Grants for Artist Projects (GAP)
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.
range$2.5kGrantbetween rounds
Stage 2 of 5
Film and series development funding
Money for a project before it is financed: script drafts, a director and cast search, a budget, a pitch package. Most development funds pay a production company or a producer and writer together, and many ask for a producer to be attached before you apply. The sums are larger than writing grants and are often repayable if the film gets made.
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Incubator Fund
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…
up to$10kGrantpaused
Public Media Content Fund
Latino Public Broadcasting
Documentaries and limited series about Latino life for national public television, funded from first research through the final mix.
range$100kInvestmentbetween rounds
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grants at Film Independent
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…
range$30kGrantbetween rounds
Building Bridges Documentary Fund
Center for Asian American Media, with the Doris Duke Foundation
Documentaries about American Muslim experience can draw real sums here, from USD 10,000 of research money to USD 100,000 for production or post.
range$100kGrantbetween rounds
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.
range$25kGrantbetween rounds
range$10kGrantbetween rounds
Creative Capital Award
Creative Capital Foundation
Film sits beside visual art, dance and literature in this national open call, which gives individual artists up to USD 50,000 to make a new work and keeps advising them afterward.
up to$50kGrantbetween rounds
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…
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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.
range$20kGrantbetween rounds
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.
range$3.5kGrant or repayablebetween rounds
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.
up to$25kGrantbetween rounds
CMF Indigenous Development, Predevelopment and Production Programs (administered by the ISO)
Indigenous Screen Office with the Canada Media Fund
The Canada Media Fund's Indigenous money is handed to the Indigenous Screen Office to run, with higher contribution rates than the general programs: up to 84 percent of a predevelopment…
up toCA$750kGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Development and Predevelopment Funding (Broadcaster Envelope Program, Development)
Canada Media Fund
Television and digital series development in Canada mostly runs through this fund, but a broadcaster has to commit first: the money follows a development deal rather than a pitch.
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Development Program
Telefilm Canada
Canada's federal feature film agency pays for script drafts and packaging through a production company, from a first draft to the attachment of a director and distributor.
up toCA$100kRepayablebetween rounds
Development Program (ISO Story Fund)
Indigenous Screen Office
An Indigenous writer can apply here alone, without a producer or broadcaster, for research, script drafts, story editing, knowledge keepers and pitch materials.
up toCA$40kGrantbetween rounds
Explore and Create: Artistic Creation
Canada Council for the Arts
Since 2026 the Council's Artistic Creation grant stands in for two retired components, Concept to Realization and Research and Creation, and it is the arts council route for a screenwriter…
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Indigenous Funding streams
Telefilm Canada
Three ring-fenced streams inside Telefilm's feature programs: development, production and a Talent to Watch component for a first micro-budget feature.
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Slate Development Pilot Program
Canada Media Fund
The one CMF development route that does not wait for a broadcaster: a company receives a slate allocation and chooses which of its own English or French projects to develop with it.
up toCA$100kRepayablecloses in 11 days
Alberta Made Screen Industries Program (Project Script Development Grant and Alberta Made Production Grant)
Alberta Media Fund, Government of Alberta
Alberta's provincial fund pays for scripts in three phases and then for smaller productions, both as grants with fixed intake windows twice a year.
up toCA$125kGrantcloses in 76 days
Amplified Voices Development Fund
Screen Nova Scotia
Small early-development grants for emerging Black, Indigenous, racialized, 2SLGBTQIA+, disabled or official-language-minority writers and producers in Nova Scotia, paying for pitch decks…
up toCA$20kGrantbetween rounds
Create
Manitoba Arts Council
A general creation grant open to every discipline, so a Manitoba screenwriter applies as a writer or media artist for time to write or to develop a work in progress.
up toCA$15kGrantcloses in 139 days
Creation (research, creation, exploration and production grants for artists)
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec (CALQ)
Quebec's standing creation grant takes applications any day of the year, which is rare among public arts funders.
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Feature Film Development Fund and Television and Web-Based Development Fund
Manitoba Film and Music
Manitoba lends development money rather than granting it, in phases up to a CAD 35,000 cap, once a distributor or fund has put in the first fifth of the budget.
up toCA$35kRepayableany time
Film and Television Development Grant and Feature Film and TV Production Grant
Creative Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan funds first drafts, final drafts and company slates as grants that only become repayable if the film is shot elsewhere.
up toCA$40kGrantbetween rounds
Film and Video Individual Project Funding
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Script or screenplay writing is named on the page as a phase this grant can pay for, which makes it one of the few provincial grants a screenwriter can take to the page stage alone.
up toCA$18kGrantcloses in 120 days
Futures Forward Program
Ontario Creates
Early-stage development grants for Ontario companies that do not yet qualify for the IP Fund, typically a producer without the credits to attach a qualifying executive producer.
up toCA$20kGrantcloses in 29 days
Grants to Individuals: Create
Arts Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia pays its artists to make new work across every discipline, media and literary arts included, and accepts script samples as support material.
up toCA$15kGrantcloses in 14 days
Independent Artists program (Creation grants)
SK Arts (Saskatchewan Arts Board)
Writing a script is an eligible creation project in Saskatchewan when the filmmaker who will direct it is the applicant; the guidelines use exactly that case as an example.
up toCA$18kGrantcloses in 134 days
IP Fund, Linear Content stream
Ontario Creates
Ontario replaced its Film Fund with this stream in 2026: non-repayable money for development and production of features and digital series made in the province.
