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.
range$150kGrantany time
Stage 5 of 5
Distribution and release funding
Money to get a finished film to its audience: a theatrical release, a festival run, subtitling, marketing. It goes to distributors and producers rather than writers, and it is listed here only where the same fund also pays for writing or development.
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Sloan Distribution Grant
Film Independent, with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
A single USD 50,000 check for a finished science-themed fiction feature heading into release, meant to buy a smarter rollout.
range$50kGrantbetween rounds
Film Production Assistance Program
Quebecor Fund (Fonds Québecor)
A top-up to the distributor's advance for French-language Canadian features, paid through the distributor and repaid from the film's returns, with extra money for an online marketing plan.
up toCA$200kRepayablecloses in 79 days
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
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.
VariesInvestmentbetween 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…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
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…
VariesGrantcloses in 9 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…
VariesGrantany time
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.
VariesGrantcloses in 29 days
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
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
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.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Nordisk Film & TV Fond, production funding
The pan Nordic top up for features, drama series and documentaries that already have national money and a second Nordic market lined up.
VariesRepayableany time
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
השקעה בהפקת סרטי עלילה באורך מלא (investment in feature film production)
Israel Film Fund (קרן הקולנוע הישראלי)
Israel's largest film fund puts up to ILS 3.5 million into a feature as a recoupable investment, with a lower ILS 1.5 million track for first and second films.
range₪3.5MInvestmentbetween rounds
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…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Dana Kandungan Kreatif, DKK (Creative Content Fund)
FINAS, Perbadanan Kemajuan Filem Nasional Malaysia (National Film Development Corporation Malaysia)
Malaysia's national film body channels its grants through the Creative Content Fund, which in its current form pays licensed companies for micro drama and Borneo TV production…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
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.