BPM Open Call
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…
Funds whose applicant is a registered production company, usually one based in the fund's own country. The writer's script is part of the package, and the company signs the contract.
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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…
Pacific Islanders in Communications
Pacific Islander stories for public television, in two sizes: an hour or half-hour documentary with up to USD 65,000, or a short of any genre with up to USD 25,000, including…
ITVS, Independent Television Service
The largest sums in American documentary funding come from public television's co-production arm, which has backed 659 films through this call.
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
A single USD 50,000 check for a finished science-themed fiction feature heading into release, meant to buy a smarter rollout.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Canada Media Fund
Single, authored documentaries have a selective CMF round of their own, in English and in French, each spring.
Telefilm Canada
The main production financing for Canadian fiction features, sorted into windows by language and budget level.
Indigenous Screen Office
Shorts, pilots, web series, features and broadcast series can all come to this autumn round, and an individual may apply without a company.
Indigenous Screen Office
The larger of the ISO's two production rounds, for Indigenous companies with budgets above a million dollars.
Canada Media Fund
A selective CMF round reserved for Black-owned companies and companies owned by people of colour, covering series production in both official languages.
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.
Telefilm Canada
First features on budgets under half a million dollars get most or all of their financing here, with no repayment.
Telefilm Canada
Feature documentaries headed for cinemas have their own Telefilm program, separate from the fiction Production Program, with one intake each spring.
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.
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…
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.
Creative Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan funds first drafts, final drafts and company slates as grants that only become repayable if the film is shot elsewhere.
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.
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.
SODEC, Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (Québec)
Fiction features, shorts and one-off documentaries made in Québec apply here after development, in rounds spread through the year.
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…
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…
Creative BC
The province's own production grant, created in 2020 and now one round a year: up to CAD 200,000 for a BC-owned feature or documentary, with priority for emerging creators and systemically…
Independent Production Fund (IPF), funded by Cogeco Communications
Equity for scripted television series that already have a Canadian broadcaster, from the fund Cogeco finances through the IPF.
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.
Bell Fund
Series production money from one of Canada's certified independent production funds, triggered by a broadcaster or streamer commitment.
Canada's dedicated children's media fund, backer of more than a thousand programs, has paused its funding programs while it waits for new contributions.
Rogers Group of Funds
Since 1996 this fund has topped up the financing of Canadian documentaries once a platform has licensed them, with no recoupment and a cap of CAD 100,000.
Rogers Group of Funds
Independently produced Canadian series with a private broadcaster and a streamer both on board can draw up to half a million dollars here, as a grant below CAD 350,000 and as equity above…
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, Fondo de Fomento Audiovisual (Chile's Ministry of Cultures)
The production side of Chile's audiovisual fund finances features in fiction, documentary and animation, from full financing of a modest fiction feature to a share of a majority…
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…
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.
IMCINE, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (Mexican Film Institute)
Mexico's public film program pays for shooting and finishing rather than writing: nine production and post-production modalities open together each January, and a producer picks one.
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…
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…
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.
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland)
The largest of the Arts Council's film awards, for a feature-length film driven by its author's vision rather than a market.
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
Money to finish an Irish feature or feature documentary that was shot without Screen Ireland and has reached a rough cut.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
Screen Ireland's production money across four schemes, each a loan to an Irish company for a project led by Irish talent and mostly in English or Irish.
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland)
A documentary grant with an unusual brief: imaginative, experimental films about the arts, made for cinemas and judged as artworks. Individual filmmakers may apply directly.
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann, Frameworks with RTÉ
Fully funded shorts for Irish teams: live action through Focus Shorts, animation through Frameworks with RTÉ as co-funder and broadcaster.
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
Development loans for Irish television drama, applied for by a producer with a writer already agreed.
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.
Doc Society for the BFI (British Film Institute), National Lottery
The UK's National Lottery money for feature documentaries, run by Doc Society.
BFI (British Film Institute), National Lottery
Production money for British features in two strands split by budget and by the director's experience.
BFI (British Film Institute) for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Government money, administered by the BFI, for UK companies joining international co-productions as the smaller partner.
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.
Ffilm Cymru Wales, National Lottery via Arts Council of Wales and Welsh Government via Creative Wales
Production investment for Welsh-led features heading for cinemas, normally capped at half the budget.