rangeCA$400kGrantbetween rounds
Programme d'aide au développement (Development Program), Component 1 writing assistance
SODEC, Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (Québec)
Québec's cultural agency pays production companies to write fiction features and medium or feature documentaries, in a selective round twice a year, with a separate strand for animated…
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Project Development Fund
Creative BC
Matching money for British Columbia producers who have already landed a development deal: Creative BC adds up to half of what the broadcaster, distributor or agency committed, as an…
up toCA$20kGrantany time
Short Form Series Development Program
Independent Production Fund (IPF)
Scripted short-form series, meaning web and digital-first fiction, are the whole point here. The development advance pays for scripts, a bible, an audience plan and a proof-of-concept shoot.
up toCA$30kRepayablebetween rounds
Slate Development Program
Bell Fund
A slate rather than a single project: a Canadian producer develops several original series at once and moves the money between them as the market responds.
up toCA$75kRepayablebetween rounds
Television Production Assistance Program, Creation of Intellectual Property Support
Quebecor Fund (Fonds Québecor)
Development money for Québec television concepts and formats meant to sell abroad, where a French-language broadcaster has already put in development money.
up toCA$300kRepayablebetween rounds
TELUS Fund development, production and post-launch financing
Here the subject matters as much as the script: a feature, series or web series only qualifies when well-being, health or living conditions drive the story, and a Canadian health…
up toCA$25kRepayablebetween rounds
Concursos de fomento INCAA (INCAA funding contests)
INCAA, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts)
Argentina has moved its public support into dollar-denominated contests with a few large prizes each.
up to$250kGrantcloses in 22 days
Fundo Setorial do Audiovisual, FSA (Audiovisual Sector Fund)
ANCINE, Agência Nacional do Cinema, with BRDE as the fund's financial agent
Brazil's main public money for film and series is an investment fund run through a development bank, and it reaches writers only through an independent production company.
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Guion original y adaptación literaria, Fondo Audiovisual (original screenplay and literary adaptation line)
Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, Fondo de Fomento Audiovisual (Chile's Ministry of Cultures)
Chile's culture ministry runs a screenplay line inside its audiovisual fund, paying up to CLP 5 million to write a first draft of a feature or pilot and up to CLP 8 million to take a…
up toCLP8MGrantbetween rounds
Convocatoria FDC, Estímulos por Concurso (Film Development Fund competitive grants)
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…
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Concurso Público FONPROCINE (Fund for Film Promotion public contest)
DGCINE, Dirección General de Cine (Dominican Republic's film directorate)
A small national fund with a clear yearly rhythm: one public contest each summer, DOP 17.5 million shared among about sixteen projects.
up toDOP7MGrantbetween rounds
Estímulos Económicos para la Actividad Cinematográfica y Audiovisual (economic stimulus contests for film)
Ministerio de Cultura del Perú, DAFO, Dirección del Audiovisual, la Fonografía y los Nuevos Medios
Peru runs a yearly set of contests rather than a standing fund: fiction, documentary, animation, shorts, films in post-production, minority co-productions and distribution, each with its…
up toPEN900kGrantbetween rounds
Fondo de Fomento Cinematográfico y Audiovisual and Programa Uruguay Audiovisual (film fund and national audiovisual program)
ACAU, Agencia del Cine y el Audiovisual del Uruguay (Uruguay's film and audiovisual agency)
Uruguay's agency groups its national money into a calendar of calls: script and project development, production of features, series and shorts, minority co-productions, plus the Programa…
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Animation Development Loans
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
Development loans for animated television series from Irish studios, applied for with a series bible, sample visuals and, if available, a full episode script.
up to€30kRepayablebetween rounds
Creative Futures Slate Fund 2026-2028
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
Slate money for established Irish companies to develop several narrative projects at once over two years, with writers' fees, rights and script editors among the eligible costs.
up to€250kRepayablecloses in 19 days
Film Project Award
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland)
The Arts Council's project grant for film as an art form, open to an individual filmmaker as much as to a company, with a ceiling of ninety thousand euro.
up to€90kGrantbetween rounds
First Stage Documentary Development
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
Seed money for a documentary feature or series from an Irish company, with rights paperwork needed before any funds are drawn.
up to€15kRepayablebetween rounds
Irish Feature Film Development Loans
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
The producer's route to developing an Irish feature, from a treatment or script sample through further drafts, with the same deadlines as the writer-only scheme.
up to€125kRepayablebetween rounds
Television Drama Development Loans
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
Development loans for Irish television drama, applied for by a producer with a writer already agreed.
VariesRepayablebetween rounds
BFI Development Funding
BFI (British Film Institute), National Lottery
The main public route for developing a British fiction feature, from treatment through to a screenplay ready to finance.
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BFI Doc Society Fund: features development and production
Doc Society for the BFI (British Film Institute), National Lottery
The UK's National Lottery money for feature documentaries, run by Doc Society.
range£150kGrantcloses in 50 days
Feature Film Development
Ffilm Cymru Wales, National Lottery via Arts Council of Wales and BFI NETWORK
Development money for a single feature, documentary or animated film with a Welsh writer, director or producer at its head, and a lone writer may apply.
up to£25kGrant or repayablecloses in 93 days
Film Development and Production Fund
Screen Scotland (Creative Scotland), National Lottery and Scottish Government
Scotland's main film fund, in two routes.
range£500kGrant or repayableany time
First Features (Short Circuit)
Screen Scotland and BFI NETWORK, delivered by Film City Futures with Glasgow Film
Development money for a first feature script in Scotland, paid to the writer rather than a company.
up to£20kGrantany time
Green Lit (Northern Ireland Screen and BBC Northern Ireland drama initiative)
Northern Ireland Screen with BBC Northern Ireland
A broadcaster-backed pipeline for emerging Northern Irish drama talent: six outlines win development money, three become standalone scripted films for BBC One Northern Ireland and iPlayer…
up to£10kGrantbetween rounds
Irish Language Broadcast Fund (Ciste Craoltóireachta Gaeilge)
Northern Ireland Screen
Northern Ireland's fund for television made in Irish, across every genre, with the broadcaster usually matching development money and the fund investing up to four hundred thousand pounds…
up to£400kInvestmentbetween rounds
New Writer Focus
Northern Ireland Screen
Northern Ireland Screen's only door for an individual writer: up to four first-time feature writers a year join an eight-month development scheme and can then claim a small individual award.
