25 funds a writer based in South Africa can apply to: 2 at home and 23 from Europe and the world. 8 take an application from the writer alone.
25 listed.
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National and regional funds, broadcasters and foundations at home.
NFVF, National Film and Video Foundation (South Africa)
South Africa's national foundation pays for the writing stage itself: research, script editing and drafts for features, shorts, documentaries and TV formats, with a producer fee allowed in…
NFVF, National Film and Video Foundation (South Africa)
The production arm of South Africa's film foundation funds features, shorts, documentaries, TV movies and web series through registered companies, with a finished script and a finance plan…
European and international funds, and funds from other countries that take applications from here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
Post-production money for feature documentaries that are shot but not cut, from the San Francisco festival's foundation arm.
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.
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.
Association Beaumarchais-SACD
A writer alone, writing in French from anywhere in the world, can win EUR 5,000 for a first or second fiction feature.
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.
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.
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.
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.
IDM Südtirol Alto Adige, Film Fund and Commission
Open to producers from any country, which is rare for a regional fund, as long as the shoot touches South Tyrol.
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…