Regional fund Spain, Barcelona
Run by 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. Shorts and projects already shooting are excluded, and shooting cannot start within eight months of the call.
Grant up to €50,000Open to writers in SpainA production company
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.
Its site names no past recipients or funded projects. It is listed because applying is free.
The fund opens once a year. The next cycle's dates are not yet published; we add them when they are. The 2026 window ran April 16 to May 11, 2026; the ICEC calendar lists the next year's dates each winter.
| Round | Closes |
|---|---|
| 2026 deadline | May 11, 2026 passed |
Dates are as the funder states them. Check the time of day and the time zone on the official page.
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)
The one Spanish grant a screenwriter applies to with no producer: a fixed EUR 30,000 (EUR 20,000 for documentary) to write a feature, judged anonymously on a treatment and sample.
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.
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…