up to£2.3kGrantbetween rounds
Script, Project and Slate Development funding
Northern Ireland Screen
Recoupable development money for feature film and television drama scripts, and for single projects or slates across film, TV and interactive work.
up to£100kRepayableany time
Short film schemes (Short Film Call, Creative Animation, New Shorts Focus)
Northern Ireland Screen, with Arts Council of Northern Ireland and BFI NETWORK lottery funds
Three short film schemes under one roof for Northern Ireland talent: a production call for live action, factual and VR shorts, an animation scheme run through local studios, and a…
up to£40kGrantbetween rounds
Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund
Northern Ireland Screen
Content money for programs and short digital work in or about Ulster-Scots culture and language, run by Northern Ireland Screen with BBC Northern Ireland as its main partner.
up to£40kGrant or repayableany time
WRITE NOW early stage development documentary fund
Scottish Documentary Institute
A small grant for the writing phase of a first or second feature documentary by a director based in Scotland, before there is anything to shoot.
up to£3kGrantbetween rounds
Emerging Indie Fund
Channel 4
Rather than fund one script, Channel 4 picks up to five regional companies a year (plus two digital ones) and pays for their development slates while a commissioner meets them regularly.
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Projektentwicklung (project development, innovative film)
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.
up to€25kGrantcloses in 91 days
Projektentwicklung (project development)
ÖFI, Österreichisches Filminstitut (Austrian Film Institute)
Once an Austrian company holds your script, this grant pays for the final draft, casting, locations and a production plan ahead of the ÖFI's production round.
up to€50kGrantcloses in 38 days
Filmförderung des Landes Niederösterreich (Lower Austria film funding: artistic film and cinema production)
Land Niederösterreich, Abteilung Kunst und Kultur (Lower Austria regional government, arts and culture department)
A state fund in two parts: grants for commercially difficult artistic films by Lower Austrians, taken year-round, and top-up grants for cinema features and documentaries that shoot in the…
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Oberösterreichische Filmförderung (Upper Austria cultural film funding)
Land Oberösterreich, Direktion Kultur und Gesellschaft (Upper Austria regional government, culture department)
Upper Austria funds development, production or release of artistic films by people who live in the state, with a treatment and synopsis enough to apply.
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Aide au développement et aide à la production, longs métrages et courts métrages (development and production aid)
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
The producer stages of the Walloon-Brussels film commission: development money of EUR 15,000 to EUR 60,000, then production grants that reach half a million euros for a feature from the…
range€500kGrantbetween rounds
Aides aux documentaires de création (creative documentary aid: writing, development, production)
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
A full ladder for documentary in French-speaking Belgium, from EUR 10,000 to write a film through development to production grants that top out at EUR 120,000 for a series.
up to€120kGrantbetween rounds
Commission Séries: aide à l'écriture, au développement et à la production (series commission)
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Series money in French-speaking Belgium flows only once a broadcaster has signed, and then it is generous: EUR 25,000 to start the writers' room, EUR 150,000 to develop and EUR 600,000 to…
up to€600kGrantbetween rounds
Ontwikkelings- en productiesteun, VAF/Filmfonds (development and production support)
VAF, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (Flanders Audiovisual Fund)
Once a Flemish script has a producer, this is where it grows: development money of which at least EUR 35,000 of the top tier must go to further writing, then production grants that reach…
range€1MGrantcloses in 16 days
VAF/Mediafonds: scenario-, ontwikkelings- en productiesteun voor series (series support)
VAF, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (Flanders Audiovisual Fund)
The Flemish fund's television arm, where a series can start with up to EUR 25,000 of script money before any channel signs on, and climb to EUR 1.3 million for a high-end production.
up to€1.3MGrantcloses in 11 days
Wallimage Coproductions and Wallimpact (production and development financing)
Wallimage, the economic film and games fund of Wallonia
An economic fund, so the question is Walloon spend rather than cultural fit, but its Wallimpact line pays producers EUR 50,000 to EUR 100,000 for scriptwriting and development, repaid only…
range€100kRepayablebetween rounds
Финансиране на български филми (funding of Bulgarian films: screenplay writing and project development, pre-production, production)
Национален филмов център, НФЦ (Bulgarian National Film Center)
Bulgaria runs two general sessions a year for feature projects, plus one for co-productions with the national broadcaster BNT.
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Razvoj scenarija i razvoj projekata audiovizualnih djela (script and project development for feature, documentary and animated films)
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar, HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual Centre)
Croatia lets a writer apply alone for script money, and up to two co-writers may share one grant equally. Features need 70 minutes, documentaries 60, animation 24.
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Razvoj scenarija i razvoj projekata dugometražnih igranih i animiranih filmova za djecu i mlade (script and project development for children's and youth features)
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar, HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual Centre)
A ring-fenced pot for family films.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Razvoj scenarija i razvoj projekata televizijskih djela (script and project development for television series)
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar, HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual Centre)
The television twin of HAVC's film development call, for series writers.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Kompletní vývoj celovečerního hraného filmu (complete development of a feature fiction film)
Státní fond audiovize (Czech Audiovisual Fund)
Second-stage development money for Czech feature fiction projects that already have a first draft.
up toCZK1.3MGrantbetween rounds
Dokumentar og kort fiktion, Konsulentordningen (documentary and short fiction consultant scheme)
Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
The artistic track for Danish documentaries and short fiction, including an idea stage for documentaries that only the director needs to sign.
