National fund Germany, Berlin
Run by 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. One of the three pillars of the federal jury-based funding the FFA took over in 2025.
Grant up to €100,000Open to writers in GermanyA production company or a writer alone
Next deadline Dec 15, 2026 (closes in 44 days)
That closing date has passed. We check the funder's page every day and add the next dates once they are published.
The next closing date is Dec 15, 2026. The dates below are the current cycle's, as the funder states them. Feature, documentary and children's film projects go to different juries that sit on neighboring days.
| Round | Closes |
|---|---|
| Feature, documentary and children's film | Dec 15, 2026 |
| Feature and documentary | Apr 13, 2027 |
| Feature, documentary and children's film | Aug 31, 2027 |
Dates are as the funder states them. Check the time of day and the time zone on the official page.
FFA, Filmförderungsanstalt (German Federal Film Board)
Federal production grants for culturally ambitious fiction, documentary, children's and animated features, decided by a jury rather than by reference points.
FFA, Filmförderungsanstalt (German Federal Film Board), running the federal jury-based cultural film funding since 2025
The federal screenplay grant that writers apply for alone, since the 2025 film law moved the BKM's cultural funding into the FFA.
Kuratorium junger deutscher Film (foundation for young German film)
Germany's talent fund pays a writer up to EUR 25,000 to develop an original idea from research to script over ten months, with a dramaturg attached.
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.
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.
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…
Latino Public Broadcasting
Documentaries and limited series about Latino life for national public television, funded from first research through the final mix.
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…