Screen Scotland (Creative Scotland), National Lottery and Scottish Government
Scotland's main film fund, in two routes.
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…
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…
Gap finance for feature films, television drama, animation, factual and interactive projects shooting in Northern Ireland, offered once most of the budget is already committed.
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.
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…
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.
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.
ÖFI, Österreichisches Filminstitut (Austrian Film Institute)
The selective production round of the Austrian Film Institute, where the finished screenplay, cast and budget go in together.
BMWKMS, Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport, Filmabteilung (Austrian federal ministry for arts and culture, film department)
Production grants for the small, uncommercial film that the ÖFI would not fund: shorts, experimental and avant-garde work, documentaries and features under EUR 750,000.
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.
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.
ÖFI, Österreichisches Filminstitut (Austrian Film Institute)
Austria's national script grant for cinema features and documentary concepts, paid directly to the writer and exempt from income tax.
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…
Cinestyria Filmcommission and Fonds, Land Steiermark (Styria regional government, run by Steirische Tourismusmarketing)
Styria's fund pays producers to shoot stories set in the region, from Steirerkrimis television films to features such as Vier minus drei, as long as the money comes back as regional…
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.
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
French-speaking Belgium's writing aid for features pays a screenwriter up to EUR 15,000 and takes the application from the writer directly, with EEA nationals eligible alongside Belgians.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
screen.brussels, the Brussels-Capital Region's audiovisual fund
Brussels backs films and series that spend money in the city, up to EUR 500,000 repaid from receipts.
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…
Fondacija za kinematografiju Sarajevo (Cinematography Foundation, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Bosnia's federal film foundation runs one call a year that bundles everything, from a small screenplay development line a writer can claim as a natural person (BAM 3,000 to 6,000) to…
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.
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar, HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual Centre)
Four deadlines through 2027 for foreign features, shorts, documentaries and animation seeking a Croatian partner.
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar, HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual Centre)
Croatia's main production call, in two rounds a year with decisions in June and December.
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.
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar, HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual Centre)
A ring-fenced pot for family films.
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar, HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual Centre)
The television twin of HAVC's film development call, for series writers.
Státní fond audiovize (Czech Audiovisual Fund)
Second-stage development money for Czech feature fiction projects that already have a first draft.
Státní fond audiovize (Czech Audiovisual Fund)
The Czech fund's main production pot, CZK 80 million in this round, open until November 2, 2026.
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.
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.
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…
Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
Denmark's main route for features judged on their artistic merit.
Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
For Danish features expected to draw a larger cinema audience than the national average.
Western Denmark's regional fund for features, series, documentaries and animated shorts at development and production stage.
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.
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.
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.
Eesti Filmi Instituut (Estonian Film Institute)
Estonia's script money comes in small steps: a treatment round, then stage I and stage II of script development at up to EUR 5,000 each, applied for by the writer's company or a producer.
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.
Eesti Filmi Instituut (Estonian Film Institute)
The institute's largest grant, up to EUR 900,000 for an Estonian fiction feature, with two rounds a year and the next closing December 8, 2026.
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…
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.
Suomen elokuvasäätiö (Finnish Film Foundation)
The Finnish Film Foundation's main production grant, up to EUR 1.2 million for features, shorts, documentaries, animation and documentary or animation series.
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.
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.
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (French national film center)
The CNC's main selective money for shorts, read by two committees so that a first film is not weighed against seasoned directors.
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.
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (French national film center)
The oldest selective aid in French cinema, created in 1960, and still the one that gets first features financed.
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.
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.
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.
Région Île-de-France
The region around Paris puts more than EUR 16 million a year into features and a similar effort into series, as grants rather than advances.
Fondation Gan pour le Cinéma (corporate foundation of the insurer Gan)
A private foundation that has backed more than 260 first and second features since 1987, with a reading committee and a jury of professionals choosing four scripts a year.
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.
საქართველოს ეროვნული კინოცენტრი (Georgian National Film Center)
Georgia funds features in short autumn windows of two weeks, one competition for debuts and one for established directors, each with GEL 3 million to split among four or five films.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
MFG Baden-Württemberg, Filmförderung (Baden-Württemberg film fund)
Baden-Württemberg's script line takes a writer's own application for a fiction feature, while documentaries and series need a company.