VariesGrantany time
New Danish Screen
Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
Debut long films made cheaply, with the talent's voice as the point. A producer and director apply together; a screenwriter joins that team rather than applying alone.
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Public Service Puljen (public service pool)
Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
Denmark's money for drama series, documentary series and audio made for commercial broadcasters and streamers rather than DR. Development support can pay for scripts, research, casting and…
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Spillefilm, Konsulentordningen (feature film consultant scheme)
Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
Denmark's main route for features judged on their artistic merit.
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Spillefilm, Markedsordningen (feature film market scheme)
Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
For Danish features expected to draw a larger cinema audience than the national average.
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Den Vestdanske Filmpulje (West Danish Film Fund)
Western Denmark's regional fund for features, series, documentaries and animated shorts at development and production stage.
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FilmFyn
The film fund for Funen and its islands, paying development and production money to features, documentaries and drama series that shoot or hire on the island.
VariesGrantany time
Audiovisuaalse kunsti sihtkapital (Endowment for Audiovisual Arts)
Eesti Kultuurkapital (Cultural Endowment of Estonia)
Estonia's second film funder, financed by excise taxes and run as an endowment with four deadlines a year.
up to€200kGrantcloses in 19 days
Dokumentaalfilmi arendus ja tootmine (documentary development and production)
Eesti Filmi Instituut (Estonian Film Institute)
One pair of rounds a year covers both stages of an Estonian documentary: up to EUR 25,000 to develop and up to EUR 200,000 to produce.
up to€200kGrantbetween rounds
Täispika mängufilmi arendus (feature film development)
Eesti Filmi Instituut (Estonian Film Institute)
Development support for Estonian fiction features, capped at EUR 50,000 and applied for by a producer twice a year.
up to€50kGrantbetween rounds
AVEK tuki yrityksille (company support for development and production)
AVEK, Audiovisuaalisen kulttuurin edistämiskeskus (Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture), part of Kopiosto
For production companies making documentaries, shorts, short animation and media art, with the emphasis on early content development but room to fund later stages or a whole small…
up to€15kGrantany time
Kehittämistuki (development support)
Suomen elokuvasäätiö (Finnish Film Foundation)
Development money for Finnish production companies, paying for script writing and development, production planning, design and the work needed to build a budget and finance plan.
up to€250kGrantcloses in 72 days
General grant call (working grants for artists)
Kone Foundation (Koneen Saatio)
Finland's largest private arts funder pays artists a monthly grant to work in peace, from six months to three years, and says yes to every art form, so a screenwriter applies on the…
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Aide au développement d'œuvres cinématographiques de longue durée (feature film development aid)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (French national film center)
France's main public development money for feature films pays the producer to option rights, write and rewrite.
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Aides à l'élaboration et au développement de séries documentaires (documentary series writing and development aid)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (French national film center)
A newer CNC line for documentary series, paying the author EUR 15,000 to write a show of three or more episodes before any broadcaster is involved.
from€15kGrantcloses in 35 days
Fonds d'aide à l'innovation en documentaire de création (creative documentary innovation fund)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (French national film center)
Documentary writers can start here alone with EUR 10,000 and stay in the same fund as a producer comes on board, up to a reinforced development sum that pays for a first shoot.
from€10kGrantcloses tomorrow
Fonds Images de la diversité (Images of Diversity fund)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, with the Agence nationale de la cohésion des territoires
A fund for stories about the France that mainstream screens miss, reformed in April 2026.
from€10kGrantcloses in 64 days
Fonds de soutien à la création et à la production pour le cinéma et l'audiovisuel (film and audiovisual support fund)
Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, run with ALCA (the regional book, film and audiovisual agency)
One of the biggest regional funds in France, covering writing, development and production for cinema and television across six genre committees.
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Aide au développement, Commissions Cinéma et Télévision (development aid)
Procirep and Angoa (French producers' collecting societies)
Money that French producers' own collecting societies put back into writing: around EUR 15 million a year across cinema and television.
up to€63kGrant or repayablecloses in 65 days
Jurybasierte kulturelle Projektentwicklungsförderung (jury-based project development funding)
FFA, Filmförderungsanstalt (German Federal Film Board)
Development money for the stage after the script: rights, further drafts, casting, budgeting. A production company applies, except in documentary, where writers and directors may come alone.
up to€100kGrantcloses in 44 days
Talentfilm: Projektentwicklung und Produktion (talent film project development and production)
Kuratorium junger deutscher Film (foundation for young German film)
Where first and second films by German writers, directors and producers go for development and production money since the FFA handed talent films to the Kuratorium in January 2026.
up to€500kGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Verwendung von Referenzmitteln für Autor*innen und Regisseur*innen (reference funds for writers and directors)
FFA, Filmförderungsanstalt (German Federal Film Board)
New under the 2025 film law: when a German feature scores reference points, its writer and director get their own pot to spend on the next script, from a first idea to a finished…
up to€45kGrantany time
Creative Development (exposé, treatment, screenplay)
Film- und Medienstiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia film and media foundation)
A ladder of grants from a five-thousand-euro exposé to a twenty-thousand-euro screenplay, with the first rung open to NRW writers on their own and no producer required.
range€70kGrantcloses in 81 days
Drehbuch- und Stoffentwicklung, Projektweiterentwicklung, Produktion (script development, project development, production)
nordmedia, Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen
Lower Saxony and Bremen's fund lets a writer apply for script development money alone, up to EUR 30,000, though the sum is a loan due if the film gets made.
up to€30kRepayablecloses in 74 days
Gerd Ruge Stipendium (documentary development stipend)
Film- und Medienstiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia film and media foundation)
Since 2002 this NRW stipend has paid young documentary makers to develop a cinema feature before any producer is attached: a treatment, research trips, a visual concept.
up to€100kGrantbetween rounds
NEST (development funding for ideas, scripts and concepts)
MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
NEST replaced the treatment and screenplay schemes in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein in favor of a residency plus tools model: EUR 7,500 for the idea, a week with Le Groupe Ouest, then a…
range€150kGrantbetween rounds
Produktion und Produktionsvorbereitung (production and pre-production)
MFG Baden-Württemberg, Filmförderung (Baden-Württemberg film fund)
Stuttgart's production loan for cinema and television films, with a pre-production line beside it. The fund's news names its films, from an animated NEINhorn to the Emmy-nominated Lenas Hof.
