National fund Netherlands, Amsterdam
Run by Nederlands Filmfonds (Netherlands Film Fund)
The Dutch fund's selective production grant for about twenty features a year, including five children's films and one or two long animations. The writer's script arrives inside a producer's package; the ceiling of EUR 1.2 million is reached by films budgeted above EUR 2 million.
Grant up to €1,200,000Open to writers in NetherlandsA production company
Next dates not yet published
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The fund works in fixed rounds. The next dates are not yet published; we add them when they are. Fixed rounds closing at 5 pm on the deadline day; no next date was listed on November 1, 2026.
A pre-application meeting can be requested up to two weeks before the deadline.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Austin Film Society
Texas filmmakers have their own state fund: cash for features and shorts in production or post, with camera and finishing packages on top.
Jerome Foundation
The Minnesota twin of Jerome's New York City grant: up to USD 30,000 of production money for early career directors who take creative risks, applied for in two steps each fall.
Jerome Foundation
A production grant for New York City directors near the start of their careers, in any moving-image form from animation to documentary.
Black Public Media
Public television's fund for Black nonfiction stories runs one call a year: five projects get USD 20,000 and a place at PitchBLACK, where one leaves with up to USD 150,000 of production…