International fund Netherlands, Rotterdam
Run by 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. EUR 10,000 for early-stage fiction features from countries with little film funding; for 2026 the fund asked especially for Central Asia, the South Caucasus and Southeast Europe.
Grant up to €10,000Open to writers in the countries on the fund's own list (Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe)A writer alone or a writer with a producer
Next dates not yet published
That closing date has passed. We check the funder's page every day and add the next dates once they are published.
The fund opens once a year. The next cycle's dates are not yet published; we add them when they are. One round a year; the 2027 date is to be announced toward the end of 2026. The form opens one week before the deadline.
| Round | Closes |
|---|---|
| 2026 round (closed) | Apr 2, 2026 passed |
Dates are as the funder states them. Check the time of day and the time zone on the official page.
Later access to the co-production scheme the fund runs with the Netherlands Film Fund, and a showing of HBF projects at IFFR's CineMart.
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.
Artist Trust
Two Washington artists a year receive USD 25,000 for pushing at the edges of their field, with no project report attached.
Illinois Arts Council
Illinois pays working artists USD 10,000 by lottery rather than by jury: show an active practice with two work samples and the state lottery draws the winners region by region.
Artist Trust
Washington State's merit award for working artists: USD 10,000 with no strings, judged on the body of work rather than a project.
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.