International fund Netherlands, Amsterdam
Run by IDFA Bertha Fund, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
A documentary development grant the director applies for alone, with research, writing and a teaser all allowed costs, from the fund of the world's largest documentary festival. Open to filmmakers across the global South who live in their own country. One deadline a year now, February 10, 2027.
Grant up to €25,000Open 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
2027 round Feb 10, 2027 (closes in 101 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 Feb 10, 2027. The dates below are the current cycle's, as the funder states them. One round a year from 2027: entries open in late December 2026 and close at 23:59 in the applicant's time zone. The June round no longer exists.
| Round | Closes |
|---|---|
| 2027 round | Feb 10, 2027 |
Dates are as the funder states them. Check the time of day and the time zone on the official page.
Coaching on script, editing, financing and distribution chosen with the team after selection, and a Benelux premiere through IDFA.
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
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…