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Produktion, Produktionsvorbereitung, Setzkasten und Paketförderung (production, pre-production and packages)
HessenFilm und Medien (Hessen film and media fund)
Everything after the script in Hessen: pre-production grants, a Setzkasten that bundles treatment, development and preparation, slate funding for small companies, and a production loan…
up to€1MGrant or repayablecloses in 23 days
Produktion, Projektentwicklung und Fertigstellung (production, project development and completion)
MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
Two committees split Hamburg's production money by budget, Director's Cut below EUR 2.5 million and High End above, with project development and completion lines alongside.
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Projektentwicklung (project development)
FFF Bayern, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (Bavarian film and television fund)
The step between a finished Bavarian screenplay and the shoot: a loan to the producer for casting, budgeting and further drafts, with recent awards between EUR 30,000 and EUR 85,000 per…
up to€100kRepayablecloses in 85 days
Spielfilm: Produktion und Pre-Production (feature film production and pre-production)
Film- und Medienstiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia film and media foundation)
The production line of Germany's biggest regional fund, covering pre-production, the shoot, post, distribution and world sales.
VariesRepayablecloses in 18 days
Stoffentwicklung (script development)
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Berlin-Brandenburg's script money goes to the producer developing your screenplay, as a loan that comes back only if the film happens.
VariesRepayablecloses in 93 days
Stoffentwicklung, Projektentwicklung und Produktion (script development, project development and production)
MDM, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (central German media fund for Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia)
Central Germany funds a writer's screenplay, series concept or storyworld with a loan of up to EUR 25,000, rising to EUR 30,000 through a company, then project development and production…
up to€30kRepayablebetween rounds
Stoffentwicklung, Projektentwicklung und Produktionsförderung (script development, project development and production)
MV Filmförderung (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern film fund)
A small northeastern fund with an unusual perk: script development is an outright grant of up to EUR 20,000, and a writer can apply with just a producer's letter.
up to€250kGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Βασικό Πρόγραμμα: Ανάπτυξη και Παραγωγή (Main Program: Development and Production)
EKKOMED, Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center (formerly the Greek Film Centre)
Greece's core development and production money, applied for by a producer with the writer's contract in the file.
up to€500kGrantcloses in 60 days
Forgatókönyv-fejlesztési pályázat (script development call)
Nemzeti Filmintézet, NFI (National Film Institute Hungary)
Hungary's national money for scripts is on hold.
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Þróunarstyrkir (development grants)
Kvikmyndamiðstöð Íslands (Icelandic Film Centre)
Development money for feature length fiction, scripted series and long documentaries, paid to an Icelandic production company in up to two parts.
VariesGrantany time
Contributi selettivi per lo sviluppo (selective development contributions)
Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo, Ministero della Cultura
Development money for Italian producers taking a script over 52 minutes toward production, non-repayable, with at most eleven film and six series projects funded per session.
up to€100kGrantbetween rounds
Bando Lombardia a sostegno dello sviluppo di opere cinematografiche e audiovisive (development call)
Lombardia Film Commission (Regione Lombardia)
A young development call, now in its second year, paying for writing and pre-production of films and series with Lombardy as a setting and a resource.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Bando per lo sviluppo di sceneggiature, L.R. 15/2006 art. 5 (screenplay development call)
Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, Servizio sport, spettacolo e cinema
Sardinia's cinema law has a line just for screenplays, paid to a company developing a script of regional interest, beside its calls for shorts, features and distribution.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Fondo per l'Audiovisivo del Friuli Venezia Giulia (development, training and distribution calls)
The development half of the Friuli Venezia Giulia system: three calls a year for development, distribution and training, run by a fund that also hosts the When East Meets West forum.
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Fondo per l'audiovisivo della Regione Emilia-Romagna (development and production calls)
Regione Emilia-Romagna, through Emilia-Romagna Film Commission
Since 2016 the region has funded development and production under its own film law, and it keeps a public catalogue of every supported work, with the development projects listed by company…
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IDM Film Fund Südtirol Alto Adige (production, development and short film funding)
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.
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Piemonte Doc Film Fund
Film Commission Torino Piemonte
The oldest Italian fund for documentary, running since 2007, with a development line that covers research, writing and a promo, and a production line for shooting and post in Piedmont.
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Piemonte Film TV Development Fund
Film Commission Torino Piemonte, with Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and Regione Piemonte
Development support for Piedmont producers aimed at projects that can travel as European co-productions, including with broadcasters.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Konkursi për subvencionimin e projekteve filmike (film project subsidy call: screenplay writing, project development, production)
Qendra Kinematografike e Kosovës, QKK (Kosovo Cinematography Center)
Kosovo's yearly call has 14 categories, and two pay for writing: screenplay support for a feature (fiction or animated) and, new in 2026, for a television series, beside a project…
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Filmu attīstīšanas projektu atbalsta konkurss (film development project competition)
Nacionālais kino centrs (National Film Centre of Latvia)
Latvia's yearly development call, paying for script writing, research, character and visual design on features, long documentaries, animated features and series.
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Filmu māksla, regulārais projektu konkurss (film art, regular project competition)
Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds, VKKF (State Culture Capital Foundation)
Latvia's arts foundation runs three open competitions a year, with film as one sector.