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
A separate door for first and second features in Berlin-Brandenburg, with smaller sums and a grant option for low budgets.
FFF Bayern, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (Bavarian film and television fund)
Bavaria's main production loan, up to three million euros, sitting behind the fund's script and development lines.
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
The production loan behind many Berlin-shot features and documentaries. The script, a recoupment plan and proof of exploitation go in with the producer's application.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
FFF Bayern, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (Bavarian film and television fund)
Bavaria pays a fixed EUR 30,000 for a feature or series screenplay, and a writer can apply directly as long as a Bavarian producer signs a letter of intent.
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…
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.
HessenFilm und Medien (Hessen film and media fund)
Hessen hands writers a grant for a treatment on a rolling basis and up to EUR 30,000 for a screenplay three times a year, with the writer applying alone if they live in the state.
World Cinema Fund, Berlin International Film Festival, with Creative Europe MEDIA
WCF money for European producers, including those in Eastern Europe and the Balkans with little co-production funding at home, who partner with a filmmaker from the fund's regions.
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.
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.
Nemzeti Filmintézet, NFI (National Film Institute Hungary)
Hungary's national money for scripts is on hold.
Kvikmyndamiðstöð Íslands (Icelandic Film Centre)
Iceland's production grants for features, shorts, documentaries and scripted television, issued first as a conditional commitment and then as a grant once the rest of the money is in place.
Kvikmyndamiðstöð Íslands (Icelandic Film Centre)
Iceland pays for scripts in two stages, a first draft and then its development, each worth up to ISK 1.5 million for features, with a combined ISK 3 million for writers who have done it…
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.
Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo, Ministero della Cultura
The ministry's selective production pot in six categories, with EUR 7.5 million each for first and second features and for young authors' films, plus documentaries, shorts and animation on…
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.
Fondazione Apulia Film Commission (Regione Puglia)
One of Italy's larger regional production funds, five million euros a year for films, series, documentaries, animation and shorts that shoot in Puglia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Regione Lazio, through Lazio Innova
Lazio's fund for international co-productions shot in the region around Rome, meant to pull foreign partners toward local companies and to show the less visited parts of the region on…
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.
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.
Film Commission Torino Piemonte, with Fondazione CRT
Production money for fiction, animated and experimental shorts up to 30 minutes shot in Piedmont, with at least four of six key crew roles filled locally and a stated plan for getting the…
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…
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.
Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds, VKKF (State Culture Capital Foundation)
Latvia's arts foundation runs three open competitions a year, with film as one sector.
Nacionālais kino centrs (National Film Centre of Latvia)
The National Film Centre's main production competition for Latvian features, long documentaries and animated features, with about EUR 1.26 million to share in 2026 and a March deadline.
Lietuvos kino centras (Lithuanian Film Centre)
The production half of Lithuania's twice yearly state call, with categories from mini budget and debut features to documentary series, animation, interactive film and, in autumn 2026, big…
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.
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.
Film Fund Luxembourg (Fonds national de soutien à la production audiovisuelle)
The large end of Luxembourg's fund, where a feature or series can draw EUR 2.5 to 3 million against spending in the Grand Duchy.
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.
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…
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.
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.
IDFA Bertha Fund, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, with Creative Europe MEDIA
The European side of the IDFA Bertha Fund: a minority producer in Europe brings a documentary from the global South to the finish.
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.
Агенција за филм на Република Северна Македонија (North Macedonia Film Agency)
North Macedonia's one big call covers features, documentaries, animation and shorts, with debut features funded up to 90 percent of budget and capped at MKD 25 million.
Kulturdirektoratet (Arts Council Norway) on behalf of Fond for lyd og bilde
A rights holders' fund, financed as compensation for private copying, that pays for short films, documentaries, music videos, art film and text work tied to film projects.
Norsk filminstitutt (Norwegian Film Institute)
NFI's low budget talent program for first long films and series, in fiction, documentary and hybrid form.
Norsk filminstitutt (Norwegian Film Institute)
The main production grant for Norwegian features chosen on artistic grounds, with recent awards of NOK 7.5 million to 20 million.
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.
The investment and grant fund for central Norway, covering drama and documentary series, features and cinema documentaries.
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…
Western and southern Norway's media fund, mixing earmarked state grants with a private investment arm that reports a 7.8 percent return.
The pan Nordic top up for features, drama series and documentaries that already have national money and a second Nordic market lined up.
