcloses in 101 days

ProductionInternationalInternational fund

Eurimages Co-production Support

Eurimages, the Council of Europe's cultural support fund

Forty member states, Canada, Turkey, Ukraine and Switzerland among them, pay into this Council of Europe fund for co-produced features.

First 2027 call Jan 13, 2027A production companyFeature, Documentary, Animation

VariesGrant or repayablecloses in 73 days

DevelopmentUnited StatesFoundation or company fund

Catapult Development Grant

Catapult Film Fund

Seed money for documentaries at the point where nobody else will pay: a grant to shoot and cut the sample that raises the rest.

Next dates not yet publishedA writer with a producerDocumentary

range$25kGrantbetween rounds

ProductionCompletionDistributionUnited StatesFoundation or company fund

Documentary Film Support

Perspective Fund

A private documentary funder that reads inquiries all year and writes checks of USD 25,000 to 150,000 without taking rights or credits below USD 150,000.

Applications taken any timeA writer with a producerDocumentary, Short

range$150kGrantany time

ProductionUnited StatesFoundation or company fund

IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund

International Documentary Association, with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

A production fund for documentaries built on reporting, created in 2017 as an answer to misinformation.

Not taking applications this cycleA writer with a producerDocumentary

VariesGrantpaused

DevelopmentProductionCompletionUnited StatesFoundation or company fund

JustFilms

Ford Foundation

The foundation behind much of American social-issue documentary takes direct proposals from filmmakers through a periodic open call, scored on fit with Ford's justice themes…

Not taking applications this cycleA writer with a producerDocumentary

VariesGrantpaused

WritingUnited StatesFoundation or company fund

Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting

the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The best known paid year of writing in American film: a USD 35,000 stipend to finish a new feature screenplay, open to unproduced writers anywhere in the world.

Next dates not yet publishedA writer aloneFeature

range$35kGrantbetween rounds

DevelopmentUnited StatesFoundation or company fund

Research & Development Grant

Chicken & Egg Films

Paid thinking time for women and gender-expansive documentary directors between films: a USD 10,000 research grant or a USD 20,000 development grant, with the stage chosen by the applicant.

Next dates not yet publishedA writer with a producerDocumentary

range$20kGrantbetween rounds

DevelopmentProductionCompletionUnited StatesFoundation or company fund

Roy W. Dean Grant

From the Heart Productions

Small cash, large bundle: the winner takes USD 3,500 and a package of donated post, music and consulting worth several times that, for a film meant to do some good.

Next dates not yet publishedA writer alone or a writer with a producerFeature, Series, Short, Documentary, Animation

range$3.5kGrant or repayablebetween rounds

CompletionUnited StatesFoundation or company fund

SFFILM Documentary Film Fund

Post-production money for feature documentaries that are shot but not cut, from the San Francisco festival's foundation arm.

Next dates not yet publishedA writer with a producerDocumentary

range$20kGrantbetween rounds

WritingDevelopmentCompletionUnited StatesFoundation or company fund

SFFILM Rainin Grant

SFFILM, with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation

One of the few American grants that pays a screenwriter directly to write, and it can also fund packaging or the edit of the same film later.

Next dates not yet publishedA writer alone or a writer with a producerFeature

up to$25kGrantbetween rounds

ProductionCompletionFranceNational fund

Aide aux cinémas du monde (world cinema support)

CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, with the Institut français

The French door for filmmakers from anywhere else: a grant of up to EUR 300,000 for a feature co-produced with a French company, and a smaller sum to finish a film already shot.

Next deadline Nov 9, 2026A production companyFeature, Animation, Documentary

up to€300kGrantcloses in 8 days

WritingFranceFoundation or company fund

Bourse d'écriture télévision (television writing bursary)

Association Beaumarchais-SACD

The television twin of the Beaumarchais feature bursary: EUR 5,000 to an emerging writer for an original series or single drama in French, with web series welcome.

Next dates not yet publishedA writer aloneSeries

range€5kGrantbetween rounds

ProductionItalyRegional fund

Film Fund (Trentino Film Commission)

Trentino Film Commission, Trentino Sviluppo (Provincia autonoma di Trento)

A production fund for works shot in Trentino, with the committee meeting about every three months and approved projects listed on the portal back to 2011.

Not taking applications this cycleA production companyFeature, Series, Documentary

up to€400kGrantpaused

ProductionItalyRegional fundNames no past recipients

Fondo Grandi Produzioni (large productions fund)

Regione Autonoma della Sardegna and Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission

Money for bigger films that bring a shoot to Sardinia, in three categories by budget size, with a documentary strand. The round was reopened in autumn 2026 for the remaining funds.

Reopened round Nov 9, 2026A production companyFeature, Documentary

up to€338kGrantcloses in 8 days

ProductionItalyRegional fund

FVG Film Fund (Friuli Venezia Giulia regional production fund)

Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, through Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission

A production fund scored on how much of the film happens in the region, with three closing dates a year and a ranking issued within 30 days of each.

Next dates not yet publishedA production companyFeature, Series, Documentary, Short

up to€350kGrantbetween rounds

DevelopmentProductionCompletionQatarInternational fund

Doha Film Institute Grants Programme

A rare worldwide grant for a first or second feature at the development stage, with real money behind it: up to USD 20,000 to write and package a narrative feature, more later for…

Next dates not yet publishedA writer with a producerFeature, Short, Series, Documentary

up to$100kGrantbetween rounds

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