VariesGrantcloses in 82 days
Scenarijaus kūrimo ir projektų vystymo darbai (script writing and project development)
Lietuvos kino centras (Lithuanian Film Centre)
Lithuania's state film money for the stages before shooting, from writing a feature or animated feature script to developing documentaries, series, interactive work and debut films.
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Aide financière sélective à l'écriture et/ou au développement, AFS (selective writing and development aid)
Film Fund Luxembourg (Fonds national de soutien à la production audiovisuelle)
The producer-side writing and development aid in Luxembourg, up to EUR 60,000 per phase, scored by a five-member committee on a points grid.
up to€60kRepayablecloses in 36 days
Concursul proiectelor cinematografice (film project competition: project development and production)
Centrul Național al Cinematografiei (National Cinematography Center of Moldova)
Moldova's annual competition judges the screenplay first, then a pitch, then two scored stages, and publishes every list along the way, down to the sum each project asked for and received.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Javni konkursi za sufinansiranje kinematografskih djela (co-financing of cinematographic works)
Filmski centar Crne Gore (Film Centre of Montenegro)
Montenegro's centre describes an annual call in three parts, script development, project development and production, but the 2026 call opened only production categories: features with…
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Scenario-Ontwikkeling Speelfilm en Lange Animatiefilm (screenplay development for features and long animation)
Nederlands Filmfonds (Netherlands Film Fund)
The Dutch route from idea to first draft, worth up to EUR 35,000 for the writer, open to an experienced screenwriter without a producer.
up to€35kGrantany time
Slate funding voor Scenario-Ontwikkeling (slate funding for screenplay development)
Nederlands Filmfonds (Netherlands Film Fund)
Two years of script development money for a producer's whole slate rather than one film: up to EUR 420,000 to write four to six screenplays.
up to€420kGrantcloses in 128 days
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.
up to€10kGrantbetween rounds
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.
up to€25kGrantcloses in 101 days
NPO-fonds: fictie, documentaire en Team-up voor beginnende scenaristen (public broadcasters' fund)
NPO-fonds (fund of the Dutch public broadcasters)
The money behind most Dutch public-television drama and documentary, applied for by the broadcaster rather than the maker.
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Neo utvikling (Neo development)
Norsk filminstitutt (Norwegian Film Institute)
NFI's low budget talent program for first long films and series, in fiction, documentary and hybrid form.
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Utvikling av spillefilm etter kunstnerisk vurdering (feature film development, artistic assessment)
Norsk filminstitutt (Norwegian Film Institute)
NFI's development track for features of any genre judged on artistic quality, carrying a project through one or more phases until a production decision can be taken.
VariesGrantany time
Filminvest, tilskudd og investering (grants and investment)
The investment and grant fund for central Norway, covering drama and documentary series, features and cinema documentaries.
VariesGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Filmkraft Rogaland, utvikling og produksjon (development and production grants)
The regional film centre for Rogaland, around Stavanger, paying development and production grants for shorts, long formats since 2024, and series, plus writing fees inside its audiovisual…
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Mediefondet Zefyr, tilskudd og investering (grants and investment)
Western and southern Norway's media fund, mixing earmarked state grants with a private investment arm that reports a 7.8 percent return.
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Apoio à Escrita e Desenvolvimento de Obras Audiovisuais e Multimédia (series writing and development support)
ICA, Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual
The television and streaming sibling of the film writing support: a producer draws up to EUR 30,000 to write and develop a series, or EUR 80,000 when a pilot is part of the plan.
up to€80kGrantbetween rounds
Apoio à Escrita e Desenvolvimento de Obras Cinematográficas (film writing and development support)
ICA, Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual
Portugal's writing and development support pays a producer to fund the writer and the first development steps, with a plans track for slates of three or more projects and a singles track…
up to€50kGrantbetween rounds
Program 1, vývoj audiovizuálnych diel (development of audiovisual works: grant or creative scholarship)
Audiovizuálny fond (Slovak Audiovisual Fund)
Slovakia pays for development twice over: a flat grant to the producer, sized by the kind of work, and a creative scholarship an author can claim alone to write.
range€50kGrantcloses tomorrow
Javni razpis za sofinanciranje razvoja slovenskih igranih filmskih projektov (development of Slovenian fiction film projects: script and project development)
Slovenski filmski center (Slovenian Film Centre)
Slovenia splits development in two: a script strand a self-employed screenwriter can enter directly, worth up to EUR 20,000, and a project strand for producers worth up to EUR 40,000.
up to€40kGrantbetween rounds
Subvenciones a la escritura de guion y al desarrollo de proyectos (screenplay writing and project development grants)
Institut Valencià de Cultura, IVC (Generalitat Valenciana)
Valencia pays a writer EUR 9,600 to draft a feature, miniseries, documentary or animated script, read anonymously as a treatment, a note of intent and a five-minute sample.
range€25kGrantbetween rounds
Subvenciones al desarrollo de proyectos de obras audiovisuales en Andalucía (audiovisual development grants)
Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales (Junta de Andalucía)
Andalusia pays a producer to carry a project from script to package, half up front.
up to€50kGrantbetween rounds
Subvenciones para el desarrollo de proyectos audiovisuales (audiovisual project development grants)
Basque Government, Department of Culture and Language Policy
Development money for features and series that puts the script first: at least 45 percent of the grant must go to writing the screenplay, 35 percent for animation and documentary.
up to€45kGrantbetween rounds
Subvencións ao desenvolvemento de proxectos audiovisuais (audiovisual project development grants)
AGADIC, Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais (Xunta de Galicia)
Galicia funds the pre-production stretch of features and series for producers working from the region, in a single-project modality or a package of projects with a stated selection strategy.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Subvencions per al desenvolupament de projectes audiovisuals (audiovisual project development grants)
ICEC, Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (Generalitat de Catalunya)
Catalonia's development line pays a producer to take a treatment or script toward financing, and the rules tie 40 percent of the grant to script costs, so the writer is paid from it.
up to€50kGrantbetween rounds
Moving Sweden, stöd till utveckling (development support)
Svenska Filminstitutet with SVT (Swedish Film Institute)
A talent scheme run by the Swedish Film Institute and SVT for low budget fiction features (around SEK 12 million) and fiction led hybrids, for directors with a few films behind them but at…
rangeSEK500kGrantany time
Stöd till utveckling av filmprojekt, dokumentärfilm (development support, documentary)
Svenska Filminstitutet (Swedish Film Institute)
Development money for Swedish documentaries, short and long, judged by a consultant and paid 80 percent on decision.