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.
Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe, KBF (Krakow Festival Office), for the City of Krakow
Krakow's city fund co-produces rather than grants: the festival office takes a stake and a share of rights in return for up to half the production cost.
Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury (Mazovian Institute of Culture), for the Mazovian Voivodeship and the City of Warsaw
Warsaw and its region put PLN 3.2 million a year into films shot or set there, entering as a co-producer rather than a grant-giver.
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.
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…
ICA, Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual
One entry for the ICA's production calls: two rounds a year for fiction features, two for documentaries, one each for fiction and animated shorts, plus animation features and completion.
Audiovizuálny fond (Slovak Audiovisual Fund)
Production financing for Slovak features, documentaries, animation and shorts, with a ceiling of EUR 1.2 million for a feature-length work. Grants can come paired with a loan.
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.
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.
Slovenski filmski center (Slovenian Film Centre)
The realization calls are where Slovenian features, documentaries and animation get made, usually opening around the turn of the year.
ICAA, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (Spanish Ministry of Culture)
State money for a short before the shoot, applied for by a Spanish production company with the script in hand.
ICAA, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (Spanish Ministry of Culture)
Spain's main production money, paid in advance to the producer against a project rather than a finished film, with a points system that weighs the company's track record.
ICAA, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (Spanish Ministry of Culture)
For the films the general aid overlooks: first features, documentaries, experimental and culturally driven projects, judged on the script and the team rather than box office history.
Comunidad de Madrid, Consejería de Cultura, Turismo y Deporte
Madrid's two production lines share a logic: the region backs films made by companies rooted there, and for shorts an individual with Madrid tax residence can apply alone.
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.
Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales (Junta de Andalucía)
The largest Andalusian film budget to date, in three lines: first films by new directors that showcase regional talent, features that build the local industry, and documentaries.
Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales (Junta de Andalucía)
Andalusia pays a producer to carry a project from script to package, half up front.
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.
AGADIC, Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais (Xunta de Galicia)
The entry door for a new Galician filmmaker: an individual can apply alone for a short before shooting, with no company, and a producer can apply for a first feature.
AGADIC, Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais (Xunta de Galicia)
The main production pot for Galician film and series, with categories for theatrical features, minority international co-productions and works with a broadcaster or platform commitment.
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.
ICEC, Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (Generalitat de Catalunya)
Production money for fiction features in three tiers, from a culturally driven first film with a budget under EUR 1.8 million to a market-oriented picture above EUR 2.7 million.
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.
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…
Svenska Filminstitutet (Swedish Film Institute)
Advance production money for Swedish features, paid before the film is finished and repaid once the producer's revenues pass 135 percent of private capital plus license sales and minimum…
Svenska Filminstitutet (Swedish Film Institute)
Development money for Swedish documentaries, short and long, judged by a consultant and paid 80 percent on decision.
Svenska Filminstitutet (Swedish Film Institute)
The Swedish Film Institute's development money for features, covering synopsis, treatment, drafts, a dramaturg and research.
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.
Sweden's largest regional co-producer, with more than 1,600 features, series, documentaries and shorts since 1992.
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.
Northern Sweden's co-producer for short fiction, documentary, features and TV drama, investing for rights and a share of returns.
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.
Cinéforom, Fondation romande pour le cinéma (the fund of French-speaking Switzerland)
The production money of French-speaking Switzerland, four sessions a year with 2027 dates already fixed.
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.
Cinéforom, Fondation romande pour le cinéma (the fund of French-speaking Switzerland)
A top-up rather than a competition: when a Romand producer puts its own success credits into paying a writer, Cinéforom adds 60 to 80 percent on top, up to CHF 25,000, with no deadline and…
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…
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.
Державне агентство України з питань кіно, Держкіно (Ukrainian State Film Agency)
In peacetime this was Ukraine's main production pitching, scored by expert commissions and then pitched in public.
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…
T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Sinema Genel Müdürlüğü (Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Directorate General of Cinema)
Turkey's debut production line lets the director apply directly, which most production schemes do not.
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.
T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Sinema Genel Müdürlüğü (Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Directorate General of Cinema)
The ministry's main feature line funded 12 productions with TRY 115 million in its October 2026 decision.
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.
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.