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Stöd till utveckling av filmprojekt, lång spelfilm (development support, feature film)
Svenska Filminstitutet (Swedish Film Institute)
The Swedish Film Institute's development money for features, covering synopsis, treatment, drafts, a dramaturg and research.
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Film i Skåne, utveckling och samproduktion (development and co-production)
Region Skåne's film company, where a screenwriter with a small firm can apply for feature development on their own, up to SEK 50,000 as a first step.
up toSEK50kInvestmentany time
Film Stockholm, samproduktion och utvecklingsinvestering (co-production and development investment)
Film Stockholm AB
The capital region's film fund, which co-produces or makes a development investment in films, TV drama and other audiovisual work with a Stockholm footprint.
VariesInvestmentany time
Filmpool Nord, samproduktion (co-production)
Northern Sweden's co-producer for short fiction, documentary, features and TV drama, investing for rights and a share of returns.
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Selektive Filmförderung: Drehbuch, Projektentwicklung, Herstellung (federal selective film funding)
Bundesamt für Kultur, BAK / Office fédéral de la culture (Swiss Federal Office of Culture)
Switzerland's federal money, with a CHF 30,000 screenplay grant at the writing end and production grants that reach CHF 1.2 million.
up toCHF1.2MGrantcloses in 120 days
Berner Filmförderung: Entwicklungsförderung Stufe 1 und 2, Produktionsförderung (Bern film funding)
Kanton Bern, Amt für Kultur (canton of Bern)
A cantonal fund with a writer-first first step: a Bern author gets CHF 5,000 or CHF 10,000 to write a treatment, paid out as soon as it is granted, then up to CHF 30,000 for the script.
rangeCHF750kGrantbetween rounds
Zürcher Filmstiftung: Werkbeitrag, Projektentwicklung, Herstellung (Zurich Film Foundation)
Zürcher Filmstiftung (Zurich Film Foundation)
The richest regional fund in Switzerland treats the writer as an applicant in their own right: a CHF 30,000 stipend tied to the person rather than a project, and development money an…
up toCHF1MGrant or repayablecloses in 71 days
Filmfoerderung (documentary film funding)
Ernst Goehner Stiftung
A Swiss family foundation that will pay for the development of a documentary, not just its shoot or finish, as long as the subject is Swiss and the first release is in Switzerland.
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Мистецтво в кадрі, лот 2: препродакшн аудіовізуального контенту (Art in the Frame, lot 2: pre-production of audiovisual content)
Український культурний фонд (Ukrainian Cultural Foundation)
A wartime route to script money in Ukraine: the Cultural Foundation's audiovisual program pays producers to write and package new films, UAH 300,000 to 1 million each, while the state film…
rangeUAH1MGrantbetween rounds
Proje Geliştirme Desteği (project development support)
T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Sinema Genel Müdürlüğü (Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Directorate General of Cinema)
Development money for Turkish producers covering everything up to the first day of shooting, at no more than half the stated budget.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
השקעה בפיתוח סרטים עלילתיים באורך מלא (investment in the development of feature films)
Israel Film Fund (קרן הקולנוע הישראלי)
The country's main feature fund invests in writing from an extended synopsis to a full draft, and a screenwriter can apply without a producer in the general round.
VariesInvestmentbetween rounds
NFCT development, production and post-production grants (documentary)
New Fund for Cinema and TV (הקרן החדשה לקולנוע וטלוויזיה)
The documentary fund of Israel's non-profit sector, backing feature-length documentaries at development, production or post-production, with several reading rounds a year.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
מסלולי ההשקעה של קרן גשר (Gesher Multicultural Film Fund investment tracks)
A ministry-supported fund that invests across fiction, documentary, shorts and drama series, with a development track for scripts, a production track and a completion track.
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פרוייקט הקולנוע הישראלי (the Israel Cinema Project)
Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts
A foundation-run fund supported by the culture ministry, with separate submissions for script and project development, production and completion of features, plus documentary and student…
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The Jordan Film Fund (JFF)
The Royal Film Commission, Jordan
Jordan's national fund, run on Royal Film Commission money since 2011, pays for developing, shooting, finishing and releasing Jordanian features and documentaries, Arab features as…
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AFAC Cinema grants
AFAC, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
The main independent fund for Arab fiction features, and one a director can apply to alone with a development ask of up to USD 10,000; up to 30 percent of any grant may pay the director's…
up to$50kGrantbetween rounds
AFAC Documentary Film grants
AFAC, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
AFAC's documentary strand runs on the spring call, two months ahead of the fiction one, with the same ceilings: USD 10,000 to develop a feature documentary, up to 50,000 to shoot it.
up to$50kGrantbetween rounds
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…
up to$100kGrantbetween rounds
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.
VariesGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Aide au développement (development aid)
FOPICA, Fonds de Promotion de l'Industrie Cinématographique et Audiovisuelle (Senegal)
Senegal's state fund has a development line that an author can apply for directly, paying up to XOF 5 million for rewriting, scouting, casting and the hunt for co-producers before a film…
up toFCFA5MGrantbetween rounds
NFVF Development Funding
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…
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CreatePHFilms Funding Program
FDCP, Film Development Council of the Philippines
The Philippines' film council funds project development and production through CreatePHFilms, and its development fund names Filipino writers among those who may apply, with a concept…
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한국영화 기획개발지원 제작사 부문 and 차기작 기획개발지원 (planning and development support for production companies, and next-project development support)
KOFIC, Korean Film Council (영화진흥위원회)
Two schemes for Korean production companies developing their next feature: a planning grant of KRW 20 million per script in two rounds a year, and a next-project fund that pays KRW 8 to 40…
range₩40MGrantbetween rounds
Documentary Development Program
Screen Australia
Development money for documentaries headed for cinemas, television or direct-to-audience platforms such as YouTube and VR.
up toA$30kRepayableany time
First Nations Documentary Development
Screen Australia, First Nations Department
Treatments, draft scripts, research and sizzle shooting for documentaries by First Nations key creatives, including emerging producers.
up toA$30kGrantcloses in 74 days
First Nations Feature Development
Screen Australia, First Nations Department
Draft money for feature screenplays by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers with a track record.
up toA$45kGrantcloses in 74 days
First Nations TV Drama Development
Screen Australia, First Nations Department
Series bibles, treatments and scripts for telemovies and television drama led by First Nations writers. The series cap of AUD 65,000 is the highest of the department's development strands.
up toA$65kGrantcloses in 74 days
Narrative Content Development
Screen Australia
The national agency's one development door for drama and comedy on any platform: cinema features, television and streaming series, and work released straight to online audiences.
rangeA$50kGrantany time
ABC First Look, Early Development Grant
South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) with the ABC
Early concept money aimed at one buyer: drama, comedy, children's, factual and documentary ideas for the ABC, developed in South Australia from an outline or treatment.
up toA$50kGrantcloses in 12 days
Development Fund
Screen Queensland
Since July 2024 Queensland's development money has been a straight grant with no copyright interest taken, unusual among the Australian state agencies.
up toA$50kGrantany time
Development On Demand
VicScreen
Victoria's open-door development scheme for fiction, documentary and VR, with no closing date.
up toA$50kRepayableany time
Development Program
Screen NSW
New South Wales pays only the NSW spend, so a Sydney-based writer's fee is exactly what it covers.
up toA$50kRepayableany time
Diversity Development Grant
South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC)
A development grant that opens after the first draft and asks for a South Australian writer or director from an underrepresented group, with D/deaf and disabled creatives first in line.
up toA$20kGrantbetween rounds
Documentary Development Investment Fund
Screenwest
Pitch decks, treatments, sizzle reels and the attaching of producers for Western Australian documentary features, singles, series and large-format work.
up toA$25kRepayablecloses in 50 days
First Nations Project Development Fund
Screenwest
Year-round development money for First Nations writers and producers in Western Australia, covering writers' rooms, new drafts, story developers and casting agents for scripted work, or…
up toA$35kRepayableany time
Matched Development Investment Fund
Screenwest
Once a broadcaster or distributor puts development money into a Western Australian project, Screenwest can match it within eight weeks of the deal. The investment is repaid on production.
up toA$50kRepayableany time
Matched Market Development Grant
South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC)
Automatic rather than judged: if a project led from South Australia has development money confirmed from Screen Australia or the market, the SAFC matches it, subject to funds.
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Originate Slate
VicScreen
Slate money for established Victorian drama and comedy companies: at least three early-stage series over 12 to 24 months, with VicScreen's grant matched by the company and not recouped.
up toA$150kGrantcloses in 22 days
Scripted Concept Development Fund
Screenwest
Small early money, AUD 10,000 at most, to take a long-form idea to market-ready pitch materials in Western Australia.
up toA$10kGrantcloses in 121 days
Scripted Project Development Fund
Screenwest
Development money for Western Australian features and television series that already have real material: outlines, a pilot, a bible or a draft screenplay. Four rounds a year.
up toA$35kRepayablecloses tomorrow
Aotearoa Scripted Series Initiative
NZ On Air with Sky and Dynamic Television
A new co-development fund, announced October 29, 2026, for up to three one-hour New Zealand drama series with international legs.
up toNZ$75kGrantcloses in 32 days
Diverse Content funding rounds (Ngahau, Whāngai, Kura Pounamu, Mōhiohio, Reo Māori Content Co-Fund)
Te Māngai Pāho (Māori Broadcasting Funding Agency)
The Māori broadcasting agency funds te reo Māori content by language level rather than platform, through themed rounds: Ngahau for entertainment, Whāngai for learners, Mōhiohio for factual…
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Feature Film Development Fund
Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga, New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC)
The commission's single development door, folded from the old Early and Advanced schemes, and one a writer can walk through alone.
up toNZ$35kGrantany time
Scripted and Non-fiction funding (Creation stream)
Irirangi Te Motu, NZ On Air
New Zealand's public media fund backs local television, on-demand and online content through three rounds a year, and sets aside about NZD 1 million of it for content development, mostly…
rangeNZ$50kGrantcloses in 88 days
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.
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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.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
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…
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European Video Games and Immersive Content Development (CREA-MEDIA-2027-DEVVGIM)
Creative Europe MEDIA, European Commission
Development money for interactive storytelling rather than film: narrative video games and immersive experiences with a story at their core.
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Also useful
Fellowships and labsPrograms that pick a few writers and work with them for months, on the events pages.Where Creative Europe's development money goesEvery MEDIA development grant since 2014, by country, company and year.How to write a treatmentThe document a development application is built on, step by step.Screenwriting eventsContests, labs, festivals and conferences, with their deadlines.