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…
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…
CCM, Centre Cinématographique Marocain (Moroccan Cinema Center)
Morocco finances its cinema through an advance on receipts paid to production companies before or after the shoot, three sessions a year, plus a contribution to writing and rewriting…
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.
FOPICA, Fonds de Promotion de l'Industrie Cinématographique et Audiovisuelle (Senegal)
The headline line of Senegal's fund: up to XOF 150 million toward a fiction or animated feature, paid out in four installments over a 24-month convention.
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…
Hong Kong Film Development Council, Film Development Fund (Create Hong Kong)
Hong Kong co-finances commercial features as a government investor: Scheme 2.0 puts in 40 percent of a budget up to HKD 10 million for films costing HKD 8 to 25 million, the older scheme…
Japan Arts Council (独立行政法人日本芸術文化振興会), with the Agency for Cultural Affairs' arts promotion subsidy
Japan's state production subsidy for feature-length films, paid at fixed amounts that rise with the budget to JPY 60 million, with a smaller tier for young and emerging filmmakers.
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…
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…
IMDA, Infocomm Media Development Authority, and the Singapore Film Commission
Singapore folded its old development and production assistance into content grants that pay for production of features and shorts with Singapore talent attached: up to SGD 300,000 for a…
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…
Screen Australia
Development money for documentaries headed for cinemas, television or direct-to-audience platforms such as YouTube and VR.
Screen Australia
Three lanes for documentary production: Producer First for films still closing finance, Platform First for commissioned programs, and Direct-to-Audience for work released on YouTube…
Screen Australia, First Nations Department
Production and post-production investment for low-budget features written and directed by First Nations filmmakers.
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.
Screen Australia
Production finance for features, television and direct-to-audience drama, in two feature lanes: Market First for packages with distribution attached and Creative First for bolder films…
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.
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.
VicScreen
Victoria's open-door development scheme for fiction, documentary and VR, with no closing date.
Screen NSW
New South Wales pays only the NSW spend, so a Sydney-based writer's fee is exactly what it covers.
Screen Canberra, for the ACT Government
Grants for Canberra creators who publish their own short-form narrative, comedy, factual or animation online, with two local key creatives and no commission attached.
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.
Screenwest
Pitch decks, treatments, sizzle reels and the attaching of producers for Western Australian documentary features, singles, series and large-format work.
Screenwest
Production money for Western Australian documentary singles, series, features and large-format films that already have a market partner, matched against that partner's cash.
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…
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.
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.
Screen Queensland
A rare production grant a solo writer-creator can hold alone: episodic series for YouTube, TikTok or Instagram, or one-off XR, with no IP taken and marketing costs allowed.
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.
Screen NSW
The state's production money is a grant, not equity: Screen NSW cash-flows it and the producer keeps ownership.
Screen Queensland
Production finance for features, series and documentaries that spend in Queensland, scaled to that spend.
South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC)
South Australia's main production money, sized at up to a tenth of what a project spends in the state and open all year.
Screenwest
Small early money, AUD 10,000 at most, to take a long-form idea to market-ready pitch materials in Western Australia.
Screenwest
Grant finance of up to AUD 700,000 for features and series shot in Western Australia with a buyer already attached.
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.
Screen Canberra, for the ACT Government
Canberra's production grant for scripted and unscripted work with a confirmed path to audience, from a commercial half hour upward, paying up to AUD 300,000 without recoupment.
VicScreen
Production investment tied to how much a film or series spends in Victoria: between 3 and 10 percent of that spend, cash-flowed into the production while the producer keeps the equity.
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.
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…
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.
Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga, New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC)
Finishing money for low-budget New Zealand features made outside the commission's production funding: grading, sound, effects polish and festival costs, once a festival has said yes.
Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga, New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC)
The commission's main production money for features with significant New Zealand content, as equity up to NZD 2.5 million or a grant up to NZD 500,000, decided by the board five times a…
Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga, New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC)
A dedicated production lane for dramatic features told in te reo Māori and led by Māori filmmakers, on the same money terms and calendar as the commission's general feature investment.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
Creative Europe MEDIA, European Commission
Series and television films draw their EU production money here, paid to the producer once broadcasters in more than one country are on board.
Eurimages, the Council of Europe's cultural support fund
Forty member states, Canada, Turkey, Ukraine and Switzerland among them, pay into this Council of Europe fund for co-produced features.